{"id":336,"date":"2013-02-10T11:18:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=336"},"modified":"2013-02-10T11:18:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T00:18:05","slug":"sunday-supervillainy-age-of-ultron-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/10\/sunday-supervillainy-age-of-ultron-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Supervillainy &#8211; <i>Age of Ultron<\/i> trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2013\/02\/08\/age-of-ultron-the-trailer\/\">Via Bleeding Cool I came across this trailer <\/a>for <em>Age of Ultron<\/em>, which looks very like Marvel Universe meets\u00a0<em>The Terminator<\/em>.<em>\u00a0<\/em>Mind you, <a href=\"http:\/\/terminator.wikia.com\/wiki\/Terminator_2:_The_New_John_Connor_Chronicles\">from my viewpoint<\/a> that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing. (I&#8217;ve spent many hours of my life thinking of ways of destroying or defeating killer cyborgs and dangerous, human-hating\u00a0AI&#8217;s. As we all know, on any specific occasion it&#8217;s not good enough to destroy them just once, because the pesky things are extremely resilient.)<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/10\/sunday-supervillainy-age-of-ultron-trailer\/age-of-ultron\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-337\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/files\/2013\/02\/Age-of-Ultron.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears that the malevolent artificial intelligence, Ultron, has done a Skynet on the world, leaving a small group of heroes as the resistance. Since this story is supposed to be canon, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how the writers manage to put the toys back at the end, without leaving the ramshackle Marvel Universe totally trashed. I&#8217;m fascinated by these technical issues in writing serial genre fiction. We&#8217;re promised that some changes will stick as the new status quo, which is always the case with these big events in contemporary comics, so that&#8217;s also of interest to an old fanboy like me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Bleeding Cool I came across this trailer for Age of Ultron, which looks very like Marvel Universe meets\u00a0The Terminator.\u00a0Mind you, from my viewpoint that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing. (I&#8217;ve spent many hours of my life thinking of ways of destroying or defeating killer cyborgs and dangerous, human-hating\u00a0AI&#8217;s. As we all know, on any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,24],"tags":[158,31],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-diversions","tag-age-of-ultron","tag-sunday-supervillainy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}