Old and new fandoms weekend extravaganza!

[gwyn_r]

So, a year ago a little movie came out and totally changed my life. I had been slowly getting back into the feeling fannish again thing with Pacific Rim, writing fic for the first time beyond Yuletide (well, I wrote one Pepper and Loki hanging out keeping vigil with a girls' night story after Avengers), but I had no idea the tsunami of fannishness

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[hafital]

So spoil me, if you've seen it. I know I can't go until I know what to expect.

It was sad, but not wrenching, imo. I still cried but I thought they did as loving a job as they could on it. I wrote about it in my lj. The movie itself, aside from how they handled the Brain storyline, was as OTT as you'd expect. I love all that so I had no problem with it. I loved all the movies, the more ridiculous the more I liked them? I don't know. I think this one is actually probably not as good as the others, or more ridiculous in any case in terms of the stunts and the plot devices, but none of that bothered me, ymmv.

[gwyn_r]

I saw your post--how do they actually handle Brian/Paul being gone? Does he walk off into the sunset or something, or does his character actually die in the movie? I was hoping to hear that Han and Giselle were magically not killed in the last movie. That really, really depressed me. I'd had this fnatasy that the death we saw in Tokyo Drift would have been a total fakeout.

[hafital]

His character does not die in the movie. He lives, Mia lives, their kid lives. Dom very much lives. He's immortal! Han and Giselle are sadly not magically not killed, which I was hoping for, too, at least for Han to not be dead. They did it with Letty! Why not with Han! I'd be happy to hand waive away any weird plot devices. But alas, at least not in this film

[gwyn_r]

Thanks for this! I haven't got as much invested in it lately as I once did, but it's still really powerful to me and Paul's death really affected me in a way I couldn't have predicted, so seeing this is something I have to be really prepared for.

[nwhepcat]

I am hip-deep in a Clint/Phil fic, but I still do have my fannish adoration for Winter Soldier. Hell, I am driving out to Ft. McCoy, formerly Camp McCoy, WHERE BUCKY DID HIS BASIC TRAINING, later this month.

Cause I do want to write some fic.

[gwyn_r]

OMG PLEASE REPORT ON CAMP MCCOY. I mean, doing research is one thing, but having a fannish report will be so much better. Squeeeeeee.