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Fantastic write up Avi, I'm absolutely loving all the My new headcannon is now Mios and various other iconics (Seelah? Alain?) out adventuring together and staying up around the campfire debating various styles of governments, or free will vs predestination.
Clearly the answer is to delete the forums. I mean, years of ignoring the people working professionally with them and their experience and expertise, giving the forums no budget, having the people working with them do several other jobs in addition to community work, and constantly berating people by saying that the magic they did manage to make with no budget and resources is a toxic cesspool didn’t work, so there isn’t any other solution than to just delete them. /sarcasm
The best defenses IMHO:
Anecdotal: My Champion of Pharasma wields a dwarven war axe. Because she's of dwarven ancestry, she also has a clan dagger, something she'd only consider wielding as a weapon in very dire circumstances or in religious or ancestral rites. The fact that daggers are Pharasma's favored weapon, in my opinion, adds an additional layer of sacredness and reverence to it. I also appreciate from a mechanical standpoint, it makes that back up dagger just a bit more useful. I'm personally a firm believer that the lore in the campaign setting shouldn't interfere with really good storytelling. If someone is struggling to come up with a solution for a lore vs mechanics question, talking to the GM, other players, or posing the specific issue to the forums will probably yield some creative solutions. Maybe the result is some help creating a unique backstory, or maybe it's the GM bending some part of the lore or rules to fit the character. There can be different solutions for different character concepts.
Once upon a time I seem to remember a goblin alchemist who used a scratch and sniff formula book.
In three viewings I teared up each time at the end. Its weird that I don’t when Black Widow gives her life for the stone. Maybe because in the first one I didn’t assume she would not come back? I feel like her death isn't as emotional because she was never given movies like Iron Man to really let her character shine and for people to get connected with her. Same with Vision. Also, I would have Loved to see the Netflix crew of Marvel folks in that last battle. Just a cameo would have been really sweet.
Possessing the Infinity Stones makes you, for as long as you can withstand bearing them, effectively Omnipotent. Seems like if that were the case Thanos should have known what a terrible idea the Snap was. >.>
"Yeah, while you were gone, I had you declared dead, I remarried, and now I have to repay your $250,000 life insurance payout and try to give you back the contents of our shared bank account and oh yeah, your old intern now has your old job, and has zero interest in giving it up so you can go back there..." The insurance payout probably wouldn't have happened because too many claims would have all come in at once and life insurance companies would have collectively gone bankrupt. If somehow they did have the money to cover all the claims that would be coming in all at once, with half the staff gone, processing payouts or following up on the validity of claims would be near impossible or at the very least take years, maybe decades. ** When I was chatting about this with Mona, we wondered if unsnapped people came back to their same locations and how that worked. Did folks snapped during airline flights get unsnapped mid air? Maybe this is less of an issue than we assume it might be if essential flights were grounded after the giant alien ring landed in New York? But what about people dusted while on a roller coaster? Or in a kayak on a lake? Or on the top floor of a multi level apartment building that's since burned down? I was thinking the other day about how traumatizing it would be to be out backpacking in the wilderness and your hiking partner just gets dusted and there is no one for miles to help. You hit your SPOT device and no one comes to your aid. It could be days before you get back to cell reception to find out what happened, this of course assumes your phone services are automated enough to stay running despite half the workers & their knowledge disappearing. And how does gear work? If someone is dusted with their backpack on, does the pack go with them? What if the majority of your food is in their pack, or the tent? Point being, there's so many interconnected problems that stem from half the population dusting that are brought to their logical conclusions and it destroyed the suspension of disbelief for me when I was watching endgame. How did the auto manufacturing industry bounce back in just five years to get Tony his fancy new car? How were there the resources to build the quantum, time travel device thing? How did the economy bounce back, at least partially from losing half the population in just five years?
Theory: The hammering you hear at the end of the credits is Harley building his own suit of armor and may take over as Iron Man in the next set of movies. I assumed it was Morgan :) Observation: It's been five years since the Snap, what is Ned still doing in high school? I saw/read an interview that mentioned Ned was dusted as well.
I know that Falcon getting the Captain America mantle happens in the comics, though I'm not at all familiar with how it works out. And if someone else is taking on Captain America, I'm glad its Sam. But there's part of me that is bummed we don't get to see more of Sam as Falcon, a superhero in his own right. The Captain America shield comes with some pretty cool stuff, but it also comes with some baggage and I'd like to see a Falcon movie with Sam as the main character uninhibited by any restrictions brought from another superhero's "brand". I don't want Sam's role as Falcon to be overshadowed or overwritten because he got a hand-me-down hero title.
I really enjoyed the way Cap wielding Mjolnir worked out. We see it flying, think maybe Thor was controlling it, and, at least to me, Thanos and Thor experiencing on-screen the audiences anticipation and surprise seeing Captain America using it. But I am curious, before that moment, does Cap know he can wield Mjolnir?
But the biggest omission for me was Luis. When I heard the van horn I thought the camera was going to pan to the van speeding towards the battle, driven by Luis. But it was just a FOB activate horn =0( I feel like the part where Spider-Man is kind of babbling to Tony about how the undusting happened and then Dr. Strange opened portals, etc, and he's doing the really fast talking, that's the kind of thing that would have been perfect for Luis, done 100% in the style he does it in the Antman movies. If they could work a heist narrative into the Endgame script, I know they could do a Luis monologue, even if it was as a post-credit scene (I could have used a good laugh after the three hour emotional rollercoaster). I wasn't quite clear when I watched it in the theater, but how did we go from people getting undusted to having them all start showing up via the magic glowing portal circles? How did that entrance get coordinated? Did Strange warp the folks that were in space to a central location and then start gathering up people? Did I miss how that all worked or did they explain it?
We have all these individual emotional scenes for the 'headliner' Avengers; Thor got his moment with his mother, Tony with his father, Steve with Peggy (regardless of my feelings about that), Hawkeye had his family dusting, Antman got a bunch of hard hitting exposition as he reenters from the Quantum zone, Hulk/Bruce even get a scene showing his two selves in balance taking a selfie with his adoring fans, and Natasha got... nothing. She sacrifices herself for the
Sleep through as much as possible. Time pain medication so you take the next dose just before the first wears off instead of waiting until you feel pain. Don't be shy about asking for help from friends or family if you need it.
This has me contemplating what the rules for Please Let This Be a Normal RPG: Magic School Bus the Roleplaying Game look like.
A neuralix of brain moles. A _____ of incutilis (incutili?). |
