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FF switched servers because they were having issues with the previous server, as many people's avatars were disappearing, and other stuff. They told us that FF was gonna be down temporarily, but it turned out to be longer than we though. They're still fixing glitches from the server switch. It may take weeks or months to fix completely.


Yep, it's obvious that Rey is that. Luke is an avatar of Lucas to an extent, but the difference is that Lucas didn't have any agenda when creating Luke and the Star Wars mythology. He just wanted to create a story that he was inspired to write by his childhood influences, like the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials, the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, old World War II movies, science fiction novels like Frank Herbert's Dune, etc. He was also writing it with a post-Vietnam, post-Watergate theme. Kennedy had no inspiration, she just wanted a female character to replace Luke because she felt that Star Wars primarily appealed to men and she wanted to flip the script and make it more what she wanted it to be... but the problem is that it's not hers. She can't just come up with something of her own? Suzanne Collins created Katniss Everdeen and The Hunger Games from her own imagination, and again, she had no feminist agenda. The only reason her main character is a woman is because... duh, Collins is a woman. But the story was inspired by dystopian science fiction stories and movies she'd read and seen, and the trend of reality shows that dominated the early 2000s, along with the post-9/11 environment. In other words, she wrote it for all the right reasons, similar to Lucas.


But Rey wasn't going through the hero's journey. People like Kennedy, Abrams, and Johnson don't even like the hero's journey. Rey's storyline was more about deconstructing Luke and propping up Rey rather than actually telling a story the likes of which you'd probably make.



Well, I'm glad we feel the same way about Gunn. I'd toss in Kevin Feige as well.

Well, the thing about Adam is that he had to learn a lot about his own humanity on the fly. He didn't have a childhood and had little time to learn all of the things about what it means to be human that we all take for granted. In the process, he possibly became even more appreciative of life and virtue more than most people, and dedicated himself to being a "champion of life," as Thanos once mockingly called him. I forgot where Adam got the nickname "God-Slayer," but perhaps I'll look it up one time. I do know he went up against some cosmic heavy hitters. But the reason that he treats the situation with Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet as a game is because, again, if he took it as seriously as some others would, he'd have difficulty going forward at all. He's afraid that he'd give in to despair or madness, so instead he remains cocky and confident, even when he's not sure of success. Fear and doubt would distract him from being able to overcome adversity, so that's the reason he gave the Surfer that response.

I think he learned the hard way when his life came crashing down around him during the whole Magus-Thanos storyline back in the 1970s to not go down that road again, where he nearly suffered a complete psychological collapse, which is what created the Magus in the first place. The writers were really intend on having him suffer as a messianic hero is expected to, so I think that's what affects Adam's behavior following his resurrection during the Infinity Gauntlet storyline and beyond, into the 1990s and 2000s. He's been there, done that, and doesn't wanna go back to that place.