@Throw: I corrected the "^" to "@Frink" when I saw the new post in between.
@Frink: and yet, you keep playing, time after time, week after week...
ThrowgnCpr said:
The story was rich, and interesting, and I'll take that any day over everything is perfect forever, la la la la la.
Again, straw man argument. "Had to be some conflict" does not equate to "had to completely ruin the Big Three's lives" - infinite possibilities in infinite storytelling. Maybe you think JJ and Co. came up with that super-dark backstory because they honestly thought it was the best they could come up with, and if so, that's cool. Myself, I think it's just another instance of JJ lazily recycling plot points that came before, just as he did pretty much everywhere else in the movie. But that's an
artistic opinion, whereas I find the
TFA backstory so dark that to say "eh, some good years, some bad years" is objectively wrong. But that, too, is just, my opinion, man.
If
I were dating a woman, and then somehow learned beyond any doubt that if I stayed with her, in thirty years our only kid would become a school shooter and murderer of millions who'd then murder me,
I certainly wouldn't think "eh, some good, some bad"; I'd think, "holy cow, that sounds horrible, better break up with this woman now, painful as it may be in the short term, and find someone else later, and maybe not have any kids, ever!" Wouldn't
you?! :-/