Posted by "The Swingset Scene" at user27.net767.nc.sprint-hsd.net on July 17, 2003 at 10:58:15:
In Reply to: wow holy last month (spoilers) posted by Trent Reno on July 17, 2003 at 10:35:50:
I am not trying to argue, I just still don't get it. But, I don't read comics, and I don't know all the backstories and stuff, so forgive me.
: : Why did Jean Grey have to die?
: --She didn't, she became Phoenix ala the comic books.
-Right, I figured the ending implied a transformation. But, still everybody seemed to think that she had actually died. "Jean Grey" that is.
: Couldn't storm have frozen the lake, or at least built an ice dam around them? Iceman or whoever else that was should have been able to do the same thing. In the mansion he just busts out this wall of ice that seperates Wolverine from Stryker, so why couldn't he do it at the end?
: --Remember how long it took Iceman to build that wall?
-No, not really, I remember it being quick enough for wolverine to be surprised by it...
How hard he was focusing? He wouldn't have been able to freeze all that water so fast. Storm too, probably.
-Wouldn't have even had to have been all of it. Just a patch around the dam would do the trick. Or an ice wedge to divert the water... the list goes on. They could have teamed up even.
: Hell, they could have frozen the whole thing around them, and had storm heat up the area around them and they could have tunneled out.
: --The movie X-Men all use focus to use their powers accuretly, which means acting quick could be more dangerous than good.
-The ice thing would have been directed away from them, so no problem there, and the tunneling could have been done leisurely.
: : And, if the ending is indicating some sort of a trasformation by jean into another form, I still have a problem with her dying. Because, if death was neccesary, couldn't she have died trying to capture magneto or something more worthwile?
: --Dying for the team wasn't worthwhile?
-No, see, I am thinking her death could have been avoided, and IF she had to die to transform into the phoenix, she could have done it at a better time for the team.