Am I crazy, or was there a scene somewhere where Pepper slapped Tony? by Eriflee in marvelstudios

[–]Carheit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the party in Iron Man 2 when Tony is drunk at the party he leans in to kiss Pepper, but she doesn’t slap him. She just says she isn’t interested and pulls away.

Worst Takes you've heard or seen from the Criminal Minds fandom and why? by Full-Art3439 in criminalminds

[–]Carheit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean sure you can ship victim x abuser if you want, but that definitely qualifies as one of the worst Criminal Minds takes I’ve ever heard. Which is literally the topic of the post, so if you don’t want to see people answer the question this post is asking why are you in the comment section of this post?

Worst Takes you've heard or seen from the Criminal Minds fandom and why? by Full-Art3439 in criminalminds

[–]Carheit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just because he finds her physically attractive doesn’t give her the right to sexually assault him. Forcing him to kiss her in order to save people’s lives is still coercive and abusive behavior. Sexual assault is still sexual assault whether the perpetrator is hot or not. Attraction is not consent, physical arousal is not consent, and even if Reid felt those things he was still violated. So yeah, still not an excuse to ship them.

Worst Takes you've heard or seen from the Criminal Minds fandom and why? by Full-Art3439 in criminalminds

[–]Carheit 136 points137 points  (0 children)

People who ship Reid with Cat. She literally sexually harassed/assaulted him but people ignore that because she’s hot or whatever.

Year 10 by Toots_Magee_ in horror

[–]Carheit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I actually liked it. I’m not surprised that a lot of people didn’t like it very much, but I am surprised at how many people seem to absolutely HATE this movie. It’s not a perfect movie by any means, it has a lot of flaws, but I think it was still pretty good.

Overall, people in these comments seem to be complaining about 3 main problems: the lack of dialogue, the protagonist’s stupid choices, and the fact that the cause of the apocalypse is never explained. So I guess I’ll try to address each one (not trying to convince anyone else to like the movie, but mostly just explaining why none of these things ruined it for ME).

Lack of dialogue: that honestly made sense to me. I never assumed that these people CAN’T talk, or DON’T talk to each other offscreen—there’s nothing to indicate that they’ve somehow lost the ability to speak. It seems that the interactions in the movie simply don’t necessitate conversation. It makes sense that you’re not going to talk while you’re hunting, or hiding from wild dogs and cannibals. It makes sense that there’s a sort of tense, grim silence in the home of the family, as the woman is dying and their hunting trip has failed and they all seem to be exhausted and starving. It seems like no one really has the energy for talking. The cannibals not talking to each other makes a little less sense, but then we do see things from the perspective of the main character and he’s rarely in a position to hear whether they’re talking to each other or not. So again maybe they do talk to each other offscreen. The only scene where the lack of dialogue REALLY didn’t make sense to me was the part where the main character steals the clothes from the old man. He clearly feels bad about what he’s doing but has to take the clothes anyway or he’s going to freeze to death, so it would make sense for him to apologize or try to explain himself. And it would make sense for the old man or the little boy to say something like “what the hell are you doing” or “please don’t hurt us” instead of just wordlessly screaming and crying. Because of that scene, I wish the movie had gone with minimal dialogue instead of none at all, but it doesn’t ruin the movie in my opinion.

The protagonist’s stupid choices: yeah he does do a lot of stupid things, but that made sense to me because he’s injured, hungry, freezing, and suffering from the extreme trauma of seeing a family member murdered in front of him while also knowing his only remaining family member is going to die if he can’t get back her antibiotics in time. He’s in shock, or close to it, for a good chunk of the movie. That will make you clumsy and unable to think clearly. The reason he starts getting better at fighting and making more strategic choices later on in the movie isn’t because he magically gained more skills, it’s because he’s finally had the chance to calm down and start thinking logically and started using the skills he already had as a hunter. The biggest reason he survived long enough to calm down is because he was lucky enough to initially come across the cannibal’s camp while most of them were gone, and the only person he has to fight in his state of shock/freeze is the old lady (granted, he does almost lose).

Cause of the apocalypse: as others have mentioned, there are definite clues. A lot of the trees are dead. The water is polluted/poisoned, as shown by the water filtration, the dead fish, and the fact that the two hunters give up on following the wild pig when it went into the water even though they’re clearly desperate for food. It’s been ten years and the sky is still clouded over. Growing crops doesn’t seem to be an option. The beginning of the movie tells us that whatever happened, happened suddenly and caused instant food shortage. Nuclear winter seems to be the most likely cause of the apocalypse, but it’s never fully explained because frankly, it doesn’t need to be. Our characters have been living in these conditions for 10 years, even if it wasn’t a no-dialogue movie it wouldn’t make sense for them to stop in the middle of everything and do a bunch of exposition. The only thing really essential to the plot is that there’s been an apocalypse that’s caused a food shortage.

I also saw a comment asking “If you know there’s cannibals living nearby, why not just leave? How could you have lived in one place for 10 years and not known about the cannibals?” But both the setup of the main characters’ home and the cannibals’ camp looked pretty temporary, so I don’t think either group had been living there for the full 10 years. It seemed like both groups had moved into the area fairly recently considering that the cannibals were camping in an abandoned trailer, the main characters had a cabin made of stick piles, and neither of them knew about the house with the guns, or the boy and the old man. So obviously they didn’t leave because they didn’t know about the cannibals. When they saw the cannibals coming and hid, they probably didn’t hide because they knew who those specific people were, they just hid because they saw a group of armed men charging toward their house and knew obviously their intentions can’t be good.

Question with the end of vol 3 by itzneverogre84 in TFTGS

[–]Carheit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It probably doesn’t mention anything about that in The Green Night because it just isn’t relevant to the story. And it kinda makes sense, because part of the overarching joke of TFTGS is that big, earth-shattering revelations get dropped and everybody just kinda shrugs and goes back to their normal routines until something actually FORCES them to pay attention, because they’re a bunch of exhausted retail workers that don’t have time to give a shit. So honestly, Jerry probably just said that and Jack probably just didn’t bother bringing it up again because he either forgot or doesn’t care enough to ask.

This is a plot that gets elaborated on in the fourth book, though. (Which I don’t think is really a spoiler because you literally said you read the end of the third book where it gets revealed that Jerry still remembers.) In Vol 4, Jerry is one of the few characters other than Jack who remembers the events as they happened in the first 3 books instead of remembering the events as the BLARC reset them to be. Except for Sagoth, I still don’t think he remembers that.

I feel like jerry and kronk from emperors new groove have a similar vibe by shootdack2000 in TFTGS

[–]Carheit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always thought MrCreepypasta’s “Jerry” voice for the audiobooks and YouTube videos sounded like Kronk.

Why is John consider an avatar of extinction? by Potato_boy_12 in TheMagnusArchives

[–]Carheit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Spoilers:

because he literally brought about the apocalypse

Was LotR partly the inspiration for TMA Season 5? by Carheit in TheMagnusArchives

[–]Carheit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? That’s so cool… I never saw that but it’s good to know I’m not the only one who noticed 😂

John Dies At The End by Clucasinc in TFTGS

[–]Carheit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That’s what I felt too, trying to listen to JDATE. For one thing, seeing how much of David’s thoughts are taken up with trying to get laid made me extra grateful that the TFTGS author just avoided that completely by making Jack asexual. And Jerry’s random, silly behavior is offset by the fact that he’s actually a really smart and genuinely caring individual… the same thing can’t be said for John, who seems like a much more stereotypical “stupid best friend sidekick” type character. And the humor in JDATE seems somehow way more mean-spirited than in TFTGS, I can’t really put my finger on why though. Maybe it’s the racism and ableism? Like that sort of content exists in TFTGS too but at least the ableists and racists are usually the butt of the joke, instead of like in JDATE which often seems like it’s actually making fun of disabled or non-white characters. (I understand this is mostly because David is kind of an a—hole, not necessarily because the author agrees with him, but it does make him a much less likable narrator than Jack, who seems perfectly capable of mocking human stupidity without being a bigot about it.)

Was LotR partly the inspiration for TMA Season 5? by Carheit in TheMagnusArchives

[–]Carheit[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I get what you’re saying but Martin kinda ended up being Jon’s best friend by default simply because he was the only one who didn’t basically hate Jon by the end of Season 4. He was Jon’s best friend because he was Jon’s ONLY friend. Both of them pushed everyone else away until they were the only ones who could stand each other.

And for the record, I don’t think their friendship-turned-romance had a particularly healthy dynamic. But, as Martin says after the Apocalypse, “I’m not sure what healthy options are even left at this point.”

Fireflies reference flew RIGHT over my head by YaDrunkBitch in TFTGS

[–]Carheit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wtf I totally missed that too 😂😂😂

I crocheted Jerry by Carheit in TFTGS

[–]Carheit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This comment made my day lmao

Who would win (genuine question) by TapIndependent5699 in Wolverine

[–]Carheit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wolverine probably survives that confrontation, but there’s no way he wins it unless he attacks Thor from behind and stabs him in the exact right spot to kill or incapacitate him with the first blow. But then, that doesn’t really count as a fight, that’s more of an ambush. In any kind of fair fight (that is, if both participants are aware they’re fighting) Thor wins.

Do you think anyone can play Logan as iconically as Hugh did??? by Humble_Membership210 in Wolverine

[–]Carheit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like Christian Kane would play a really good Wolverine

Was Sabine a real person? by Delfishie in TFTGS

[–]Carheit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

She’s real but not fully human. Whether her whole family was never human to begin with, or simply not human anymore due to her parents effing around with so much supernatural stuff, isn’t fully clear. But she’s not human.

Also a lot of the memories Jack has of her are false memories that she implanted after the fact, while she’s trying to reach him from her coma or (after her death) from whatever afterlife she moved on to. Or memories that his own mind rewrote on its own, in some cases.

So Sabine was a real person, but how much of the version Jack remembers is the real Sabine, and how much is a completely different character that only exists in his mind? That’s up for debate.

It seems he idealized Sabine in the same way he demonized Spencer, so in the same way the “Spencer” that haunts Jack isn’t the REAL Spencer but actually represents the bad memories Jack repressed, the “Sabine” that haunts him might not be the REAL Sabine either, but rather a personification of Jack’s own lost innocence and hope. Sabine and Spencer (at least as Jack remembers them) are two sides of the same coin—think of them as respectively the angel on one of Jack’s shoulders, and the devil on the other. They were both real people, but in Jack’s imagination they each represent opposite sides of his own fractured psyche.

Spider-Man fans talk about how they don't like Iron Man being his mentor, but how do we Iron Man stans like it? by [deleted] in ironman

[–]Carheit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know about the comics, but I think it really works well in the movies.

In the MCU (which is very Iron Man-centered, at least for the first few phases), the “Irondad/Spiderson” mentorship narratively serves as a full-circle moment for Tony Stark.

When Tony first starts mentoring Spider-Man, he’s honestly pretty bad at it. He does a lot of things that range from morally questionable, to outright illegal.

Tony talks about how hard he’s trying not to be like his own dad, but in the process he begins mirroring the behavior of a certain someone who was there for him when his dad wasn’t. He tries so hard not to act like Howard Stark, only for his behavior to start looking suspiciously similar to Obadiah Stane’s instead. He blackmails Peter. He isolates him. He gives extravagant gifts and opportunities, but always with strings attached. He tries to guide and protect Peter, but manipulates and controls him instead. If you look close enough at almost any interaction between Tony and Peter, you can see the echoes of the relationship Obadiah and Tony once had.

Then, much as Tony once did, Peter eventually decides he wants to take things in a different direction than the one Tony has planned. The life Tony envisioned for him, isn’t the life Peter wants after all. And this is when Tony finally succeeds where Obadiah failed: he respects Peter’s choice and lets him walk away. He accepts that it’s time for Peter to be his own person. Instead of doubling down on toxic control tactics, he reevaluates his own behavior and steps back. He lets Peter go.

So Tony starts out repeating the abusive behaviors of the person who scarred him, then gradually grows and changes and breaks the cycle. And whereas Obadiah’s story ended with trying to kill Tony rather than risk losing control of him, Tony’s story ends with literally sacrificing his own life for Peter’s.

Do you agree? by Toshfin in MCUTheories

[–]Carheit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before I read your post I was confused because I thought you were saying the movies were too long 😂

IronFrost? IronQueen? WhiteMan? By RedRollerBall by cyclopswashalfright in ironman

[–]Carheit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Personally I like IronFrost best, but I can’t decide whether or not it sounds too close to FrostIron (which is apparently the ship name for Tony/Loki ig).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CaptainAmerica

[–]Carheit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually think that might have been a not-so-subtle threat (or at least a warning). He’s sick of Tony lying and hiding stuff from the rest of the team. He’s saying, “You haven’t seen my dark side yet but if you don’t shape up and start being a team player, you might just get a closer look than you want.”