I kinda wish I had a fandom Tumblr

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So I could offer up thanks for the REAL TIME FANART RESPONSE, yesterday and early today. XD Definitely the sort of thing the platform does best. Not even gonna lie: thank the small gods of media Hollywood cast their X-Men movie for accidental resemblance to Hetalia characters. In fact, I don't have the value system that would make me want to lie about this. It should happen more often. For one thing, if they hadn't cast for accidental resemblance to Hetalia characters they may not have made the kind of numbers that would have justified a super-duper fancy artbook-y Japanese Blu-Ray release, so there you are.

In conclusion: thanks for coming through like a bro, Pixiv. Also whoever you are, the person who skinned Magneto's drag outfit in Sims 3 in 20 minutes flat. Also you, the Korean high school AU dating sim ppl. See you again for Wolverine II: Electric Weeaboo.

Really the one tumblog serves 85% of my real needs, assuming music ppl find relevance in the occasional photo of Iggy and Bowie being themselves. But sometimes you just want to comment back on everyone on your dashboard freaking the hell out without cluttering up your own feed with stacked quotes, bawling. Speaking of which guys, IDK, I've yet to see anyone build a case that Charles/Erik isn't canon (even poking through scans of the comics, aspects of which are properly intelligent), the extra-diegetic flotsam of the movie least of all. I mean, Take That? RLY?

...Should I make a fandom Tumblr? I suppose it's likely to contain shiz like The Economist finally revealing the identity of its editors.

Comments

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but I actually think they were cut for the same reason a bunch of the Kirk-Gaila scenes were cut in Trek AOS: because the more you see of that, the more Charles's actions at the end would have seemed indefensible.

I hadn't thought of that, but I suspect you're right. They had already given Charles a couple of damaging scenes (with Raven, and the just following orders).

Moira WAS supposed to get a character arc and the writers really wanted it in, as they talked about it here: http://collider.com/ashley-miller-zack-stentz-interview-thor-thor-2-x-men-first-class/101175/

(You might have seen this, if so, my apologies! I was just so validated when I saw this because I've always thought it was really odd that they name-drop her in one of the big scenes, and she was supposed to be a counterexample to *Shaw*, a much bigger figure in the narrative.)

There seems to have been much less post-prod farking about with Erik's scenes. Maybe Charles is just a hard character to write XD; (I suspect ppl do generally find it harder to write Prof X than Magneto).

IAWTC 100%. I think everything about Mags is just so much... clearer. You get where the anger is coming from and you sympathize, you get how phenomenal his powers are and you can enjoy them in use most times without the extra scrutiny because they're not inherently unethical, he's not as wrapped up in privilege as Charles so his views tend to come off as more practical - he's just very solid. It's no wonder to me he's such a popular character and when writers like Grant Morrison try to write him as a real villain, there's an outcry. But when Whedon and others write him as twisted man or a fascist, the reaction is basically, "eh, I always knew the old man was like that".

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But when Whedon and others write him

The him here is Charles! I suck.

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Thanks for the video! I hadn't seen it in fact.

Yeah cos Magneto is Nietzche's wet dream I MEAN he is almost more a tragic hero, actually, in the Aristotelian sense that he has the fundamental forces of the universe at his fingertips, and his basic urge is for good, but he will fuck up terribly and inevitably in his actions because he has a major internal error in the way he responds to the world and cannot get over it. As revolutionary leaders go, he's the kind that ensures the success of the revolution if someone puts a bullet in the back of his head at exactly the right time. Though of course that wouldn't work on him. XD; Anyway, status quo dictates he can't put a cathartic end to the tragic hero arc by dying, or derail onto the Christian-era hero arc and be redeemed instead.

With Professor X I think it's (well, if you talk to ppl I know) the fact that he is The Side Of Good always, except for all the instances where he does stuff that is not kosher by way of careless writing, which then gets handwaved. People remember the non-kosher-ness, though, and it builds up until it's finally acknowledged.