Vid: Until the Day
Mar. 27th, 2019 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hexenmeisterSo I went to see Captain Marvel on Monday. I was really not expecting to have this many feelings about it. I thought it was solidly a B+ Marvel movie; it was up there with some other Truly Enjoyable Ones like Homecoming.
But her WIFE AND CHILD??? OH MY GOD?? I AM SO EMOTIONAL ABOUT THIS FAMILY. I have, of course, so many happy-shippy-squee feelings about Carol/Maria. But I also feel a lot of sadness-- more about that under the cut.
So when I got home I immediately found some bad bootleg footage and made another short-turnaround vid! In the process, I learned how to change the shape of fades, how to make it so my video preview isn't laggy, and how to capture footage directly from my computer screen.
It is so McFucking Intense for Carol to be presumed dead, and then come back with no memories, and then discover that she has a life partner and a child she helped raise, and then remember (some of?) life with them, and then need to leave them again at the end. Did she stay gone for the next... 20 years? Possibly!! We don't know, and we might never know.
That's intense in a way that I feel the movie did not honor, because it would not acknowledge the depth of the relationships *that it created.* The movie was good at creating a sense of sweetness and real home, but not good at portraying the full weight of the commitments attached to becoming *family* with another person, especially a child.
So many of my feelings about this ship are wrapped up in meta-feelings about the franchise, and how its inconsistent writing/selective amnesia are almost definitely going to forget about Maria and Monica and not even acknowledge how hugely fucking sad that is. I thought my expectations for Marvel writing had been lowered enough to protect my heart, but apparently they were not. :/
But her WIFE AND CHILD??? OH MY GOD?? I AM SO EMOTIONAL ABOUT THIS FAMILY. I have, of course, so many happy-shippy-squee feelings about Carol/Maria. But I also feel a lot of sadness-- more about that under the cut.
So when I got home I immediately found some bad bootleg footage and made another short-turnaround vid! In the process, I learned how to change the shape of fades, how to make it so my video preview isn't laggy, and how to capture footage directly from my computer screen.
It is so McFucking Intense for Carol to be presumed dead, and then come back with no memories, and then discover that she has a life partner and a child she helped raise, and then remember (some of?) life with them, and then need to leave them again at the end. Did she stay gone for the next... 20 years? Possibly!! We don't know, and we might never know.
That's intense in a way that I feel the movie did not honor, because it would not acknowledge the depth of the relationships *that it created.* The movie was good at creating a sense of sweetness and real home, but not good at portraying the full weight of the commitments attached to becoming *family* with another person, especially a child.
So many of my feelings about this ship are wrapped up in meta-feelings about the franchise, and how its inconsistent writing/selective amnesia are almost definitely going to forget about Maria and Monica and not even acknowledge how hugely fucking sad that is. I thought my expectations for Marvel writing had been lowered enough to protect my heart, but apparently they were not. :/
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Date: 2020-02-03 09:17 pm (UTC)