Meep wrote:I mean, I can sort of understand why they were not expecting to lose. After all the Avengers and the Guardians had no end of opportunities to stop Thanos and somehow managed to screw up every single one either due to bad decisions and lack of discipline. That's kind of my major gripe with Infinity. I understand that they wanted it to look like a close call as to who would win but in the end it just made the heroes look like morons who continually fumbled opportunities and made irrational decisions (like Wanda risking half of the whole universe for the sake of one man and Strange just handing over the time stone knowing that it's power basically granted his enemy unlimited attempts at getting the remaining stone).
I can see why these would be issues for you, personally they weren't because they were consistent with how the characters had been portrayed in previous films. Quill for example has often been someone who has done reckless things when fueled by emotion so it makes sense he'd do what he did considering how much he cares about Gamora.
It's a big part of why I think the characters resonate with so many people, that despite all the powers and abilities they have available, they're mostly pretty flawed people.