Glass Rebel
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I've seen people complain about the Pete/Gamora romance and I feel I read thos scenes completely different. All their scenes together were Gunn toying with audience expectations. When Gamora talks to Pete in the woods and you think it's gonna be this emotional moment between the two of them, they drop that ridiculous story about Zardar Hasselfrau and Gomora tells him that they'll just kill Ego if he's fake. The "deepest darkest secret" bit is just a fun way to show Mantis' powers and is never really picked up again.
But the most interesting bit is the "unspoken" scene that starts off with them dancing as a call back to the first one. We see that their relationship has somewhat improved over the first and then you get that metacommentary about romances in media. It's almost like Gunn is acknowledging that there's an expectation there for two leads to get together but you can't deliver on that expectation because the tension between two fictional characters is more interesting than any potential relationship could be. I feel that this could have been way more effective if Pratt and Saldana had more on-screen chemistry but I like the idea.
