>> You show so much of Phil doing things for other people in the rest of the series, it's easy to forget everything that he was given by them (mostly Tony) before he started Game Night. <<
Yes, that's true. Tony showered everyone with ridiculous amounts of stuff, right from the beginning. I suspect that Phil got extras, because Tony and Pepper knew him well enough to pick out a lot of things he'd really enjoy. Bruce got extras because Tony had promised him lab space.
>> But gratitude and his concern for unit cohesion are actual motives, and thus he's not actually being horrifically creepy. <<
Sooth. What matters is not just action alone, but the motivation behind it and the results after it. Most of what Phil does is honorably intended and works out well. The same is true of JARVIS, whose level of oversight in the tower is very dense.
It's far more than I'd want to live with, but not everyone feels threatened or reassured by the same things.
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Date: 2014-02-24 07:32 am (UTC)Yes, that's true. Tony showered everyone with ridiculous amounts of stuff, right from the beginning. I suspect that Phil got extras, because Tony and Pepper knew him well enough to pick out a lot of things he'd really enjoy. Bruce got extras because Tony had promised him lab space.
>> But gratitude and his concern for unit cohesion are actual motives, and thus he's not actually being horrifically creepy. <<
Sooth. What matters is not just action alone, but the motivation behind it and the results after it. Most of what Phil does is honorably intended and works out well. The same is true of JARVIS, whose level of oversight in the tower is very dense.
It's far more than I'd want to live with, but not everyone feels threatened or reassured by the same things.