hyzmarcca wrote:According to the director, Captain America spent 70 years in Branch B, then used the time machine to return to Branch A and give his shield to the Falcon.
Unlike what they actually did, that would have been consistent with their time travel mechanics spiel. What they actually did was make a big deal out of Captain America
not coming through the time tunnel and then they meet him waiting on a park bench.
They have two cheap "surprises" one which they ask the audience to gasp that perhaps Captain America didn't make it through the time heist, and the second where they ask the audience to be surprised that he is in an unexpected place - the park bench waiting. But it's fucking
unexpected because it's fucking
impossible according to the rules established by the rest of the movie.
They made a conscious choice to have that ending be slightly "more exciting" by taking a giant shit on every single
part of the movie's main storyline. Which ultimately is the core decision they made every time. The final battle takes place in an uninhabited wilderness, why don't they use the portals to get all the heroes out and nuke the area instead of using the portals ro take all the disappeared
in to have a lot of them fight to the death against an enemy that Dr. Strange knows is about to be dusted by the gauntlet? Because that way they can work in a bunch of "cool scenes" where various random heroes get to be on screen doing something cool even though overall it makes no sense with the plot they actually have.
And then... why put the Soulstone back in Timeline B
at all? In Timeline A, the Soulstone is harvested by Thanos, used with the snap, and then smashed to pieces. In Timeline B, Thanos has used the timetunnel to go into Timeline A and then been eradicated. Timeline B no longer has a Thanos in it. There's no one in Timeline B left who knows where the stone is or has any use for it. Timeline A could just
keep the thing because otherwise it sits in an empty temple on the ass end of an uncaring galaxy in Timeline B.
Again and still, it's OK if your movie about Superheroes punching each other runs on rule of cool and doesn't make sense. But Avengers Endgame also took time to lecture the audience about how they weren't going to do that and name checked a bunch of movies and specifically underlined that they
were not going to use movie logic and instead do something internally consistent. And then they said "Nah, just kidding, none of this makes any fucking sense, we're just going to have Captain America swing Mjolnir because it's awesome."
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