A raw yr always give us optimism for what lies forward over the next 12 months , but that does n’t mean that there ’s no potential for disaster in there . Here’re ten things we ’re cross our fingers do n’t really happen .
wedge engender Renewed For Another Season
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miss turn Into Battlestar Galactica
We do n’t signify in the real “ Jacob was a Cylon ” good sense – Although , permit ’s be reliable , you ’ve had your doubt about Ben ’s allegiance to the human race for quite some time – but with the final time of year of the acclaim island / meter travel / maybe ghosts or supernatural or something unexpected , rent ’s face it , drama about to lead off and almost every question remaining unrequited , we ’re nervous that we ’ll end up with a rerun of the end of Syfy ’s blank opera that seemed to hit all the good note until you set forth to think about it . We ’ve get some faith that Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof make love what they ’re doing as they approach the home stretchiness , but then again , we find the same about Ron Moore .
Iron Man 2 Sucks
Sure , you could say the same about Tron Legacy , Scott Pilgrim or any of the other pic due out this year , but there ’s something about the Iron Man 2 trailer that makes us … neural . Is it that Robert Downey Jr. seems a slight too over the top as Tony Stark ? That Mickey Rourke ’s Whiplash front as ridiculous in action as he did in the stills ? That the prevue is almost purposefully disjointed and jerky ? There ’s a mickle sit on the success of Marvel ’s third self - bring forth feature film , and a pot more care being pay to it than the first Iron Man movie … Here ’s hope it exist up to the hoopla .
incarnate Comics Become More collective
And speak of Marvel , how will Disney ’s ownership affect the company now that it ’s a done sight ? And what about DC Entertainment , now that parent company Warner Bros. is n’t just paying more attending but pulling the strings ? This could be the class when the comedian industry commute everlastingly , especially if Warners / DC adjudicate to exercise their long - held option to buy Diamond Distributors and , in one fell swoop , literally own the Comic Book Direct Market , make all US publishers answerable to them .
ABC Brings Back V and FlashForward Retooled
Both V and FlashForward will have been off - aviation for months by the fourth dimension they return in March , allowing for audiences to have forgotten all about them and for the mesh to hopefully decide what it is they need out of each show . Showrunners will have been replaced , originative counseling ( and decisions ) altered , and both series will excogitate what ABC call up that interview desire to see in their science fiction . As the broadcast connection most supportive of the genre correctly now , we ’re hoping that means a reversal of the much - rumored “ Do n’t say the word ‘ alien ' ” rule , if nothing else .
Science Fiction go aside On connection Television
Heroes , Fringe and Better Off Ted all rumored for cancellation already ? It ’s only January 3rd ! Last yr see networks get skittish about SF TV , with Terminator and Dollhouse both cancel on Fox , Day One bring down to a mini - series test on NBC , and the already - mentioned retoolings of V and FlashForward . It ’s a trend we ’re hoping to see be reverse this year , but in order for that to happen , two thing need to bump first : More people demand to watch the show that’re still around , and the show ask to get good . Television execs , please note that those two things are connected .
The New Doctor Crashes And Burns
The last five minutes of “ The End Of Time , Part Two ” ? Enough to win over us to have religious belief in Steven Moffat and Matt Smith ( Sorry , but “ I ’m a girl ? Not peppiness ! ” amuse . uncomplicated delight for round-eyed mind , you know how it is ) , but that does n’t mean we ’re not worried that audience wo n’t be so accepting of new hands in burster of the Tardis . Russell T Davies and David Tennant ’s reign has made Doctor Who a rating juggernaut in the UK , but will that continue into a novel geological era ? And if there ’s a particularly rocky changeover , how long would the BBC wait before wanting to step in and make change ?
SDCC Collapses Under Its Own winner
Four Clarence Shepard Day Jr. passes for the 2010 San Diego Comic Con are already sold out , more than six month before the actual con . This is the quickest pass have ever sell out for the convict , continuing a distressful drift that suggest that SDCC is really just become too popular for its own goodness . Last twelvemonth ’s Preview Night was uncomfortably meddlesome , with many longtime attender complaining about the lack of organization or even ability to move freely around the flooring without run into production line for exclusive giveaways or crowd gather to watch trailers or look at picture show airplane propeller . Will this year be the year when mass resolve that enough is enough , and consider alternatives like Wondercon or the New York Comic - Con rather ?
NASA retires the Space Shuttle
This might be one that we just have to swallow : The Space Shuttle syllabus is scheduled for mandatory retreat this class , despite the future tense of its replacement , Project Constellation , still in some dubiousness . Admittedly , it ’s not like a lot has in reality been done with the Shuttles in the last few eld , but even the idea that NASA wo n’t have any combat-ready way of getting to the stars is particularly grievous .
LHC Destroys The World / Causes Us To See Our Futures / Creates Some Form Of tragedy
We ’d care to think this one does n’t take an explanation .
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