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]

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.

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.

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(Uh, Watsonian vs. Doylist: [link]

(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."

And Joss just deleted his Twitter account.

I think I'm a fan of the Forsythian view, myself.

edit: as in Laura is a willing beard for Clint and Coulson because she gets a nice place to live, pleasant guys to hang out with, and good looking kids out of the deal. Also, Steve and Tony were doing things in the barn Fury threatened to tear his remaining eye out over. Hence him saying he worries about Tony. See? It writes itself.

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.

Yeah, I recognize that a lot of what felt like bloat to me is because Marvel Studios has a damn 100-year movie plan at this point, and AoU had to set more things in place (though Thor's trip to the Pool of Revelation or whatever the hell it was, just so he could infodump to the audience, was ridiculously clunky). That's not something Joss could do anything about.

Joss also deleted it in 2013. As I was saying on Tumblr, the negative feedback he's been getting may have hastened it, but given that he's through with his promotional obligations, I expect he'd have done it within a week or two, anyhow.

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."

Heh. But dontcha know she was written out because she was knocked up? ::eyeroll::

I'm actually pretty Doylist a lot of the time, but I'm also not going to completely excuse clunky workarounds or poor writing choices.

And Joss just deleted his Twitter account.

Yeah, apparently a bunch of people twitted at him with stuff like "go kill yourself," like WTF, people?

I'm a fan of the Forsythian view, myself.

I've been in my part of fandom so long, I almost have a hard time understanding why people get worked up over canon they don't like. I mean, of course I understand it, but there's also a part of me that's like "Canon isn't the boss of us!"