@mZuzek:
I mean to say in the sense of she doing anything remotely worthwhile during fights. She participates in the intro combat and kills the monster, but afterward she gets relegated to not really doing anything - save fighting her sister, and realizing what Nebula was feeling -, to not doing anything at all in the final combat. Not dissin' her for this, as it's nice she got her whole arc together, but it really feels there was more she could have done in this sense, yet she kept being relegated to be on the ship. And yeah, I meant to say Kraglin, dunno why I thought of Broker. xD
I guess that's really how they did it. But it's also what I'm thankful of; the fact that they chose to actually give organic interactions to every single character, no matter how joke-ish (like Yonda) or insignificant (like Kraglin himself) where in the previous movie, and the same applies to everyone else. I think what I really liked (due to that fact) is that there were legit moments of levity in this movie, which is something I truly appreciate. That moment when Mantis feels Drax's sadness without the need of words. Yonda and Racoon saying goodbye to each other. Quill talking about music to Ego. Gamora and Nebula hugging it out. I can't honestly remember any sequence like this in the original that wasn't inmediately "tainted" with cheap humor or something dumb (quick rant, I fucking hate how there's this sequence where the whole team is in Ego's planet with the omnious music but they had to ruin it with the cheap "Mantis gets punched with some boulder and Drax acts like a retard"). Or that scene where Quill just thinks back to his interactions with Drax, Groot, Gamora, Racoon and Yonda. This was really surprising and I wasn't really expecting the movie to take such daunting direction, particulary for how goofy the movie starts.
