Hellloooo, ELL JAY!
Although I was never the most active posters/commenter (by which I mean, pretty much never), I did keep up reading LJ at least. I'm not quite sure when I wandered away, but it's been a REALLY LONG time, and I feel so out of the loop!
In fandom news, CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER?
SO many thoughts. Here are a few:
- I don’t know who told Steve he has to buy his T-shirts at Baby Gap, but I highly approve. (I suspect Natasha. You go, girl!)
- Steve Rogers is a superhero. I know, we knew that already, but we SEE it in CA:TWS in ways we didn’t in Cap 1 or Avengers. He’s so fast, he’s so strong, he’s a dirty street fighter, and he can take out a deck full of pirates alone (mostly!). Maybe it’s because most of the fighting in Cap 1 was very stylized, and he was fighting big giant alien creatures in Avengers? I don’t know, but anyone who walked out of Avengers grumbling that they didn’t understand why Captain America leads the Avengers should see this. Twice.
- Steve Rogers is SMART. He’s a brilliant strategist and a great leader. Don’t let his fish-out-of-water schtick fool anyone into thinking he’s dumb.
- Loved the friendship between Steve and Natasha in this movie, as well as how brilliantly they brought in Sam and made him a part of the team. Sam did a great job of integrating Captain America hero-worship with seeing Steve as a person, which is a combination we actually haven’t really seen before.
- The scene with Peggy was freaking brutal. I just… I can’t.
- They seem to have eliminated the Natasha/Winter Soldier connection altogether. While this will undoubtedly please Natasha/Clint fans, I was surprised. Then again, it was a pretty convoluted spy/Hydra/Nazi/Russians plot already, and maybe they thought adding another twist/connection would just be too much.
- I totally thought the movie would end with Bucky remembering who he was and, if not a touching reunion, something between him and Steve. So now I’m curious how much of the follow-up we’ll get to see on screen? On the plus side, FAN FIC!
- When we saw TWS back with his handlers, he was so meek and so…. lost. SO MANY BUCKY FEELS. “I knew him.”
- Mad props to Marvel for being clever with making totally misleading trailers so you really didn’t know who was on which side. For example, they made it sound like Pierce was appealing to Steve with the, “You helped shape this century, and how we need you to do it one more time” speech, when it was actually directed at TWS.
In fandom news, CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER?
SO many thoughts. Here are a few:
- I don’t know who told Steve he has to buy his T-shirts at Baby Gap, but I highly approve. (I suspect Natasha. You go, girl!)
- Steve Rogers is a superhero. I know, we knew that already, but we SEE it in CA:TWS in ways we didn’t in Cap 1 or Avengers. He’s so fast, he’s so strong, he’s a dirty street fighter, and he can take out a deck full of pirates alone (mostly!). Maybe it’s because most of the fighting in Cap 1 was very stylized, and he was fighting big giant alien creatures in Avengers? I don’t know, but anyone who walked out of Avengers grumbling that they didn’t understand why Captain America leads the Avengers should see this. Twice.
- Steve Rogers is SMART. He’s a brilliant strategist and a great leader. Don’t let his fish-out-of-water schtick fool anyone into thinking he’s dumb.
- Loved the friendship between Steve and Natasha in this movie, as well as how brilliantly they brought in Sam and made him a part of the team. Sam did a great job of integrating Captain America hero-worship with seeing Steve as a person, which is a combination we actually haven’t really seen before.
- The scene with Peggy was freaking brutal. I just… I can’t.
- They seem to have eliminated the Natasha/Winter Soldier connection altogether. While this will undoubtedly please Natasha/Clint fans, I was surprised. Then again, it was a pretty convoluted spy/Hydra/Nazi/Russians plot already, and maybe they thought adding another twist/connection would just be too much.
- I totally thought the movie would end with Bucky remembering who he was and, if not a touching reunion, something between him and Steve. So now I’m curious how much of the follow-up we’ll get to see on screen? On the plus side, FAN FIC!
- When we saw TWS back with his handlers, he was so meek and so…. lost. SO MANY BUCKY FEELS. “I knew him.”
- Mad props to Marvel for being clever with making totally misleading trailers so you really didn’t know who was on which side. For example, they made it sound like Pierce was appealing to Steve with the, “You helped shape this century, and how we need you to do it one more time” speech, when it was actually directed at TWS.