If you hadn't picked up on this already somewhere along the way, I'm a nerd. Always have been, always will be. Like...it didn't occur to me that I couldn't have an apartment like Tom Hanks had in the movie BIG until I was in my 20s. Come to think of it, I'm not very sure that it wouldn't have been that way if I hadn't started having kids and responsibilities and yanno, got my Toy R Us kid card revoked lol. I always find hope though, in Robin Williams' version of Peter Pan in "Hook." Peter Pan was the MAN (figuratively lol). The coolest kid in Neverland. Then he left, grew up and got a job and a family and was WASHED haha!! Buuuuuuuuuuut, he eventually returned to Neverland and found his cool again. So goes the life of the single 40 year old dad with a thirst for action figures, comic books and cosplay (that's costume wearers for you noobs lol). Yup, I would suggest that you all go and look at Tom Hanks' apartment in that movie. I'm rockin with everything except the bunk beds. Can't do Jack sized mattresses lol. Anyhow, I think I started writing this because I was thinking about how I have to stop impulse buying ridiculously cool t-shirts lol. Pretty sure I have 2 summer's worth at least. But I'm a nerd through and through and it feels good just being myself...that being said, if Instagram could stop showing me ads for tshirts, light sabers, graphic novel collections and all things Mandalorian, perhaps I could save enough to go get that fancy New York apartment that belongs to Tom Hanks in BIG!! Yes, I'm still on that LOLOL!!!!
Ok so I want y'all to hear me out on this. I promise I'm going somewhere with it...I'm really big on perspective and so I always try (I said try) to look at things and situations from a different aspect than my own or even that of the majority. Even when I'm right about things, I feel like it's beneficial to be able to see and understand how someone else sees the world. Even if they are wrong, I like to be able to have at least an idea of what that wrongness is rooted in. Context matters. That will always be true. I know you're asking yourself, what could I possibly be getting at, right? Right. Well, my point in all this is that I think that there's a possibility that Thanos wasn't the bad guy in the Avengers movies.
All Thanos really wanted to do was create balance in the universe. That's it. He saw terrible things happening around him and attributed them to the fact that things had largely become unbalanced and wanted to do something about it. He really believed that he was doing the right thing. Thanos visited countless planets in all of the different parts of space. He saw the things that different alien races had to do I'm order to survive. He witnessed the ups and downs and overall saw more suffering than not. His vantage point was one that not many ppl had because he was one of the few beings anywhere who could actually see the total picture. The Avengers on the other hand were mainly just fighting to stay alive but overall had a selfish view of the situation based on the fact that they only were able to think about how it affected them as if earth was all there was. They served only their own interests on a universal level. You could add to this argument by highlighting that Dr Strange said that he saw 14,000,605 possibilities for the outcome of the infinity war and that there was only one possibility (ONE) where they won. Have we ever stopped to think that maybe the odds were so overwhelming in favor of Thanos because it was SUPPOSED to happen?? Yes, self preservation is human nature. We do what we think we need to do to survive but that doesn't make them the right actions. Earth only being concerned with earth during a universal conflict sounds like Galactic white privilege somehow lol. Remember how we were all conflicted when Killmonger became King because although his ideas were radical, it was really intriguing to think about black people being the majority and turning the tables on the world. Killmonger wasn't completely wrong, he was just extreme and zealous. He wasn't evil, just trying to correct an unfair imbalance he experienced his whole life. So that brings me back to the question was Thanos really the bad guy in Avengers with so much evidence pointing to the contrary? Honestly, I don't know.
Perspective is a big deal. You could ask 5 different people their opinion of me and might get 5 different answers depending on who the people are. Good or bad, it doesn't make any of them correct. They're just saying what they think they know based on what they see. That's their perspective... But you can't rightly determine until you see the whole picture. People rarely consider complete context before they form opinions now though. Social media is proof of that lol! I'm not here to fight that fight today so relax. I'm simply saying that 2 things can be true. 1. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion 2. If we committed ourselves to understanding the perspective of others the way we do our own, the world would be a much better place to live. Grace is to be received but also given. "Do unto others..." and all that jazz. Just be nice lol
Also for any die-hard comic book fans, I am well aware that Thanos gathered the infinity stones to kill and thus harvest the souls of the lost as a gift to lady death because he was in love with her and wanted to impress. I'm strictly talking about the MCU lol
Have a great and productive week...or don't lol whatever makes you happy *Kanye Shrug*
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