redhawk23
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Spoilers and such,
While I know there isn't really time to dig into it much the world honestly seems to adjust pretty well to half of all people suddenly disappearing. It's mentioned that "governments are in pieces" or what have you but really, even 5 years on I don't buy that there would be enough of of a civil society to maintain things like support groups or ice cream shops.
The implications of instantly bringing everyone back after 5 years are almost worse. Instantly the human population on earth jumps from 3.3 billion to 7.6 billion...without the attendant 5 years of food and resources production. Grim days ahead there.
Even on an individual level, the ramifications of everyone coming back after 5 years are kind of maddening. Everyone that was left behind continued living and aging in those 5 years. Half of Peter's high school would then be in their 20s when he and the others returned. We see that people try moving on and dating. How many people have new relationships and even children when suddenly their dead partners return?
Everyone would be dealing with trauma of either experiencing their own deaths or living for 5 years with the deaths of others. How many people died of normal non-snap reason during those 5 years, their loved ones returning to find them gone?
But apparently this is a world in American high schools can take field trips to Europe as if nothing happened, in which there are still high schools at all. It's fine for this film, which ends in a very Return of the Jedi fashion, but I don't know how well I can roll with it in the films that follow, particularly Far From Home later this year.
While I know there isn't really time to dig into it much the world honestly seems to adjust pretty well to half of all people suddenly disappearing. It's mentioned that "governments are in pieces" or what have you but really, even 5 years on I don't buy that there would be enough of of a civil society to maintain things like support groups or ice cream shops.
The implications of instantly bringing everyone back after 5 years are almost worse. Instantly the human population on earth jumps from 3.3 billion to 7.6 billion...without the attendant 5 years of food and resources production. Grim days ahead there.
Even on an individual level, the ramifications of everyone coming back after 5 years are kind of maddening. Everyone that was left behind continued living and aging in those 5 years. Half of Peter's high school would then be in their 20s when he and the others returned. We see that people try moving on and dating. How many people have new relationships and even children when suddenly their dead partners return?
Everyone would be dealing with trauma of either experiencing their own deaths or living for 5 years with the deaths of others. How many people died of normal non-snap reason during those 5 years, their loved ones returning to find them gone?
But apparently this is a world in American high schools can take field trips to Europe as if nothing happened, in which there are still high schools at all. It's fine for this film, which ends in a very Return of the Jedi fashion, but I don't know how well I can roll with it in the films that follow, particularly Far From Home later this year.