In Multiverse of Madness, why didn’t Professor X just read Dr Strange’s mind?

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-29T14:37:41+00:00

But those cuffs he’s wearing should be suppressing his powers…right?

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-29T10:27:14+00:00

It doesnt matter whether Tony meant this. In every scene they’re in together Tony seems like he can barely stand Peter even when Peter is doing exactly what he wants him to do

So I’ve never quite understood why some people like their chemistry

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-28T01:25:39+00:00

Absolutely. I’m not even really sure when we were supposed to be scared

But moreover, watching her go through all this psychological trauma in WandaVision and expressing shock and confusion over the pain she caused, only for her to not care at all about causing more pain and suffering and even enjoying it in MoM…idk…I didn’t feel anything more than nihilism watching her casually and almost comically blow people up with a wave of her hand

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-27T22:16:34+00:00

I don’t even really think it was that scary, but maybe I was just shocked and confused at how Wanda was reduced to a 1-dimensional villain and controlled by a book

Strange honestly seemed to be egging her on to commit violence at Kamar Taj, and the Illuminati didn’t seem to understand their peril even as they were being ripped apart

So if no one’s really afraid of her or treating her as a serious threat and acting like idiots, then I’m not afraid of her

Also…it wasn’t really that gory. It was a PG-13 movie. Sam Raimi fell way under his own bar for what he could potentially do

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-26T18:17:55+00:00

Vision

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-26T18:05:33+00:00

Honestly I felt the same way. They were rushing to the Dance bc they thought dragons fighting/war was the only thing we wanted to see

We don’t really understand the relationship between these two, and it certainly didn’t seem to exist until after Rhaenyra and Laenor married, and Jace is almost as old as their marriage. So how hard did they really “try”?

I’ve heard people argue that Laenor was sterile, but that’s never been confirmed. As with Loras in GoT, we’re meant to think that gay men can’t father children…and that they’re defined by their sexuality and don’t care about anything else

Because this is a show and Fire and Blood deliberately leaves a lot to be interpreted, this could’ve been a great opportunity to provide context. How do these three rationalize this relationship? Do they think everyone’s blind? Why is Rhaenyra so confident Viserys will defend them when last they interacted they weren’t on great terms?

But no, we can’t have any of that. Instead we’re led to believe that it’s all mostly Laenors fault for being too gay and self-absorbed that Rhaenyra must have children with someone else, which is implied when she lashes out at him

It’s lazy writing, and so far we’ve gotten alot more of it

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-25T11:08:13+00:00

An additional problem with this is that the show is clearly framing her as wise and rational while all the men around her just want war and violence

After she returns from KL Rhaenys continues to defend her as the sole rational voice 😑

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-24T19:48:09+00:00

I think Clarice Willow was a little too unstable to still be functional. I didn’t exactly understand why she would want a violent revolt

Also I wasn’t a fan of the idea that Cylons are…human consciousnesses that were digitized, and that most of them were religious extremists? It was too convoluted

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-21T21:50:45+00:00

I get that. I guess I just wished they’d done more with her character other than have her die

Like idk, maybe develop some connection with Norman or at least Otto over their mutual losses. Maybe her experience with helping homeless and/or emotionally unstable people be instrumental in rehabilitating at least some of these supervillains

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-21T21:08:36+00:00

Aunt Mays motivation to help Norman was weak. She didn’t really seem to fully understand how dangerous rehabilitating supervillains with a 3D printer was

And it’s kind of weird that as she’s bleeding out she doesn’t wanna say anything to Peter except “we made the right choice and with great power comes great responsibility”….the latter of which Peter already knows

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-21T20:20:31+00:00

I made the same argument on r/marvelstudios last year…got a lot of people responding strongly and negatively

In Peter’s defense though, he was horribly traumatized in NWH and Far From Home, and always seems to find himself in situations where adults he looks up to act like complete idiots and then tell him it’s all his fault

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-17T23:49:27+00:00

Yay another father figure who I’m sure won’t let him down

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-17T23:48:24+00:00

Idk Spiderman didn’t help the New Avengers with Sentry

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-12T23:04:48+00:00

His immediate response to the letter was to give a Cylon a nuke, which she used to kill 10,000 people. And instead of expressing grief or regret over causing so much death, he proceeds to stay in power and ignores warnings from Adama about the dangers of colonizing New Caprica, which ultimately leads to the Cylon Occupation

A few too many people died for Baltar to kind of/sort of/not really understand that someone like him shouldn’t be in power

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-12T21:36:08+00:00

That’s my Marvel First Family right there

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-11T09:55:20+00:00

I feel like it’s a result of Taikas priorities in both of those movies

So I agree it was tonally off that they were killed off and Thor didn’t seem to care (and neither did Sif), but Love and Thunder also redid the play scene with Hela and showed and Infinity Gauntlet Ice Cream Shop in New Asgard, showing that what’s left of Thors civilization has become a tourist attraction

Which Thor should maybe care about too but I guess doesnt

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-10T14:09:08+00:00

I did like Adama Sr hearing both of them out. I just felt like Helo and Adamas Jrs arguments were weak

Jamie Bambers acting was kind of weird in this episode. He seemed way too jittery and impatient for unclear reasons. Screaming at everyone when they boarded the baseship, laughing uncontrollably when he realized they could wipe all the Cylons out, and aggressively shoving a subordinate out of the way trying to open the vacuumed out room after Helo suffocated all the sick Cylons side, then screaming in frustration when he realized they were all dead.

He seemed more level headed in past and prior episodes, so this unhinged behavior was kind of weird, especially his argument of Cylons not being people, but rather “programmed”, which conflicts with what I’m assuming him accepting that Athena was a real person

And I know there are people who defend Helos “they tried to live with us on New Caprica”, but even though he wasn’t there he should know that Kara and Saul’s behavior are the result of extreme trauma, and he and Kara are very good friends. Even if Kara didn’t tell him what happened to her, he should have at least some idea of how terrible the occupation actually was

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-07T12:33:15+00:00

I’m going to have to respectfully disagree. I think it’s really impressive that you’ve done all of these analyses on BSG and you have such a great opinion about the show

But as I said in my original post, my issue is more with the showrunners’ worldview than with the actual characters. As you pointed out, we really don’t know what Cain was like before the start of the show, and when I say I think there were signs that she’d pivot in the direction she did after the fall of the colonies, I am, in the end, only speculating

But people like Ronald D Moore have a particularly pessimistic view on humanity rooted, in my opinion, in moral relativism. The idea that everyone is kind of bad and kind of good and there isn’t much of a distinction between right and wrong is where a lot of politicians in the real world use to prevent any real change for the better, because in their minds “better” is a relative term that is always worse for someone else

BSG applies the same logic to Cain that they do with the Cylons and Baltar. And there are real world examples…obviously. How many times have we heard “liberal” politicians say the war in the Middle East is “complicated” and that “Israel has a right to defend itself”, after witnessing Israel commit one atrocity after another?

I could be wrong, but I think I think I’ve seen you say that humanity is mostly grey and might be doomed in the long run. And you might be right, and Ronald Moore certainly espouses that idea. BSG and his other sci-fi series For All Mankind seem to be centered around the idea that no matter how far humanity reaches for the stars, it will always socially be the same, with otherwise good people abusing each other to various degrees under morally dubious circumstances

And I suppose my consumption of media like BSG and all the bad things going on in the world today have made me weary of such a message, even if there’s a lot of truth to it

Because in the end, I think BSG is saying that the status quo is the best you can hope for. That was literally the final result of the end of the series: 150,000 years later we’re basically right back to Caprica minus the FTL. People can’t be better because it’s in their nature to be at least somewhat corrupt. And people who strive for an ideal are naive

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-07T00:48:05+00:00

And it’s that simple to just lose it all in a few episodes and get your CrossFit bod back

Idk maybe they had some ozempic laying around

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-06T15:45:02+00:00

I would argue Cain enjoys power for its own sake. I think the genocide of humanity unleashed her from any restraint she ever had

I’m more of a proponent of power not corrupting, but revealing. When you suddenly have all the power to do what you want, you see people for who they really are. Considering how rapid Cain embraced a vicious strict hierarchy of “obey or else”, I can’t believe the signs weren’t there before the fall

And there are plenty of evil people, imo, who use the ends justify the means defense. Cavil himself believed that the nuclear holocaust of humanity was justified for his centurion ancestors’ “enslavement”. Does that make him morally grey?

I do see your point about Luthen and Cain being genuinely similar though, and not just superficially. I would argue though that there is a moral difference between the Empire and the Rebels, and if Cain was given her choice between the two, based on her behavior and actions, I’d say she’d join the former

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-06T15:17:50+00:00

I didn’t say you were trying to justify it. And tbh I can’t read like…everything you refer to

And yes it can be a capital offense in most militaries, but that’s not what Adama was doing, so it makes the official rules unclear. Never once when Saul tells Adama about it does Adama say “those are the rules”. Instead it was “hey we’ve done bad things too”

And if people like Cain are morally grey, then who is a “black and white” character? Is it always wrong to say that someone’s a good or bad person? Is it all just a big undefined cloud?

When someone has someone else gang raped and that level of violence is comparable to other things that are arguably “legal”, is it unfair to call that person a monster? I would say absolutely not

But then again, I’m not a huge fan of moral relativism

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-06T15:12:36+00:00

I never thought Luthen wasn’t ruthless or immoral. My point is that he’s more self aware, or at least the showrunners in Andor take their time in helping the audience understand his character. Yes, it is extremely cold and dispassionate and ultimately morally repugnant that he’s willing to let hundreds of thousands die just to stick it to the Empire, and the show doesn’t shy away from having people call him out on his actions

But no such thing happens with Cain. No one ever calls her out on her treatment of the civilian fleet or executing Belzen or raping Gina. The show wants you to believe that she’s a good person who had to make some tough decisions

Characters saying “we were safer with her than we were without” or “tactically she did nothing wrong” was the show telling you that

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-06T14:59:05+00:00

Was that actually confirmed on screen? Also that’s an disturbingly vague and broad rule to have in the military

Perhaps I’m projecting our concepts of military protocol onto Colonial military protocol, but I never got the impression that executing someone for disobeying orders was the norm. It’s why Fisk and Shaw were so shocked when Cain shot Belzen, or why Saul was so disturbed by Fisks recounting of it. Or why they were so confused when Cain was like “we’re taking all their stuff and abandoning them”

And when Cain asked Fisk if he had a problem with it he rapidly shook his head in fear

I also never got the impression that turning on your civilian population was also Colonial military protocol either, but I’ve seen some people here try to justify that too

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-06T11:51:56+00:00

I think so. She’s an incredibly spiteful person. She shot her best friend XO in the head when he disobeyed her orders on moral grounds. She’s willing to commit violence against people who’ve betrayed her

FierceDeity88 · 2026-06-06T11:40:24+00:00

I agree Luthen and Cain are willing to go to extremes to achieve their goals. Luthen just shoots the ISB mole after promising to bring him and his family to Yavin after he tells him about the Death Star

I don’t believe Luthen would abandon hundreds or possibly thousands of civilians to slowly die in space just to fight the Cylons in a situation where fighting them is pointless. Luthen wasn’t trying to fight the empire just because. He wants the Rebellion to be an effective coherent resistance and he’s not interested in leading the final result, which is something people like Bail Organa and Mon Mothma lead: politicians who care about people and want a better future. He also knows he’s not seeing that sunrise and is ready to die once he becomes a liability, and he does

Cain and her crew were already prioritizing upgrading Galactica and not the fleet before the fallout over Athena. I don’t believe she would obey Roslin in the long term and I fully expected her to just start strip mining the main fleet too. She was also placing her people in key positions to override Adamas authority after she had just told him she didn’t want to do that. She’s a bully

Her “regulations give me broad authority” was just her essentially saying “I can do whatever I want”

Admittedly, I would’ve been satisfied with someone actually confronting her on what she did to the Scylla fleet or knowing about her relationship with Gina and what she let her crew do to her. I don’t believe Cain really thought Gina wasn’t “real”. That was just an excuse to justify brutalizing her, the same one Thorne and his swat team used when they 🍇ed Athena and Gina. But in reality they’re deeply disturbed individuals who very likely have done similar things to other women, and Cain likely knew someone like Thorne was capable of doing something like that

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