Marvel’s ‘Inhumans’ Confirmed to Have an ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Connection
During SDCC, the upcoming Marvel’s Inhumans released a second trailer, but also screened some scenes from the season premiere for the fans present at the con.
According to Comic Book Movie, one if these scenes features the royal family acknowledging the events of season 2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. by discussing the spread of Terrigen in Earth’s water supply.
Marvel’s Inhumans is set to show its first two episodes on IMAX theatres on September 1, and later premiere on ABC on September 29.
SDCC: ‘Once Upon a Time’ Season 7 Trailer Reveals Police Officer Hook and New Characters
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con is giving us every trailer we’ve been waiting for, including Once Upon a Time.
A whole bunch of new information also came out about the show. Executive producer Eddy Kitsis confirmed that nothing from the previous six season will be erased.
According to TV Line, executive producers of the show revealed some new info about the plot, saying we will see the same versions of Hook, Rumple and the Queen, “Henry wants to visit other storybooks with different stories and characters. He falls in love with Cinderella, much like the romance his grandparents had. He gets into some trouble and calls out for help from his family.”
Fans at Comic-Con were shown the first two scenes of the upcoming season, and TV Line also gave us some info on that.
Young Henry (played by Gilmore) tells Regina he needs to leave Storybrooke in order to find out what his own story is and where he belongs (after finding hundreds of other books in the sorcerer’s mansion. “How long will you be gone?” Regina asks, to which Henry replies, “As long as it takes.” He then hops on a motorcycle — which August taught him how to ride — before riding off through a portal to a new realm.
We then see West’s grown-up Henry riding his motorcycle in another realm, “years later,” at which point he accidentally crashes into Cinderella’s carriage.
Kitsis also confirmed that they’re planning on doing a “prominent LGBTQ storyline” this year.
The recently launched trailer gives us our first looks at our new characters: Dania Ramirez’s Cinderella, Rose Reynolds’ Alice, Adelaide Kane’s Drizella, Mekia Cox’s Tiana and Gabriella Anwar’s Lady Tremaine aka Cinderella’s stepmother.
The trailer also features our favorite Captain Hook as a policeman and reveals a whole lot more information about the plot.
Check it out:
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The new season of Once Upon a Time premieres October 6 on ABC.
REVIEW: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, Episode 102
After an episode of questions (a pilot episode tends to do that) it is nice having an episode of answers. In “Trust Me” we find out what Jafar and the Red Queen are up to: they want to gather 3 genies in order to change the laws of magic. It also doesn’t take long to know what these laws are because Cyrus explains them to Alice in a flashback. Cyrus says he can’t kill people (this is only a genie rule and not a law of magic), can’t bring back the dead, can’t change the past (this one is not so strict anymore as you might remember from season 3B of “Once Upon A Time”) and can’t make people fall in love. These are the 3 rules these villains want to be free of, each for their own personal reasons, I’m sure, and those reasons won’t probably take long to be revealed to us.
What is interesting in a villain team up is that they are all constantly trying to be the leader and that is why they usually fail. In the beginning of the episode it is clear that Jafar is the most powerful one and that the Red Queen is just a pawn in his game. He is simply using her to find Cyrus’ genie bottle, making her promises along the way he doesn’t intend to keep. After all, as the Red Queen says, “promises were made to be broken”. But Jafar underestimated the Queen of Wonderland and it doesn’t take long for her to make a stand. She sends Jafar on a wild goose chase, while she and the Rabbit (who she has an upper hand on) go to where the bottle is actually buried, making herself now much more than a pawn in the chess game that is starting to take place.
But Jafar is not the only one making planes, because Alice also makes some of her own. She wants to make 3 harmless wishes (since magic, wishes included, always comes with a price) and then Cyrus will be back to his bottle, which she intends to have by then. But most planes are made to be tossed to the trash and this one is no different. First Alice and Will find a very big lake and, needing help to get through it (since Will can’t swim), they call a fairy, Silvermist. But she isn’t very willing to help (given her past with Will, which she is not as “move on” from as she said) and eventually throws them both into the lake. As luck would have it, they landed close to a little island (convenient, right?) where they rested while trying to come up with something that would allow them to continue their journey. But turned out that they hadn’t used all the luck they had for that day, and the island they were in wasn’t really an island and more of a gigantic turtle. Alice not being one of subtlety, demands the turtle to take them to their destination.
But turned out Alice simply wanted to see who they were up against, because the place they go to wasn’t where the bottle was buried. After finding Jafar digging, Alice and Will go to the place the bottle was actually buried but only find a hole in the ground. The bottle had been taken already. And that is when a message from Cyrus arrives. Cyrus asks Alice to leave Wonderland while she still can’t, but he didn’t have to bother because everyone knew (maybe even Cyrus) that she would never do that. Instead Alice sends him another message: “I’m coming for you”.
This episode also introduced two mysterious character: Anastasia (who is “a tale of heartbreak” for Will) and another prisoner that is trapped in the same dungeon as Cyrus. Keep them in mind because they will be important as the story develops.
I feel like in this episode, in contrary to the previous one, the flashbacks were a little pointless and didn’t add much to the story (not only this episode’s story, but the entire season’s). The only thing that could be called “relevant” we learned in the flashbacks were what the laws of magic are, but that could be easily explained in the present. This being said, I’m glad there weren’t a lot of flashback scenes. They are important and very explanatory in some episodes, but not in this one.
But it was still a good episode and I will give a 7.5/10.
Also keep in mind that Alice isn’t the only one “coming for you”. I will too, so don’t forget to check my upcoming review of episode 103, “Forget Me Not”.
New ‘Inhumans’ Trailer Showcases Medusa’s Powers
A new Marvel’s Inhumans trailer dropped during Comic Con on Thursday, and we have good news: it’s an improvement!
The first trailer for the upcoming series got audiences very worried about the quality of the show, but this new trailer (even though it’s not perfect) certainly looks better.
The trailer showcases a bunch of new scenes and characters, but most importantly, it shows Medusa finally using her powers, and… well, once again, we’ll let you judge by yourself.
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Before Comic-Con started, ABC also released three new character posters of our main royal family, check them out:
Marvel’s Inhumans is set to show its first two episodes on IMAX theatres on September 1, and later premiere on ABC on Septerber 29.
REVIEW: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, Episode 101
I don’t really like to compare shows, since one of them always gets downgraded, but I think it is inevitable to compare a spin-off and its main show. When Once Upon A Time in Wonderland started, Once Upon A Time was in its 3rd season (which is, in my opinion, one of its finest) and so I feel like OUATiW was a bit ignored by the fans. Maybe it would have been smarter to make it into a summer show, but what is done is done. In the end I was a bit sad it was cancelled but ultimately not too surprised.
Like the pilot of the main show, “Down The Rabbit Hole” begins with the words “Once Upon A Time”, which in itself often represents the beginning of a great story. There is also something in the beginning of the episode that reminded me of an amazing quote from OUAT. When Alice gets home, she tells her father what happened to her and how she visited a wonderful land (see what I did there?) and, even though he is at first a bit reluctant whether to believe her or not, he doesn’t in the end, which brought me back to 117 of OUAT when Jefferson said to Emma, who was also a non-believer: “Everyone wants a magical solution for their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic”. I think this quote kind of sums up the world we live in today, because even though some of us want to believe in something else other than what we have, there are always the ones that will constantly make sure we go back to believing only in what our eyes can see and that is exactly what cuts off imagination and creativity.
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It was also incredible to see that Alice is not a damsel in distress and that she can take care of herself very well when we see that, on her own, she took care of all the employees of the asylum when Will came to her rescue (which turned out to be the other way around).
After the asylum we finally leave our world (not completely, but at least until the end of this episode) and enter Wonderland. I think they built this new world very well, because we are told in Lewis Carroll’s tale that nothing makes sense there. It is true that the special effects and the scenarios behind the characters are awful and evidently fake in some scenes, but it is still nice to see the Wonderland nonsense: dragonflies that are actually mini-dragons, a marshmallow lake, food that makes you smaller and drinks that make you bigger… and that is only some of the few things we see in this premiere, because more nonsense things will continue to arrive to the screen throughout the season.
While we see Alice talking to Dr. Lydgate (who also makes an appearance in S6 of the main show), we see some flashbacks of this young girl going through some adventures trying to prove to her father she is not crazy. While in this, she accidentally meets a guy who is destined to become her true love: Cyrus, the genie. Even though their love seems impossible (since genies are always changing masters and lands) they start having a lot of adventures and have an almost immediate Happy Beginning.
But of course there cannot be heroes without villains and this spin-off introduces two: The Red Queen (who had to be a regular villain, of course, since she is the trouble bringer on the original story) and Jafar (who shouldn’t belong here, since he is in the wrong story, but somehow fits completely). It is always nice seeing a villain team-up. Heroes join forces all the time, so why shouldn’t villains do the same? In the last scene we see Alice and Cyrus together, these villains go to distance to make Alice think her genie is dead. The Red Queen throes him into the Boiling Sea (right after he proposed), while Jafar catches him with a flying carpet (Alice doesn’t see this last part, of course).
The end of the episode is also something I thought was nice. Alice goes to the Mad Hatter’s looking for Cyrus (who was allegedly seen there) but finds nothing but lots and lots of hats (at least inside the house). About to lose hope and control over her tears, she goes outside and finds a necklace that belongs to Cyrus, making the assumption that if it survived, maybe Cyrus did too, right? And that brings us to the best quote of this episode: “When you really love someone, you don’t need proof. You can feel it”. This quote Alice makes is actually a repetition of what Cyrus says in flashbacks when they first meet, but I thought it had more impact in this last scene then on the previous one, maybe because this times Alice is referring to someone who will always believe in her, no matter how absurd she may sound.
Making now the last comparison between shows, it was cool to see that this pilot didn’t end in a major cliffhanger or plot twist, like most pilot episodes do. Instead (like Once Upon A Time’s pilot) it ends with a bit of hope and belief in something that cannot be seen, only felt. In the end of this episode, Alice knows for sure that Cyrus is alive, not only based on a rumor she heard, but also in the love they share (call her mad, but she is right).
Overall, it was a good episode, but better ones are coming our way. That being said, I will give this episode a 7 out of 10.
Hope you guys stick around for my upcoming review of episode 102 of this show entitled “Trust Me”.
‘Once Upon a Time:’ Dania Ramirez’s Character Revealed (Photos)
At this weekend’s D23 Expo, it was revealed that Cinderella will get a new story.
Executive producer of Once Upon a Time, Eddy Kitsis revealed this Saturday that new cast member Dania Ramirez will play Cinderella in the seventh season of the show.
It was also confirmed that Ramirez is playing Henry’s wife and mother of his child. “Dania Ramirez will be playing a different version of Cinderella,” said Kitsis. “If we remember Henry’s grandfather is Prince Charming [Josh Dallas], so we have the grandson of Prince Charming with a new Cinderella.”
Kitsis said that the new season will be set in Seattle, and flashbacks will take us into the Enchanted Forest. “Henry is in a new Enchanted Forest, with characters that we have seen before but with different tales.”
As for Storybrooke he said that “we may see it a few times throughout the year” We’re going to follow him as he leaves home,” Kitsis shared, adding that Henry “wants to find his own story.”
“We’re going to follow him [Henry] as he leaves home,” Kitsis explained, which means we will see at least a little more of Jared Gilmore’s Young Henry.
The seventh season of Once Upon a Time is set to air this fall, and it will air on Friday nights instead of Sundays.
Source: Deadline.
‘Empire,’ ‘The Flash,’ and ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Among the Nominees for Teen Choice Awards
Earlier today, FOX released all the nominees for this year’s Teen Choice Awards, and some of the shows featured in our podcasts got nominated!
Empire got a nomination in the category #ChoiceDramaTVShow alongside Riverdale, Famous in Love, Pretty Little Liars, Star and This is Us.
Jussie Smollett from Empire was nominated in the category #ChoiceDramaTVActor for playing Jamal Lyon in the show. Cole Sprouse (Riverdale), Ian Harding (Pretty Little Liars), Milo Ventimiglia and Sterling K. Brown (This is Us), and Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy) were also nominated in the category.
Jennifer Morrison and Lana Parrilla (a.k.a. Emma Swan and The Evil Queen from Once Upon a Time) were nominated for #ChoiceSciFiTVActress alongside Abigail Spencer (Timeless), Eliza Taylor (The 100), Emeraude Toubia (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments), and Kat Graham (The Vampire Diaries). The show itself, however, did not get a nomination.
In the category of #ChoiceActionTVShow we have Arrow, Gotham, Lethal Weapon, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Supergirl, and The Flash.
For #ChoiceActionTVActor: Supergirl‘s Chris Wood, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s Gabriel Luna, The Flash‘s Grant Gustin and Arrow‘s Stephen Amell are all nominated alongside Clayne Crawford from Lethal Weapon and Wentworth Miller from Prison Break.
As for #ChoiceActionTVActress, Caity Lotz from Legends of Tomorrow, Candice Patton and Danielle Panabaker from The Flash, Emily Bett Rickards from Arrow, Jordana Brewster from Lethal Weapon, and Melissa Benoist from Supergirl are nominated.
The awards will air live August 13 on FOX.
Check out the full list of nominees in all categories from movies to TV and music!
You can vote for your favorites on the Teen Choice Awards’ website or via Twitter using the hashtags and your nominee’s Twitter handle.
Marvel’s ‘Inhumans’ Comic-Con Poster Revealed
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con is next week, and with it, promotional material is slowly coming in.
This time, it was the Inhumans’ turn. Marvel Entertainment and ABC released earlier today the official SDCC poster for the show.
The promotional art comes from comic artist Jae Lee, who co-created the acclaimed 12-issue Inhumans comic alongside Paul Jenkins in 1998.
The poster features our main characters: Medusa, Black Bolt, Maximus, Karnak, Gorgon, Crystal, Triton, and Lockjaw.
Marvel’s Inhumans is set to show its first two episodes on IMAX theatres on September 1, and later premiere on ABC on September 29.
Source: IGN.
‘Once Upon a Time:’ Who’s Leaving, Who’s Staying, Who’s Joining
As you may or may not have heard, the fairy tale television series Once Upon a Time is rebuilding its cast.
Regular cast member Jennifer Morrison (Emma Swan) announced she would exit the show after the season 6 finale. The actress was offered an extension of her contract, but she declined for personal reasons she discussed with TV Line.
Rebecca Mader (Wicked Witch of the West) confirmed on May 12 in an Instagram post that she will not be returning for Season 7 either:
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Four days after Morrison’s announcement, it was confirmed that Ginnifer Goodwin (Snow White), Josh Dallas (Prince Charming), Emilie de Ravin (Belle), and Jared Gilmore (Henry Mills) were also leaving.
Co-creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis released a full statement addressing the changes.
“Words can’t do justice to what Ginny, Josh, Emilie, Rebecca and Jared brought to ONCE UPON A TIME… but we’ll try… never have we had the privilege of working with a more talented group of collaborators. Each brought unique talent, incredible intelligence, and their own individual bit of magic as they gave life to these iconic characters.
Ginny reinvented Snow White for a modern audience – there was no way she would be stuck cleaning up after dwarfs, she created an iconic empowered heroine for the 21st century.
Josh mined the depths of Prince Charming – a character who in myth was just a “type” but in his superlative interpretation became a complex man fighting for love and family.
Emilie took the character of Belle to a deep and soulful place, bringing great intelligence and warmth to the character, making her fiercely independent, strong willed but also an eternal optimist who saw only the best in all those she encountered.
Rebecca took us on a broomstick roller coaster ride as she re-invented the Wicked Witch of the West by finding the pain beneath the green. She made the character soar to incredible heights while always keeping her grounded and relatable.
And Jared literally grew up before the eyes of millions, from a child actor with enormous innate talent to a young man whose abilities continue to astound as he created a character who truly, as we say on the show, has the heart of the truest believer.
We can’t thank them enough for the hard work, dedication, and passion they delivered day in and day out. Without them there would be no ONCE UPON A TIME.
As ONCE continues, this group will always be the beating heart of the show. And even though we won’t be with them every week, in a show about magic and hope, we fervently believe it won’t be the last we see of them. “
This last sentence teases at some cameos.
We already know that the departure of these characters will be referenced in the upcoming season, and Emma Swan is set to make a cameo in one of the episodes, but will we see any more?
So that leaves us with the question: well, who the heck is staying then?!
Lana Parrilla (The Evil Queen), Robert Carlyle (Rumplestiltskin) and Colin O’Donoghue (Captain Hook) are staying for the upcoming season.
Now, who’s joining the cast?
As regulars in the TV show, Dania Ramirez (Devious Maids) and Gabrielle Anwar (Burn Notice) are set to join. Whereas Mekia Cox (Chicago Med), Rose Reynolds (Wasted) and Adelaide Kane (Reign) are joining for recurring roles in the upcoming season.
The character descriptions have not yet been released.
Andrew J West (the adult version of Henry Mills) and Alison Fernandez (Henry’s daughter, Lucy) will also be joining the show as regulars after guest starring in the Season 6 finale.
The seventh season of Once Upon a Time is set to air this fall, and it will air on Friday nights instead of Sundays.
Source: E! News.
Kit Harington’s ‘Audition Reel’ for ‘Game of Thrones’ Released by Jimmy Kimmel
In anticipation of season 7 of Game of Thrones, Jimmy Kimmel released Kit Harington’s (who plays Jon Snow) “audition reel” on his talk-show.
In the hilarious clips, we can see our favourite bastard auditioning for the roles of Cersei Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Hodor and others.
Needless to say, The King in the North has some range:
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The new season premieres this Sunday on HBO.
Check out our trailer breakdown.