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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Huh. I thought this thread was for the MCU and not Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Hey, you guys should have done what I did: not watched it. Man, did I dodge a bullet there. Gwen Stacy? Still alive. Also, she was the one bitten by the spider and she became Spider-Woman.
To bring the original point of the derail back on topic, When Age Of Ultron's plot involved a Colony Drop, there wasn't an awkward cut to a completely different part of the world that the Avengers had no idea was in danger.
Man, that sequence freaked me out. The tension in that was very effective for me, in large part because the Mega Man franchise has thoroughly scarred me on the threat of a Colony Drop, by virtue of successfully carrying out one in their canon.
When Ultron said, "the only things living in this world will be metal," I got a chill down my spine because I'd seen that world.
EDIT: Also, credit to the filmmakers that after the Sokovia chunk is destroyed, the debris lands in water, not the crater it was lifted from. The floating island drifted from its original spot after taking to the air, as it should.
edited 27th May '15 10:40:18 AM by TobiasDrake
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I figured that was mostly so it avoided the Fridge Horror of chunks of rock raining down on innocent bystanders but that's a good point.
Given the height they ascended to, the slow rate of climb, and the sheer scale of the evacuation, it's probable that the final battle took place over the course of several hours. We just see the highlights.
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What
said. A lot of the mass is still coming down - although according to Tony in his conversation with Friday, much of it was vaporized, so it's significantly less mass coming down - but it's decentralized over a wide area. More equivalent to a meteor shower than one big crash.
edited 27th May '15 10:50:41 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I actually read an article which claimed that even if Ultron had let it drop from the highest point possible it wouldn't have caused a humanity destroying event because it wouldn't have been as fast as an actual meteor. Which made me wonder if it being over Water was intentional. It would destroy the earth, but it would certainly cause a giant wave.
Did that article take into account the fact that the thrusters flip over and shoot the rock down at the Earth, rather than just letting it fall?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Oh, and Hot Toys has released Gamora. This looks pretty cool...if I were a collector, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Here is a nice overview (it is quite funny that the one who did the pictures of the toy nearly repeated the butt-shot from the movie):
http://figurefanzero.com/2015/05/27/guardians-of-the-galaxy-gamora-16-scale-figure-by-hot-toys/
Ultron also might have wanted the rock to rise higher. There's no guarantee it was at the height he intended, and he'd already announced a willingness to settle for killing billions rather than global extermination.
At the time he dropped the rock, he'd lost all but two drones - one of whom was too far to be relevant - as well as his Prime. It was now or never. The Avengers forced his hand by winning the fight.
edited 27th May '15 11:45:25 AM by TobiasDrake
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The planes work better for me. If I got to chose I would take them over the hospital. But I think that showing two different instances of problems is a better idea.
Plus, there is a certain ironic in this whole thing. If Gwen had not meet Peter on the bridge, she would have most likely sat in one of those planes in the air and might have died because Peter wouldn't have been able to defeat Electro without her.