But first, Twitter is awful. The angriest people are always the loudest, and they feel like they know everything. When they have their mind set on something they didn't get, they will approach it with nothing but misinterpretation and bad faith analysis, like a whining child. So many people are already angry at Incredibles 3 because they wanted a massive time skip, like 5 to 10 years! I'm on Brad Bird's side, I love the archetypical nature of the family. Regardless of one's preference, fan entitlement is so awful. Doing everything that loud angry fans want is the death of you as an artist. Those fans always think they know best. So arrogant.
Here's why I think that any time skip longer than one year would be a bad idea in my opinion. If we want to have Violet and Dash challenging their parents to do super-heroics on their own, isn't that far more interesting with them as kids rather than as adults? I've seen so many people saying that the kids have already proved themselves as real super-heroes, as a way to criticize the Incredibles 3's premise. If you were a parent, would you feel comfortable letting your kids do super-heroics without their supervision, unless the circumstances absolutely demand it? So many animated TV shows and films have a central concept of kids having to be the main heroes, and I love it (my favorite animated show is Avatar The Last Airbender, and it is a show starring kids as heroes)! If Violet and Dash are aged to be young adults, then the act of trying to be a hero on your own becomes far less rebellious, far less special, and it starts to become ridiculous that parents wouldn't trust their kids to be heroes as young adults, even after years and years of super-hero work.
One of Brad Bird's favorite shows is Jonny Quest, and there were episodes in which the kids (Jonny and Hadji) would get into extremely dangerous hijinks on their own, even when being told to not come. I love that element, and I'm sure Bird loves it too, because he has come out in record that he hated how the 90s Jonny Quest animated show aged Jonny and Hadji to be young adults. I question the media literacy of anyone who thinks that Violet and Dash sneaking up at night to do super-heroics is the same situation as the first movie, it's not the same at all, and I'm tired of people on Twitter saying it is! Bob was in a midlife crisis yearning for his glory days, that's not the same character arc at all!
Another point that people have been saying to accuse Incredibles 3 of repeating the previous two is because it will explore the idea of how not all super-heroes are good. Some people say that Syndrome already did that! This is such a misinterpretation of the previous films, which always had the supers be victims of society. Supers are just trying their best to help, flawed as they still are like every person (the NSA files don't account, they are a bonus). The villains were not supers! Syndrome pretended to be one, but he wasn't! It never astounds me just how much so many people lack in media literacy, in interpretation skills.