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Originally Posted by GGG
Well it was a commercial decision in the comic book universe as well. It goes with the genre, it just makes for less compelling deaths when the stakes are lower. The resolution of all three Infinity Guanlet/War/Crusade comics weren't great storytelling and were the basis for my fears going into this one. I'm hoping the time stone isn't used as that cop out needs to be used carefully.
I don't want to be negative here though as I was impressed with what they pulled off over the 10 years.
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I don’t think it was a commercial decision in the comic either. You can’t just permanently kill half the universe. It’s not a realistic plot development.
But if you can use it as a plot motivation, with the audience knowing full well the story revolves around getting those billions of people back and preventing their deaths from becoming permanent, then I think it works well.
That’s what is important here. This isn’t a fake out death, or billions of deaths. If everyone knows they aren’t really dead then the story becomes about saving the “dead”. This is just way better than seeing them all getting sucked into the soul stone, which would’ve been lame, but for all intents and purposes we all know those people are just captives not dead. What’s important is that our heroes don’t know that, except maybe Dr Strange but he’s dead too so he can’t tell anyone.