[quote=@Fabricant451]
A movie doesn't have to kill characters to up stakes or tension.

Maverick is far and away the best theater experience I've had in recent times and Tom Cruise is saving cinema once again what a crazy motherfucker. It's not the best movie I've seen this year (but it's a solid third), that honor goes to Everything Everywhere All At Once.
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[i]My mixed feelings about Everything Everywhere All At Once aside.[/i]

I do agree that killing off any of the characters, probably wouldn't have fit what the movie was going for. But it easily could've been a little less predictable in places. (The last 'protags saved at the last minute scene' was one flashback away from being a Shonen anime.)
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My boredom (and youtube's shitty search algorithm when I was looking up music) made me watch "Origin". (Another bad "The Thing" knock off.) [i]Which is another TV series that IMDB has scored way too generously.[/i]

[i]But I'm still holding out hope that this seasonal anime will have [b]something[/b] worth watching.[/i]