X-Men: First Class

[settiai]

This post could also be titled: No, really, don't ask why I'm awake at 5:00am. *headdesk* I fell asleep for, like, twenty minutes. Then I woke up. And was wide awake. This was around, oh, 3:00am. Have I mentioned lately that insomnia sucks? Because it really, really, really does.

Anyway, yes. I finally (finally, finally) watched X-Men: First Class

Comments

[settiai]

That works for me. :-P

[thistlerose]

There seem to be a number of "fix-it" fics that restore Darwin to life. Because, yeah. I've never even read the comics and I thought his death made no sense.

[settiai]

Oh, good. Because, really, taking the one character whose power is not dying and killing him? Not the brightest move.

[badninja]

I didn't know who he was and I felt like they established him too little for any of it to make sense. canon fodder :|

I know X-men basics but I didn't know some of them and it just felt like they stuck a couple in there for spacers and didn't even care enough to make a secret about it. (Another was Angel, I seriously felt like she was just stuck in there to show someone can switch sides. Screw development!)

[settiai]

My big thing is that, if they were going to kill off a character, why pick the one whose mutant power is not dying. Especially when they point-blank explained his powers less than ten minutes earlier.

[seanchaidh]

Yeah, I agree with you there. I only know X-Men from the movies so the characters don't have the same depth to me as they might to someone who's a fan of the comics, but yeah, I was going "wtf" at that moment and also noticed why lyssie mentioned above, going "wow, suspect there, guys."

[settiai]

It's just... I get wanting to kill someone off. But picking the one character whose power is that he can't die? And adding in the fact that he was the only PoC left on the side of the good guys at that point? Yeah. :-/

[girl_wonder]

It's kind of hilarious that by the end, Xavier ends up with a team consisting entirely of white men. Magneto ends up with 3 girls and 2 people of color.

Oooh yes

[jazzypom]

I especially liked the fact that Lehnsherr was pretty hip to his invisible privilege (as in; when Xavier starts waxing poetic about finding the mutants), Lehnsherr is all, "This is how it starts, Charles, first we are identified, then rounded up and experimented on..." I was like, "I feel you, Mags, yeah."

I'm just glad that people (not just fandom) pointed out that fail (like, actual comic blogs did, woot). You wouldn't have gotten this sort of response even say, two years ago.

Re: Oooh yes

[settiai]

Very true. Just a couple of years ago, it wouldn't have been noticed nearly as much.

[settiai]

Yeah, I definitely noticed that part. *nods*