Spoiler Thread: Avengers Infinity War

A few days removed and while I still enjoyed the heck out of it, the ending still seems like a really bonehead move.

Even if you turn off the "MCU in the media" part of your brain that immediately tells you they can't kill off Black Panther IN THE VERY NEXT MCU MOVIE, or that there is a Spidey 2 already slated, and even if its just your generic, 'nobody ever really dies in the comics' brain kicking in, this was so over the top that there is no room to even give yourself the moment of grief they (I suppose?) wanted from such high profile deaths, because your brain immediately flips from "OH NO!" to "Huh.... I wonder how all this gets undone."

I actually thought they might kill Tony Stark there, for real. That would have had me going... a little bit like killing Ned Stark in the first book/season versus the Jon Snow 'dying'... one of them smacks you in the face and the other just starts you wondering about the internal logic of the story..

It totally negates the emotional impact of the story.

IMO.