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Shouldn't the world be too worried about sorting itself out after adding back half the population than going on vacation

posted 3 years ago by jakemon45 (971)
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Just thought of this. I feel like a class trip would be far from anyone's mind.

You might as well put yourself into the same Post-Covid-19 mindset. People wanted some degree of normalcy.

It had been five years.

[–] jakemon45 (971) 3 years ago

"It had been five years."

...Um... Exactly. It's been 5 years. 5 years for the world to adjust to having half of the population that it did before. Every single aspect of how the world works has changed. 5 years of the world's resources being cultivated differently, travel, trade, government, the economy, the entire world's worth of work force, etc etc has adapted to having half the amount of people that it did. In a snap, the population went back to how it was before that 5 years. Everything else didn't snap back with it.

[–] TandyMan (10364) 3 years ago

Same problem the comics have. Choosing whether or not to embrace the Event or be your own story. Now with comics, i'm comic run first. Don't ruin my good story with your stupid Event you made up just to generate sales. I don't think that translates into movies and makes a mess of continuity, as your post points out. A Spider-Man film is the perfect vehicle to deal with the real world clean up of a global problem. But they ignored it completely. Imagine with me now, a young Spider-Man who suddenly has half the population returned and has to bring the whole city back together. THAT is a movie. In a single film you could address the entire aftermath of the Infinity War AND bring full closure to the Iron Man ark. Nope.

[–] jakemon45 (971) 3 years ago

Very well put.

[–] Burk48917 (10984) 3 years ago

I think they were actually trying to begin the process of moving past the infinity story, and a movie that focused on the aftermath would have amounted to lingering too long on a story that had its finale. Far from home is the first step in the next chapter, not the end of the first.

[–] EvilPinata (1186) 3 years ago

Most of the world may be, but that doesn't mean everyone is.

This issue was brought up in a podcast I listen to though. Not the field trip specifically, but everyone that survived adjusting to half the population ceasing to exist and then having to readjust to them coming back and the chaos that would cause. I think a small portion of that was portrayed relatively well in WandaVision.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Which podcast?

[–] EvilPinata (1186) 3 years ago

It's called Marveling at Marvel's Marvels. I think one of their more recent episodes where they talk about the House of M storyline, but I can't remember.