There was one big thing I was kinda ‘meh’ on in GOTG2, actually (cut for huuuuge spoilers)
I thought the Ravagers showing up at Yondu’s funeral was a bit overblown, a bit cheap even? He did kill a bunch of them (albeit they were mutineers) and the Sylvester Stallone faction of them didn’t seem the type to go back on exiling someone. It just seemed like overdoing things, I guess, since everything that happened prior to that was emotional enough on its own without Stallone showing up to go “ah yeah guess he turned out a good guy after all”, especially since they themselves seem basically just to be a bunch of amoral bloodthirsty dicks.
(Also, if the Ravagers show up with fireworks after time one of their number dies, they must go through an awful lot of them)
I think it would’ve been more touching with just Peter and the other Guardians there, especially since I really don’t remember there being much indication beforehand that the Ravagers were supposed to be a sort of family unit who had any sort of love or honour among them. (I’m really not even sure Peter and Yondu were/did either, on Peter’s side at least and very reasonably, right up til the end.)
Peter Quill actually only had trouble holding the infinity stone because he’s half Terran.
A fully human Terran would have done much better.
I
mean, Jane Foster had the aether inside of her in Thor 2, and that
seemed pretty potent (and potentially could have been another infinity
stone, besides).
In fact, considering all of the mutants and
badassery and whatnot that abounds in the Marvel universe, and the
heavy-hitters Terrans can produce with just a little genetic tweaking or
gamma radiation, it’s possible that Asgard took to ‘safeguarding’
Midgard in the first place because Odin figured out that the natives
are scary as balls.
Maybe during the war with the frost
giants, certain humans started manifesting strange/special abilities to
deal with the threat, and Asgard’s scientists/wizards/etc figured out
that the poor puny Midgardians were like a sleeping monster, and the
aggression of the frost giants was ‘waking them up’.
So Odin
stepped in to stop them and to try and keep people from interfering with
Midgard as much as possible, so the monster would stay sleeping.
Which
is actually part of why he is so very pissed off at Loki for the events
of Avengers, and at Thor for bringing Jane to Asgard – it’s a very, very
tight secret that Midgard is a powder keg full of potential
super-warriors, and Odin does not want that getting out, and he does not
want them getting out. If Earth can stay as a nice, quiet,
backwater planet with very little contact with the larger universe,
that’s safer for everyone involved.
