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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larcen" data-source="post: 2850988" data-attributes="member: 2406">Wikipedia did the same thing for me with the recent Doctor Who series.  I have never had a problem with Doctor Who stories, even the old ones, until I started reading them in Wikipedia.  With only a short synopsis, the stories are laid bare without feeling or emotion.  They are devoid of all the things that make the show great and you are left with only farfetched and very unlikely story elements.  What seemed very reasonable on screen, when delivered by the Doctor and friends, suddenly comes across as silly an contrived.  Which I suppose, it is.  But it's like a joke that loses something in the translation.  Or the old "you had to be there" thing.  The same can be said of the Dark Phoenix storyline.Having read the original Dark Phoenix comics when they first came out I can tell you that there is no way that a synopsis can do them justice.  Like in the Doctor Who story translations, you lose so much.  You lose out on all the wonderul characters involved and their reactions and emotions.  You lose out on the great writing.  You lose out on the great art.  You lose out on the exciting feeling of anticipation you get when you have to wait a whole month for the next issue to come out.  You lose out on the story SLOWLY building to it's epic climax.  You lose out on seeing a character you got strongly attached to DIE.    That was something new at the time, let me tell you.I would be rather disappointed if they didnt make the DP saga into a movie someday.  I mean, think about it, talk about upping the ante on scope and action for a super hero movie.  The DP story has aliens.  Super powered aliens.  Starships.  A story that spans galaxies.  Entire solar systems being destroyed.  Heros making a last desperate stand against what truly are impossible odds.  I would love to see a super hero movie like that, wouldn't you?Sideline note:  I don't see what all the fuss about bringing her back was.  When I first read how the story ended, I was shocked sure, but I suspected all along she would be back.  Her name IS Dark Phoenix after all!  And if you look closely in the comic, that was a pile of ashes that was left behind when she committed suicide.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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