“No man left behind”
Unless they’re black, I guess. In which case it’s perfectly acceptable to put hundreds of them at risk of death for (1) Sad Robot
what the hell would Steve have done if Wakanda had done the intelligent, rational and understandable thing and said “no”? would the narrative have pissed on Wakanda for daring to say no to its precious never wrong Steve Rogers?
my gut says “yes”
THIS BOTHERED ME SO MUCH
I still need to post about the “we don’t trade lives” thing and deontology vs. consequentialism in the MCU but that would take a long time and I have other things I should do first… and there’s only so much brain energy I want to spend on the shit show that was Infinity War.
Long story short: Markus & McFeely are, as I have said, dimwitted hacks.
They really are. They have individual characters die for no reason (Loki, Heimdall) who could have easily gotten away. And then have literally hundreds of people putting their lives at risk to save one person who isn’t even all that interesting or important.
It’s fucking baffling. If it’s really the fate of the universe at stake you suck it up and destroy the Infinity Stone at all costs–any one of them should have jumped at the chance to sacrifice themselves for it. Why save Vision? Why try to save Vision?
The Infinity War script is like a film school sophomore’s first draft.
Vision was interesting in “Age of Ultron.” He got boring when Markus & McFeely tried to write him.
Joss Whedon really understood the robot soul. By which I mean: he could imagine other ways of thinking that might seem alien or inhuman to us but have their own logic. Markus & McFeely were like Jake Peralta with his “meep meep moop” impression of “Robot Captain” Holt.
Loki is the Philosopher King 