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Endgame thoughts
Non-spoiler, except in the most ridiculous sense of "what is a spoiler?": Spouse, after I gave him the movie summary, said that Endgame should've ended like Newhart, with Chris Hemsworth as Kevin from Ghostbusters waking up in bed next to Kristin Wiig's Erin Gilbert and saying "wow, I just had the weirdest dream...."
First, I now want the 25-years-later movie where Morgan, testing out her own constructions, decides to commemorate her dad’s musical tastes and becomes the superhero Iron Maiden.
The world was saved by a rat walking on a control at the right time! Part of the 1 chance in 14 million!
After the first viewing, it occurred to me that it'd be appropriate to have Stan Lee's name on the San Francisco memorial. On second viewing, I'm pretty sure I did see it.
Thor -- other folks have said enough; all I want to say is that badly-coping Thor is still worthy of Mjolnir, dammit.
I would be more OK with Natasha’s death if I’d seen more on-screen examples, either here or in previous movies, of the past actions she needed absolution for. The little bits in AoU didn’t cut it; Clint’s committed far more on-screen atrocity. I haven’t seen Natasha do anything so awful that makes death the better option than living with the past and working to do better. The one thing that resigns me to her death is that she proved once and for all that she was the better fighter than Clint.
(I still think it’d have been better for both of them to fall and both to sit up in the water, hands joined over the Soul Stone. My narrative sensibility and personal theology says there is a profound difference between an unwilling sacrifice and a willing. And in that scenario, if Johansson really wanted to get out of MCU future-set movies, Nat could've done the bring-them-back snap instead of Bruce -- what better way to make up for the killing of hundreds by the resurrection of billions?)
Nebula-branch-universe's death -- well, that's one way to demonstrate the rules of time travel in the MCU, such as they are, given that main-verse Nebula didn't immediately disappear.... I need a diagram now.
Tony’s death, OTOH, I’m completely OK with. It’s in character; it fits the journey he’s been on since the original Iron Man.
I was delighted that the first people to step through the portal were T'Challa, Shuri, and Okoye.
I'm 100% certain that Steve told Bucky what he'd planned to do after returning the stones. (Also, I want the Anthony Mackie Captain America movie.)
THERE SHOULD HAVE STILL BEEN A POST-CREDITS SCENE DAMMIT. My vote would be for Morgan with a wrench tightening a bolt on a robot, letting the robot roll away, and grinning.
ETA: Also, I miss Goose. I hope she appears in future MCU movies.
First, I now want the 25-years-later movie where Morgan, testing out her own constructions, decides to commemorate her dad’s musical tastes and becomes the superhero Iron Maiden.
The world was saved by a rat walking on a control at the right time! Part of the 1 chance in 14 million!
After the first viewing, it occurred to me that it'd be appropriate to have Stan Lee's name on the San Francisco memorial. On second viewing, I'm pretty sure I did see it.
Thor -- other folks have said enough; all I want to say is that badly-coping Thor is still worthy of Mjolnir, dammit.
I would be more OK with Natasha’s death if I’d seen more on-screen examples, either here or in previous movies, of the past actions she needed absolution for. The little bits in AoU didn’t cut it; Clint’s committed far more on-screen atrocity. I haven’t seen Natasha do anything so awful that makes death the better option than living with the past and working to do better. The one thing that resigns me to her death is that she proved once and for all that she was the better fighter than Clint.
(I still think it’d have been better for both of them to fall and both to sit up in the water, hands joined over the Soul Stone. My narrative sensibility and personal theology says there is a profound difference between an unwilling sacrifice and a willing. And in that scenario, if Johansson really wanted to get out of MCU future-set movies, Nat could've done the bring-them-back snap instead of Bruce -- what better way to make up for the killing of hundreds by the resurrection of billions?)
Nebula-branch-universe's death -- well, that's one way to demonstrate the rules of time travel in the MCU, such as they are, given that main-verse Nebula didn't immediately disappear.... I need a diagram now.
Tony’s death, OTOH, I’m completely OK with. It’s in character; it fits the journey he’s been on since the original Iron Man.
I was delighted that the first people to step through the portal were T'Challa, Shuri, and Okoye.
I'm 100% certain that Steve told Bucky what he'd planned to do after returning the stones. (Also, I want the Anthony Mackie Captain America movie.)
THERE SHOULD HAVE STILL BEEN A POST-CREDITS SCENE DAMMIT. My vote would be for Morgan with a wrench tightening a bolt on a robot, letting the robot roll away, and grinning.
ETA: Also, I miss Goose. I hope she appears in future MCU movies.