Diana's thinking when facing Ares (spoiler)

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Doesn't matter that it wasn't to defeat him. He destroyed the sword rather than let her use it against him. She should have expected him to do the same to the lasso. She thought he lied. She obviously also thought he wouldn't tell the truth unless compelled. There was literally no reason for her to expect the lasso to work better than the sword. This isn't about facts, it's about what she knew and what she believed at the time.

Not worth devoting a thread? Are we paying by the thread here? Can there be only a finite number of threads?


You want to do this dance again? Your whole argument boils down to "Judge Chin and Wells/Marlow/Exponent (paid by Goodell) say so!"
Nevermind that the footballs were the right pressure according to every scientist not paid by Goodell.
Nevermind that McNally only called himself the deflator once, in the middle of the off-season, during a conversation that had nothing to do with football.
Nevermind that Brady knew how to get an equipment rule changed because he had done so already.
Nevermind that Brady was fine with footballs being 13psig his entire career and only had a problem when the refs inflated balls to 16 in October, 2014.
Nevermind how implausible it is that Brady would want footballs hastily deflated to imprecise levels in a cramped bathroom rather than all be the same.



Oh, and you still haven't addressed anything I've said about Ultron killing Strucker. Did you think deflecting a WW topic to Brady would make me forget about that?

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You are ignoring that this is not about what is and is not true, but what she believed at the time.
She thought the sword was magic.
He destroyed it and implied the sword was not magic.
She called him a liar and used the lasso - meaning she still believed the sword was magic.

seahawksraawk00 don't get too into it with DC-Fan . By saying deflategate is a load of crap, he'll now act 100% convinced you are a lifelong Patriots/Brady fan. He'll tell you the only scientific opinions that matter are those belonging to people hired by Goodell - the ex-Jets employee that had had a shitty year (Ray Rice/Adrian Peterson) and needed someone on which to drop the hammer.

Because she believed the sword was magic, and learned that he can destroy a magic weapon.
That means she should have expected him to be able to destroy the lasso as well.

Exactly. It was just a poorly written part. It's not like she defeated him with the lasso. It didn't seem like he wanted to lie anyway. Did the lasso actually compel him or did he just say what he wanted to say?

Why not use it? Well it could have gone that; she tried to use the lasso, he broke it, she defeated him anyway, then no longer had a lasso to use on others.
Or it could have gone that; she decided trying to use the lasso would be useless, why risk him destroying it, defeat him anyway, have lasso for later.
But of course it worked out the way it did because it was written like that...

Know what's funny? The Lasso of Truth was created by one of the guys (William Moulton Marston) who invented the lie detector. Well, he invented a component.
The guy who took that a step further, John Larson, and invented the modern polygraph has called it "Frankenstein's monster" and basically said that it's bullshit.