XCharlieX said:
lol the phoenix is a result of a mistake by Xavier true, but i think he did it with a protective mindset. I personally cant blame the professor... the woman can kill all of humanity in a flash and I think he was afraid if she kept screwing around with the neighbors cars like in the flashback, thered be serious consequences later in life.
Well these issues in the film are meant to be kind of ambiguous and controversial with no right or wrong. I actually DO think the professor was wrong in his decision:
-Professor X isn't the saint that people think- we know since X1 he was trying to control Jean/Pheonix, and that he regretted it. In X2, we see how he lies to Logan about his past, keeping it from him, which he has no right to do, and its arrogant to think he has the right to decide what Logan can and can't know. Plus, allowing yourself to wield a weapon like Cerebro (I didn't know it could be a weapon until the film), is another sign of that arrogance- if anyone else had something capable of that, Xavier would have gone out of his way to stop it. He should have been the bigger man and destroyed it on his own.
-X3: We see Xavier lecturing Magneto when young, as if he knows better than Eric (who isn't a villian at this point) and its his obligation to lecture him. We see how he controlled Pheonix, as if it was his decision alone and Jean didn't have the right, and we see him bickering with Logan that his decision was absolutely the right one, no matter what. He keeps things from Storm as well (I'm pretty sure he's been aware of weird things from Alkali Lake)- "there's something your not telling us". As for Jean/Pheonix, if he actually tried teaching Jean to control her powers- instead of making the decision on his own that she shouldn't be allowed to have them- I don't think Pheonix ever would have been created. Pheonix was created because it was all of these urges and all this energy that he made her repress- if it wasn't repressed, I'd like to think she would have been the same Jean we knew from X1 and X2, just with more powers at her disposal.
Having said that, I still like Xavier, in fact I think he's more interesting now that he is shown to be a little arrogant. Glad to see he regrets his decisions regarding Jean, too. Looking at Jean, Xavier had really good intentions, but she is still a victim and its because of him. You can sympathize with both characters- I do- I just sympathize much more with Jean.
