How It Should Have Ended

...Would Edith have been able to actually block off the feed?

I mean, Peter didn't exactly have time to think of it (hindsight and all) but still.

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Even if she did doesn't it depend on Peter being aware of such broadcasts. JJJ could just tweet it, or announce it on the radio, or newspaper. Unless he sets up some program to routinely scrub his identity from all forms of media he's still screwed.

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Yeah, among all the things mentioned in the vid, media control isn't a feasible one.

With that said, I agree that the very idea of Tony Stark giving EDITH to Peter was so ludicrous that it borders on an Idiot Plot.

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Giving EDITH to Peter through Nick Fury, no less. Because that makes sense!

I've been headcanoning that Pepper made the call to run EDITH by Fury first just to make sure it wasn't going to blow up the world or some shit. She always had a better relationship with S.H.I.E.L.D. than Tony did back before Cap discovered the Literal Nazis. I just cannot fathom Tony Stark handing off powerful weapons tech to Nick Fury, even just as a go-between to get that tech to Peter.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 28th 2019 at 8:05:52 AM

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The contrivance of giving EDITH to Peter is one of the things in FFH that baffles me, since it goes so highly against everything Tony claimed to believe about keeping weapons in the hands of responsible people. Of course, Tony seems to have been consistently off his rocker whenever Peter is around.

Clearly, the point is for Beck to get EDITH so he can go into full-scale villainy, and for Peter to have his trust betrayed in the process. There seems to be a theme both here and in Homecoming about how giving a hormonal teenager access to superweapon-level tech is a bad idea, but exploring that theme requires that people other than Peter make colossally stupid decisions first.

Edited by Fighteer on Aug 28th 2019 at 10:09:21 AM

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My only nitpick with the video is that, in the bar scene where Edith IDs the whole plan, her readout called Quentin "Quentin Beck" before detailing his history at Stark Industries.

The movie indicates that Quentin Beck is a 100% fake person that "Quentin's" writers invented from scratch. We never actually find out the guy's real name.

But that's a fairly minor issue. This vid was great.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 28th 2019 at 8:19:29 AM

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Hell, I'd expect Beck would come up with some way to not be registered in Edith's records or any records.

Sure, he was still unsure he'd be able to fool Fury until it actually went down, but I feel like not showing up anywhere important would be one of the first things he took care of.

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I loved Fake Superman's blunt "yeah, you're screwed" after Peter rattles off everybody who knows his secret identity.

As for EDITH, I always figured the weirdness about it was due to the thought process going backwards on that one. Like, they knew what they wanted ahead of time and had to make lots of justifications for it. I'd bet the condensed brainstorming about it went something like:

• "What do we want Mysterio to do in the climax?"
• "Make a illusion the size of a city, of course!"
• "Brilliant! But... wait. How?"
• "A crapload of illusion making thingies! Drones?"
• "Brilliant! But... wait. Where does he get them? Why didn't he use them before?"
• "Maybe he steals them! But from who?"
• "Why not SHIELD? He's already scamming them."
• "Brilliant! But... wait. How do we explain SHIELD having illusion tech? And what's Spider-Man's take in this? We don't want more accusations of SHIELD taking over the heroes' story."
• "It's Tony's tech right? Let's fold it into Peter's grieving plot. Oooh, maybe he gave it to Spider-Man as a parting gift!"
• "Brilliant!"

Basically, it smells pretty strongly of plot points built to support other plot points built to support something they decided early on.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

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Kudos to Neely for doing a great Samuel L. Jackson voice.

Poor Kong. Way less power escalation for you, discounting perhaps some cartoons.

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Wait a minute!? Is that the guys from Neebs Gaming voicing the Ghidorah heads?

Edited by Kaiseror on Sep 18th 2019 at 7:26:54 AM

I love how one of the Titans bowing to Godzilla is a Kaiju from Pacific Rim.

The Hishe crew really want Ben and Rey to hook up, even if they might be related.

Their Last Jedi review wasn't my favorite, they kept wanting twists and secret family relations even when there wasn't any.

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Eh. He's just gotta believe it'll work on IT and then the Desert Eagle does the rest.

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I see what you did.

An unexpected Pitch Meeting reference is tight.

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Wow, wow, wow.

It's been 3000 years…

so will he keep the new look for the pub, cause it feels like he won't with that "change" spiel.

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Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.

I can't watch this with those edited in mouths. It just looks too freaky.

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When the How It Should Have Ended episode for Frozen 2 is made, Elsa will accidentally break into Superman's Fortress of Solitude.

How Terminator Dark Fate should have ended.

And the Avengers are mad that their movie didn't get an Best Film nomination.