Isn't there something in the comics where Wanda brought him back?
Xander: I do have Spaghetti-os. Set 'em on top of the dryer and you're a fluff cycle away from lukewarm goodness. Riley: I, uh, had dryer-food for lunch.
'Same Time, Same Place'
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Connie Neil - May 04, 2015 9:35:15 am PDT #28860 of 30000
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Zenkitty - May 04, 2015 11:20:51 am PDT #28861 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Pietro was an Avenger for a long time in the comics, so I was surprised when he died. He's supposed to be there! I thought I didn't care, but I ended up liking both him and Wanda, so, crap, I don't want him to be dead!
SailAweigh - May 04, 2015 12:35:27 pm PDT #28862 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Totally agree!
Polter-Cow - May 04, 2015 1:17:03 pm PDT #28863 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
About the whitefont discussion, this article has some insight. It's worth a read, as Joss is pretty upfront about his frustrations with the studio.
Connie Neil - May 04, 2015 1:38:09 pm PDT #28864 of 30000
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Huh, so Marvel wanted to axe the dreams. I thought the dreams kind of slowed things down.
sj - May 04, 2015 1:42:01 pm PDT #28865 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I liked the dreams, they were actual character development, rather than just smashing things.
Vonnie K - May 04, 2015 2:56:07 pm PDT #28866 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Truth time: The movie has been out for 5 days, and I'm already weary of people bitching about how much it sucked, and the people who loved it being all defensive and passive aggressive. Not that I'm against people expressing their opinions or anything! And I haven't even read that many reaction posts. At least things on B.org seem calm and civil. Tumblr right now is being an unbearable echo chamber clusters of various camps yelling about how their opinions are the only valid ones and everyone else can go suck an egg.
I worked all weekend and got woken up several times at night for work-related reasons on both Saturday and Sunday, so I'm sleep deprived and seriously cranky, which is probably not helping.
As a palette cleanser, I offer you this hilarious write-up from a dude over at AV Club, who voluntarily sat through the 28 hr MCU marathon leading to AoU. It made me laugh like a hyena: [link]
P.M. Marc - May 04, 2015 3:03:23 pm PDT #28867 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Tumblr right now is being an unbearable echo chamber clusters of various camps yelling about how their opinions are valid and everyone else can go suck an egg.
I basically have hit a point where I'm going to have to avoid mobile, because I can't blacklist or block posts.
I will say, as one with mixed feelings about the film, people telling me I (rather, the whole group of us talking about how the monster scene could really easily be read in a skeevy fashion) missed the point with a handy graphic has made me like the film less, rather than more, as have all the uncritical reblogs of shit like that. I'm aware that it's not the film's fault that Whedon's got this cult of personality thing going, but I swear, as even handed as I have been trying to be, if I continue to read on mobile, I'm going to start throwing punches at people I usually like and never, ever want to see the film again.
Dana - May 04, 2015 3:03:30 pm PDT #28868 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
A good read (I thought) from Speranza, who is in slash fandom, but has lots of interesting things to say about reading the film from a Doylist perspective. A lot of her thoughts are my thoughts.
(Uh, Watsonian vs. Doylist: [link]
DavidS - May 04, 2015 3:12:31 pm PDT #28869 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(Uh, Watsonian vs. Doylist: [link])
Oooh, useful! I realize I'm mostly Doylist because whenever there were complaints about Cordy's character arc on Angel, I'd shrug and go, "Well, maybe Charisma shouldn't have done so much blow she had to change her hairstyle every week and go to rehab and get written out of the show."