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    29 days ago

    I agree with your point, but the lack of

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    dead fake space squid

    was still a silly, unnecessary and confusing change. It completely lost the critical “look out, they are coming for you from space” aspect, which is the only way his plan might have worked.

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      229 days ago

      Say those words in the spoiler out loud, and you’ll see how silly and ridiculous the concept was, especially to modern audiences.

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        29 days ago

        I agree. But comics are weird. (And comics movies need to risk being equally weird, to be good.)

        If they had to replace it, I think they still should have picked a replacement that actually still somehow implied

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        an extra terrestrial threat to humanity.