infinity war spoilers

[pax_athena]

Cut for spoilers, BEWARE, etc.






So I went and, on purpose, spoiled myself for the movie online.

I guess I will not be seeing it. I mean - the original Transformers one (the cartoon from the 80ies when Hasbro decided that they can sell more new toys by killing off all the old characters, including the one and only Prime that counts; I could live with the rest, but I've never forgiven them that; or IDW killing off Sixshot) was bad enough.

Or maybe I am. And then spent the first half of the movie crying my heart out? But I can't afford being an emotional mess at the moment.

Or only go when the second part is out? Especially if the after-credit-scene is of a dark-haired boy in Paris, playing card tricks (but then again, I bet there are many more other possible after-credit-scenes). Though the second part could also make it worse (at least my #2 favorite is still alive).

Or maybe not at all. And ignore it's existence the way I managed to ignore the last Captain America.

(I'm also pretty good at ignoring DC movies, especially of the Batman kind. But there I am interested in the comics "continuity". While with Marvel I very much am not. And it has been a long while since I liked a given single character that much over such a long period of time.)

Comments

[giallarhorn]

I dunno if I'd give any of the current character deaths much stock at all right now- we know that there's GotG v3, a second Spiderman, and a second Black Panther. All three of those took a lot of hits, so I wouldn't chalk it up to anything just yet.

[pax_athena]

*nods* True. I assume you've seen it? Otherwise the following is spoilery.

The thing for me is that emotionally, I care about two, perhaps two and a half characters. Loki, Tony (and Pepper -- being the half, since she was never really that well fleshed out in the movies). And I think both actors have their contracts running out and may just want out? All the other death - well, they would impact me while watching, but not long-term,

It would make even storytelling sense for Tony to be the one sacrificing himself in the end. I also totally see how keeping Loki as a perma-death or a "reborn as kid-Loki" would make storytelling sense (no that the franchise cared about that a lot) - but I doubt I'd be able to get into the character played by someone else, I did not manage with any of the comic version and I tried hard ... And yes, he is a fan favorite. But honestly, he is still not one of the main players or main money bringing machines as far as I understand ...

Plus I guess it's my general bitterness about franchises that are ruled not by storytelling necessity (there are death in books that hurt like hell, but I can accept them) but by other stuff ... Marketing and actor contracts and different people's interpretation of the same characters (and whether they care about them or not).

Whooops, too much text ... We'll see. I may revise my reaction in a bit, but I still know that sitting out Civil War was a good decision. I will revisit at some point in the future. When I have less emotions about it XD

[giallarhorn]

Haven't actually seen it myself, and probably won't till it comes out on DVD but I have relatively little investment in MCU so spoilers are whatever to me.

Pepper's been kinda been oscillating in appearance rate in non-Iron Man films for whatever reason, but hasn't it been confirmed that Iron Man 4 was at least in the works?

There's been a running theory that the people who died in the presence of a stone have gone the way of HP and the Elder Wand business, a la Loki for space, Gamora for soul, etc. Which narratively means that they can't stay dead, but makes assumption of how they want to go with this. Tony sacrificing himself makes a lot more sense, or at least a chunk of whoever's left over past part 1- instead of a whole out massacre, you kill off half or 1/3 of the survivors of the first half to bring back everyone else.

Yeah, MCU is a particularly bad franchise to be emotionally invested in on a storytelling level, imho. It's fine to enjoy in pieces and chunks as individual movies, but being able to put faith in the narrative choices of the franchise, eh.