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[tieleen]

I watched the X-Men movie yesterday, and my first instinct was to post a big long post of ranting; I liked a great many things about it, but there were so very many things that made me angry. For one thing, I was prepared for the casual racism, but not for just how much sexism there was in it, or for the 'Look! Like Mad Men, we're extremely aware

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[harborshore]

Hey, thank you

[tieleen]

No problem! That was a lovely story

[tieleen]

...All of that long-windedly said, that story sounds wonderful. I really, really wanted them to be amazing together.

[harborshore]

:) One can only hope. My inner writer-editor keeps going FIX FIX FIX, like I said above, which seems to be flicking my write-write-write switch. So we'll see

[tieleen]

I could say a few more things in favor of the logic there, but really, I don't want to; I much prefer the universe where they're actually a team. Also, I think part of the meta reason for the distance between them is that Erik wouldn't seem as necessary in Charles' life if he already had Raven as an equal, and I really kind of resent that.

The downside of not watching many mainstream movies is that, each and every time, I'm surprised. *g*

Even Emma is sort of sympathetic, if you can call it that. She does some things that are outright 'evil', but nothing that's taunting or bullying or creepifying; and that wouldn't mean much, since she, you know, throws a person into a wall and supports nuclear war, but it was a bit weird that no woman in this movie acts that way and practically all the guys do (except Darwin, and, well, it's not like he had time). And then Erik's team -- already sympathetic -- consists of most of those women and the two guys we know nothing about. I really can't tell what they were going for.