[ SECRET POST #3415 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3415 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I still thought people were actually in danger, even if in the end they were fine. :( I agree, I don't think that killing people off would have automatically made the film better.

Plus, I felt like the phone was a "I know I screwed up, I'm sorry, and if you need us, we'll be there, but we're not really friends" kind of deal. Yes, the phone will be there, but it's not just to chat/hang out, it's need-based only.

[ariakas]

Yes but "killing someone would have automatically made the film better" is not at all what I'm arguing. Killing someone at a specific point in time would have brought full circle the underlying themes of the film, given Cap (or Bucky, or Tony) a truly difficult choice to make instead of an obvious one or none at all, would have fundamentally changed the dynamic between the characters in a lasting rather than superficial way, and would have given the villain's ploy teeth instead of leaving it flatly ineffective.

There is no "automatically" or because it would have "raised the stakes" in this argument I am making.

And I disagree. Tony is smiling to himself at the thought of his now "criminal" friends escaping while he puts the phone on hold to ignore a request to help stop them. They're now on "opposite sides" in name only. Cap and Tony were never super besties and they always disagreed about a lot of things, and now... that is still exactly what they are, even if plot-related circumstances have changed. It was a missed opportunity, and a letdown, imo.