It usually bothers me when characters are stripped of their agency, especially main characters. I don't like railroading. I mean what's the point of having heroes if they don't get to make decisions that influence the action?
This is one reason why I tend to write Fury as a manipulative dick. I can excuse Coulson's involvement by implying that the orders came down from Fury, because Fury has trampled on other people's agency elsewhere in canon.
This kind of shit really justifies the resignation that Bruce and Natasha have. "We don't always get what we want." "Regimes fall every day. I tend not to weep over that." Well, why would you, when it's just changing one puppet-master for another?
So that's a key part of why it takes them so long to work through some shit, because people keep adding more shit. Friendly fire isn't.
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Re: Well...
Date: 2013-05-11 08:39 pm (UTC)This is one reason why I tend to write Fury as a manipulative dick. I can excuse Coulson's involvement by implying that the orders came down from Fury, because Fury has trampled on other people's agency elsewhere in canon.
This kind of shit really justifies the resignation that Bruce and Natasha have. "We don't always get what we want." "Regimes fall every day. I tend not to weep over that." Well, why would you, when it's just changing one puppet-master for another?
So that's a key part of why it takes them so long to work through some shit, because people keep adding more shit. Friendly fire isn't.