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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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I had kept myself spoiler free for Civil War, not even watching the trailers so everything in it was a surprise. But I was right there with Bucky and Sam in the car smiling and nodding at the Cap/Sharon kiss. It was only after the film when a friend complained about it being "shoehorned in" I was like really? I've kind of been anticipating it since Winter Soldier. It was well done. I like your take on it being Sharon's reward.

Also hi :)

Totes.

Think Barnes ever heard about Pvt. Lorraine? Would he crack about that with Sam?

I dunno if Barnes did, but I bet Sharon was raised on that story. ^_^

Now, that would be The 5 +1, how Peggy cast that story depending on where Sharon was at the time of hearing.

But really, that kiss is very "I woman that is going to get my ass handed to me for breaking the rules, I'm getting this for my bucket list." Lorraine got more of a reaction from Steve. And Peggy certainly took a page.

Yeah, anybody who was surprised that they're moving forward with Steve/Sharon was.. working very hard to not notice it in the previous movie (and to ignore all discussion of comics history.)

It could have been done better, but given the movie it was, it was done as well as anything else, I thought. The two of them acted it really well, I thought, to make it not just a bland action movie kiss but to show how complicated everything was in that moment.