the article within about the first two paragraphs. It /seriously/ annoyed me, and not merely for the reasons you list above.
The /tone/ of the article comes off as downright pompous. Snotty. "I know better than everyone else how THIS topic should be handled."
Turns me right off.
You make an excellent point about her sacrificing herself, but it wasn't "BIG" and dramatic. It was quiet and dramatic, sad, frightening, emotional... I think the open display of emotion is what made the other -- I can't type the word 'writer' or 'author' without a full-body shudder-- /person/ may have been dismissive of.
I mean, Tony Stark saved the world in a MANLY way. A flicker of emotion, then just "get the job done". Sure, he was presumably banged up inside the suit, but he wasn't bleeding from deep puncture wounds and trying to hang on to the person he considered a mentor for what, /twenty years/?
Kitty Pryde is not Tony Stark, but somehow the expectation was that she would save the world /in the same way/ that he did? Meanwhile, what about the efforts of the other X-Men? Not even worth mentioning because someone has an I-hate-Kitty-Pryde rant disguised as "disappointment" in the movie portrayal?
My dad had an expression about opinions and ... noses, yah, that'll work... everybody's got one.
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The /tone/ of the article comes off as downright pompous. Snotty. "I know better than everyone else how THIS topic should be handled."
Turns me right off.
You make an excellent point about her sacrificing herself, but it wasn't "BIG" and dramatic. It was quiet and dramatic, sad, frightening, emotional... I think the open display of emotion is what made the other -- I can't type the word 'writer' or 'author' without a full-body shudder-- /person/ may have been dismissive of.
I mean, Tony Stark saved the world in a MANLY way. A flicker of emotion, then just "get the job done". Sure, he was presumably banged up inside the suit, but he wasn't bleeding from deep puncture wounds and trying to hang on to the person he considered a mentor for what, /twenty years/?
Kitty Pryde is not Tony Stark, but somehow the expectation was that she would save the world /in the same way/ that he did? Meanwhile, what about the efforts of the other X-Men? Not even worth mentioning because someone has an I-hate-Kitty-Pryde rant disguised as "disappointment" in the movie portrayal?
My dad had an expression about opinions and ... noses, yah, that'll work... everybody's got one.