PREVIEW: Extermination #5

[lucasjacobus]

I do wonder what was the point of giving the current/real 05 the memories of the ones that went back in time. Will any of that actually matter to any of them?

I really think that Jeen's mindwipe had a predetermined moment to fade away and MAYBE the one in the character that was shown at the epilogue 2 ended a little bit earlier...

[Jackraow21]

Everything is all back to normal and nothing bad every happened.

Except, Mimic and Bloodstorm we can't fix that.

And old Cable. I guess his was the third casket.

[ClanAskani]

And old Cable. I guess his was the third casket.

Essentially Cable's relationships with all the characters is gone - that puts him in conflict with X-Force and the X-Men. But it essentially erases everything that's happened in Cable's solo books. Even Cable & Deadpool.

[Jackraow21]

Essentially Cable's relationships with all the characters is gone - that puts him in conflict with X-Force and the X-Men. But it essentially erases everything that's happened in Cable's solo books. Even Cable & Deadpool.

Yeah, kind of lame. But Deadpool will show up, and it will be kind of fun watching him bounce off this new version who has zero affinity for him. Ha.

[Purplevit]

I liked it.

Still not interested in kid Cable.

Interesting if grey kids are children of Gambit and Rogue from future.

[Nazrel]

It was 4.5 issues setup for X-Force + Summers/Grey family drama, then at the very end we got a bit of dialogue with the characters this book is ostensibly about and we get the laziest solution possible to characters we’ve been reading about for six years.

People keep talking like there was potential, there wasn't.
They weren't characters, they were plot; they were time paradox's, their nature demanded this end in some level of pointlessness, it would have had to have been a variation on the following:

A. Disconnect them from the timeline, so the entire plot is pointless and they're just a bunch of alternate reality character redundancy's.
B. Send them back, nothing changes, they are pointless.
C. Everything changes, and the last 50+ years of stories are pointless.

This was literally the least pointless ending they could have given them; I worked this out years ago.
The mistake was having them persist, or bringing them forward in the first place.

[cranger]

This was literally the least pointless ending they could have given them; I worked this out years ago.
The mistake was having them persist, or bringing them forward in the first place.

Yeah, this works if it happens right away. The whole point was for Beast to have Cyclops see how far he had strayed from their ideals. That obviously doesn't work. If they go back, and all of a sudden everyone has those memories now Cyclops is seeing things through the eyes of his idealistic self. Of course, that means he gives up his dreams of a revolution and someone would need to come up with a new hook for his Uncanny run.

[Dthirds3]

If anyone has a problem with the ending blame bendis for creating this mess of a plot (and ruining superman's son to), not sending them back after secrete wars, and editorial changing them from past and alt reality so many times the writers dont know what's happening. They should have stayed with alt reality and had ahab kill all of them and Jimmy(he'll never be relivent again)