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So.
Comics have given me feelings?
Oh, XMFC. I went from being really, really excited about a sequel to really, really concerned. I trusted Matthew Vaughn to make a good movie. Bryan Singer can do good work, but I'm really not sure if he can do it here.
I feel like XMFC, a lot of it worked because we had a smaller group to get invested in. The focus was obviously on Charles and Erik and their rivalry, and although I really feel like the villains (Emma and Janos [hello, no speaking lines at all] and Azazel. So, pretty much, all the villains) were sketchily etched out.
This new movie? Has 16 people at last count already coming back. My hope is that they'll mostly be cameos, but I can't help but think that Singer's great love of the X-men and the mutants is going to cause this movie to be worse than XMFC. Sometimes you just shouldn't work on things that you love too much. I think I'm going to reserve my judgement, but. Concerned, yeah.
(PS OMAR SY AS BISHOP WOULD COMPLETE MY LIFE.)
Secondly, am I the only person reading The Uncanny X-Men right now? Because I have so much love that it's bursting out of me. I love our new mutants. I love Scott. I love Emma. I love Illyana. Magneto, I couldn't care less about, I think? He briefly amused me when he was all like I KNEEL DOWN BEFORE YOU, SCOTT SUMMERS, BECAUSE YOU ARE BETTER THAN I AM (which, come on, he totes did say that on Utopia.) But the is he/isn't he a traitor drama bores me. There's no need for soap opera theatrics in my tightly knit mutant terrorist group, Magneto. Just go cry over Charles by yourself and quit wasting our time. Ugh.
Scott should keep being Scott. Because he's a way better mutant terrorist than anyone has ever been. HE HAS A SCHOOL IN HIS UNDERGROUND TERRORIST BUNKER. HE CALLED A TIME OUT ON THE AVENGERS SO HE COULD HAVE A STRATEGY MEETING. I LOVE HIM.
Three. AAARGH, BATWOMAN. The more I think about it, the less I like this. Okay, in the last issue, Kate told her girlfriend Maggie Sawyer that she was Batwoman and asked her to marry her.
On the surface, it's cool, right? Their relationship has been really sweet, and DC has never had a gay wedding before, blah blah. At first, I thought it was just the butthurt Renee/Kate shipper being all butthurt, but now I don't think so. I mean, yes, okay, KATE/RENEE FOREVER FUUUUUUU DC FOR BENCHING MY GIRL but my biggest problem with Kate/Maggie is Maggie herself.
She hates vigilantes. She's a detective who does a good detective's work and she thinks vigilantes are dangerous and off the rails. In this issue, we don't get to see Kate and Maggie together, but as she's calling Kate her fiance and looking at a place for them to live together, I'm assuming that either a) they talked about it and we didn't get to see it, which is BULLSHIT, or b) Maggie said yes and therefore fucked up her own characterization WITHOUT taking everything into consideration.
My second issue with Kate/Maggie is this. THEY ARE THE ONLY TWO LESBIANS IN DC COMICS. All the others--Renee, Scandal, Holly, Liana, Grace, and the few others I know of but don't know the name of--they're either benched or they don't exist at all. I don't think I have to really say why this bothers me, right? Because it very distinctly rings to me of 'oh, let's get the two lesbians together and out of the way so we don't have to worry about them anymore.'
I really like the book, and I really, really hope that JHWIII didn't intend to go there. But I have issues, and I'm not nearly as coherent as I want to be.
COMICS. ARGH.
In other news:
ELEMENTARY, HOW ARE YOU SO CONSISTENTLY GOOD? *pets show*
Comics have given me feelings?
Oh, XMFC. I went from being really, really excited about a sequel to really, really concerned. I trusted Matthew Vaughn to make a good movie. Bryan Singer can do good work, but I'm really not sure if he can do it here.
I feel like XMFC, a lot of it worked because we had a smaller group to get invested in. The focus was obviously on Charles and Erik and their rivalry, and although I really feel like the villains (Emma and Janos [hello, no speaking lines at all] and Azazel. So, pretty much, all the villains) were sketchily etched out.
This new movie? Has 16 people at last count already coming back. My hope is that they'll mostly be cameos, but I can't help but think that Singer's great love of the X-men and the mutants is going to cause this movie to be worse than XMFC. Sometimes you just shouldn't work on things that you love too much. I think I'm going to reserve my judgement, but. Concerned, yeah.
(PS OMAR SY AS BISHOP WOULD COMPLETE MY LIFE.)
Secondly, am I the only person reading The Uncanny X-Men right now? Because I have so much love that it's bursting out of me. I love our new mutants. I love Scott. I love Emma. I love Illyana. Magneto, I couldn't care less about, I think? He briefly amused me when he was all like I KNEEL DOWN BEFORE YOU, SCOTT SUMMERS, BECAUSE YOU ARE BETTER THAN I AM (which, come on, he totes did say that on Utopia.) But the is he/isn't he a traitor drama bores me. There's no need for soap opera theatrics in my tightly knit mutant terrorist group, Magneto. Just go cry over Charles by yourself and quit wasting our time. Ugh.
Scott should keep being Scott. Because he's a way better mutant terrorist than anyone has ever been. HE HAS A SCHOOL IN HIS UNDERGROUND TERRORIST BUNKER. HE CALLED A TIME OUT ON THE AVENGERS SO HE COULD HAVE A STRATEGY MEETING. I LOVE HIM.
Three. AAARGH, BATWOMAN. The more I think about it, the less I like this. Okay, in the last issue, Kate told her girlfriend Maggie Sawyer that she was Batwoman and asked her to marry her.
On the surface, it's cool, right? Their relationship has been really sweet, and DC has never had a gay wedding before, blah blah. At first, I thought it was just the butthurt Renee/Kate shipper being all butthurt, but now I don't think so. I mean, yes, okay, KATE/RENEE FOREVER FUUUUUUU DC FOR BENCHING MY GIRL but my biggest problem with Kate/Maggie is Maggie herself.
She hates vigilantes. She's a detective who does a good detective's work and she thinks vigilantes are dangerous and off the rails. In this issue, we don't get to see Kate and Maggie together, but as she's calling Kate her fiance and looking at a place for them to live together, I'm assuming that either a) they talked about it and we didn't get to see it, which is BULLSHIT, or b) Maggie said yes and therefore fucked up her own characterization WITHOUT taking everything into consideration.
My second issue with Kate/Maggie is this. THEY ARE THE ONLY TWO LESBIANS IN DC COMICS. All the others--Renee, Scandal, Holly, Liana, Grace, and the few others I know of but don't know the name of--they're either benched or they don't exist at all. I don't think I have to really say why this bothers me, right? Because it very distinctly rings to me of 'oh, let's get the two lesbians together and out of the way so we don't have to worry about them anymore.'
I really like the book, and I really, really hope that JHWIII didn't intend to go there. But I have issues, and I'm not nearly as coherent as I want to be.
COMICS. ARGH.
In other news:
ELEMENTARY, HOW ARE YOU SO CONSISTENTLY GOOD? *pets show*
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RE: Kate and Maggie, that is extremely problematic for Maggie's characterization. What, what, what are you doing, DC? Look at your life, look at your choices.
RE: Elementary, my main thoughts on the most recent ep boil down to "Alfredo!!! :D" and "Jooooan. <3"
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Kate and Maggie leave me so frustrated. I mean, it's obvious that they care about each other? But Maggie and Kate haven't really been around each other enough to get the sort of relationship that would stand a marriage? Maggie had given Kate an ultimatum, telling her not to come back until she was ready to give Maggie the truth, but I genuinely think Maggie would've needed some time to at least think about it and come to terms with her emotions? We did have a time jump, but that's just so lazy. ugh.
THOSE WERE MY ELEMENTARY FEELS EXACTLY. Joan was stealing that car and then there was Alfredo's face and I went asfjdklsjflksdjlkfjlsdjfljsl. THIS SHOW.