Livewatching: "X-Men: First Class"
There’s the Hanukka flashback I was talking about earlier. It’s still sad that Erik’s entire powers, ideals and being are shaped by his judaism yet the franchise doesn’t acknowledge it unless it feels forced to do it.
Also on a different note, I’m only now noticing that in this scene, Charles is functionally Erik’s love interest. Like, shipping goggles aside, what he’s doing there is exactl the kind of emotional labor and validation that female characters often end up providing to their love interests in movies (I reblogged a post recently about how Natasha did this for Bruce in Age of Ultron) and in some tengential ways, he continues to do that through the franchise.
(I don’t know about the comics, really, but in both movie trilogies, Charles is Erik’s main redeeming element, used even above the discussion and understanding of the trauma he went through)
Which in turn might explain why so many Cherik fics I’ve seen seem to have Charles stuck in that role and not really expanded upon. Crossposted from terresdebrume@dreamwidth