True Conversations

So, even though I've seen the Iron Man movie three, yes, three times (in theaters), I decided to pick up the novel adaptation by Peter David. Yes, it was based off an early version of the screen play, so it's got a lot of the same things as in the movie, but there is a whole lot more in it that was either written out of the final draft of the movie or writer's interpretation. So far, probably my favorite "new" scene (ie, not in the movie) is one where, while on a flight to Afghanistan Tony tells a drunken Rhodey that he should talk to the pilot. And then we get this:

For a split second, he thought they were in trouble.

There were no pilots in the cockpit. Instead there were two empty pilot chairs.

In his inebriated haze, he flashed back to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, thinking that the pilots had bailed out, leaving them to crash to their deaths. My God, who's going to fly the plane! Rhodey wondered before belatedly realizing that the obvious answer was: He would. He was a freaking pilot.

Turns out the plane is being flown by robots (of course), but still, I thought that was amusing.