Wednesday, April 05, 2023

"Embarrassed."

Is Thunderbolts code too simple? Is it basically "let's be the team that supports each other"? It may also be a lot like 'shotgun' and depend almost entirely on who called it first. Also, while I don't think I watch a ton of crime or heist movies, I don't like ones where the 'heroes,' as in the crooks, fail or get caught either because they're the 'bad' guys and 'crime doesn't pay,' or simply because one or more of the gang just can't help being a rat and ruins it for everybody. (I watched, inexplicably, A Twist of Sand on Paramount+ a couple months ago. It had Honor Blackman from Goldfinger! It was sort of a heist movie, but more man vs. nature than man vs. the law or whatever; but the ending could largely have been avoided by maybe not betraying anyone? Just a tip.)
Posted by googum at 5:00 AM
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3 comments:

Mr. Morbid said...

Personally I feel it’s a deux ex machina/handy plot tool to use, so the code can be anything the story needs it to be at any given time.

9:32 AM
H said...

Exactly- you gotta support your idiot friends, even if they make bad decisions and you hate their guts. That's the way it is in real life- everybody's got at least one person that they have no idea why they even talk to them, but they'll defend them at a moment's notice.

That's an awfully specific time, 2 hours and 26 minutes- any special significance?

2:43 PM
CalvinPitt said...

I think keeping Thunderbolts Code simple makes sense. If you're some of the historically dumber or nicer members of the team (Atlas, Jolt, probably some others), you know the smarter, more corrupt folks (Moonstone at the top of that list) would find the loopholes in anything more complicated so they didn't have to honor it. "According to paragraph 3 of subsection (c), I don't have to help if it conflicts with my religious beliefs, and I just converted to, etc.)"

Having it be, "it's invoked, you help, that's it," avoids all that. The Moonstones are still gonna abuse it, but everyone else at least knows she has to honor it, too.

Maybe Sat could call another Thunderbolt and get them to help Kurt and Tigra (without mentioning she sent them)? If Moonstone's busy chatting with Khonshu, she can't use Thunderbolts Code to make that person leave until it's too late. Luke Cage would probably be cool with helping, assuming he's not too busy being mayor (still can't believe they made Luke Cage mayor of NYC, but hell, Jonah was mayor, too, so why not).

7:40 PM

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