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Topic	Avengers Endgame was disappointing :( *Massive Spoilers
adjl 04/29/20 4:00:47 PM #42:	Thanos' motivation was sound, but the actions that followed were arrogant and myopic. He figured out the solution of killing people off to solve overpopulation, then proceeded to amass the power he needed to do so more and more effectively, never stopping to consider that such power could be used to solve the problem another way. With all six Infinity Stones, Thanos could have solved the problem of the universe's finite resources by making the universe's resources stop being finite. Instead, he used literal omnipotence to enact a solution that was temporary at best and pissed everybody off. He attained the power of a god, but continued to think like a mortal. Now, none of that was ever actually presented to Thanos as a counterargument. The good guys' position consisted pretty much entirely of "killing people is bad, we'll figure out a different way after we stop you," which avoids talking about the problem he brings up instead of actually working to solve it. That could probably have been done better, but at the same time, I don't think it would have been consistent with any of the characters to have any of them actually do that. The only one who might have considered such a cosmic-scale solution to the problem would have been Doctor Strange, it's not in his nature to be so interventionist (see: Not telling Tony which of the millions of possibilities he searched through they were living in). Everyone else also thought about the problem like mortals, which is why they also fixated on individual lives instead of the bigger picture of solving resource scarcity. Really, the whole story arc amounted to mortals being mortals while fighting over the power of gods, and that's inevitably going to result in all of them looking stupid if you look into it far enough. That's the only way to have interesting characters, since thinking of everything and doing everything right means you don't have much conflict to base a story off of. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:938317798] in Avengers E... [t:78632830]...</cite> <quote>Thanos' motivation was sound, but the actions that followed were arrogant and myopic. He figured out the solution of killing people off to solve overpopulation, then proceeded to amass the power he needed to do so more and more effectively, never stopping to consider that such power could be used to solve the problem another way. With all six Infinity Stones, Thanos could have solved the problem of the universe's finite resources by making the universe's resources stop being finite. Instead, he used literal omnipotence to enact a solution that was temporary at best and pissed everybody off. He attained the power of a god, but continued to think like a mortal. Now, none of that was ever actually presented to Thanos as a counterargument. The good guys' position consisted pretty much entirely of "killing people is bad, we'll figure out a different way after we stop you," which avoids talking about the problem he brings up instead of actually working to solve it. That could probably have been done better, but at the same time, I don't think it would have been consistent with any of the characters to have any of them actually do that. The only one who might have considered such a cosmic-scale solution to the problem would have been Doctor Strange, it's not in his nature to be so interventionist (see: Not telling Tony which of the millions of possibilities he searched through they were living in). Everyone else also thought about the problem like mortals, which is why they also fixated on individual lives instead of the bigger picture of solving resource scarcity. Really, the whole story arc amounted to mortals being mortals while fighting over the power of gods, and that's inevitably going to result in all of them looking stupid if you look into it far enough. That's the only way to have interesting characters, since thinking of everything and doing everything right means you don't have much conflict to base a story off of. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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