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lokifanOh! I saw Guardians of the Galaxy a little while ago, by the way.
You guys were right – it's definitely funny. I was quite shocked by how sci-fi it was, oddly enough. Marvel has often made this effort to make its stuff accessible and non-sci-fi-y – especially the first Thor film where they very deliberately begin with a flash-forward on Earth – so I was a bit 'oh fuck, there are these people, and this other faction, and also this villain, ARGH HELP' for the first fifteen minutes. Add to that the attempting-to-evoke-Islamic-terrorism introduction of (one of) our villains and I was not that happy. BUT it backed away from that pretty sharpish and just focussed on the comedy so that was much better.
The Destroyer calling Gamora a whore made no fucking sense at all, as I am far from the first to point out, I'm sure.
It was SUPER VIOLENT. I'd actually heard this from a couple of people but I was still shocked by the SUPER VIOLENT. There was a lot more actual death than is at all typical for Marvel, and a lot more collateral damage and suffering of non-combatants for all that they did show some civilians escaping the attacks. Groot skewering about twenty people at once was kind of a WTF moment for me. Not that I'm opposed to violence in film necessarily, and it works for the turned-up-to-eleven aesthetic, but it was really different from Avengers or either of the Thor films especially. This is not a world for girls saving the local puppies from the coming monster.
I am really, really weak for immoral girls who get better and morally ambiguous girls and ruthless female fighters and complicated sibling dynamics and villains made suddenly vulnerable around their vengeance-wanting victims and girls with evil fathers. I mean, when I was fourteen I wrote a long story about a girl who was basically if Magneto had a daughter who was taken in by the X-Men as a teenager because Magneto was captured and sent to prison. So like. GAMORA. Yes. I am so here for her. And for Nebula.
GotG isn't going to become a fandom-fandom of mine I'm pretty sure, but I will very happily read about them.
I can't believe I have TWO murderous space incest ships.
You guys were right – it's definitely funny. I was quite shocked by how sci-fi it was, oddly enough. Marvel has often made this effort to make its stuff accessible and non-sci-fi-y – especially the first Thor film where they very deliberately begin with a flash-forward on Earth – so I was a bit 'oh fuck, there are these people, and this other faction, and also this villain, ARGH HELP' for the first fifteen minutes. Add to that the attempting-to-evoke-Islamic-terrorism introduction of (one of) our villains and I was not that happy. BUT it backed away from that pretty sharpish and just focussed on the comedy so that was much better.
The Destroyer calling Gamora a whore made no fucking sense at all, as I am far from the first to point out, I'm sure.
It was SUPER VIOLENT. I'd actually heard this from a couple of people but I was still shocked by the SUPER VIOLENT. There was a lot more actual death than is at all typical for Marvel, and a lot more collateral damage and suffering of non-combatants for all that they did show some civilians escaping the attacks. Groot skewering about twenty people at once was kind of a WTF moment for me. Not that I'm opposed to violence in film necessarily, and it works for the turned-up-to-eleven aesthetic, but it was really different from Avengers or either of the Thor films especially. This is not a world for girls saving the local puppies from the coming monster.
I am really, really weak for immoral girls who get better and morally ambiguous girls and ruthless female fighters and complicated sibling dynamics and villains made suddenly vulnerable around their vengeance-wanting victims and girls with evil fathers. I mean, when I was fourteen I wrote a long story about a girl who was basically if Magneto had a daughter who was taken in by the X-Men as a teenager because Magneto was captured and sent to prison. So like. GAMORA. Yes. I am so here for her. And for Nebula.
GotG isn't going to become a fandom-fandom of mine I'm pretty sure, but I will very happily read about them.
I can't believe I have TWO murderous space incest ships.