The Travails of the Astounding!

Let's go to an alternate reality where Michael Chabon wrote the Fantastic Four movie, and it didnt suck, and I'm not pissed like the oceans at the moon, at the prospect of another one. In short, his idea was to celebrate the happy world of the Fantastic Four. A shiny gleaming  world of idealism and wonder wherein the Fantastic Four are called upon to battle a more traditional Doctor Doom in a plot that borrows not so subtley from the Terminator series. Now, this next part I've got to quote because he gets it so  right:

The two most obvious choices are Dr. Doom and Galactus. Now Galactus, and the Surfer, have always been favorites, but I'm not sure if we can get the Surfer in there (even if the rights are available) without taking away too much from the FF themselves. And Galactus without the Surfer is awfully dull.

Ahh well... if you can't do one thing right , might as well do six things wrong, eh Tim?