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Vadersville -> RE: X-Men: Days of Future Past (28/11/2012 1:44:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Rumbaabaa
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ORIGINAL: Vadersville
What about X-Men 1? Xavier saying that Jean and Scott were his first students? Or that he and Erik first met as teenagers? Or that they built Cerebo together? Or the whole plot around Magneto somehow finding a way to block Xavier's powers and Cerebo by some unknown menas which turns out to be a specially designed helmet, implied that Magneto knew how to build it because he was friends with Xavier for years (and not stolen and wore in front of Xavier in FC, where the pair were really only friends for a few weeks)?
Yes, Xavier says that Jean and Scott were some of his first students. He doesn't say they were the first X-Men. I took this line to refer to students he teaches as children in his school, rather than young mutants who he trains to be X-Men. The school isn't even established by the end of First Class.
He does say he met Eric when he was 17. This is a continuity error. Clearly the makers of First Class weren't going to let a single line of dialogue in X-Men restrict them when writing the plot, and they were right to do so.
Cerebro (as in the 'big round room' in Singer's films) hasn't been created by the end of First Class. There's nothing to stop Magneto helping Xavier build it in a future episode, which would make perfect sense as it's a huge construction project made from metal.
Yes, the origin of Magneto's helmet is different to what we're lead to believe in X-Men, but this doesn't make it a continuity error. Just because Xavier knows the helmet blocks his telepathy doesn't mean that he knows how it works. And when he's explaining this to Wolverine is X-Men he's clearly giving the simplest answer possible to shut Wolverine up so he can get on with searching for Rogue.
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In X-Men 2 we see Beast in human form yet in FC we see his transformation years before.
Nowhere in the film does it say that the Hank McCoy on the TV is actually Beast. Yes, it was a nod to fans at the time of the film, but it could easily be another man with the same name.
All of these "explanations" are truely feeble and pathethic. They're continuiy errors. You can try and dress it up and pretend that everything makes sense but clearly the timeline doesn't add up properly no matter which way you look at it.
First Class's biggest crime was its mishandling of the Erik/Xavier friendship. The previous films built up this idea of a deep brotherly bond between the two characters. Best friends who over time had been pulled apart by their opposing views but who still had a profound underlying respect and genuine care for each other. In Fc they hung out for a few months, diagreed from the get off, said some BFF lines to convince the audience they were pals and then went their seperate ways by the end of the film. They would have been better off building up the turn in the friendship and Xavier's turn to the "dark side" over three films rather than rushing it all into one.
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