This has been bothering me enough to make an account and ask about this but how does Reed get clowned on for being "stupid" in MoM despite making the objectively correct choices from his position.
For starters Reed is a talker not a fighter, I thought it was clear his comment about Black bolt was a warning to Wanda that they have the power to beat her if she wants to fight. He wanted to resolve it peacefully. Secondly Wanda is also using the body of her 838 counterpart so opening with Bolts finishing move would really only kill the presumably innocent 838 Wanda and leave the actual threat unharmed. Third and most important is that Reed is smart but not omniscient, Wanda had literally never done anything like that before up until this point, and even if she had then its black bolts fault for slipping up and letting a sound out.
There is plenty to criticize in this movie but I will just never understand how this gets brought up so often when it takes about 5 seconds of thinking about it to explain it. #video #movies