HOT TAKE BUTβ¦.
Anyone else think that the inclusion of silver low-key made Red a bit (a lot) dumber in the second movie?
Like yeah, that girl is a genius and sheβs obviously much much more methodical than Red, who in the second movie, really made shit up on the fly to go and save his eggs because of the plot.
But uhhh.. youβre telling me that homeboyβs ENTIRE plan to break into a frigid technology EMPIREβ¦ that can both create and launch ICE BALLS about the size of Marsβ moonsβ¦. Was to just go in, beat the weapon, and get out..?? (Word by word btw. Nothing more than that I swear to god)
Like.. I can make up a lot of excuses for him: maybe he really did just make it up on the fly in a rush just to have something to say and pretend heβs leading, which led to him not relying on his teammates for more information (Iβm hinting at Leonard here, whoβs technology can fly back and forth from eagle island, but then again, beef, I get it). It makes a looootta sense that way if I just make up stuff to cope with the second hand embarrassment..
BUT THEN SILVER COMES IN, and states all these really pretty freaking important questions that literally anyone else on the team couldβve come up with.
Mind you, this is a mission to save not one, but TWO islands worth of civilians. I actually made a blurb in some poor soulβs YouTube comment section, but one of the things I state is:
I get it, he's (Redβs) under pressure with the survival of his island and his own insecurity that if he doesn't prove that he can be their hero, he'll be kicked to the curb and be alone again (WHICH THE ISLAND CONSTANTLY AGREES WITH) but wow. Every morsel of common sense had genuinely feathered out of his noggin compared to Silver.
TO be fair, she is a methodological super genius and Red does many things on the fly in the first movie, but if you were to take first-movie Red into the team's place with someone else like Leonard stating a very simple plan (get inside, destroy weapon, escape), he would ALSO be calling bullshit and tell him that EVERYONE'S in DANGER and they needed something that'd have a better success rate!
In the first movie, Red can also state some really basic yet insightful questions like how he did in the scene where the management group is out painting while the pigs are touring and Red points out how suspicious their ongoing actions are compared to their words.
Yeah, his suspensions were heavily biased because of the fact the pigs destroyed his house, but he does make a points that arenβt just βif you good, why no fix my houseβ. He doesnβt just take face value information and synthesis any plans or problems with that basic information, heβs capable of expanding and thinking of other facets of a situation!
Like Silver!
In order to make plans, you need to solve step by step questions: mode of transportation? what do we know already? what do we have available? And Red in the second movie canβt even do THAT.
This is just one out of a handful of examples Silver really makes Red look and feel stupid, but itβs my best example. Love Silver, but the connection between her character and the sudden drop of intelligence stats left in Red was distracting, actually.
Conclusion: Redβs clearly missing some common sense in his character (previously shown in the first movie) and Silver reeeeally highlights that. Her character also pretty much fills in that part of his personality for him.. even though he shouldnβt be missing it imo
