I've gone to see this four times now because I've basically lost my mind over it. (I was a hardcore nutball X-Men fan all through the early-mid 90's and my husband always has been forever so it was kind of a holy grail type movie for me but I didn't expect to like it THIS MUCH.)
Anyhow, I love your thoughts on it. On the first viewing, I was like JFC Charles, you need to deal with him killing Shaw, just deal. On the SECOND viewing, I was like oh. Wait. My read on that scene is that he isn't really objecting to killing Shaw as much as he's kind of in Shaw when the coin kills him, so the experience of living through this guy's brutal death (at Erik's hands) is a mindfuck Charles wasn't keen on signing up for.
though Charles actually trying to stop him from exploding said fleet by using that old “just following orders” chestnut had me wondering when exactly during the battle he hit his head
Which leads me to think that after Shaw, Charles is just massively off his game anyway. He wanders out of the sub and is very blank and already seems so defeated (obviously the helmet issue is a huge issue at that point) and while it doesn't excuse his huge argument!fail, I think it explains it a little. He's basically having the worst day ever and Erik is very much lost in and caught up in his own momentum.
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Anyhow, I love your thoughts on it. On the first viewing, I was like JFC Charles, you need to deal with him killing Shaw, just deal. On the SECOND viewing, I was like oh. Wait. My read on that scene is that he isn't really objecting to killing Shaw as much as he's kind of in Shaw when the coin kills him, so the experience of living through this guy's brutal death (at Erik's hands) is a mindfuck Charles wasn't keen on signing up for.
though Charles actually trying to stop him from exploding said fleet by using that old “just following orders” chestnut had me wondering when exactly during the battle he hit his head
Which leads me to think that after Shaw, Charles is just massively off his game anyway. He wanders out of the sub and is very blank and already seems so defeated (obviously the helmet issue is a huge issue at that point) and while it doesn't excuse his huge argument!fail, I think it explains it a little. He's basically having the worst day ever and Erik is very much lost in and caught up in his own momentum.
That was my take anyway. Ha.