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Do you think David poisoned Holloway partly out of jealousy once discovering he slept with shaw? Why do you think he took her cross to check for"contamination" when it obviously wasn't? A keepsake in case she died from the alien birth? Idk if I'm looking into this too much but he seems to hold her respectively above the others.
I don’t think it was jealousy, and definitely not because of anything to do with Holloway’s relationship with Shaw. David poisoned him for two equally important yet distinct reasons: to fulfill his assignment (given to him by Weyland) of examining their organic finds, and because Holloway was an ass. It’s important to remember that Holloway, while being a decent partner (he’s clearly supportive of Shaw in a very blatant way, and I don’t recall him being insensitive save for the conversation with her about the importance of childbearing and its impact on ones purpose in life), was clearly unaccepting of David in every possible aspect. Holloway was the only of the team to distinctly point out David’s difference to the rest of the team, and singled him out often enough.
The conversation that David and Holloway have when David poisons him is significant in understanding why David does what he does. Like I mentioned before, he’s been given a different purpose for being on the Prometheus that goes beyond being Vickers’ errand boy. David is there because David alone can learn as much about the Engineers’ language and culture as fast as he did, and with that knowledge, he’s an asset to the team’s research; but David’s loyalty to Weyland is also crucial to the “success” of the mission from Weyland’s point of view: David, as a synthetic, is incapable of being “too soft” in a way that would otherwise hinder experimental success. David won’t think twice about poisoning someone to test out the effects of what they find in the cave. David will do it because it’s the easiest and most logical method to get clear results—that is, David was going to poison someone anyway, but it didn’t have to be Holloway for any better reason than it could’ve been Shaw, herself.
The fact that David chose Holloway is, to me, the first major suggestion that David goes beyond the typical, unfeeling robot. David isn’t supposed to feel jealousy, or anger, or offense, but he understands the emotions well (part of David 8′s promotional material is that he does have a very good understanding of emotion, though he “cannot feel them himself”). The situation presents itself perfectly. David asks how far Holloway is willing to go to find the answers he’s looking for. He asks what Holloway is “willing to do”, and Holloway replies instantly with, “Anything and everything”. If there was some minuscule part of David’s ethics that suggested he needed permission of any sort to poison someone without telling them for the “greater good” of science, this is exactly what Holloway has given him. If Holloway is willing to do anything and everything to get answers, and David’s little poison experiment serves to get some answers itself, then poisoning Holloway is a logical choice, and so he does it.
But while this is very straightforward, it’s important to note here that David had the sample of organic substance on his finger before this conversation even started. He entered the room already with the intention of poisoning Holloway, and that is the distinction between a choice of “calculated reason” and “personal preference”. David isn’t supposed to feel emotions, but it’s clear that he wishes to be as similar to humans as possible even with his constraints (see the scene of him rewatching Lawrence of Arabia, dying his hair, mimicing Lawrence’s dialogue). He can’t feel offense, but he understands perfectly that from the way Holloway has treated him, he should be offended—any real person would be offended. He can’t feel that physically, but he sees the cues that he’s being mistreated, and he knows that this behaviour would elicit a negative response were he human. And so, he has come to “dislike” Holloway in as much capacity as he can, because even that is the logical thing to do. From any point of view he could possibly take, he is entitled to disliking Holloway above the others based on Holloway’s treatment of him.
David poisons Holloway with the justification that Holloway himself said he’d do anything to get answers, and that in doing so, he is completing Weyland’s orders. But beneath that is the underlying fact that David’s conscious decision to poison Holloway even before asking him what he was willing to do for this mission shows David’s ability to make “emotional” decisions in the same way that people are able to. I think that this is something he decided to do himself, as part of his process of aligning himself as closely to humans as possible, but at the same time, there are little instances (like this one) throughout the movie that suggest that David has the ability to do more than just “understand” emotions in a factual sense. He’s completely self-aware: he knows that he’s “not a real boy”, as Holloway put it, he knows that he’s a manmade creation, but his emotional decision-making in this scene (and others!) is a serious and strong indicator of his potential to go beyond simply mimicking behaviours and facial expressions.
I’m glad you noticed the cross scene! I consider that the second biggest scene underlining David’s emotional decision-making. I definitely think it was a keepsake, but not in the traditional ‘I’ll have something to remember her by’ sense. After watching Shaw’s dreams and noting the connection between the cross (originally her father’s), her father saying, “That’s what I choose to believe”, and Shaw later repeating the same thing re: the Engineers, I think the cross becomes a representation of free belief that David can’t quite wrap his head around. Shaw places her belief on another shelf beside scientific logic, and she seems to be the only member of the crew to do so. David doesn’t understand the purpose of belief that isn’t supported by logic, especially when such a thing comes from an esteemed scientist like Shaw, but it’s clearly something that she feels strongly about. In the closing scenes, David also can’t understand why Shaw thinks it’s important to know why the Engineers “changed their minds” about the human race—again, it’s part of Shaw’s personal beliefs that he doesn’t get. I think he takes the cross not as a memento of her, but as a memento of her beliefs, of her ability to go beyond reason and logic to instead hope simply because she can hope, and she can believe. In the end, I think it’s something David would like to learn to do, too.
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Tony Stark is my hero because i need a hero who struggles. Not just with criminals, villains or any outside force, but with more of their own demons than they will ever let anyone know.
I need a hero who finds themself again and again face-down in the mud and shattered remnants of their own mistakes but /always/ manages, somehow, to get back up. No matter if someone pushed them there or if they tripped on their own faults, they pick themself back up and /keep going/. Not because they have to, not because the world’s at stake, but just because they’re trying so hard to be /good/.
Tony Stark is my hero because he’s had his trust betrayed so many times, but it hasn’t turned him angry and bitter like too many other characters. Because no matter how deep in the dark he gets, he never stops caring about the world, about /people/.
Because his brain moves at a thousand miles and hour and I know what that’s like, how isolating it can be. Because he’s always wearing some kind of mask or another, because he’s /always had to/ and I know what that’s like, too. Because he carries his own shit on his own shoulders, and built his own superpowers with his mind and his skills and his own two grease-stained hands.
I just fucking love Tony Stark.
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Pepper and Rhodey supporting Tony while he undergoes surgery.
having recently re-watched IM3, I think tony’s characterization in AOU is a fluid continuation of that. I’ve seen a lot of posts criticizing his entire characterization, and I’m not sure why. he built ultron for a good reason--to protect the earth--and with good reason--aliens falling from a hole in the sky isn’t something the earth can protect itself from, otherwise. a “suit of armour around the world” was a good thought. he certainly couldn’t have predicted the whole crazy, evil robot part, but his initial concept was a good one, considering. the prima nocta joke was tactless and poorly handled, and I do think that’s not something tony would say at this point in his life, but i’ve only seen a handful of people point that out singularly rather than complain about his characterization as entirely off-course.
IM3 wasn’t a movie about the mandarin, or about guy pearce looking great in nice suits. it was a movie about tony’s life after the events of the avengers, about how he dealt with them, about how they affected him; we see the sleepless nights, the emergence of anxiety attacks that skip the initial worrisome phase and go straight into a debilitating mental block, and we see--very importantly--the value placed on pepper by him. we see him fail to catch her when she falls, we see him assume the responsibility of her death on top of the fact that aliens blew through a hole in the sky a while before, on top of the fact that he’s already running on no sleep and is suffering from crippling anxiety that he has absolutely no control of. tony in AOU is tony from the ending of IM3, continuing to do what he decided was his ultimate goal: protect the earth, and by doing so, protect “the one thing that [he] can’t live without” (that’s pepper, btw. i’ve noticed that half the mcu fandom conveniently forgets about her relationship with tony. or her existence entirely.). as he said in his last lines, “[he] is Iron Man”. and Iron Man exists to protect the world to the best of his abilities... and tony’s abilities reach pretty far.
added bonus: the end credits scene ft. bruce fast asleep while tony relays his recent life-changing events leads beautifully into bruce’s teamwork with tony in AOU. we can safely assume that while bruce fell asleep for the first narration, tony made him sit through the story all over again. and as the only person on board who truly knows tony’s story and knows what he’s done, why he’s done it, and how it’s changed him as a person (as tony himself said), it’s very understandable why bruce would side with him about making ultron with their original intentions.
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"(...)romance (if not in a traditional sense, then one born of fascination and admiration). she is still his creation, and with that alone, they share a bond unlike anything he could have with a normal person" heck yes. we've talked about victor + monstrous motherhood - he embarked on this whole rebirth quest bc of his mother's death, his concept of love is warped by trauma, and he's already had subtextually incestuous scenes with his previous "sons"... vic is a mess, but a fascinating one.
i’m really excited to see where this season goes in terms of the victor/brona/the creature cycle. and then there’s ethan--he’s going to be pissed when he finds out that brona’s been reborn as a means to end the creature’s loneliness (and I do think he’ll find out! he has to--it’s such a good plot point!)
victor is one of my favourite characters, so i’m glad his arc is getting so much great progress!
widowshulk replied to your post: “is there much of a penny dreadful fanbase on tumblr? i’d love to see...”:
I post a little of it, but I haven't started S2 yet, so I'm slacking. I track the tag 'pennydreadfuledit' and the people you see posting regularly in there are awesome. I'll also be blogging about it more soon because it's an amazing show!
awesome! I look forward to seeing your posts :) any blogs in particular that you’d recommend?