Wednesday, May 24, 2023

It's Time for Mia to Leave the Fast & Furious Franchise

Jordana Brewster's Mia Toretto is a urgent figure in the Quick and Enraged establishment. As one of a handful of the characters from the 2001 unique film who actually shows up in the most recent portions watchers have seen her develop and foster throughout over 20 years, she is a sign of how far the establishment has come. However, her appearance in Fast X sadly demonstrates that the character needs to be written out of the series for the sake of both her story and the story of her partner, the late Brian O'Conner, played by Paul Walker.


In The Quick and the Irate Mia is the primary individual from the Toretto tracked down family to meet Brian, who makes himself a customary at the supermarket the family runs. As he charms himself to the remainder of the family he and Mia start a close connection. This prompts her being grief stricken when Brian uncovers that he is a secret cop examining to see whether Mia's sibling Dom (Vin Diesel) and his group were liable for a line of trying interstate burglaries, which they were.

Mia had the option to set her put in an awful mood to the side, nonetheless, and work with Brian to protect Dom and company when their most recent heist imperiled their lives. When they reunited in 2009's Fast and Furious, she revealed that she had been enraged with Brian for five years. In that film Dom and Brian are compelled to cooperate to bring down a medication cartel they accept is liable for the demise of Dom's sweetheart Leticia "Letty" Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez). As Brian works with Dom Mia starts to pardon him and ultimately the pair continue their relationship.

In 2011's Quick Five, while on the pursue liberating Dom from detainment, Mia uncovers that she is pregnant and she brings forth her and Brian's child Jack in 2013's Angry 6. She discovers she is pregnant once more in the 2015 film Furious 7, but she is hesitant to tell Brian because she is concerned that he will become disenchanted with their family and begin to miss his adventurous outlaw lifestyle. She eventually tells him that she is expecting a girl because she is worried that the team's mission to kill Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) could end in Brian's death. Brian is thrilled to hear the news and affirms that he is more than content with his existence with Mia. In a moving and lauded tribute to Walker, who passed away before the film was finished, Brian retires from the outlaw lifestyle to devote himself to fatherhood.

While it was to some degree lamentable that Brian's farewell basically worked Mia out of the series too, doing so was the most regular and viable method for giving the characters a blissful completion following Walker's passing. Letty, who was shown to be alive in Furious 6, noted that the group had agreed not to involve them in further missions. The group kept to this agreement, even when Dom's apparent betrayal put them at a startling disadvantage. Both characters were completely absent from 2017's The Fate of the Furious. In F9: The Quick Adventure Letty went against herself and contacted Mia to assist manage the group's ongoing emergency. Because Dom and Mia's estranged brother Jakob (John Cena) was the film's antagonist, this raised some concerns regarding why Brian would not get involved. That being the case it was simple for the watcher to acknowledge that Mia wanted to include just herself, apparently passing on Brian to watch the children.


In Fast X, Mia plays a much more awkward role. When Mia is called in to watch Dom's son Brian Marcos (Leo Abelo Perry) as Dom and Letty leave to fight Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), Brewster only has a glorified cameo. Mia and her son Brian are playing video games when Dante's mercenaries attack them. When a reformed Jakob comes to the aid of Mia and Brian, she and Brian fight off some of the men but are eventually about to be overwhelmed. After that, Mia tells Jakob that she will check on Brian O'Conner and their children and leaves her nephew in his care. As young Brian could have been given to Jakob as soon as Dom and company learned about Dante's threat, Mia's role neither contributes to the plot in any meaningful way nor develops her character.

Furthermore, the reference to Brian O'Conner features the distinction between the movies' progression and reality in an awkward manner. Given the threat Dante poses to the rest of Brian's found family, it is out of character for Brian to not get involved in the fight against him, despite his desire to leave the life of an outlaw. It is much more grievous to see Mia in peril when her accomplice is evidently protected offscreen some place. The majority of viewers, or at least adolescents and adults, are probably aware of Walker's death, which explains why Brian can't help. However, this relies on knowledge from behind the scenes, which reduces immersion in the story's world.

To keep away from this sort of awkward interruption, it is tragically best that future movies do exclude Mia's personality, excepting maybe another rebound in anything the establishment's genuine last portion is. Without constantly being reminded of the real-life tragedy that prevents Brian from appearing in the new films, viewers can revert to imagining that she is secure and content with Brian.

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