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Sunday Trending Topics: Another Death In The Family

Published Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:22:15 -0500

Last updated Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:22:25 -0500

No, not that family, this time. But as the readership is realizing with reboots, we seem to be at that tipping point where we've stopped eyerolling (…so much) about deaths/replacement/rebirth cycles as overused storytelling devices and embracing the reality that they are an artifact of extremely long-form, massively multi-character storytelling.

As for who else is about to be tossed into the mainstream media spin-cycle this time around… maybe it's time for another pool.

On the film half of the page, lots of interest in Transformers 4 news on the back of a very successful box office weekend for the Robots in Disguise.

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