In fact I make a career out of it
So, late to the party, but I finally saw X-Men: First Class and, to get it out of the way, that is the slashiest movie I've seen in a while. I am in fact, not even commenting on the epic gay love, because it is so obvious.
-I am bothered by the fact that in the end, it's the Professor and the white boys on the side of good. Moira MacTaggert, awesome as she was, no longer counts because THE PROFESSOR BRAINWIPED HER WTF? And I may have kinda sorta dealt with that, if she hadn't included a dreamy "that kiss" in her debriefing.
-If Moira is trying to be a big girl taken seriously in the boys' club that is federal agencies, I'm kind of feeling my roommate's complaint that her skirts are too short. Cute, and I am envious, but I am not really feeling the professionalism.
-Is James McAvoy making out with someone betweene very take? How are his lips so red? Same to the Irish kid.
-I don't think January Jones was best for Emma Frost. Physically, yes, she fit, but she was sexy because she was half-naked, not from anything I got from her. I wish there'd been someone a little sassier, who turned the sexy on and off, and maybe we'd see her roll her eyes when Kevin Bacon demanded ice. And so that it was clear that she had some of her own plans in mind when she joined in with Magneto, because we know she didn't stick there for the long haul. I didn't know why Emma Frost was here, what her reasons were. In the original X-Men I knew both that Mystique believed in the cause and that she cared for Erik, maybe with a side of enjoying freaking people out after what she'd dealt with as a kid.
-Speaking of, while I enjoyed Raven and Charles being pseudo-siblings and firmly believe that Raven had a thing for him that Charles never even noticed, that's one of the things that definitely kicked it out of the same canon as the other movies, at least for me. Charles never even really acknowledged Mystique in the others, and I have to believe he asked after her, and maybe that was one of his and Erik's safe topics.
-I believed Mystique's reasons for changing sides in this, which is more than I can say for others. I do see how Erik grew up into his choices and his beliefs with the cutthroat life he read. However, I cannot connect him with elegant, leading the masses in his purple shirts McKellan!Magneto. So again with seperate canon.
-Painful as it was, Hank's desperate desire to be normal, including his statement to Raven of "you're beautiful now" rang perfectly true to him for me. Points for Hoult. However, I felt like he got a personality change along with the fur, because nerdy awkward painfully socialized Hank seemed less quippy.
To make some things fit more properly in my head, I believe that the great slumber party of mutantdom (because that is totally what happened in that CIA room with the power-sharing and the dancing, you know it) lasted maybe three years. It makes the connections deeper, actually gives Hank time to invent all of that shit and for everyone to actually train their powers, and would make for awesome stories. Not to mention Charles and Erik's epic love/friendship, because I can't buy that from just a few weeks. And while Erik and Charles were gallivanting across the country checking out mutants and having fieldtrips to Russia, everybody trained and bonded, and Darwin became the de facto leader, both from being a little older and just for thinking under pressure, and that's part of why he led the plan when they were attacked. During their training time, Angel actually was attacked, not just stared at in a way that made her uncomfortable. Considering her former profession seemed to be public knowledge, as well as being a woman and a woman of color, I can definitely see her as being the most vulnerable and I can see that as more of a reason for her switching sides instead of her just following whatever man shows up with a new ideology, which I CALL BULLSHIT.
So I would like fic please of teenage mutant adventures during my imaginary three years, and also fic of the polite out-bitching contest that ensures with Emma Frost and Raven on the same team. Because Raven's just discovering her sexuality, at least in her own skin, and Emma has clearly been working that angle for a while and, in my head at least, is used to organizing the men around her to suit her comfort. Raven's at least raised upper classish with Charles and we already know she doesn't like her people paying attention to others when they're supposed to be with her. I want catty comments and sideways snubs and some kind of detente where they may not have to like each other, but the other woman knows what she's doing. Angel just rolls her eyes at them, and the men don't even necessarily know what's going on.
And wow, that is so much more then I meant to write
-I am bothered by the fact that in the end, it's the Professor and the white boys on the side of good. Moira MacTaggert, awesome as she was, no longer counts because THE PROFESSOR BRAINWIPED HER WTF? And I may have kinda sorta dealt with that, if she hadn't included a dreamy "that kiss" in her debriefing.
-If Moira is trying to be a big girl taken seriously in the boys' club that is federal agencies, I'm kind of feeling my roommate's complaint that her skirts are too short. Cute, and I am envious, but I am not really feeling the professionalism.
-Is James McAvoy making out with someone betweene very take? How are his lips so red? Same to the Irish kid.
-I don't think January Jones was best for Emma Frost. Physically, yes, she fit, but she was sexy because she was half-naked, not from anything I got from her. I wish there'd been someone a little sassier, who turned the sexy on and off, and maybe we'd see her roll her eyes when Kevin Bacon demanded ice. And so that it was clear that she had some of her own plans in mind when she joined in with Magneto, because we know she didn't stick there for the long haul. I didn't know why Emma Frost was here, what her reasons were. In the original X-Men I knew both that Mystique believed in the cause and that she cared for Erik, maybe with a side of enjoying freaking people out after what she'd dealt with as a kid.
-Speaking of, while I enjoyed Raven and Charles being pseudo-siblings and firmly believe that Raven had a thing for him that Charles never even noticed, that's one of the things that definitely kicked it out of the same canon as the other movies, at least for me. Charles never even really acknowledged Mystique in the others, and I have to believe he asked after her, and maybe that was one of his and Erik's safe topics.
-I believed Mystique's reasons for changing sides in this, which is more than I can say for others. I do see how Erik grew up into his choices and his beliefs with the cutthroat life he read. However, I cannot connect him with elegant, leading the masses in his purple shirts McKellan!Magneto. So again with seperate canon.
-Painful as it was, Hank's desperate desire to be normal, including his statement to Raven of "you're beautiful now" rang perfectly true to him for me. Points for Hoult. However, I felt like he got a personality change along with the fur, because nerdy awkward painfully socialized Hank seemed less quippy.
To make some things fit more properly in my head, I believe that the great slumber party of mutantdom (because that is totally what happened in that CIA room with the power-sharing and the dancing, you know it) lasted maybe three years. It makes the connections deeper, actually gives Hank time to invent all of that shit and for everyone to actually train their powers, and would make for awesome stories. Not to mention Charles and Erik's epic love/friendship, because I can't buy that from just a few weeks. And while Erik and Charles were gallivanting across the country checking out mutants and having fieldtrips to Russia, everybody trained and bonded, and Darwin became the de facto leader, both from being a little older and just for thinking under pressure, and that's part of why he led the plan when they were attacked. During their training time, Angel actually was attacked, not just stared at in a way that made her uncomfortable. Considering her former profession seemed to be public knowledge, as well as being a woman and a woman of color, I can definitely see her as being the most vulnerable and I can see that as more of a reason for her switching sides instead of her just following whatever man shows up with a new ideology, which I CALL BULLSHIT.
So I would like fic please of teenage mutant adventures during my imaginary three years, and also fic of the polite out-bitching contest that ensures with Emma Frost and Raven on the same team. Because Raven's just discovering her sexuality, at least in her own skin, and Emma has clearly been working that angle for a while and, in my head at least, is used to organizing the men around her to suit her comfort. Raven's at least raised upper classish with Charles and we already know she doesn't like her people paying attention to others when they're supposed to be with her. I want catty comments and sideways snubs and some kind of detente where they may not have to like each other, but the other woman knows what she's doing. Angel just rolls her eyes at them, and the men don't even necessarily know what's going on.
And wow, that is so much more then I meant to write