the "big reveal" in the first movie was such an obvious fuckup. having there be no big bad villain, like the entire films narrative was leading up to, might have made that shit show of a cape movie actually good.
having her be forced to realize that mans inhumanity was the cause of all the suffering rather than a mystical god-plot to yadayada would have been such a better payoff, and it would have made sense in terms of her proceeding to fuck off back to her island for the next hundred years which is jarring as hell to hear about in whatever the big ensemble movie was, because it turned out her mom was right about people being monsters or whatever.
but no. god fight! super punch! none of that introspection on human failure stuff here!
the "big reveal" in the first movie was such an obvious fuckup. having there be no big bad villain, like the entire films narrative was leading up to, might have made that shit show of a cape movie actually good.
just brutally disappointing
Trying to change up the movie tropes a bit, but, yeah, doesn't work enough to compensate for the lack of emotional payoff
having her be forced to realize that mans inhumanity was the cause of all the suffering rather than a mystical god-plot to yadayada would have been such a better payoff, and it would have made sense in terms of her proceeding to fuck off back to her island for the next hundred years which is jarring as hell to hear about in whatever the big ensemble movie was, because it turned out her mom was right about people being monsters or whatever.
but no. god fight! super punch! none of that introspection on human failure stuff here!
:virgil-sad: