Whooo! Thanks for making the jump over here. I knew I would lose a lot of people by doing it that way, but tumblr's nonsense has made me cranky.
>>Natasha and Clint would, accidentally or on purpose, both jump at basically the same time, their (willing) sacrifice for each other and the Stone would cancel each other out, and the Soul Stone would be like "you've solved my sacrifice riddle!!!"<<
Aaaaaaah, you have precisely articulated what I thought while in the theater! I was sitting there, SO EXCITED, because I absolutely thought they were going there. Neither one will be willing to sacrifice the other, they'll both fall together in the struggle, and they'll get, idk, joint custody of the dang stone. I was legit on the edge of my seat, so eager to see this obviously right and proper solution to the dilemma set forth.
I was unthrilled with the reality. To say the least.
>>Because it never made sense to me that an unwilling sacrifice would work for this. Like, yeah, sure, lose what you love, but I feel like if what you love is not down with you chucking them off a cliff, your sacrifice isn't worthy of the Stone.<<
Exactly! It seemed so perverse for the Stone to really mean for Thanos's solution to be the only/correct one. You're supposed to understand the terrible power of the stone, presumably to prove your worth in wielding it, and you do that by...killing what you love? WTF?
Next, Spider-Man's tag line will be updated to "with great power comes great opportunity to punt a fool off a roof."
>>Of course, I suspect this would have been too sentimental and not edgy enough for most of the higher ups involved with the movie.<<
Because nothing is more uncool than people--who have worked together for years, through unimaginable hardship, and bonded like family--caring for each other and having that combination of hard work and love rewarded in logical ways. /sarcasm
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Whooo! Thanks for making the jump over here. I knew I would lose a lot of people by doing it that way, but tumblr's nonsense has made me cranky.
>>Natasha and Clint would, accidentally or on purpose, both jump at basically the same time, their (willing) sacrifice for each other and the Stone would cancel each other out, and the Soul Stone would be like "you've solved my sacrifice riddle!!!"<<
Aaaaaaah, you have precisely articulated what I thought while in the theater! I was sitting there, SO EXCITED, because I absolutely thought they were going there. Neither one will be willing to sacrifice the other, they'll both fall together in the struggle, and they'll get, idk, joint custody of the dang stone. I was legit on the edge of my seat, so eager to see this obviously right and proper solution to the dilemma set forth.
I was unthrilled with the reality. To say the least.
>>Because it never made sense to me that an unwilling sacrifice would work for this. Like, yeah, sure, lose what you love, but I feel like if what you love is not down with you chucking them off a cliff, your sacrifice isn't worthy of the Stone.<<
Exactly! It seemed so perverse for the Stone to really mean for Thanos's solution to be the only/correct one. You're supposed to understand the terrible power of the stone, presumably to prove your worth in wielding it, and you do that by...killing what you love? WTF?
Next, Spider-Man's tag line will be updated to "with great power comes great opportunity to punt a fool off a roof."
>>Of course, I suspect this would have been too sentimental and not edgy enough for most of the higher ups involved with the movie.<<
Because nothing is more uncool than people--who have worked together for years, through unimaginable hardship, and bonded like family--caring for each other and having that combination of hard work and love rewarded in logical ways. /sarcasm