Considering that Lucas gets and has enough money from the legion of suckers...errr, I mean very dedicated fans, that keep buying the same movie over and over and over again in the same format, he could probably start his own tv network. They can then replay Howard the Duck a couple of times a week along with Red Tails. 

 This looks as shitty as Battleship. Funny enough, both this and Battleship are still probably Oscar worthy compared to that Adam Sandler crapfest coming out in a few weeks.

 We do know who 'they' are...the Observers. Remember, the Observers come and take over the Earth in either 2013 or 2014. We got this from the episode where it was 2036. It's no mystery where this show is headed, just like it was no mystery that Olivia had to 'die' to stop the destruction of both universes.

I got a very big Wizard of Oz feeling from this episode. With Olivia as Dorothy, Peter as the Tin Man, Walter as the scarecrow, Bell as the cowardly lion, and September as Oz. They've all been lead down this road to get to this point. It'll be fun to see how they end it.

 Rob, actually it's been stated in more than one place that Burton hasn't watched a single episode of the original tv series, just like JJ Abrahms never watched a single episode or movie of Star Trek. It looked like crap from the beginning, so this is really no great surprise.

 A friend of mine had a great idea, since Jarvis is already the AI for Tony Stark, why not have it become sentient enough to inhabit Vision which can then be played by Paul Bettaney (who does the voice of Jarvis). Plus you can't have either Vision or Wonder Man without Ultron, and you can't have Ultron without Hank Pym. 

Black Panther is okay, but I'd rather have Luke Cage and have him played by Micheal Jai White. Edris Elba is already in the Marvel movies as the Asgardian gate keeper, so if Black Panther was to be in the movie, it should be played by Chiwetel Ejiofor (see Serenity for reasons why). 

Alan Tudyk for Hank Pym. Amy Acker for Wasp (or, if you're going to go Ultimate's Wasp, Jamie Chung). 

But frankly, if we're talking about Avengers 2 casting, we should be talking about who will be Adam Warlock...who will be cast as Magus, Nemesis, and Sersi. 

 Considering that Chris Roberson (writer of I, Zombie) lost his last DC job over a tweet denouncing DC for doing this obvious cash-grab (something that was omitted from this article, since it was discussed at length by both Dildo (not a typo) and Lee at this very same event), I think it's going to become a bigger issue as we near the release date of this thing. 

I look at it as a once in a lifetime story about a certain period of time, that unless you didn't live through it, you're never going to understand it the way those of us who did live in that time period understand it. It was a definitive turning point in comics that was ushered in by a few others during that same time period. Moore's characters were borrowed from comic book history to tell this story. This one story. Not a series. Moore wrote as one big book with a beginning, middle, and an end because he came from a literary background. He wasn't looking to do sequels. DC decided to split it up into 12 issues and release it over a year's time. 

I think to expand upon this story, is like trying to expand upon "Oliver Twist" or "Moby Dick". Sure, you can have other writers come in a do a prequel about Fagan or Queequeg, but you end up taking away what was special about the book in the first place. Look at the Star Wars prequels as an example. Vader was a badass in the OT. In the prequels, he's diminished into a simpering frankenpussy, which diminshes him as a character in the OT. Same thing with "Gone With the Wind". There was a sequel written years after the original writer had long passed on. Guess how bad that one turned out? 

I, for one, am not going to buy it when it comes out, because I don't want the original story diminished (for me) by inferior work. And yes, it's going to be inferior work, because again, this book took place at a specfic point in history that just won't work today as a 'superhero' comic. No matter how pretty you try to make it look. 

DC will make their money on the first and possibly even second issues of these books (much like they did on the new 52), but sales will sink like a stone thrown into a black hole after that (much like they did on the new 52 titles after issue #2). 

 I've been reading The Sixth Gun in TP only. I find it's much like The Walking Dead in pacing, where I can't read individual issues because it goes too slowly that way. Anyway, The Sixth Gun is probably one of my favorite reads right now behind the new TMNT and B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth series. It's easy for me since I dumped all of DC's titles except for Batman Beyond Unlimited (which is an awesome book because they don't have to deal any of the fucked up continuity problems of the main DC universe (which is going to change again very soon)). 

 The Observers come from 2609, not 2069 (probably a typo). We know Olivia's fate according to Etta (which happened in 2016). Plus this is a companion episode to the one where Peter ended up in the future (2020's I believe) and had to send his mind back to the present to correct a mistake (which obviously didn't happen in this timeline now). 

This comes down to September bringing Peter back into the timeline where he was erased, because it was Peter and Olivia's child that prevented the Observers from taking over (according to September). 

 I wouldn't read much into Robert Downey Jr. being promoting Avengers on castle. Considering that Adam Baldwin was a guest star on the episode in question, and that a lot of women watch Castle for Fillion, it was a given that this episode was going to have the most Whedon fans watching (that particular night) who don't have a Y chromosome and were more than likely not going to see Avengers on their own. Simple marketing to an audience that otherwise wouldn't see the movie without their bfs/husbands dragging them to see it. 

Fillion was rumored to be the lead in Ant-Man long ago, but about a year ago another name surfaced...Alan Tudyk. Yup, another Whedon alumni. Considering that Tudyk just does the occasional cameo on the show Suburgatory, AND has been in a lot more successful films than Fillion, he would probably be the smart and logical choice for the role. Pegg should be left to star in The Boys (since the role in the comic was created specifically for him), and it would be good for Wright to branch out a little and not rely on the same actors all the time as a crutch. Because it does get stale fairly quick.

 Hulkdude, The jock was actually there on an full academic scholarship (because he was so smart) and was an econ major (not a major jocks take on). The 'virgin' wasn't really a virgin. The slut, wasn't a ho, but manipulated by chemicals induced in her hair dye, beer, and the pheremones. So the whole point of setting up these stereotypes was to make this group conform to their roles so that they could fulfill the sacrifice. The underground workers are telling you, the audience, how they manipulated these people (using chemicals) to conform the group to these roles during the movie. So honestly, I don't know what the hell you were watching (or in what state you were watching it in), but it was all there spelled out for you in plain English. Even the gas attendant (the Harbinger) was a suposed to be a test, or a warning if you will, for them to turn back before willingly proceeding to be the sacrifices. Again, this was explained in the movie, if you weren't sleeping though it, or stoned out of your gourd, or can comprehend simple sentence structure.

The two guys running the show downstairs were analagous (look it up) to the writers of the movie itself. That was the whole point, and why it's being called a 'meta' horror movie in the same vein as "Scream". It's a very smart, self-aware horror movie that takes all these cliches we've seen in these movies before (and that you're complaining about) and are familiar with, and turn them on their ear. Even at the end, when the 'virgin' realizes that the 'jock' never even had a cousin (who supposedly owned the cabin), you realize that this whole scenario to get this group to the cabin was a setup from the very beginning.

You keep getting stuck on Scooby-Doo (which a lot of these types of horror movies are anyway), instead of seeing the other stuff that's there in the movie that makes it original.