That is not the implication of that scene or the rest of the movie. The whole talk about the “good” in someone, followed by Anakin showing up as a ghost next to the two Jedi who have presumably not murdered billions of people is equivalent to “absolving of sins” because of one minor decision. Also, unless he saves the…

It was right there where Anakin stood happily with the two Jedi ghosts, in basically the vague version of Jedi “heaven”. Anakin, despite being a murdering psycho, was made equivalent and equal to two Jedi that presumably have not committed any atrocities.

Considering what went down under the Empire, Saddam Hussein is not even visible. He started his “evil career” by murdering hundreds of children, and went on from there, but for some reason everyone forgets and/or ignores that. Or at least Lucas does.

JJ made two Star Wars movies in disguise of Star Trek. They were decent action movies, but they weren’t Star Trek. Also, Trek unfortunately was already in many ways on its last legs. Now at least we have a semi-decent reboot that kind-of continues the plot. And the hope of something new and better.

I don’t know - I found the scene at the and of AotC, where a bunch of Jedi are killed by droids to be inspiring and awesome. That’s the defeat of space wizards using science and technology. I like to think of that scene as the triumph of the common man, and found it one of the most stirring scenes of the prequels.…

Think of it this way - imagine Heinrich Himmler tell his son he loved him right before he died. Would you be cool with that, despite all the blood he has on his hands? Does it make sense to put that in a movie about space Nazis and the billions of people they enslaved, tortured, and murdered?

No, that’s just dumb. The whole “glimmer of good” is stupid. Yes, people are multi-faceted, but just because a mega-maniacal mass murdering psychopath admits that he loves his son does not absolve him of all sins. Or any sins. The fact that he shows up at the end as a ghost and is all buddy-buddy with the other Jedi…

Pants are good. I approve of pants in most comic book scenarios.

There was also an additional guidance problem. Such an object would be encased in plasma, and very much on fire. There is no way to accurately guide the projectile through the fireball. It could have inertial guidance, I guess, but that would not give you pinpoint accuracy and steering would still be quite difficult.

...? WTF? Do I have to say it? Fallout 4? Bethesda? Ring any bells?

Charlie said but also, some of those ships where in atmo but the mother ship and its escort was in high orbit which would be plenty high enough to wipe out life on earth.

With all due respect, if you’re just going to assume I’m making shit up

Just because there is a resemblance to an SF trope does not mean that the SF trope makes sense and is applicable in this case. If you can’t support your argument, then it’s not much of an argument.

In the movie? Maybe (although I am not sure about Natasha since she saw her past & memories). In the comics? Not so much - in the comics the Scarlet Witch had near god-like powers at one point. She first turned the entire planet into a mutant utopia, rewriting memories of virtually everyone on the planet and creating…

But we don’t know if Thor is right. For all we know they first detected the nazis working with the tesseract, and that’s when they decided that humans are ready for the higher level of war. Thor didn’t know who was messing around with the cube until Tony said so.

A SHIELD facility where instead of sensibly putting this incredibly powerful and ancient alien artifact back where the Red Skull took it from (and where it had been unnoticed for centuries if not millennia) they’d been trying to weaponize it.

Most of these points are valid except for a couple:

That sort-of makes sense from the comics perspective - in that it doesn’t make sense. Because Scarlet Witch’s powers are whatever the writer wanted them to be, and can rewrite reality, mess with probability, etc.

I disagree - it’s just the extension of what Tony was doing since the first Iron Man movie. He was building tools to stop war. And they worked - his Iron Man suit helped save the planet from an alien invasion. Why would he stop?

Actually, no, that wasn’t SHIELD’s fault. They didn’t screw up anything - Loki stole the tesseract.