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A compliation of my Endgame reaction posts from Tumblr
My Endgame reactions on Tumblr today, a play in three acts.
#1
My reaction, after twelve hours:
[STOP READING THERE IF YOU REALLY ENJOYED THE MOVIE AND ARE HAPPY ABOUT HOW IT ENDED, I WAS UP REALLY LATE LAST NIGHT AND I’M TIRED! HAHA!]
…Anyway, I wish I actually meant that humorously in the sense that I was awake until 2 in the morning between seeing the movie and hashing out my feelings about it, but, no, I just mean…
Look, I can see ways to bend and twist and reconstruct the material that movie gave us into a lot of fun and enjoyable and great fic? But at this point I don’t even want to because I am just. so. fucking. tired. of engaging with a canon that thought THOSE were good endings for the characters I’ve spent a decade bonding with. What the actual fuck. I keep trying to like, rank the original six’s endings in order of which I am most to least mad about, but I just–what the actual everliving fuck.
Also it is sort of impressive, in a trainwrecky way, how many character arcs get warped into incoherence, grim futility, or total fucking nihilism by the gravitational pull of these endings. Like. Wow, I retroactively dislike other movies because this is apparently where you were going that whole time! AWESOME. THANKS I HATE IT.
https://dsudis.tumblr.com/post/184459811109/endgame-thoughts-i-guess-spoilers-under-the-cut
#2
Another Endgame thought, this one about Steve and his storyline. Which I am not squeeing about in this post.
Okay, so, everyone always sees a different version of the same movie, right, we all know that.
But it is fucking SURREAL to see a character’s ending and go “wow that was an only barely metaphorical suicide concluding his six-movie arc of depression and alienation, I need to go huddle with The Magicians fans now” and then have people cheering about what a beautiful and romantic and life-affirming happy ending it was.
https://dsudis.tumblr.com/post/184465063904/another-endgame-thought-this-one-about-steve-and#3
Third and perhaps most inevitable Endgame Thought
…oh no I just spent an hour plotting out the fic I want to write to fix EVERYTHING.
https://dsudis.tumblr.com/post/184467130094/third-and-perhaps-most-inevitable-endgame-thought
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I think the narrative intention was basically that Bruce has already achieved his ~happy ending~ by successfully making peace between Banner and Hulk? But he did that like, three years before the main action of the movie and then just... continued on with ghosting all the other Avengers (while also being sorta benignly mildly famous?? for some reason????) and then was just sorta vaguely crestfallen about like, Nat dying, and Valkyrie not wanting to be pals anymore? But he? Ignored them? For five years??
So it's a shitty vague non-ending because the MCU has literally never known what to do with him!! Which is probably one of the least bad endings any of them get, so yay, I guess.
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OK, I'm not going to use up valuable brain cycles thinking about this, I will continue in my conviction that not seeing this in a theater (or any place where I can't pause or fast-forward) is a good life choice.
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But the good part, for me anyway, is that because he spent the entire movie in the uncanny valley of not!Bruce and not!Hulk, it was almost like he wasn't even there. Every time he was on screen he basically negated the movie for me as something to take seriously - it was like he was a cartoon character in a live-action movie. Makes it a lot easier for me to emotionally exclude it all from canon as needed!
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