fic: Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge (China Mountain Zhang)

[throughadoor]

Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge
China Mountain Zhang, all audiences, 6000 words.
I am Teresa Luis but also Comrade Li Taiming, because my great-great grandfather Rafael José Luis y Iglesias was born in the old United States, became a founding member of the Reformed American Communist Party and died defending the Brooklyn Bridge at the start of the

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[throughadoor]

I told Anne that she should just send me assignments every couple months and convince me that they have deadlines. So now you just need to generate some more life milestones, right?

My thoughts wrt: The Avengers were mixed. Caveat: I was kind of sick and also kind of drunk and really tired (we saw an eight o'clock show on a week night and that movie is really fucking long and I'm an old lady), so I may have just been grumpy. Also, the only one of the pre-game movies I saw was the first Iron Man, and I didn't even see that in theater, I watched it on cable with my dad after he had knee surgery. And I was always an X-Men person when I did read comments, so at no point was I, like, anticipatory about this movie? I went to see it after the fact because I wanted to be able to carry on conversations with human people sometime in the next two months.

So all that disclaimed, I thought it was kind of a bummer! IDEK -- my favorite movie trope of all time is the Ocean's 11 esque "getting the band back together" scene, and I felt like the whole first half of the movie was a gathering-of-the-troops with none of the things I love about that trope and a lot of prickly feelings instead. The whole first half of the movie just felt, like, dreary? Which, there's a place for dreary super hero movies, but I don't feel like the movie thought it was being deliberately dreary. Also, I thought all the scenes shot in outer space looked like the Japanese footage that they kept in the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers episodes from the 90s.

UNPOPULAR OPINIONS, I HAVE BEEN SITTING ON THEM. I do agree that Mark Ruffalo is the best thing to ever happen to the Hulk franchise. He was super delightful.

[moireach]

Ahahahaha, a MMPR reference. I associate that show so incredibly strongly with having to sit through the last three minutes while I waited anxiously for the 4pm TNG rerun to come on in middle school.

Yeah, I hear you on the dreariness, and I didn't love all the snark and antagonism and things getting messed up, though I guess i understand why they had it that way. Maybe now the NEXT movie can be getting the band back together, a little snark, a lot of hilarity?

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