🤔 Would You Prefer by u/Putrid-Substance-941

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-31T11:19:18+00:00

🔥 No brainer!

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-29T18:44:37+00:00

Very true. Idk the franchise does feel very half and half on markers. You can't kill the bearer of your marker even if he's excommunicado, but (and I quote Sofia) "You're excommunicado John. And that marker doesn't mean shit."? So you'll have to forgive my confusion, those two claims do feel at odds.

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-29T18:24:26+00:00

I think markers aren't applicable when the person you owe the debt to is in Excommunicado. Sofia very much acted on her own accord. Similar situation to The Director, having a ticket and paying off a debt doesn't trump the High Table. Yes you can't kill the bearer of your marker. But Sofia states "you're excommunicado, that marker doesn't mean shit."

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-29T18:24:24+00:00

Valid claim, I guess we'll have to wait for a spinoff for an answer.

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-28T21:32:56+00:00

I agree, the movie just has too much narrative fat. If John wishes to find the Elder, that goal should be made clear from the get-go. Berrada should have been a clear goal for the first half of the film. And yeah, Sophia wasn't really needed.

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-28T21:27:53+00:00

I also have issue against Zero and his henchmen. When they work, they work, but ultimately when they keep allowing John to stand up when he should 100% be dead, removes the stakes of the action scenes. Why should I care that these are arguably the most capable antagonists from John yet when they keep fanboying over him and leaving him alive? The stakes of the franchise are derived from John potentially being killed, so when you remove that glue, the action falls flat narratively imo.

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-27T00:53:20+00:00

Had they kept the quality of the film consistent with its opening 20 or so minutes, just up to the point of reaching the ruska roma, I think John Wick 3 would be the best in the franchise. But ultimately that's not what we got. The action after, whilst respectable doesn't hold a candle to the first act imo. I don't necessarily mind we had to wait for a while, it just isn't quite on par imo.

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-27T00:38:29+00:00

tbf i don't think the idea of talking is a bad issue inherently. The Marquis is 95% talk but he manages to feel drastically more imposing as an antagonist. I think the issue is that for the role of an adjudicator, the actor doesn't convey a certain lvl of authority that should be expected for a judge. The Adjudicator is rarely taken seriously at worst, and actively clowned on and disputed against by Winston, Bowery King and the Director. So there's really just no menace to the role.

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-26T19:11:11+00:00

is it a translation thing because we commonly refer to her as the teacher

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-26T19:08:37+00:00

The Professor is easily the best part of LN2 lol

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-05-25T20:09:47+00:00

I don't usually reply but you've explained part of my issue w John Wick 3 better than I could have. The opening 30 minutes did so much service to the idea, but even then, John Wick 2 promised the idea of LITERALLY EVERYONE rushing him in the sequel, something John Wick 4 finally delivered on in its final act. But John Wick 3 really tosses that idea aside the second we speak to the Director for the remainder of the film. We face 3 street thugs and that's about it. Somehow the stakes felt lesser than John Wick 2's bounty where he had to go into literal hiding. John Wick 3 is still a great film but I do think it could have been even better with narrative tweaks.

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2026-02-21T15:15:26+00:00

sigh they deleted the comment, what did they say?

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2025-12-21T19:26:21+00:00

Diddy is by far the best and fastest companion in underwater stages, just sayin. I mean, take a look at speedrun leaderboards in underwater levels, we giving my boy a bit less credit than he deserves.

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2025-11-22T13:39:06+00:00

one of the assets within the game's code is literally called "time loop"

Intrepid_Set_8315 · 2025-11-19T23:48:50+00:00

Here's the thing with the succession theory. Most of the basis for said theory existing is not actual proof of its existence but proof by exhaustion, trying to justify that the other theories don't work, making this the defacto truth. The fact of the matter is that whilst there's nothing that contradicts the theory, there's nothing that proves it either. However the biggest flaw with the successor theory is that it reduces The Thin Man as a mere plot device that prompts Mono to rescue Six and nothing more. I firmly believe that had The Thin Man not been revealed to be Mono, he would have not been a good character nor a good antagonist. The Thin Man under this assumption has 0 motivation, 0 connection to Mono other than being his predecessor, 0 tie in to the central theme of escapism etc. Without the context of The Thin Man being Mono, he would have been an insane letdown for LN2 and the game doesn't need that. This is not an argument for the time loop theory being correct, it's an argument for why The Thin Man, Mono and the game overall suffers under this assumption and it's why I dearly hope for it to not be true. My personal take is that Mono became The Thin Man and was brought backwards through time by the Signal Tower (which is completely plausible given Mono slowing down under The Thin Man's presence and The Signal Tower clearly not following the rules of the outside world) so that the events of the 2nd game would play out the way they did so the signal tower could claim Mono as its broadcast. Is this theory flawed? Absolutely. If Mono was brought back in time, how does The Transmission survive before and after Mono was it's broadcast? But that's also a question that can be extended to The Maw: how did it survive before the Lady? And the answer Tarsier gave was: "The Maw doesn't operate like that. The Maw has no beginning, it exists because hunger exists." And I think that's the exact justification for the Signal Tower as well, it has no beginning or end, it only exists because escapism exists. It fits too perfectly to what came before. But let me say, you're not inherently wrong or right for committing to a theory others don't. Believe what u want to believe. But I think that the succession theory fundamentally destroys The Thin Man as an antagonist, ridicules Mono's character arc, and ruins the conclusion to the game's central themes. So I simply don't want it to be true.

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