do I need to make, like, a ‘reasons gamora will be fine’ tag for people to look at on my blog
Right? I feel like maybe I’m just too used to Marvel comics for this to be concerning for me. I feel like fandom needs a mantra à la Incredibles: when everyone’s dead, no one is.
I’d like to see that post. I’ve read interviews and the like which heavily imply she’ll be back, but I just have no faith anymore, and it really sucks.
Some more Infinity War thoughts (still very negative, sorry, and still very spoilery)
God, the difference between GOTG Vol 2 and Infinity War is just, vast– (spoilers)
GOTG2 is all about overcoming abuse, breaking cycles of abuse, learning and growing and loving your family. And – this is the first thing I liked about it – it makes it so clear that any form of treating people like things is wrong, the narrative has no sympathy for Ego, why does he deserve any? It’s a hopeful movie, full of good things. Yondu dies, but he dies on his own terms doing something out of love. Everyone goes forward into the future with what seems to be better things ahead of them-
And then Infinity War decided, “you know what would be a really good idea, how about we spend a whole movie trying to make you feel sorry for a genocidal abuser and kill off a beloved Guardian to serve his story?”
It’s like the fuckin’ evil twin of GOTG2! That movie left me feeling upbeat and hopeful! IW has done…dramatically the opposite.
(huge spoilers ahead)
(not positive, oh man, not positive)
I went into the theater all excited with my new Guardians of the Galaxy backpack and wee little Awesome Mix earrings, but as soon as Gamora died that was it for me. Oh, she might be back of course (especially considering what happens at the end of this movie), and I fucking well hope so, but she was –
– she was fridged for the character development of her abusive, genocidal father, while a literal Nazi ghost (don’t fucking ask) looked on. She died not among her friends, but alone and screaming, because I guess that’s supposed to tug at the heartstrings or something, another great female character murdered. So much for her being front and center of the poster, because her own damn death in this movie is actually about Thanos instead.
Turns out that the character whom the writers consider the most interesting is not the abused but the abuser. Everything about this movie is desperately trying to get the audience to feel sympathy for Thanos, a creature who wants to murder half the galaxy because overpopulation or something. He cries! He speechifies! He has occasional doubts! He is the least interesting villain the MCU has ever conjured up, including that elf played by Christopher Eccleston, and yet the movie is obsessed with him. At the end of the credits the words “Thanos will return” appear. Hooray. Can’t wait to see three more hours of a purple alien, played by a man once arrested for domestic violence, sit around and justify genocide to himself.
After leaving this movie I sat around in the foyer while my husband went to the gents and listened to other people’s reactions. “Thanos had a point,” I heard one guy say. “He was just thinning the herd.”
Fuck this movie.
The majority of the Infinity War cast at D23! They showed a trailer but alas, it’s not for the public eye. Here’s the best description I could conjure (Note: I may upload a more revised version of the description once the hype dies down and I can breathe):
The Guardians are flying in the Milano and an unconcious Thor smacks into their windscreen. They bring him on board and Mantis wakes him up and he asks, “Who the hell are you guys?”
Then there’s quick flashes of Peter Parker on a school bus, Loki and the Tesseract, someone describing Thanos as, “Death follows him like a shadow”, the Collector’s gallery gets obliterated, a shot of Gamora crying, Spider-Man badly injured fighting Thanos, Thanos punching Iron-Man, Star Lord takes on Thanos with his guns, Captain America has a beard, Thanos rains meteors down on the Avengers, Groot still looks teen sized, new suit for Spidey and the return of Hulkbuster!
That’s all folks! I may have missed some things, and I may have seen some things incorrectly, so keep your eyes peeled for more info! Comic-con is next week so hopefully the trailer is released to the public by then
NOTE: Not all the cast is present in that picture, but don’t worry, the only missing characters that aren’t featured in the trailer are Ant-Man and the Wasp, which I predicted months ago. I believe they won’t be a part of the War until Avengers 4 2019 (after their own film in July 2018).
