I am afraid of the main thing Zack is afraid of, in that all of this will be reversed when Brie Larson kills Thanos and brings everyone back to life. That would be the absolute worst way to go. Let us see all those characters die and remain dead.
General other thoughts:
Good Stuff
1. The Dr. Strange dying words, “there was no other way,” is my favorite line from any of these movies, because of all the potential ramifications and mind fuck. In all the millions of futures he saw, how much would need to go right, even after he kept Iron Man alive, for his seemingly stupid decision to lead to the one good future? Is it still possible? How many different futures are possible just based on the 50/50 chance of each key player dying? Or is the one good future more predestined, in that Dr. Strange has already set it all in motion?
2. The ambiguity of whether Thanos is a hero or villain, despite being the most powerful villain ever, is very interesting. I’m Team Thanos, obviously. The conventional heroes kept making selfish, stupid decisions, without fail. They kept single individuals alive instead of sacrificing them for half the universe to live, over and over. Meanwhile, Thanos is basically omniscient and knows that the entire universe will die if he doesn’t kill off half of them, so he does everything in his power to salvage the lives of trillions. To get what he needs to be the savior, he puts individual lives at stake and makes others choose whether he kills them or not, but he never kills needlessly. He sacrifices the only thing he loves for this. He’s far more a hero than the selfish assholes, Chris Pratt and Scarlet Witch, for example.
3. The most powerful good guys were acknowledged as such, instead of being lumped together with trash like Hawkeye and Black Widow. Thor, Dr. Strange and Scarlet Witch have been so much more powerful than the others that it became awkward in prior movies because they would try to make the others on the same level. Captain America was just hitting guys with a hard object. Don Cheadle was just shooting people. Black Widow and Hulk were jokes. That’s how it should be when Thor and Tyrion’s axe are involved.
Bad Stuff
1. Hulk continues to be awful. Just kill him for good. Excruciatingly bad as an actor and with the lines he was given. I don’t want to see him in any more movies.
2. Copying The Leftovers to explain what happens to the vanished 50%, which would allow an easy possibility of bringing them back, would be awful. It would also make Thanos a true hero if that’s what he did. The final image of him sitting and sighing would be comparable to the last image of Luke Skywalker, two equally noble characters reflecting on their lives and how they’ve helped so many people.
3. No one cares about Vision, and Dr. Strange hasn’t been around long enough, either. Having those two be keepers of infinity stones was hard to get behind. They should’ve done more to attach the audience emotionally to those characters before this movie, if it had to be this way to be true to the comic books or something.
