LastSunrise1981 said:
I take it you didn't watch X1?
Scott-::Looking down on a professor who is in a coma:: If anything happens, I'll take care of them.
And that was meant to be one of the most important scenes for Scott. It establishes his role in the group, his place within the institute, as well as the heavy burden that he has been raised and trained to continue to carry on his shoulders. In addition, he's supposed to be a strong character, a heroic character. Like Xavier, he wouldn't say something unless he meant it, or make a promise that he didn't intend to keep.
And then to just cheaply kill him off like that, was bad. Plain bad. But this isn't the only promise that was broken as set up in X1 and X2 but then messed up by X3. There are at least 2 others:
X1: Final scene between Xavier and Eric.
Eric: "The war is coming, Charles, and I intend to fight it any way I can"
Xavier: "And I will always be there, old friend..."
Whoops! Sorry Charles, but you got turned into salsa by your protege before you had a chance to "be there". So much for that promise.
X2: Museum scene between Scott and Jean
Scott: "I won't let anything happen to you"
We all know how that turned out, don't we?
Foreshadowing and promises don't work unless you actually intend to keep them and let chars carry them out. You reduce them to empty words and the chars to liars if things keep turning out this way. In fact the only char who was allowed to keep his promise was Wolverine, giving his dogtags to Marie at the end of X1 and promising he'll come back to get them. Imagine how cheap things would be if he just died between X1 and X2.
Other examples where the integrity of the trilogy would be ruined if Foreshadowing or promises were violated? How about the Star Wars classic trilogy?
Empire Strikes back, as Luke takes off from Dagobah to Bespin.
Kenobi: "He was our last hope"
Yoda: "No, there is another".
We all found out who that "other" was. Imagine how cheap things would have been if something like this was never touched upon but just forgotten, like that scene between Ororo atd Kurt onboard the X-Jet in X2, or the other broken promises I mention above?
I wouldn't have minded if he died, just as long as if it was heroic and made sense to the overall concept. Nothing made sense in this movie, nothing clicked, nothing made an impact, and everything was just bunch of mindless action pieces that didn't serve the plot at all(IMO).
Death should happen for a reason. Death should make a point to the plot or advance it in some way. You should'nt kill off characters because they're not your checklist. Death should also be surprising and not easy to come by. This is supposed to be a thriller after all. Scott's death was not expected. Not because it was so brilliantly and surprisingly done but because it was so preposterous. On the other hand, who here was actually surprised that Jean died at the end? I didn't think so...
Xavier would've never given up on Scott the way he did. A true Xavier would've said, "Scott's a changed man. He took Jean's death so hard, but I know that he'll keep his promise to me if anything happens."
That's really really good! Mind if I use that line? In addition, it was surprising how no one tried reaching out and supporting Scott. not even a reassuring hug from Ororo seeing that he was still troubled. Heck, they didn't even miss him when it was assumed he was dead. Bunch of savages they must be...
) that is why she was given headmaster. I can honestly say that Storm should not be getting bashed on having more screentime, that is just rediculous. Her role was better a TINY BIT, but I know that it could have been better. I mean come on, when she was taling to Rogue about the cure and finished off by saying "or any of us for that matter" they actually edited out her saying "Understand?" WTF?! That is so freakin hilarious! Now I don't know the directing buisness, but they better have a good reason for that or else I will laugh my ass off.
If Scott and Charles wasn't available, Storm should've been giving that speech--not the Newcommer.
So true.
