i have some takes that are... i guess unpopular based on the fact that they're generally anti mcu? i think the mcu has had a net negative impact on cinema as a whole, i think it's full of military propoganda, i think it's done a lot of harm to comics as an art form. but i don't hate the mcu as a whole so i have some more fun ones
mainly that i actually think the civil war conflict was good and made sense and while i do think steve was right (the government can't be trusted), everyone had equally good intentions and unlike the comics it didn't make Everyone a giant asshole? it's a much smaller scale conflict than the comics civil war which i think is for the better
TroubledBlues
: my most unpopular is probably that i'm not crazy about jonmartin. it's fine. i've read versions of martin i really enjoy and there's a few episodes and arcs that make me really understand him, but he's too........ friend shaped
other unpopular opinion is that while the gerard and gertrude dynamic is very complicated and overall bad, their feelings regarding eachother are more complicated than "gertrude was abusive to gerard."
they WERE found family, they were just found family that both knew they were using eachother, and i think gertrude leaned into the found family specifically
gerry compares gertrude to mary but he also makes it clear that she's better because while they're both ruthless, gertrude wanted to save lives and make the entities and avatars feel a smidge of the pain they've casually inflicted. he's very hurt and betrayed but he also understands her and still cares about her
"being a slayer is a metaphor for growing up!" ah yes, i remember growing up, i killed thousands. "vampires are a metaphor for problems faced when growing up so they all have to be completely evil and uncomplicated" first of all that's not how problems work. "faith is a metaphor for buffy's (heterosexual) sexual desire (for angel)" do u hear yourself
also angel in buffy the vampire slayer is boring, and he only really becomes interesting when seperated from buffy, because buffy/angel was a blackhole that sucked everything good from every character involved, and i think buffy's arc is incomplete since she still refuses to think of angelus and angel/and spike and soulless spike as the same people
recorder
: my main one is that i think people take "flowey is soulless" way too literally and use it as an excuse when i don't really think it works as one
the lack of a soul made him feel less connected with the people around him, and that's about it. which i feel like is more of a metaphor for the depression he fell into after countless loops of the same extremely limited world than a "having no soul made him evil" copout. since he still tried to be good for a long time! he just. got bored and existentially
but what might be generally unpopular in all of them is that....... i don't.... really resonate with gorgug. i've tried? but he's very simple as a character, i think, and i don't tend to go for that.
I get that. I like Gorgug as a counterpoint to the rest of the bad kids. He creates a fun dynamic, and Zac is great at bits. But as an individual character, he doesn't hold a lot of interest for me.
yeah same. you could probably do some interesting stuff with him but in canon he doesn't really see a lot of development that strikes me as compelling. his relationships with the other bad kids is nice, his relationship with zelda is.... funny at first, and then it's bad
I haven't watched the seven so I can't comment on that, but I wasn't surprised there would be people shipping things there. Like, by design you are going to get more interaction between Zelda and the rest of the girls than we get between Zelda and Gorgug in FH
part of me knows I should, but also part of me worries that I'll... how to put it -- I'll be biased against it from the start cause there are no bad kids.
Wait is that thing about what Faith represents somethign Whedon said??? Holy shit I was big into this fandom is it was airing, how did I miss that Word of God take?
skipthedemon
: she was supposed to represent buffy's hidden desires as buffy's shadow self. willow is the spirit, xander's the heart, giles is the mind, faith, cordelia and spike are all supposed to be shadows
faith is the most direct shadow reflection because they are ultimately very similar and faith is supposed to tempt buffy into taking what she wants by showing her her version of being a slayer
but the reason why she's constantly talking about sex to buffy or inquiring about buffy's sex life or even hitting on buffy is because..... buffy...... secretly wants to bang angel you see. that's where it gets ridiculous
because faith doesn't want angel, faith wants buffy. that's how eliza dushku played it and that's how every single writer other than whedon intended to write it.
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: maybe watch the first episode and see how you feel then. it's a very good opening and introduction to the characters and how they fit. i'm a minority in that my favourite characters aren't even the pcs.
I'm two episodes in and I'm enjoying it so far. So I will probably finish it! Even if I am going to erase their inclusion on the Kalvaxus exhibit from personal canon, cause fuck it, that is not their glory.
Yeah, it's like! I'm sure they did cool stuff. They did that Gorgon queen mission with the bad girls, right? The one that was happening while Riz, Fabian and Gorgug were bereft of all the braincells. You could've mentioned that!
but instead they bring up the fact that they brought kalvaxus back so they could kill him again which, good for closure, not so much an awe inspiring story of heroism.
But yeah, back to Penny, I never knew I needed an explanation for why Riz decided to buy a best friend necklace for Fabian, but also, look, there is all three foot of it.
they WERE found family, they were just found family that both knew they were using eachother, and i think gertrude leaned into the found family specifically
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