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Oh, lordy, not more bloody time travel...
It's more like Groundhog Day, really, with the conceit being that Moira is a mutant whose power is such that, if she dies, she goes back to the day of her birth with all the knowledge she built up over the course of her life before she died. So, she just keeps running it back until she's able to navigate mutants away from catastrophe and toward a Utopian state. Which is a far more responsible way to use that power than I would; I'd just bet on sports and sit around like a fat cat.
Yeah, me too.
‘So, to what do you attribute your fourteenth lottery jackpot in a row?’
‘Just lucky, I guess...’
Paul wrote: "Yeah, me too.
‘So, to what do you attribute your fourteenth lottery jackpot in a row?’
‘Just lucky, I guess...’"
Ha! That might get boring. Well, at some point. Not before 14 jackpots, though.
Sean wrote: "It's more like Groundhog Day, really, with the conceit being that Moira is a mutant whose power is such that, if she dies, she goes back to the day of her birth with all the knowledge she built up ..."
I was goin to say - this groundhogs day plot was very trippy for me. But very Hickman.
I really loved it and the majority of the Krakoan Era that I have read. I liked mutants stepping up from there normal "there are 5 mutants left alive and we are being hunted to extinction" to this insanely amazing society that is fully mutant first and putting them at the level they should be at. I also love how almost all the teams are interchangeable depending on what is needed. And it brought my favorite X-Man villain in Mr Sinister to a level of prominence he had never achieved. I've only read to Inferno, which is where Hickman stopped writing and left so I don't know how bad quality drops. Still looking forward to finishing it though.
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It's more like Groundhog Day, really, with the conceit being that Moira is a mutant whose power is such that, if she dies, she goes back to the day of her birth with all the knowledge she built up over the course of her life before she died. So, she just keeps running it back until she's able to navigate mutants away from catastrophe and toward a Utopian state. Which is a far more responsible way to use that power than I would; I'd just bet on sports and sit around like a fat cat.
Yeah, me too.‘So, to what do you attribute your fourteenth lottery jackpot in a row?’
‘Just lucky, I guess...’
Paul wrote: "Yeah, me too.‘So, to what do you attribute your fourteenth lottery jackpot in a row?’
‘Just lucky, I guess...’"
Ha! That might get boring. Well, at some point. Not before 14 jackpots, though.
Sean wrote: "It's more like Groundhog Day, really, with the conceit being that Moira is a mutant whose power is such that, if she dies, she goes back to the day of her birth with all the knowledge she built up ..."I was goin to say - this groundhogs day plot was very trippy for me. But very Hickman.
I really loved it and the majority of the Krakoan Era that I have read. I liked mutants stepping up from there normal "there are 5 mutants left alive and we are being hunted to extinction" to this insanely amazing society that is fully mutant first and putting them at the level they should be at. I also love how almost all the teams are interchangeable depending on what is needed. And it brought my favorite X-Man villain in Mr Sinister to a level of prominence he had never achieved. I've only read to Inferno, which is where Hickman stopped writing and left so I don't know how bad quality drops. Still looking forward to finishing it though.
