realisations that have grown on me in the last week

[tielan]

More Infinity War thoughts:

This was not a story we needed now.

THIS WAS NOT A STORY WE NEEDED NOW.

Maybe it seemed a fine idea back when American democracy still had the semblance of law and freedom, when HRC was on the road to winning the American election, when the idea was conceived in the heads of rich, famous, white men with nothing to lose. But when our society is rapidly heading down the darkest timeline, the thing most of us certainly did not need was a movie...about the darkest timeline.

There are stories of kids going to see the movie and coming out crying, not knowing that it's going to be okay. Frankly, I don't know if it's going to be okay. and I know that Carol is coming.

The whole matter of "will A4 introduce ideas that make my stomach churn" is kind of a given, tbh. *sigh*

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[kore]

OH GOD
SO MUCH WORD

SO
MUCH
WORD

I keep saying if I want a giant man with power fucking everything up, I can just look out the window! or turn on the TV. If we're going to have stories about resistance to how it's all fucked, I want stories about the RESISTANCE, thanks, not ones that make me try to feel bad about a psychopathic abuser.

//watches Rogue One again

[ladyjax]

We saw IW in a theater with a mix of kids, adults, and mostly POC - because Oakland.

I have to wonder what some of have perceived as the darkest timeline was already dark for a lot of kids long before DT and his ilk reared their ugly heads. For many of them, it's always been some flavor of crap and seeing it play out on screen may read differently because even though heroes fell, there were still some people left standing and they were going to have to negotiate a vastly different world. What they would do next is the big question.

(and I spoiled some poor dude sitting behind me during the post credits scene when I went "Oh, shit! Captain Fucking Marvel!)

(aaaand, did you notice that one of Thanos' children - the big craggy one, was wearing that same symbol around his waist? Or maybe I imagined it)

[lynnenne]

OMG YES.

One of my biggest beefs with the film was how Rhodey did an apparent about-face on the Sokovia Accords. Like, fuck democracy and the rule of law, we're powerful people so laws and social norms don't apply to us. NOT A MESSAGE WE NEED RIGHT NOW.

I feel terrible for any young kids who went to see this movie. At that age, I would have bawled for a week.

[jenab]

Yes. The darkness and just so much death right from the beginning really got to me. It's not needed in this point of time.

Stories of love and hope in the darkness are needed more.