#i know this sounds counterintuitive. but i genuinely think Gwen's arc as a character would've been cleaner had they not made her | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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I personally view the possibility of a romantic relationship between them as detrimental to their individual characters and it's not really something people want to talk about, which I get, but like there's a really deeper way to view their relationship other than "haha cute wholesome dramatic teen superhero romance" like on a metanarrative level. Because you'd think all the other things in spiderman mythos the movie is critiquing and expanding they'd address the very obvious elephant in the room with gwen but oop-

Yeah I think I'd rock w Gwiles more as a romantic ship if Gwen's role as a love interest wasn't so thematically dissonant. If they were gonna hijack Miles' story like that I think they should've had a better reason than justification for a romantic relationship. And then they added Margo to the mix so like what was the point of all that lmaooo

#i know this sounds counterintuitive. but i genuinely think Gwen's arc as a character would've been cleaner had they not made her #a secondary protagonist #like we had her motivation and her friendship with Miles is the catalyst for her learning to open up #and also to realize that there are possibilities outside of what your story is “supposed to be”#that's it! that's all she needed!#the romance doesn't work bc even characters who show up for like 5 minutes have more of an impact on Miles than she did for the entirety #of itsv #this story is fundamentally about Miles and so that is going to reflect in how other characters' arcs go #to suddenly decide to make it a love story is kind of a doomed endeavor imo #i hope any of that makes sense #tl;dr: they should've just given gwen a solo film im sorry #ask #blabbering

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