[ SECRET POST #1978 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1978 ⌋

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

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DA

No, Black Widow is generally agreed to be kick-ass. It was all the other parts that bothered me like how both villains and heroes were really stupid. Destroy a city to save it!1!! That kind of dumb. I understand it's generic superhero fare but for characters who are supposed to be super smart it was disappointing

[loracarol]

I thought the people who were like "Destroy a city to save it!1!!" weren't the heroes, though. They were the super secret politicians, they weren't supposed to be smart, they were just supposed to have power. Which is, yeah, a scary prospect, but kind of a realistic one IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

The heroes caused assloads of property damage.

[(Anonymous)]

Saving the world from an alien race hoping to completely enslave/destroy it.

[(Anonymous)]

Geniuses couldn't think of any other way? I saw at least two on the team there.

I get it. Suspension of disbelief. Explosions and shit. Superhero genre. I still found it made the characters look dumb.

[got_swagger]

It's not like they could just be like "Hey, let's go do this on a deserted island instead!"

The monsters themselves were destroying most of the buildings, except for when the Hulk (one of the geniuses who wasn't exactly in THAT much control of himself) was doing this smash thing. And Iron Man WAS trying to keep them occupied elsewhere.

Basically, yeah, suspension of disbelief. I just didn't mind it because I kind of expected NYC to get obliterated in the "final battle."

[kamikazemusume.livejournal.com]

THIS.

I mean, seriously, would anyone really expect most villains to relocate the fight even if the heroes asked them to? Also, how many times did they try to get Loki to simply STOP and send the Chitauri back from whence they came, only to be ignored? It isn't like they didn't even try other methods of resolving the conflict.

[got_swagger]

"Hey! You guys! Check the sign!" the police officer said, effectively interrupting their chaotic fight.

The Avengers and the aliens they were battling looked to the street sign that clearly said "Battle-Free Zone."

"I'm afraid you all are going to have to find a new place to do battle for Earth's fate," the officer insisted.

With a shrug the fighting parties left and went to find some barren wasteland no one cared about and would look much less impressive as a battle scene backdrop.

The End.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was kinda stupid how they did things like "leading the aliens around tight corners of apartments which will wreck half of the buildings". Tony can fly, could he not take them higher and fight them up there? Either way they'll end up falling on New York and flattening shit.

Especially since they showed Cap trying to get civilians off the streets. So, where are they going? They can't be going into the buildings the Avengers are happily destroying.

[(Anonymous)]

He'd directed officers to take the citizens through basements and the subway system.

But clearly there need to be evacuation protocols in place for when aliens try to enslave the Earth and set about destroying cities. All that panicking was so inefficient.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that makes a bit more sense, I must have missed that part. And seriously, no need to get defensive over a movie.

It's just kinda jarring to have the Avengers quipping and doing awesome moves or whatever and the immense property damage of places that are either shown or must be assumed to have people inside them being the elephant in the room.

[luxshine]

It was a very funny scene though, and quite long since Cap had to give the orders, the policeman refuse to follow them at first, then Cap kicked some chitauri ass and the Policeman followed them, so I have no idea why you missed it.

Also, it's kinda jarring to have someone complaining of the Avengers not caring about civilians since there are at least four scenes showing them doing exactly that. It's not until after the police gets involved and starts evacuating people from the buildings when the quips start, and most of them sound to be them just trying to keep moral up since it's five people against an army.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean that I missed exactly where he told the cops to put the civs. Or I forgot, I haven't seen the movie in a while.

Well, the movie does that. Show a scene or two of something and then never bring it up again. It's not that they don't care about civilians, because they're imaginary, I'm not gonna try and deduce what the writers were trying to do with them, just that there's no acknowledgement about what they're destroying -- and since the movie shied away from showing the aliens actually hurting anyone most of the time, it's hard to see that somber 9/11 parallel near the end and not go "so how many people did the heroes kill while they were making jokes and crushing apartments..."

[loracarol]

Oops! I thought you were talking about the shadowy figures who decided that nuclear bomb detonating in New York City was a good idea, instead of the superheroes on the ground actually fighting the giant alien hoards.

My bad.

[insanenoodlyguy]

If you don't think property damage is going to happen in a fight like that, you are very silly.

Property damage happens in regular police shootouts all the time. In fact, the vast majority of bullets in your average shootout will do property damage rather then actually hit any flesh or blood.

[(Anonymous)]

It always throws me out of an episode or movie when the answer is so glaringly obvious to a casual viewer and you're supposed to be watching a genius scientist/brilliant detective puzzle it out over the next thirty minutes or so.

[(Anonymous)]

Like the Doctor not knowing what the forest was?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm actually saving my Dr. Who virginity... I'm just really in love with the idea of watching it for the first time with someone who really loves the show and being able to let them almost experience it again for the first time through me.



(because I'm just that much of a dork)

[(Anonymous)]

I did this with my husband when we were first dating. I had grown-up watching it with my parents and I introduced Doctor Who to my boyfriend within our first month together. He now loves the series even more than I do.

[(Anonymous)]

That's so sweet! I also feel a little bit less weird. I think this urge is mostly because I've never really gotten to share a show with someone else.

[aiffe]

OH MY GOD I ACTUALLY EXPANDED THIS THREAD TO SAY THIS EXACT THING. That bothered me so much. Considering this thread had nothing to do with Doctor Who, I think that's saying something.

Whether Moffat is actually brilliant is an ongoing debate, but he sure doesn't give the audience that benefit of the doubt.