Nov 21, 2011 18:11
I watched X-Men: First Class yesterday, and really enjoyed it, so much so that I watched it a second time later in the day, trying to get maximum use out of the recording before it self-destructed this morning. However, I was rather surprised and amused at my reaction to certain implausibilities. Here we have a fictional world based on the premise that genetic mutation can give human beings such skills as gills that magically generate when underwater, but disappear at other times or tiny gossamer insect wings that somehow manage to bear the weight of a human, and that a single injection can cause people's whole bone structure to change within seconds. Yet, despite all this, my main "What?" moment was when Charles Xavier became a professor at Oxford University in his late twenties immediately upon completing his thesis.
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