[ SECRET POST #4473 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4473 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Note from OP: All images obtained without creepy family stalking: James & Sullivan Marsters' from a promo shot for their band, Jensen & JJ Ackles' from Jensen's public Instagram]


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Comments

[philstar22]

Marvel does write their characters that way. A lot of people write characters this way. There seems to be this idea that even the most trained hero, even in the situations with the most at stake for the world/universe, will choose the people they personally care about over the world, and that anyone who doesn't do this doesn't really love their people.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the anon who thinks Quill can go fuck himself, but I do agree with you about this, and it annoys the heck out of me almost every time they do it.

The thing is, I actually love the idea that some people have a person in their life who they would let the world burn for. A person about whom they're just like, "I would let everyone else die and spend the rest of my life hating myself for it, if it meant [person] would be ok." But that's a very potent, very specific type of bond that, IMO, should be used sparingly. As opposed to the way Marvel does it, where it's just like, "A person in my life whom I have some kind of relationship with was being hurt, so I buckled like a goth's boot and now we're ALL fucked. But gosh did I show I cared."

[(Anonymous)]

Don't worry, he's dead, you don't have to loathe him so much anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Not sure what him being dead has to do with anything, anon.

Him being dead has no impact on how I feel about who he was when he was alive. And him being dead right now has nothing to do with how I'll feel about him when they bring him back.

[philstar22]

I just wish it wasn't portrayed as the only way to love someone. And that people who are willing to save the world even if it means losing a loved one weren't portrayed as not loving their people as much as someone who is willing to let the world burn for their loved ones.

[(Anonymous)]

There also seemed to be this underlying theme in IW (that I personally hated) that love is weak and futile and just gets people killed, while being cold and calculating and """rational""" wins. I get that "realistically", sure, logic is good, but it felt gross and out of place to me in this particular franchise.

[philstar22]

See, I feel like it was portraying that there is only one way to love someone. All the calculating ones who were willing to focus on saving the world were the ones without loved ones. They never portrayed someone who had a family or a girlfriend/boyfriend being horrified at seeing that person dying but realizing that the world was at stake and so they had to focus on being a hero. The only real exception was Wanda, and she didn't want to do it, Vision himself told her to. And Wanda's sacrifice didn't even make a difference in the end.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean they technically did show someone losing a loved one when their goal was at stake, but it was Thanos, and he dragged Gamora kicking and screaming and begging to her death, so it wasn't love.

The whole Wanda thing pissed me off too, especially since Thanos got the Soul Stone for what he did, again rewarding cruelty over care. If anything, Wanda should have like, idk, spontaneously won the Soul Stone from him in that instant because she was /actually/ making a sacrifice of love for the greater good. I don't even like the ship and thought they should have listened to Vision's wishes sooner, but her sacrifice meant something to the character and meant NOTHING to the plot, which is just...a really unsatisfying narrative, imo.