X-Men Days of Future Past Thoughts

Taken from eonline.com

The movie will be released this week and the final battle for mutantkind will be decided. The X-Men world is at ruins (thanks Brett Ratner), mutants are being hunted by machines and exterminated. We saw he trailers, we know the hype, but frankly, I have my doubts about the movie.

 Loosely based on the comic book arc with the same name, Days of Future Past chronicles the end of the X-Men as they are hunted by Sentinel. To prevent this future from happening, John Connor... I mean Professor X, sends Wolverine to the past. But is he the best choice? Short answer is no.

Why send someone who needs to approach the enemy at close quarters? You need someone who can attack them at long range. Someone extremely effective against machines. The best candidade is... the kid from X2 who could channel zap with his eyes (we'll call him Zapping).

Think about it, he would be all grown up. Instructed in combat by Wolverine, Storm and Cyclops (I guess). Trained to control his powers by Professor X and maybe Magneto. He is more than battle ready!

C'mon, that looks silly!                                       Now we're talking!

He goes back in time, infitrates the secret factory were the sentinels are being built. With 2 blinks of an eye, he can turn Master Mold (robot building thingie) into a soda vending machine factory. Problem solved. He can accomplish the mission any time of the day (he doesn't sleep). But no, Chuck and Eric (this is the title of a sitcom spinoff waiting to happen) think the man who can save mutantkind is a Canadian who can"t remember his own birthday.

If they had Crystal Pepsi, it wouldn't be a dystopian future.

And before you say, "but they can't send the kid because it's a mental time travel and he wasn't even born yet", that doesn't matter because they changed the original story so much that it could be possible. It was Kitty Pride who traveled back with the help of Rachel Summers, Iceman and Professor X were dead and Bishop and Blink weren't created yet. The is little excuse not to use Zapping as a main character. Heck, with the void left by Harry Potter, let's make Zapping into a franchise! (sorry Percy Jackson)

Maybe it was not the screenwriters fault maybe it was the studios desition, with Wolverine, you can have at least a 2 hours long movie. With Zapping, the flick would be over in a zap (ha!). Guess we'll have to wait and see. Maybe Zapping leads the charge against Apocalypse. If not, Marvel should buy the rights to the character and put him in the Avenger sequel and turn Ultron into a paperweight, then again, the movie would be too short.

 Zapping