Current Events > Four years after GoTG2, the Guardian's dysfunction persists (IW Spoilers)

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And I worry about their mental and emotional health. How have they managed to live alongside one another all these years in this state?

How are Peter and Rocket still on such unstable ground after all this time, especially have their come to Jesus moments in GotG2?

Has Peter really matured and Gamorra learned to let down her walls to a point where they can have a healthy relationship? When she makes those overtures and they share a kiss, is she pressuring him into listening to her request, or is it genuine. Gamorra is so thoughtful and calculating, it seems like it could legitimately be either.

In GoTG2 we learn from his interaction with Mantis, and Drax's feelings of loss about his family continue to run really deep, and that his bipolar vacilating between brooding, anger, and jokes may all be just a facade. Then, as soon as he believes he sees Thanos, he unlearns the very lesson he learned from Ronan in GotG whilst being in almost the exact same place and loses himself in the haze of his emotions compromising their mission almost immediately. It's odd, Drax's recollection of his wife in GoTG2 suggests that even he may be a bit atypical in his emotional expression, even for his own people. He seems to feel they overshared information at times, and to the rest of the Guardians he's a contradictory combination of TMI, and disinterested stoicism. That's all a tangent to speculate on how representative Drax is (or isn't) of his culture.

I don't really have a read on Mantis's development after he emancipation from Ego. In GotG2 she was the obedient and frightened child of an abusive parent who barely connected to her emotionally and might have only seen her as a convenient pet. Here, she remains strongly attracted to others and cannot help but broadcast the emotions of the people she touches, but she's always been that way. I don't have a strong sense of development for her, even if I think her honesty and the way she forces honesty from the people she touches is a great piece of disruption for the Guardian's bad habits. She just doesn't seem like a whole person.

Whatever. I'm bored and overanalyzing the emotions conveyed by actors in a summer blockbuster. MovieFAQs out.
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