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Spider-Verse hot take
If you ship Gwen and Miles, more power to you, you do you as long as youre not hurting(harassing) anyone
But MAN, it is so disappointing for both the story as a whole and for Gwen’s character that she “falls in love” with the first guy she befriends after swearing off friends ://
If you feel otherwise, more power to you! And with all due respect I don’t wanna hear about it! I came to tumblr to indulge further into my special interest for comfort, not to debate my feelings + opinions on it. I’m here for an echo-chamber that I can vent my feelings about these movies into and meet like-minded people! If you’re not like minded, again, all the power to you! Please just scroll and have a nice day💞
With that disclaimer out of the way, under the keep reading is where I expand upon the previous take.
ITSV sets them up as friends and presents wonderful heartfelt themes about love for friends, family, and especially for father figures. And ATSV continues that! But then also adds in a forced romance? And I mean this so respectfully because I hate arguing with people, but if I see one more person call them a “well written slow burn” (they always call it specifically that) I am going to LOSE MY MIND
Gwen does Miles SO inexplicably dirty in ways that she absolutely did not/had the ability not to! Ignoring her position/pressure in the Spider-Society!
“The creators always say how the romance between them is the heart of the story!!”
Well sorry but I really feel like they did that poorly. Apparently in ITSV they had four hours on the bus to talk and get to know each other? Would have been cool if that was expanded upon even a little! Or shown slightly more than it was cause I truly had no idea!
“Spider-Verse is about fixing the past mistakes of Spider-Man movies!”
Okay, could they have done that without doing the romance so poorly? Again, I wanna really like Gwen as much as other people do and just feel normal but I cannot get over how instantly it feels she goes from “I don’t do friends, but maybe now I do because of Miles!” to “I am deeply in love with Miles and am willing to risk so many things to see him” from what we’re shown. We’re not shown enough! And it makes me so mad! We deserve better!
If Gwen had fallen for a girl, I could forgive all of that because same lol, but nah, they can’t do that 🫠🫠
Serious little add on, I am so sick of being told “get back to me when you’ve been through x, y, z,” as a response to critiquing a fictional character on the internet.
You do not know me and you do not know what I have been through, and I feel that is such an incredibly rude internet norm. Idk, I might just be cranky and sleep deprived :/
“yeah i just feel the way gwen was towards miles wasnt okay-”
“WHAT IF YOUR MOM WAS DEAD AND YOUR BEST FRIEND WAS DEAD AND YOUR DAD POINTED A GUN IN YOUR FACE AND EVERYONE HATED YOU AND YOU WERE JUST A GIRL, GET BACK TO ME WHEN YOU’VE GONE THROUGH ALL OF THAT”