#just means im willing to accept that itll be harder for me than it should

[princeyadon]

also

i got a whiteboard and stuck on my wall where i always get my keys before i go out so i see it

i’m tryna see if i can do a sorta simple on the fly budgeting, it’s like really fucking hard to budget w this job cuz they never guarantee a certain amount of hours a week or what days you work so i’ve been making it up as i go urg

[dollfied-blog1]

Let’s talk about Today

It’s Wednesday. We are on the verge of the weekend where Vegas gets snow, Los Angeles gets frozen, and the polar vortex dips down further into the states.

I think it’s worth mentioning that a number of comic book fans have clamored for the BP movie, but aren’t of the opinion that the movie should win an Oscar. Worth mentioning because as good as they thought Black Panther was/is, they have their wits about them to tell folks that it shouldn’t win.

That’s alright though. It made a billion dollars.

In other news, sections of comic book readership do not want to see Captain Marvel. Why? Because Brie Larson’s press tour offends them.

Now, I understand how what she said might’ve rubbed a few of the white male population the wrong way. And it seems like there is a larger swath of the journalist population occupying the white demographic. Does that mean we shouldn’t? It’s a telling tale if we are. But we have to assess our societal engagements before we start pointing fingers at white men and why they’re getting preferences other parts of the population aren’t.

I’m sure there’s some study out regarding the population of folks looking at comic books and going to comic book based movies. We have to look at the statistics of folks looking at the comic books to really understand what’s going on. I’m willing to bet- without looking at the numbers, that a majority of that crowd is... drumroll please... white. We were watching X-Men in 2001. We were watching Fantastic Four back in 2004. We were watching Punisher with Thomas Jane, and all three Blade films with Wesley Snipes. Black superhero vampire/human killing creatures of the night with swords and guns and a new-age Van Helsing? Yeah, we’ll watch the hell out of that. Same as white guy systematically and almost surgically picking off targets who had a hand in the murder of his wife and kid.

On topic, we watch a majority black cast in a film about a black superhero in a fictional African country. Why? because it’s cool and they wrote that script like diamonds. We’ll also watch a film about a mixed race kid in Brooklyn becoming a new Spider-Man. Why? Because it’s cool and the script was diamonds.

When movies decided to get all preachy about it and made their stand in trying to say something to us instead of trying to entertain us? yeah, that’s always been the case. We were just too young to remember it. Dark Knight? Remember the message of good people not willing to do a bad thing to prove a point to the Joker? Remember the bad people not willing to do a bad thing to also prove a point to the Joker? And remember Batman not willing to kill the Joker because he was better than that?

But the main difference here is that the films were made well. They had good writing, awesome action, acting on point, and visual effects that wowed audiences. Did the message diminish when the entertainment value was raised? Nope. I think it helped that Wesley Snipes was black to ease our way into accepting more minority actors into film leads. We started to realize that the landscape could change, and we were fine with it, as long as it looked cool and was well-written. If it was a dumpster fire of epic proportions, then the message was all the more lost on audiences.

And here we are today with Captain Marvel. Before the movie has even been released, it’s become a divisive issue before having seen it. Let’s just say, I think let the movie speak for itself rather than have the actors try to preach it, but that’s just me.

Despite the PR madness and some of the activism both bad and good for the movie, I will still watch it. I’m hesitant about it, because separating the character from the actor, and without having seen the actor, I think it’ll be harder to make an argument for one against the other,

Yeah, Brie Larson has said things, and those things might not be the best given the current climate. But, things were said, and whether or not she’s the best pick for the main threat to Thanos come the next Avengers film, she’s the one that we got, and we have to see what she does with the role,

The way she’s put forward in the commercials for the film, and for the next phase of Marvel, she’s got the binary powers and a ton more abilities than what her character did when Rogue stole her abilities. So, she can kill Thanos with a thought from how Marvel is putting her forward. But my problem with that is not so much the female aspect, but the Adam Warlock aspect.

Adam Warlock is kind of a heroic figure compared to Thanos, in that he was the only one with a power level on par with the mad titan. He eventually gets the infinity Gauntlet and as the Marvel Messiah, distributes the stones to six protectorates amongst the 616 universe, creating the illuminati.

Then we got that little tease at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy 2, where the incubator with “Adam” was featured. A lot of fans speculated that this would play into the plot of Avengers: Infinity War, and that Warlock would show up and save the day, doing all the crap that the heroes struggled to do to defeat the purple menace.

My problem with that, in writing, is that it’s a cheap out for stakes in the story progression. Here we have the heroes struggling with their all to defeat the tyrant, and here comes a character with no development, no connection to the audience, and blasts the main villain who the other guys we had struggled, cried, bled and strove with over so many years had trouble with.

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth thinking about it as a writer. I want that struggle, that underdog coming in and doing the impossible to defeat an impossible foe. I’m glad for that reason they didn’t have Adam Warlock come in and be a mister fix-it for the heroes. And having Thanos win against our heroes just put the stakes in the story that made us as an audience, bawl in the aisles like babies.

And here we have a woman about to do something similar, or posited to be in that same tone.