last night I “accidentally” went off on twitter after I saw a bunch of Peter Quill hate and I’m too lazy to retype all this for here but I want you to see it and how right I am
You know, I admit that I was kinda annoyed at Quill right when I first saw IW. But after having some time to think about it ... and also rewatching Guardians 2, I feel a lot more sympathetic towards him. Because it’s not only that the woman he loves is dead. The exact situation is a HUGE trigger for him. It has not been that long since he found out that his father killed his mother because he “had to.” Because she was the only one standing in the way of his - oh hey - literally universe destroying ambitions. And now Thanos is claiming almost the exact same thing. That a) Gamora is the only person he loved in the entire universe and b) that for that reason she had to die.
He has spent literal decades unable to let go of his mom’s death, only to find out that the truth is even worse than he thought. That she really didn’t have to die at all. That she was taken from him on purpose by someone who claimed to love her. Like ... I super cannot blame him for losing his shit, given the givens.