I remember a reporter some years back saying he was a very difficult interview; because he’s just too damn charming. Sounds terrible 
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Really? 1996? WTF?
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Melz: I only wish I was kidding.
Narrator: She wasn’t.
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Racism is a hell of a drug…
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Could’ve done with some Sidney Poitier, Omar Sharif…
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I am straight as an arrow, but DAMN!! That is one very beautiful man!
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(Not replying to Melz because she seems very much annoyed, I don’t want to push it. Sorry, could have shut my cakehole. But now I feel I need to specify since you asked.)
Maybe that was an overstatement.
I just re-read the plot and tried to remember what I can recall from the film. The description sounds worse than what I remembered.
When I think about a situation which singles out some who don’t have “sufficient resources” to have children, I immediately think about eugenics on the one hand - in the form of death camps, to be precise - and about massive conflicts between rich and poor regions of the world.
I basically fear a world which looks like if the Nazis won, and the war against the poor is very open, very physical and total.
My question was taking the second step before the first. I could have asked Melz what kind of resources were meant, and how to define sufficient (and by whom).
And “voluntary” I sadly trust as far as I can throw a bird’s down.
My post was of course assuming too much. I know and have even seen people try to raise children under conditions which were insufficient even by low standards, and maybe also that somehow got in the way of making a more appropriate contribution.
Let’s not go down that road any further, this is a MCU topic. Not more.
I saw a thingy the other day asking people what their hated (or least liked) science fiction tropes were. I don’t think any had mine. (This gets relevant, trust me.)
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Body swapping. Overdone, and done badly. I think the best one I ever saw was Farscape.
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The day repeating itself over and over again.
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Most time travel. Especially if it means the entire movie (or show) you just watched was negated by the time travel. The Prince of Persia movie did that and it was annoying. It was bad for a whole host of reasons, though.
So if it is a thing where it is all undone because of time travel, it’s going to suck.
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Be prepared for another over done and widely panned trope in Avengers 4. There was secretly an alien in disguise manipulating things for their own nefarious purposes.
I guarantee one of the post credits scenes if even the only post credit scene for Avengers EG will be someone major being shown to be a Skrull.
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I was annoyed, because you automatically just assumed that I meant freakin’ eugenics over individual conscious control of one’s own biology.
I would never trust any human institution or system of governance to determine optimal timing/resources that are essential for successful reproduction and child rearing.
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