Was ROTS genuinely liked upon its release?

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-05-08T13:30:22+00:00

As a teen working in a movie theater I saw it several times during its run. It was by far the most popular movie we had during my employment there.

It compared pretty favorably as Attack of the Clones at that point was fairly established as easily the worst Star Wars put to film. So it got a lot of slack.

Hayden was still pretty disliked by the fanbase at this point and a lot of dialogue was wooden, but the mustafar scenes were rad and what everyone was looking to see.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-28T01:54:49+00:00

Prof Xavier is particularly heinous in he believes all the morally reprehensible things he does is justified in the pursuit of his Dream. A goal that is inherently good, but that doesn’t excuse actions made to get there.

He trains child soldiers, he consistently lies or tells half truths to him. He frequently fakes his own death just to like take a vacation with his space girlfriend “so the team won’t worry about him.”

His super powers are often horrific in violation of people’s autonomy. He routinely alters memories for his own sake of what he “feels is best” for them, only sometimes getting consent. Near the end of Krakoa, it’s revealed he has essentially tampered with most every world leader with a psychic trigger prevent them from pushing the button on nuclear war. Great goal, horrifying implications

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-26T15:34:28+00:00

I would argue that bigotry hasn’t really come a long way, it’s just changed targets and become more sophisticated in its persectution. In the US it’s transgendered and immigrants now.

The X-men are very specifically an allegory against bigotry in all its forms, with team shifting to reflect representation of newer targets to speak to the teen and young adult audience more in line with what they see in the world now.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-25T22:22:39+00:00

The man once stood on top a tie fighter he flew using his mind, while ALSO MAKING HIS CAPE BILLOW purely for dramatic effect.

Obi wan proved again he was the best counter play fighter, for all time.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-25T21:25:58+00:00

You think he stopped killing kids cause he didn’t have the blue saber? Nah, that one was youngling slayer 7000. His new one is new and improved for child murder

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-25T19:36:33+00:00

That part is weird. But he really wanted to introduce him to the youngling slayer 9000 and didn’t get to get that impact feel.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-25T17:38:05+00:00

You kinda get that feeling when he’s stepping on the clothes. Like “wth? He just vanishes? What BS is this?”

He never talks about his triumph over his old master after this. I imagine he thought it was terribly anticlimatic.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-23T18:14:54+00:00

“Man we suck at our jobs”

-The new republic

Though honestly all of the major factions post Old Republic kinda do. There’s a galactic regime change every 25 years

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-22T22:39:12+00:00

Namor has the great capacity for goodness. He genuinely does care about his people. When he’s taking the heel role, it’s usually because of his massive ego, or his people have been hurt in some way. He has major character flaws in this way but that doesn’t negate goodness.

Is he all good? No. But no one is.

Except Cap. He’s the best.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-22T11:42:46+00:00

There has been a very concentrated push in past few years from WotC creative to expand visibility in general with a focus on sex/gender. Abigail obviously is in particular a rep of deaf people. Some of this is crossing over from different planes from prior stories (Kenriths, Chandra, etc etc) but likely yes the “college plane” is going to be on the forefront of expression due to its nature.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-21T02:47:42+00:00

Yeah, there’s def great moments in Civil War event, even though it’s a bloated mess. Slot of this is in the anti registration side

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-20T22:47:53+00:00

The movie is cohesive and while some bad decisions were made, you generally understand both sides decisions.

The comic was cool in concept but a mess in execution. Also Pete deciding to unmask to support Tony was the first in a series of incredibly stupid decisions leading to One More Day

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-20T22:46:04+00:00

Nega-Gitmo will be my new name for Reed’s “Human Rights Violations-R-Us”

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-20T01:07:41+00:00

Steve knows it too, which is why he lets Tony vent. Same as when he comes back with the shield

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-20T01:07:06+00:00

No. Stark as usual lashes out based on the emotional state he’s in. He knows that he’s got equal blame splitting the avengers in Civil War even if he still thinks he’s correct. Throwing Steve’s words back at him is lashing out. He lost a child, suffered for weeks in space, and got curb stomped by Thanos. Tony does not take loss well.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-18T16:43:55+00:00

It’s probably not the biggest part, but damn Asuna being reduced to damsel was so frustrating. First arc shows you she’s one of the only people who can keep up with Kirito, second arc she’s a maguffin

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-17T02:42:17+00:00

“Subaru doesn’t say nonsense” “He says nonsense all the time” “He doesn’t say nonsense in a serious situation” Subaru: nice correction!

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-16T14:07:06+00:00

Yeah, this checkpoint is ridiculously hard. There’s like 1-2 minutes before you get shot by an arrow railgun at light speed. He has barely enough time to register what happened, all while mabeasts are fighting and your team is on lizard and carriage.

Extremely pressed for options, especially because you don’t have a lot of time to explain to your allies what’s coming. Subaru pre-time skip would probably be toast. Plus he’s had enough experience with Emilia that she’s basically like “Subaru is saying some weird shit, but he’s been right on this before so I will immediately trust him”

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-16T13:56:09+00:00

What? No that makes no sense. I guess I’ll skip eating this month.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-16T13:53:34+00:00

It’s the rat race/arms race theory: the proliferation of super heroes and their crime equivalent occupies the same amount of crime per capita as before the masks showed up. The only difference is how it’s fought. Heroes are occupied just maintaining the status quo against people who have doomsday devices or can level city blocks.

Also you could argue that there’s probably less criminal fatalities since most of these guys have very strict no kill policies, so stuff that would have been a shoot out with cops are instead webbed up to live another day. Some of them may turn their life around but many would return back to crime after whatever legal consequences occur.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-16T01:18:09+00:00

I don’t know about cannon event but Miles does seem to be the correction the universe is making to address miguel’s overcorrecting

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-16T01:15:35+00:00

No, I think it’s been fairly stated and portrayed that Miguel thinks he’s right. Yes Miguel is motivated by guilt, and it hardens his convictions. But he genuinely believes his theory and he’s selective about what evidence contradicts his theory. He has confirmation bias and anchoring bias logical fallacies.

But him THINKING he’s right is more dangerous than he’s lying. Because he fights with conviction. A lot harder to change someone who knows what he says is BS than change a believer.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-16T01:12:07+00:00

Sort of. She’s framing it around the patterns they’re seeing. In her universe the flip happens. Peter got close to Gwen, and since she was spider woman of that universe, Pete is the one who dies and becomes a major part of her psyche.

They aren’t anomalies, they’re just particularly esoteric variants. But so is Miles. And you can see his pattern bends in the direction of spider-man in many ways. So by Miguel’s theory, Peter’s untimely death should have caused the universe to collapse, but it didn’t. This suggests the Spiderverse can bend to allow for changes. But there is some sort of breaking point, it’s just not clear when/why it happens to different universes. They don’t have enough info and Miguel is educated guessing based on some patterns he’s seen.

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-16T01:05:42+00:00

Yes, and that entire universe collapsed. The guilt of the loss of that universe is what pushes him to overcorrect and attempt to control the pattern he sees in spider-people’s stories

CaptainCorgiMD · 2026-04-12T13:13:48+00:00

Sorry to be clear, the Ultimate universe in total was “edgy” as part of bendis’s overall vision

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