#also the SHEER AUDACITY of **** telling quill not to overreact.............. ok
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thoughts on infinity war now that i’ve had a couple of days to process (spoilers under the cut)
so the best parts of the movie were the entertaining interactions between characters who’d never met each other - even though i dislike both tony and dr strange, i was entertained by their interactions with peter and the guardians, and thor’s (sadly short) scene with the guardians was great (although i could’ve done without the insecure boyfriend trope from quill)
but all the scenes back on earth, particularly in wakanda, had a) none of that, and b) barely any emotional impact? the only characters on earth who had any emotional moments were vision and wanda, and they were totally uncomfortable and forced. an inordinate amount of emphasis was placed on their relationship, which. literally nobody cares about (if it weren’t for the slightest chance of young avengers happening in the future, i’d want them out of the mcu entirely)
literally all the characters left on earth (particularly all the wakandans + sam, steve, bucky, and rhodey) barely said anything, and had almost no significance to the plot besides “hold off big army for a while while the more important shit happens elsewhere.” i get that the russos probably didn’t have much to work with with the black panther characters, since bp only came out so recently, but, come on, t’challa had, like. three lines, tops. all of the scenes in wakanda were fight scenes, which were extremely uncomfortable when you consider the implications of wakanda’s people and land being treated as expendable in order to protect... the single robot played by a white dude. i couldn’t stop cringing at the soldiers being taken down and forests and grasslands being rooted up all for the sake of vision.
and then there’s gamora, who deserved. so much better. she’s finally shaken off her abusive family and reconciled with her sister, only to be graphically murdered at the hands of her abuser, while the fact that said abuser “truly loved her all along” is being shoved down our throats. i pray to god it wasn’t the russo’s intention to make us feel sorry for thanos there, because, hey, at least they actually managed to get me to hate their boring villain. all i can say is, if nebula isn’t the one who ends up killing thanos, then i swear to god i’ll fistfight everyone at marvel studios myself.
i’m glad thor had some great lines, but i’m still disappointed (but not surprised) that basically all of ragnarok was erased. like... kill off his people, ignore valkyrie, give him back his eye, and give him a BIGGER, BETTER WEAPON. i’m just trying to hold onto the line “he killed half my people” or whatever, because i’m praying val managed to shepherd those people to safety and will come back next movie to wreck shit and become the new thor.
at least peter was delightful. at least we got the absolute dream team sam and rhodey, for all their two lines of dialogue and 30 seconds of screen time each.
#infinity war spoilers#iw spoilers#iw#marvel#wow this got pretty long for something that nobody's gonna read huh#oh and don't get me started on that one throwaway scene about the accords LM FUCKING AO#also the SHEER AUDACITY of **** telling quill not to overreact.............. ok#*
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