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So, you guys. I have a really weird angle coming to discuss this movie. Really weird one.
In case you missed this: I work in the National Library's archives department. about ~30% of my time in the past 6 months was dedicated to process and catalog archives of intellectual historians of the Holocaust, some are/were survivors. So my mind really goes to the "something terrible happened to mankind. How do we process this? Is/was this inevitable? What does it say about humanity? On individuals? On randomness, grief and loss? What happens to the society in the aftermath?". I know six different ways of answering these question, and I kept thinking how what I know about dealing intellectually and historically with a catastrophe aligns with this movie (spoiler alert: it doesn't, but I've only watched this once and was unprepared to the places my mind took me, so maybe it's more nuanced than that and I just couldn't process all of it.) I keep coming back to the question of what can go wrong when trying to fight a fate, especially with time travel, moreso with a less than a careful use in that tool.
I think I need to watch it again.
Shir, I love your angle, and while I wish there had been more of that, I also recognize that it probably wouldn't work in a superhero movie. Fingers crossed for some excellent fanfic addressing it!! Because fanfic can TOO be scholarly, so there.
Apparently the people involved with Far From Home have been saying that that movie will deal with some of the fallout from Endgame, including the
"snapped back 5 years later"
thing.
Well,
Laura Harrier, who played Liz
in Spider-Man: Homecoming,
was 26 when she made that movie, and now is 29.
I wonder if she'll make a (brief) appearance in Far From Home.
Apparently the people involved with Far From Home have been saying that that movie will deal with some of the fallout from Endgame
I have a partially serious theory that the only reason Endgame
jumped forward 5 years
was to
get Scott's daughter Cassie old enough (or close) to join the
entirely hypothetical (I don't remember reading any spoilers about this)
Young Avengers.
Tom, according to this article (putting behind white font for spoilers)
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2019/05/michael-keaton-laura-harrier-arent-in-spider-man-far-from-home-after-all/ she's not in
Far From Home
y'know, a while ago I had been reading about Brexit, came here and people were talking about "May" ... I was trying to figure out what Theresa May had to do with Spiderman ....
I have not had a chance to rewatch Endgame yet because I forgot I already had plans on Monday, and ltc gets out too early on Wednesday. I thought I was out of luck because the 10AM shows are disappearing tomorrow, but TCG is picking up ltc after school tomorrow. So, as long as I bring him the carseat first, I'm going to go see it again tomorrow. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie twice in the theater. I also can't remember the last time I saw a movie by myself.
I am at the theater! I'm looking forward to seeing it without the anxiety of worrying about what is going to happen to everyone. As of right now, I'm the only one here.
Yeah, I really need to do a rewatch without spending the whole time thinking
Steve was going to die.
