Shame and opprobrium where it’s due: the people who wrotethe screenplay for Infinity War are Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. I blame them more than the Russo brothers for the bullshit that was IW … though of course the Russos executed Markus & McFeely’s shitty vision in predictably shitty fashion.
^^ Fair, idk why, but I always tend to assume that the screenplay is like a guideline and the directors are the ones who ultimately carry it out – but, I really have no idea how movie-making works. I think I’ll just make “Russos+M&M” my kind of blanket blame name for IW, haha.
I think it depends a lot on the specific case… but I think in the normal case, the screenplay dictates the course of fictional events. Thor: Ragnarok is a highly unusual case because so much of it ended up being improvised. People who have read the novelization have pointed to significant differences in storyline as well as dialogue, which did not exist between the novel and movie versions of the previous two Thor movies. Most significantly, the electrocution/ultimatum scene was not in the novel; Loki arrives in Asgard with Thor & co. rather than coming later. So I think we can conclude that the “shooting script” that’s available online, which is just sort of a transcript of the movie, is not Eric Pearson’s screenplay, which is why I leave him out of my beefs about Ragnarok. I get the impression that the process with Infinity War was a lot more conventional, so the screenwriters deserve at least as much blame as the directors for the issues with plot and characterization.
Was briefly tempted to write “don’t @ me” in my course syllabus, in regard to a paper I think I’m going to assign that was written by a conservative jurist and legal scholar.
Now imagining students responding to the paper by saying “OP is a racist capitalist shill but go off I guess”
To be fair, though… the guy is arguing that engaging with literature doesn’t make you morally better. His own moral flaws, given the obvious evidence that he’s very well-read, only tend to reinforce his point.
@philosopherking1887 Wait a minute, I’m confused. Is the guy’s self-burn intentional or a happy byproduct of his own ignorance?
The self-burn is not intentional… though he’s reflective enough to know that he doesn’t live up to the standards of the supporters of ethical criticism.
The reason I want to assign the paper is because the guy makes a lot of good points, but I’m worried that my students will have the same purist mindset that you see all over Tumblr and will dismiss him out of hand based on some questionable comments, or after looking him up on Wikipedia. The irony of that reaction, though, would be that his moral Problematicness actually speaks in favor of his thesis. I’m worried that my students will be too locked into a sectarian moralistic mindset to recognize that.
Shame and opprobrium where it’s due: the people who wrotethe screenplay for Infinity War are Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. I blame them more than the Russo brothers for the bullshit that was IW … though of course the Russos executed Markus & McFeely’s shitty vision in predictably shitty fashion.
Was briefly tempted to write “don’t @ me” in my course syllabus, in regard to a paper I think I’m going to assign that was written by a conservative jurist and legal scholar.
Now imagining students responding to the paper by saying “OP is a racist capitalist shill but go off I guess”
To be fair, though… the guy is arguing that engaging with literature doesn’t make you morally better. His own moral flaws, given the obvious evidence that he’s very well-read, only tend to reinforce his point.
Okay but Ego was super impressed about hearing that Peter could hold an Infnity Stone, even for a couple minutes, and said he had to be his son, had to be a Celestia to survive that.
Well Jane was possed by one for a few day, so who the Hell is she related too?
Low-key, since she a Peter are basically the same age, I’m gonna headcanon now Ego got busy with some other Earth lady (you can say Ego loves Meredith, but I mean, cheating is a thing, and how much love do we really think that psycopathic planet really had in him). And, also, like, her mom died of cancer in the comics when she was nine, just like with Peter in the movies, I’m just saying. They’re totally half siblings, fight me.
An explanation for why Yondu didn’t go pick her up along with Peter though, is maybe he told Ego he’d only pick up one kid at a time (since Ravagers apparently aren’t even supposed to deal with kids at all), and then while he had Peter, figured out what was happening to Ego’s kids, so obviously didn’t go back to Earth at any point to have gotten her.
This theory is incredibly intriguing. Now I’m trying to remember if we ever learned anything about Jane’s father….
Only, I think, that he was friends with Selvig, and (maybe) a scientist too (in the comics he’s a plumber),
But I dont think its a stretch to imagine Jane’s mom could have thought she’d never see Ego again, and when she ended up with another guy, that guy was around for her and Jane, and became Jane’s father and who she called dad regardless of blood relation.
(Ive been thinking about this theory non-stop since I thought of it last night. Could you imagine how dumb Odin would feel realised he didn’t think a Celestial was worthy of his Son)
Considering how Odin treated his own second son and underestimated him at everything, it’s definitely not something he would have anticipated.
My goodness, does it make sense though. Jane Foster as half Celestial. I’m taking this theory now. That’s incredible. That would also make her and Peter Quill half siblings. Peter Quill would have a sister haha.
Could you imagine after everyone found out and they’re just looking between Peter and Jane like “how?”
But also, I think Jane would be the younger sister, and we know Peter’s all about Classic Family Tropes (Play catch with his dad lmao) so he’d totally be all over Thor when he finds out they used to date, like “Don’t even look at my sister dude, you lost all privilege when you broke her heart!”
“she broke up with me!”
“You abandond her to go planet hopping!”
“Because your girlfriend dad was trying to murder the universe!”
(Nebula and Loki in the back ground like “i hate this family so much”)
Loki is the Philosopher King 