"We are problems that want to be solved
We are children that need to be loved"
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i don't personally agree with the perspective that "miguel NEEDS to partially correct about canon events, otherwise he's a villain" because like. setting aside the issue of possibly naturalising the irl choices writers made (e.g. fridging gwen) through the concept of 'canon events', to me defining miguel's morality comes down to two questions:
What is Miguel's intent when pursuing his goal? <- it's unambigiously heroic. he desires to save people. and -
Can I plausibly understand how he has come to the belief system (and therefore goal) he has? Yes. I can understand why, when viewing the things he did (universal patterns of suffering between spidermen & the trauma of that dimension collapse), he came to the conclusion he did.
Keep in mind the other bits of information we and the characters are working with are:
Anomalies seem to affect the world they're in (Vulture appears to affect the Guggenheim's structure w glitches)
They're also in danger of dying if they don't have a stabaliser like the watch
But say for the sake of argument Miguel is completely wrong about breaking canon and doing so would not endanger anyone and the alt dimension collapsed for reasons utterly out of Miguel's knowledge or control. That still doesn't negate the heroic intent he operated by nor his desire to save people.
What "How much or little is Miguel correct?" affects is how tragic it makes Miguel's guilt and the moral concessions he feels that guilt about. Whether you would argue for it being needlessly tragic or bleak is another conversation entirely but how correct he is about what damage canon events cause doesn't actually change the fact he operated on sincerely good and heroic intentions.. And I think atsv already sets up that last point in an understandable manner.
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The idea that Tom Ellis's Lucifer is like this because they got dunked on by Dream is absolutely delightful. I just might start watching Lucifer again and keep this idea in mind (after I've re-watched the Sandman, of course).
Same lol I know the shows aren't really connected but even taking the hilarity of lucifer getting defeated and going "you know what fuck this actually" and bouncing from hell aside i'm honestly shocked at how neatly this concept actually works out especially for Lucifer's first season before it turned into a mostly routine procedural.
mazikeen and amenadiel's weird intensity about Lucifer going back to hell. Lucifer's forced "devil may care" attitude. The whole focus not just on free will but on fighting your prearranged destiny. It all makes sense now.
also I don't see this impacting Chloe and lucifer's relationship throughout the seasons much at all...after all of the shit that's happened learning lucifer got cosmically trounced at a role playing game by the eons old anthropromorphic concept of dreams (who for...whatever reason looks like a 2014 skinny goth lingering around hot topic) probs wouldn't phase her in the slightest.
Linda, though. Linda would have QUESTIONS.
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earlier i was in the shower thinking shower thoughts about fantastic four and the original f4 which for some reason i saw upwards of 10 times but cant remember a single detail of it except for johnny storm was kind of fabulously whorey (keep that energy! i beg!) and doctor doom was CUNT and played by the guy who was the hot baddie from charmed. anyway, got me thinking about how often marvel blows its load casting incredible character actors in bit parts instead of saving them for a big kahuna like doctor doom and yes of course this is a post about me full tilt believing that they should have cast walton goggins as doctor doom instead of nothing bullshit they had his ass doing in antman 2: the antening or whatever the fuck.
what i'm saying is they could have absolutely freaked it but they didn't and they won't and i'm sick of people not freaking it. whatever happened to freaking it.
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I am too old for this shit.
Saw the dumbest fucking discourse on Twitter. About someone complaining that a tag they used was flagged as harassment on ao3 and that the story would be hidden until they changed it.
“[ ] shippers dni eat glass and die”
Deadass they and their followers were so confused about how that’s harassment.
I don’t know how to explain to you that telling anyone to “eat glass and die” is a bad thing to do no matter what fictional characters they ship.
Your bad actions are not excused simply because you have the perceived moral high ground.
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