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asterrocI don't often notice loopholes and inconsistencies, or critique things a plot didn't do (because I'm not often attentive enough to notice or remember them), but I'm afraid I've got some beef here.
Spoilers!
The obvious inconsistency was after Magneto moved the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz - first off, why didn't they just all sit on a car and fly it over? I'm guessing for the shock effect on the troops, but oh well. At issue though, is that It was daylight, or at least afternoon, while he was moving the bridge, and then suddenly it was night when the bridge hit. No explanation, no mutant's powers that we knew of that could do that.
Then, plot stuff, the ending/climax of the movie.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jethereal says that Wolverine was the only one that could go to Jean because of being able to get to her emotionally, while I say it's because he's the only one who could resist her disintegration power. Whoever wrote that section of the Wikipedia article agrees with me, but I give Jeth some credit since Jean/Phoenix doesn't levitate him - Wolverine is strong enough to push back against her telekinetically pushing him away, but if she levitated him he wouldn't have the ground friction to help him push back.
And then, I don't think that it really did have to be him. The kid cure Jimmy/Leech probably couldn't've gotten to her alone - Jean's powers work at a further distance than Jimmy's. What they needed instead was a way to either protect him (Wolverine's body as a shield), or distract her (Wolverine certainly was keeping her occupied, Jimmy could've snuck around behind her), or else amplify his power (some personal version of the amplifying machine used on Rogue in X1, though considering that it would've taken time to invent/build maybe it wasn't a good choice, or else they could've worked it into the list of anti-mutant weapons). Once Jimmy's power reached Jean, she would be neutralized, and he could remain close to her and neutralizing her until she learned to control her power. I guess she didn't really want that, she wanted to die, but that's a different issue.
Plus, the movie didn't explain her massive powers well. When Charles and Magneto first went to her, Jean did have nearly full control over her powers, lifting the cars in the street consciously, only dropping them at the end when she was startled or something. I think Charles' confining her powers prevented her from continuing to grow with them. And she certainly wasn't the Phoenix force of the comics - I didn't read them, just about them. :-P
And last issue, I'm sad that Rogue took the "cure." It would've been so much better if she'd ditched the shallow Iceman and instead started dating Leech. He'd've been the one person who could touch the fully powered Rogue w/o consequence. Her power requires contact, and his is area-of-effect, so he would've depowered her before she ever touched him.
Yay, geekery!
Spoilers!
The obvious inconsistency was after Magneto moved the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz - first off, why didn't they just all sit on a car and fly it over? I'm guessing for the shock effect on the troops, but oh well. At issue though, is that It was daylight, or at least afternoon, while he was moving the bridge, and then suddenly it was night when the bridge hit. No explanation, no mutant's powers that we knew of that could do that.
Then, plot stuff, the ending/climax of the movie.
jethereal says that Wolverine was the only one that could go to Jean because of being able to get to her emotionally, while I say it's because he's the only one who could resist her disintegration power. Whoever wrote that section of the Wikipedia article agrees with me, but I give Jeth some credit since Jean/Phoenix doesn't levitate him - Wolverine is strong enough to push back against her telekinetically pushing him away, but if she levitated him he wouldn't have the ground friction to help him push back. And then, I don't think that it really did have to be him. The kid cure Jimmy/Leech probably couldn't've gotten to her alone - Jean's powers work at a further distance than Jimmy's. What they needed instead was a way to either protect him (Wolverine's body as a shield), or distract her (Wolverine certainly was keeping her occupied, Jimmy could've snuck around behind her), or else amplify his power (some personal version of the amplifying machine used on Rogue in X1, though considering that it would've taken time to invent/build maybe it wasn't a good choice, or else they could've worked it into the list of anti-mutant weapons). Once Jimmy's power reached Jean, she would be neutralized, and he could remain close to her and neutralizing her until she learned to control her power. I guess she didn't really want that, she wanted to die, but that's a different issue.
Plus, the movie didn't explain her massive powers well. When Charles and Magneto first went to her, Jean did have nearly full control over her powers, lifting the cars in the street consciously, only dropping them at the end when she was startled or something. I think Charles' confining her powers prevented her from continuing to grow with them. And she certainly wasn't the Phoenix force of the comics - I didn't read them, just about them. :-P
And last issue, I'm sad that Rogue took the "cure." It would've been so much better if she'd ditched the shallow Iceman and instead started dating Leech. He'd've been the one person who could touch the fully powered Rogue w/o consequence. Her power requires contact, and his is area-of-effect, so he would've depowered her before she ever touched him.
Yay, geekery!
