Caltrops - Peter Molyneux's The Movies





	[quote name="Bupo Wingnut"][quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="blackwater"]Kill 50% of everyone one time and then retire Yes that will solve all the problems I guess if they had come up with more realistic goals like limit population over time, it would have raised actual moral issues rather than just being “purple man bad.” The time travel subplot was retarded even for capeshit, but it was more lazy writing than anything central to the story. They could have written it to make sense we without really changing much but they just didn’t care about the nerdrage of internet autists[/quote] I assumed this was half of all intelligent life, because most non-ant animals have natural limits on their population growth. But then it transpired that they meant like, half of all dandelions were snapped out too. What.[/quote] If this is a weak-ass Agent Smith-esque analysis, you're wrong. If by "natural limits on population growth" you mean massive die-offs whenever critters overpopulate their native range and/or overgraze their food source...I think that was Thanos' point. After St. Helens blew nitrate-rich ash everywhere, the local (~100 mi. radius or so) flora went nuts. Ferns that were normally 2-3' tall were growing 4-5 feet. For a couple years you couldn't hardly cut the underbrush back often enough to keep up with the growth. Within 2 years, the rabbit population was insane. You could <i>not</i> walk through any forest in the surrounding foothills without hidden rabbits scrambling out from under your feet just before you stepped on them. Within a couple years of <i>that,</i> the coyote population exploded and, whether you liked the sound they make or not, it was tough getting to sleep at night just because they were so loud. Took another year or two before they'd killed the rabbit population and began to die off. Without the rabbits, the plants grew back, rinse repeat...took a decade or so before the soil was back to normal and the cycle stopped repeating. So, the natural limits are: use up all your resources, then die. I understood Thanos' goal to be an attempt to circumvent that. Which was, admittedly, retarded. If he'd used the stones to somehow set a max universal population, then maybe his rationale would have had some internal consistency, but complaining that sentient species breed without limit and then killing HALF of them? You just set your prophesied apocalypse back by a brief moment in cosmic terms because you didn't address the underlying cause. Terrible perspective for a self-proclaimed god, but I guess they called him the Mad Titan for a reason. [quote name="laudablepuss"] Here's another awful moment: the girl power superhero moment. Two things suck about this: first, why is Pepper here. She is a nobody, and if you have an iron man suit, that doesn't make you a superhero. Tony is a mixed martial arts badass, has his awesome AI to help him, and generally works at this all the time. But she just shows up and we're expected to believe can kick butt? We already established that she never wears that thing. But worse than that is the original girl superhero of the MCU isn't there: Black Widow. The MCU fucked her over so hard. She should have had her own movie by 2013 at the latest, and now they kill her off before the great big all girl show. :([/quote] That's because of Grrl Power. In Hollywood, a gyno-American can fight like a marine, fly the Millennium Falcon, or even just have an unarguable opinion without any previous experience in the field. Do you even watch The View? [/quote]