{"id":246,"date":"2004-12-13T23:09:45","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T04:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=246"},"modified":"2004-12-13T23:09:45","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T04:09:45","slug":"just-an-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Just an Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While wrapping presents this evening I needed some background noise, so I put <i>X2: X-Men United<\/i> in the DVD player.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t realized it until today, but the film is almost a remake of <i>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/i>.  But with the X-Men, instead of Admiral Kirk and his lackeys.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when <i>X2<\/i> came out that many in fandom said the film owed a debt to &#8220;God Loves, Man Kills,&#8221; the <i>X-Men<\/i> graphic novel of the mid-80s, but it owes just as much to Nick Meyer&#8217;s space opera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While wrapping presents this evening I needed some background noise, so I put X2: X-Men United in the DVD player. I hadn&#8217;t realized it until today, but the film is almost a remake of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. But with the X-Men, instead of Admiral Kirk and his lackeys. I remember when<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=246\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Just an Observation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4089,905],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-star-trek","tag-x-men","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}