are loved

deserve to eat

are needed & valued

should take care of yourself

have a future

Maybe that one’s worth dying for.

“Enough! You speak of the king!”

These are not the words of Gwaine: they’re the words of unnamed background knight #4. It would’ve been more fitting and respectful to give these lines to Leon, a man who is functionally Gwaine’s polar opposite foil.

Anyone who knows anything about Gwaine knows this: Gwaine would never use “this person is a noble” as a reason for someone to respect said noble. Gwaine respects Arthur despite the fact that he is a noble, not because of it. Gwaine famously hates nobles by default and only makes exceptions for Arthur, Gwen, and maybe Leon (lol). In fact, the quote in this set, “Maybe that one’s worth dying for,” fully contradicts Gwaine’s 5x05 line.

It’s no coincidence that this mischaracterization comes at a time when Gwaine’s presence is not only granted less significance by the narrative (i.e. the fact that Gwaine, a non-believer type, respects Arthur to any degree is taken for granted), and when Gwaine’s character has been dimmed down to something just short of comic relief with only surface level critical thinking abilities. He interrupts a tense moment by apparently being incapable of any seriousness, until they need him to be angry and a skilled attacker. It’s only in private scenes between him and Merlin that he recovers any depth.

The Gwaine we were introduced to in s3 is a troubled young man who cares deeply about any perceived injustice and takes notice of the overlooked. He has fun, he has his reckless alcoholic persona that he wears like a mask, but he is a serious man who stands for and shows dignity in the presence of Arthur and Uther. In fact, in 3x08 it’s Merlin who ends up deflecting Gwaine’s intensity with a joke.

The inconsistencies don’t end with the characterization. The knights never saw Dragoon in the first place, so they wouldn’t know what he looks like. There would be no reason for a group of knights like this to menacingly apprehend a random old man in the woods (not shown in the gifset). Given the kindness they’ve shown to others, you would expect them to offer him a hand with no evidence to confirm any suspicions. The lead-up to this moment has very little basis and only succeeds in making the knights look cruel. (Maybe it is cruel to be a knight.)

Because while Eridians are incredibly strong and tough on the outside, on the inside they are actually quite fragile:

They have no immune system, so anything that makes it past their enclosed carapace and internal heating will pretty much kill them

They have no natural defenses to radiation of any kind

In general they have very little organic matter so anything that targets their cells directly is quickly lethal

They are partially cold-blooded and live at a very narrow temperature range (about 20 degrees C)

They rely almost entirely on one, highly developed sense and are helpless if deafened (can't even remember the layout of a room)

They are completely helpless while asleep and can't control when that happens

They will forcibly become dormant after eating AND when badly hurt enough (their equivalent of going into shock)

They require more energy to function than humans do, and have very little organic matter to burn in the case of starvation

In contrast, humans:

Have an aggressive immune system and internal mechanisms for dealing with cell damage

Have adrenaline which allows them to temporarily ignore injuries and perform abnormal feats of strength

Are persistence hunters built for economy of movement and capable of extreme levels of endurance

Exist in a very wide range of habitats and on a diverse diet

Are very hardy in general, able to survive massive injuries, lack of sleep, prolonged starvation, and intense environmental conditions if given proper care

The quintessential example of this dichotomy between strength and endurance is the Going Fishing incident in the book: Rocky is able to survive and move in G forces that are killing Grace and to physically wrestle off the chair crushing him, but he collapses from his injuries almost immediately after. Despite being injured himself Grace then carries his 400lb friend up a ladder, is badly burned returning him to his atmosphere, and then proceeds to get some basic medical care, hype himself up on pain meds and keep working (albeit rather badly, lol) while Rocky forcibly sleeps.

Holland said this allowed him to “lay down the law” on the “Spider-Man” set “and say, ‘We are not going to come to set and figure it out. We need to know why we are making this movie beyond the fact that it’s ‘Spider-Man 4’ and they make loads of money and we’re going to just have a big summer. Why are we making this movie?’ And Destin was super instrumental in that, but it was just really great to constantly be calling up the studio and [producers] Amy [Pascal] and Rachel [O’Connor], who I love, and be like, ‘Well, Chris is doing it this way. This is how I think we should be doing it.’ ”

Apparently Sony allowed Holland to postpone Spider-Man production due to how reliable Christopher Nolan is to actually wrapping up on time. Holland said this ended up beneficial because it allowed them to hire Destin Daniel Cretton (director of Shang-Chi) and give him a proper six months for further script development.

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