I completely see your points! I just saw Far From Home for the second time today, and I was kinda keeping this post in the back of my mind. :-)
Apparently the Ned/Betty thing was a nod to the comics... I don't know if that helps or just makes it more awkward, lol. I mostly viewed that relationship as a way to keep Ned busy considering there wasn't as much for him to do in this one.
And I have Questions about the drones beyond what you mentioned, like: if they're able to do such damage, why weren't they pulled out for the battle against Thanos? Or, if they weren't originally intended to be weaponized (not sure that's even possible, given that they were already up in space...), what was their point in the first place? I get that Tony has been paranoid in the extreme about trying to keep the Earth safe (and then there was Ultron, oops), but the (absent) backstory of the drones just doesn't compute for me.
It's absolutely a fun movie and I enjoyed this take on Tony's not-so-positive legacy, but the more I sit with it, the more I notice the holes. XD And alas that Peter didn't just look at Beck while the glasses were active--there's no way Edith wouldn't have had info on him that would've blown the whole charade.
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Apparently the Ned/Betty thing was a nod to the comics... I don't know if that helps or just makes it more awkward, lol. I mostly viewed that relationship as a way to keep Ned busy considering there wasn't as much for him to do in this one.
And I have Questions about the drones beyond what you mentioned, like: if they're able to do such damage, why weren't they pulled out for the battle against Thanos? Or, if they weren't originally intended to be weaponized (not sure that's even possible, given that they were already up in space...), what was their point in the first place? I get that Tony has been paranoid in the extreme about trying to keep the Earth safe (and then there was Ultron, oops), but the (absent) backstory of the drones just doesn't compute for me.
It's absolutely a fun movie and I enjoyed this take on Tony's not-so-positive legacy, but the more I sit with it, the more I notice the holes. XD And alas that Peter didn't just look at Beck while the glasses were active--there's no way Edith wouldn't have had info on him that would've blown the whole charade.