![]() Any theories where this family member has been this whole time? Or why she didn’t step in to do something about her exiled grandson Jakob before he became F9’s villain?Īusten: Based on the activities of Dame Helen Mirren in this series, Rita Moreno has probably either been running either a crime syndicate in the Dominican Republic, or organizing car-based heists herself. (Not to mention not actually giving her a name, and just crediting her as “Abuelita.”) But apparently this is her first appearance in the Fast and Furious franchise - yup, just out of nowhere. Tasha: I definitely thought I’d forgotten something from a previous movie, and that there was no way this franchise would just arbitrarily give Dom what appears to be a new family-member-by-blood out of nowhere. Rita Moreno is Dom’s grandmother? Since when? Plus, it wouldn’t be the first time Han survived a seemingly certain-death explosion, so maybe he just taught the rest of the crew his secrets. But do you have any theories here about how they made it out? Is there a car on board that plane that we’ll later find out they shot into space?Īusten: If Jakob (Dom’s brother, John Cena’s character) has a kayak-sized glider that can make it through the TSA without comment, I would guess that Roman’s crew probably anticipated needing some fancy way to escape their massive airplane in case of an attack. ![]() There’s no way any of those people died, since they’re fan favorites, they go down without any big emotional drama, and we don’t see any bodies. Tasha: So Fast X gives us a big, obvious fake-out in the form of a big chunk of the Fast family away-team getting shot down in a plane that promptly explodes. Image: Universal Pictures Who dies in Fast X? Han, Tej, Roman, and Ramsey survived, right? ![]() We’re doing a little better in terms of pinning down Easter eggs, references, and mysteries in Fast X - but as a more casual fan of this series, Austen, I came out of this movie with a bunch of questions, and I’m hoping you, as an expert Fast family fan, can help.Īusten: Let’s race - or at least do the best we can, since the one thing the Fast Family can’t outrun are its retcons. In Fast X, the latest installment in the series - and one of two or maybe three (or more?) total wrap-up movies for the franchise - the yelling character is Aimes (Alan Ritchson), the new head of the Agency, the sort of “CIA but for the whole world” organization that keeps Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his people hopping around the world, stopping rogue agents and collecting dangerous tech.Īimes has a lot of questions about how Dom, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), and their sprawling crew of very simply characterized allies keep turning villains into cookout buddies, and why basic science doesn’t stop them from launching cars into space. This is more the kind of franchise that ignores physics and linear time, then has a character lampshade that by yelling about it in frustration. Tasha: Let’s face it, the Fast and Furious movies have moved far, far away from any kind of grounded, reality-based narrative that would studiously answer all our questions.
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