I miss when they didn't explain magic in movies. It would just, like, happen.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Yes! I was talking about this about Lord of the Rings recently. You never really get much of an explanation of the one ring’s mechanics. It just is. But, there’s enough for it to blossom in your mind in a really amazing way.
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Replying to @mjoneillnoise
it doesn't matter because we know what the ring wants.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Yes. To be fingered. *snigger* But, that’s a brilliant point. I was framing it in my head as a macguffin but that neglects the layers of agency around it. Are there other stories where we know what the magic wants? Apologies if that’s a daft question.
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Replying to @mjoneillnoise
spoiler alert for a point in the new book: the best macguffins are people (or people-like things) - and like characters, you gotta know what they want and need. So when the ring does SCARY THINGS, we dont have to understand the what, cause we know the why.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @mjoneillnoise
I think that's something Marvel really whiffed on with the infinity stones. The stones should have had a personality and aims, but instead they were just powerful things. Made the movies built around them much weaker.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @mjoneillnoise
Yeah, literally all of them seem to do the same thing (minus time stone or whatever) but they all seem to have the same-universe ending consequences in those movies. Why when grouped together, they have bigger stakes, I have no idea.
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I know marvel felt like they had to tease it out, but I can think of nothing more misguided. They've just ended up making the same macguffing like 9 times in a row, and weirdly the same movie.
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