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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2016-05-18 07:52 am

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I am technically on vacation (read: helping sister move) and super-behind on everything computer, but we did go see ca:cw finally yesterday.

That movie was the best attempt I have ever seen at translating the feeling of reading a major superhero comics event book to the big screen. I am not sure if that is a compliment or not but if that's what they wee trying to do they did it perfectly.

so I was sort of semi_avoiding spoilers, but still managed to see lots of people arguing about Sharon kissing Steve, and how that was just such a clear "reward the dude hero with hot chick" moment, but I didn't get that at all? Like that was really obviously Sharon going "well I've just torpedoed my entire life in the service of What Would Aunt Peggy Do, so I'm at least going to Damn well kiss Steve Rogers while I'm at it." That was definitely Sharon's reward, not Steve's. Sister agrees. I am okay with Sharon getting that as her reward, and she can deal with her grief by kissing as many hot dudes as she wants. (Sharon in general got to do way more than tumblr led me to expect and her arc was no less coherent than anybody else's.)

Speaking of poorly-done-by female characters though, how do you decide to make General Ross a major antagonist and then continue to ignore the existence of Betty? If Ross is pulling that kind of nonsense Betty should have been right in there fucking shit up.

None of my wip fanfic is any more jossed than it was before so there's that. (Does anyone else get the experience of watching new canon and going "wow that was a super-cool reference back to that one scene. In that fanfic nobody but me has ever read.")
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[personal profile] rmc28 2016-05-18 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I have wanted to know where Betty is since Avengers Assemble :(

(Because if you are worried about the Hulk to the extent of building a fancy prison cell on your flying fortress, why do you not bring on board the one person who has ever got the Hulk to calm the shit down? And not even a "sent to Tromsø" reference. At the time I saw AA, the only Phase 1 film I'd seen - I was barely aware of Phase 1 as a concept - was Incredible Hulk, because Hulk was one of my childhood heroes. So I'm like who the fuck is Jane, and where is Betty?.)

I would also read a fic about Sharon dealing with her grief by kissing many hot people.
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[personal profile] muccamukk 2016-05-18 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Plus Bruce referred to the Hulk movie in Avengers, the "I kind of broke Harlem" comment.

I WANT BETTY!
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[personal profile] amadi 2016-05-19 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
There's also that whole short film bit about Tony screwing Ross over in protection of his science bro, so the whole resurgence of Ross is weird.
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[personal profile] beatrice_otter 2016-05-19 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
AMEN YES TO THIS.