DC Comics sometimes talks about its 'Big 7: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, and the Flash. The great '00s scifi mystery show Fringe had a core cast of 7 so did the first season of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. Once you start looking for it, you’ll see groups of seven all over the place. Avengers has Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Nick Fury. Mad Max: Fury Road has Furiosa, the five wives fleeing Immortan Joe and Max. So for instance, Star Wars: A New Hope has as its core team Luke and Obi-Wan, Han and Chewie, the droids and Leia.
I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed it, but when it comes to 'team' stories, seven is often the magic number. It’s the fact that the story is about a group of seven heroes. No, it’s not that they introduced Minnie Driver as an elf who can apparently time travel and maybe knows everything and is controlling events, but then were like, 'But anyway, two thousand years ago….' (More Meldof and Gwen, please!) But there was this one thing that I just couldn’t let go of. I watched The Witcher: Blood Origin over the holidays, and really enjoyed it.
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