It’s an effective way to drive sales in an ongoing, but obviously has an endpoint in a maxi-series like this one. This “answer” has only led to more questions, which seem poised to lead to even more questions. I mean, they even have Ant-Man point out how utterly unsatisfying Nick’s explanation is. Under normal circumstances, that disinterest in the series’ central mystery might bother me, but Original Sin has been such an effective send-up of comic excesses, it’s hard to begrudge Jason Aaron and Mike Deodato this equally over-the-top piece of misdirection. Each issue of this series has started with a question, and “Nick Fury moonlit as Earth’s bodyguard” is the answer to exactly none of them. This only sort of explains away the bodies, and maybe lends some context to the murder, but is mostly a total red herring.
So…Nick Fury apparently put together three hilariously mismatched teams in hopes that they would discover a secret that he ultimately just told them anyway, all of which seems only tangentially related to the Watcher’s murder? I think Ant-Man sums up my thoughts here: Only, Nick doesn’t quite admit to it, and his concern over being “next” makes it seem like it wasn’t him, after all. That sort of explains all of the dead things our various teams discovered, and gives Nick a solid motivation for killing the Watcher, who was witness to all of these needlessly secret murders. Like, in addition to his responsibilities as super-spy and S.H.I.E.L.D. This issue amounts to Nick Fury’s Original Sins issue, as he explains that he was recruited long ago to single-handedly fend off every threat to Earth’s existence since the late ’50s. Original Sin 5 subverts those explanations by showing us why Nick Fury killed all of those monsters and planets, but stopping just short of telling us who killed the Watcher. Ultimately, the who, where, and what of the murder doesn’t matter so much as the why and how, which tend to be pulled out at the very last minute, anyway. Of course it could be anyone - that’s the whole point. Of course, what’s truly clever is the way that those endings play with our expectations of parlor murder mysteries in general. By the end of the movie, it really could be anyone, and the multiple endings play with that idea brilliantly. Today, Drew and Spencer are discussing Original Sin 5, originally released July 2nd, 2014.ĭrew: As far as board game adaptations go, Clue actually does a pretty fantastic job of mimicking the experience of playing the game (it’s certainly closer than Battleship, and don’t even get me started on Twister).
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