Random MCU Thoughts...
Apr. 11th, 2019 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boogiewoogiebuglegalWe are two weeks and counting until Endgame (which is coming out near my 16th wedding anniversary. So...um...yeah, Marvel? Don't kill my fave off, okay? Please?)
And with all the pre-movie publicity comes the usual fandom wank. Here's some of mine:
1) Velvet pants are fine. They're especially fine for petting. No arguments there. :D
2) Everybody has an interrupted character arc. Some more than others (*cough* Tony *cough*) in which their characters should have been allowed to grow and mature but instead were felled by sloppy writing or a simple lack of continuity. Acknowledging that doesn't mean you hate the character. (Though..um, I'm gonna confess right now that the "billionaire playboy" trope really hasn't aged well. At all. Neither has the sexism or misogyny. Don't @ me.)
3) In a different universe, we're all probably talking about how we finally got to meet Sarah Rogers---clearly a huge influence on her son--and what a wonderful end to the Captain America trilogy Cap 3 was. That universe is not this one. IOW, I'm going to continue to remain grumpy about CACW.
4) Captain America/Steve Rogers in all his MCU incarnations is and always will be one of my favorite fictional characters. Full stop.
And with all the pre-movie publicity comes the usual fandom wank. Here's some of mine:
1) Velvet pants are fine. They're especially fine for petting. No arguments there. :D
2) Everybody has an interrupted character arc. Some more than others (*cough* Tony *cough*) in which their characters should have been allowed to grow and mature but instead were felled by sloppy writing or a simple lack of continuity. Acknowledging that doesn't mean you hate the character. (Though..um, I'm gonna confess right now that the "billionaire playboy" trope really hasn't aged well. At all. Neither has the sexism or misogyny. Don't @ me.)
3) In a different universe, we're all probably talking about how we finally got to meet Sarah Rogers---clearly a huge influence on her son--and what a wonderful end to the Captain America trilogy Cap 3 was. That universe is not this one. IOW, I'm going to continue to remain grumpy about CACW.
4) Captain America/Steve Rogers in all his MCU incarnations is and always will be one of my favorite fictional characters. Full stop.
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Date: 2019-04-12 03:57 pm (UTC)Agree agree agree. Man, they could have done so much better by Tony. I hate that they felt like they had to use him as an antagonist in every single movie he's in (even the one's where he's the protagonist!). Tony Stark in the comics grew up, got sober, and quit being such an ass so there's no reason MCU can't do it, too.
CACW was not a Captain America movie. It was an Avengers movie. Period. And it was stupid. Every time the Avengers start to work together, the writers throw an artificial wrench in the works. I would have enjoyed the movie much more if they had stuck to Bucky being framed and all of the Avengers on Steve's side trying to clear him, save him from the implanted trigger words, etc. It wouldn't have even taken a lot to improve this movie so much. Ugh. But I'll save it for my own rewatch. ;)
Steve is just a good person. Any flaws that he has stem from loyalty, love, and overdeveloped sense of honor and justice. And if that makes him a bad guy then I'll take the bad guy's side every time.
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Date: 2019-04-13 03:04 am (UTC)There are bits and bobs of CACW I like, but it was so messy and on repeated viewings, gets more and more ludicrous. Secretary of State Ross lecturing the Avengers...and nobody says a thing? NOBODY? The Accords somehow being written without the Avengers knowing? HUH? And so on. It badly needed a script doctor and didn't get one. Unless that WAS the improved version? (Gulp.)
Steve is the best. Hands down.
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Date: 2019-04-12 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-13 03:12 am (UTC)