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| Topic | Wonder Woman was great, most of the time. *spoilers* |
| ChromaticAngel 06/10/17 9:33:55 PM #12: | Master Kazuya posted... If you notice the sentence afterward, I literally pointed out how WW's powers were the exception. It's not fair to only use the first half of a point as a means to retort back. Also, tell me that WW using her superjump ability (which was already established that she could do) is the equivalent of Ares summoning metal flame swords in a all out multi-sword lunge in a giant ball of fire, followed by full on telekinesis, teleportation, and lightning summons. Ares is a entirely different class of being. Throwing fireballs and shit is just what he does. He doesn't do it throughout the movie because Ares actually benefits from being around conflict. He started a war and prolonged it because that's how he gets his power. During times of absolute peace, he's totally defenseless. Throughout the movie, WW keeps running across people suffering. She has all these powers, but none of them are good for helping feed people, or helping children find their missing parents. All she can do is beat the shit out of people, but that doesn't actually help anyone. She wants to help people, but can't. Everywhere she goes, she wants to stop and help and Steve Trevor says repeatedly "There's nothing you can do." Eventually Ares shows up in full glory, and Charlie asks Steve "What do we do?" and Steve responds "There's nothing we can do." Because this is what Wonder Woman was for. She was useless the whole movie intentionally to harp on the fact that her purpose was to defeat Ares. It was the only way she could be effective at helping people. She couldn't help anyone who was suffering, but by killing Ares, she could at least prevent more suffering. Her powers manifested proportional to the opponents she was fighting. She needs to hurl lightning at Ares to kill him, so that's why she doesn't do it until then. Watching a movie about how she goes around crushing everyone with her godlike powers doesn't make her a hero, it makes her female Ares. Master Kazuya posted... If that's the case then Ares didn't have to exist to drive that point home in a narrative sense. I mean, that's the plot twist. He doesn't have to exist. They'll fight and kill each other anyway. He's just good at making it especially awful by doing things like showing people how to make terrible chemical weapons or other instruments of war. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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