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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
...oh, god, now I'm getting nervous that we're going to have to deal with love triangle nonsense.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Especially since "come to terms with that and move on" isn't what heroes in cinema do.
"Win the girl back and thwart that other dude she's with" is typically Hollywood's go-to. There's always a villain in a love triangle, and it's never the lead protagonist.
Here's hoping that is not the direction Guardians 3 intends to go with Warlock.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 14th 2019 at 12:22:18 PM
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Scott becomes cool with Paxton and now they’re slightly awkward friends
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'm pretty sure that's gonna be Quill's arc tho, based on how he's acted in the past 4 movies. He's going to have to realize that the Gamora he fell in love with the original one, is not the same person as New Gamora. Even at the end of Endgame he's still following that assumption. She really had no reason to stay with the Go TG at that point, since they with the exception of Nebula were complete strangers to her. I think Peter getting over Gamora would be a crucial step in him finally growing out of being the man baby ppl complain he is. I don't rly like love triangles either but this is my educated guess on at least part of the plot
Edited by Xopher001 on Jul 14th 2019 at 9:41:30 PM
I agree that Quill has no choice but to accept that this new Gamora isn't the one he fell in love with.
Watching him suffer will be great, as he's continually rebuffed by her and then mocked by Thor.
Hopefully Rocket and Nebula beat him over the head with their own development and show they are better leaders.
If we're lucky, he'll lose everything and be forced to start over.
...which...will....be good for Character Development. Yes, character development.
One Strip! One Strip!What?
Plenty of people on this thread have expressed irrational hatred for fictional characters for much much less.
Quill screwed up, badly. I admit, I know it's not fair to put it all on him, but I just can't look at him the same anymore. I don't know if I ever will.
The best I can do is want to see him be better and be fair about what he does right, like actually trying to kill old Gamora when she asked.
One Strip! One Strip!Granted, I should've probably potholed Joking Mode there, but I argue me playing the part of pop psychologist should've clued you in that I was kidding.
Edited by HailMuffins on Jul 14th 2019 at 4:35:47 PM
He does have another option: try to convince her that they were totes a couple, which she finds irritating in the first act. But then he does something noble in the third act and suddenly it clicks for her and they hook up.
Which would be obnoxious, but no more obnoxious than the original Gamora falling for his pelvic sorcery already was.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 14th 2019 at 2:15:32 AM
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His pelvis. That's also an option.
Of course, there's the possibility that even though she comes to perhaps understand why her other self fell for him, she herself does not.
I'm hoping for that as well as a substitute for the pelvis breaking. He still loses, and that's important.
One Strip! One Strip!There is also the fact that this is the third movie in a trilogy, which means that it doesn't have to end with the status quo returning — we could get an entirely different version of the Guardians by the end. Heck, that could also be a way around the "only three films" rule — three films of the Original Guardians and then switching over to the New Guardians or something.
(Although, to be fair, they already broke the "only trilogies" rule with four Avengers films.)
They’re essentially two halves of the same story. Neither is complete without the other. Without Endgame, IW is just a defeat, Without having seen IW, Endgame makes no sense. The connection between them is tighter than with a normal sequel.
It’s like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Watching just one of the movies doesn’t work. In contrast, you can watch, say, one of the new Chronicles of Narnia movies by itself and have it make sense as a coherent story.
Edited by Galadriel on Jul 14th 2019 at 5:28:13 AM

I wonder how much involvement James Gunn had in the Avengers films, given the major implications for the Guardians franchise that Endgame left us with.
Not only did Endgame completely reset the development for one of his characters (Gamora), but now he also has to work Thor into the group dynamic. I'm excited for Thor joining the group. While I am still mad about Gamora's fridging, I do hope the opportunity is shift New Gamora closer to her comic counterpart, the Deadliest Woman in the Universe.
But I wonder how much of that was Gunn involved in, and how much was just foisted on him? Replacing Gamora with New Gamora has some heavy implications for the obnoxious Quill/Gamora romance, especially since Nebula and New Gamora seemed as unimpressed by it in Endgame as I've been while watching it. I really hope Gunn doesn't just awkwardly try and shoehorn New Gamora right back into the exact slot that the old Gamora had in the plot.
I know Gunn's had ideas for what he wants to do with Guardians 3 since Guardians 2 at least. Adam Warlock was set up to be a big deal in Guardians 3. Which raises the question: did he know he'd need to write a role for Thor when hammering out that idea?
Guardians 3 is going to be a trip for a variety of reasons.
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