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[tass3l]

heartbreaking! this man got attached to a character who is doomed no matter what

[prkrt]

Sky High Would Have Been a Much Better Movie if Will Stronghold Never Got His Powers

So either last year or the year before I rewatched Sky High with my best friend for his birthday. Last I’d seen it I was probably like 5. And it was a fun watch. I’m a sucker for mid-2000′s media, and Sky High is as mid as it gets. While we were riffing on every little detail (like how Zach, Ethan, and Magenta look like Danny, Tucker, and Sam from Danny Phantom) eventually we got to the point where Will gets his powers. And then it hit me: “Why?”

Will not having powers is a pretty big deal in the movie. Having powers is a BIG deal even this movie. Even seemingly useless ones like glowing or melting into a puddle separate you from the average everyday citizen. So much so there’s an entire floating high school made just to train up-and-coming heroes. One could argue that entrance to the school requires having powers, and Will shouldn’t be attending at all.

And I think the movie could have genuinely drove the “Anyone can be a hero” message a lot more, and played with Will’s character a bit more, if he didn’t eventually just get superpowers out of nowhere. It’s really weird he does at all, because Will goes from an underdog who has all this shame about not having powers, which has forced him to lie to his father and be an outcast in his school, to Superman almost immediately. And Will only really becomes a jerk because of these powers, abandoning his friends, only to redeem himself later because the situation calls for it.

I think, genuinely, the film could have been a lot better if Will just never got his superpowers, and he had to prove he could be a hero without them. Instead of using his super strength to throw around Royal Pain, he’d be helping to stop the school from crashing into the ground and standing up to her even when the odds are against him. All with the help of his fellow sidekick friends. It’d be easier for the viewer to relate to (don’t we all feel a little small compared to everyone else?) and have an overall more positive message. Otherwise, it’s really just the story of some privileged kid getting everything he wants, just a little later than he wanted.

[treeffles]

Hi yes hello, this is a Tree post, and not a D post.

My own personal processors are telling me that no one likes me again. I am once again asking for your validation that you don't hate me please and thank you.

[probablygayattorneys]

I am a little confused, though. because in Layton Mystery Tanteisha, Marina has these charms on her bag, and Layton surmises that Luke gave them to her to serve as a means of verification, if she ever needed to turn to Layton for help. He would know that she was truly Luke's wife, because each of the charms represents a case they solved together. The train is clearly the Molentary Express, representing the events surrounding the Elysian box, and the rabbit is Subject 3, representing the events surrounding Future Luke's letter. So what's the bow?

[anilovie]

ive been researching mechanics and engineering so i can write a lil something about it with anakin…

im gonna come home from school after being away for months and months, and my dads gonna wonder why i suddenly know what a transmission is and how to change the car oil 🫣

[metacrisisdoctor]

the idea of it being tentoo in the 60th and together he and donna find a way for her to keep her memories and he shows her pictures of rose and their daughter and how happy he has been for these 20ish years because of her and how sorry he is for what his other self had to do and she just says she's been so happy too and she still remembered him, deep down and they have so much to catch up on and donna comes to pete's world with her family and then tentoorose spin off and-

[madolecence]

I really am so very sad today, and it would be nice if it felt like someone cared