Quote Originally Posted by sketch View Post
oversight? no. 10 years have passed between X6 and X7 - the point is that we're left to wonder about how it happened so that it can be filled in with a later installment. or perhaps it's in a deleted scene - a scene that's deleted as it doesn't help the story progress, necessarily. we're all left curious, the more curious we are, the more likely we'll be to pay to see the sequel. methinks you're reading in between the lines too much for a comic book movie.
Don't get me wrong, I like it. I'd argue that it's the best of the 7 so far. But that's not how movies work. Movies with prequels & sequels don't leave plot holes and issues of this type un-addressed. If they went with a separate story altogether--threw the "established movie canon" out the window--then what they did wouldn't be an issue.

In my opinion, the par excellence of this type is Prometheus. To an avid fan, all the tie-ins were there...yet the movie didn't tell us how or even when Alien followed that movie chronologically; nor does the audience need that information. That's because it's not a key element.

On the other hand, Shadowcat gaining telepathic powers or Wolverine re-obtaining metal claws...or worse, Professor X re-appearing in the same body; these are things which avid fans of the MOVIES (again, not the comics...because we already established that comic-canon isn't "sufficient" to garner an audience--at least in the hollywood bigshits minds)--has trouble accepting.

My point is, either connect it securely...or disconnect it so that the ties are VERY loose and there is mystery. Half-way in between is just poor screenwriting.