I think it’s significant that when giving Yondu’s eulogy, Peter specifically describes him as a ‘pretty cool dad’ in call back to the Mary Poppins y’all moment. That was a moment when Yondu, having shown himself willing to cross the universe and defy a planet-god for Peter, also made himself vulnerable, and Peter recognised it and read between the lines of what he was trying to say. So rather than trying to say that Yondu was a good dad, he reaches back to that moment when they connected and understood each other, and allows that to stand for the relationship, flaws and all.
like, heimdall saw that shit right? odin comes back through the bifrost and heimdall is just “…………….”
heimdall: that’s a baby
odin: yes! he’s my son! ………..loki. i’m going to dress him in green and black, because that worked great last time
or odin comes back and is trying to figure out, how to play it, and heimdall and frigga are just waiting for him and completely deadpan
frigga: ah, husband! you have returned from war in time to meet your newborn son. who i had. after being pregnant. secretly.
odin: what
frigga:
heimdall:
loki: *baby noises*
odin: right
honestly, i just need heimdall going up to frigga like “you won’t believe what your husband just did”
odin: he’s a replacement for the child I had to lock away in the shadow realm.
heimdall:
odin: I’ll do better by this one. I know I will.
heimdall:
heimdall: You mean Frigga will.
Odin: Please can we keep it? It’s cute and changes colours and smiles at my empty eye socket. I promise I’ll take care of it I’ll feed it every week and I’ll dress it in green and black and I’ll teach it to throw knives and it will be great!
Something that greatly satisfies me in the first movie – Peter doesn’t seem to know the Collector. It was Gamora who knew where to find him, that he would know what the Orb is, and that he would take it from them. Peter? Had no idea.
And that means that in all the years Peter was with the Ravagers, Yondu never once made a deal with this freaky guy who collects living beings as if they are possessions.
You can’t tell me that Yondu didn’t know the guy. I’m sure the Collector has a reputation in whatever underworld the galaxy has, and even while Yondu had to ask the Broker first for information, that surely was more because there are multiple people who would be after the Orb, and not because he had never heard about the Collector.
It just makes me super happy that despite being a lying, deceiving and stealing guy, Yondu draws the line somewhere.
Vanity Fair’s review of Stonewall has actually finished me
I’m actually kind of annoyed about this, because the star of Independence Day is a black man in a long-term relationship with a sex worker (who is also a black, single mom), and his partner in saving the day isJewish. That line-up is actually closer to the real-life Stonewall than this shitty movie, and I think they could have gotten a much better joke out of acknowledging that.
