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I'm back from taking Ryan to see Spider-Man, which was fantastic. And of course I totally agree with Steph, and am impressed that you totally called
MJ being rescued by Andrew "With great heights come great responsibility" Garfield.
A couple of thoughts:
1. The arc of Peter's story of course pivots around Aunt May's death. Which, not thrilled about the fridging issue. But what I did like is that - given they were going the multiverse route, and the other two Spider-Men were going to show up - that they actually had particular emotional relevance to the story, rather than just serving as spectacle.
Finishing with everyone forgetting Peter. Emotionally it's all centred on his relationships with MJ and Ned; but is this setting up for Sony to cut ties with the MCU?
Steph, I had the same reaction as to you to
what happened to Aunt May.
HOWEVER, given that
Uncle Ben has never been mentioned once, and considering some things MCU Peter says earlier, I think it's safe to say this was supposed to be the MCU equivalent of the burglar incident.
Which means, interestingly, that
the period from Civil War through Far From Home is the MCU equivalent of the period from his debut as a wrestler to the burglar incident, where he was briefly a celebrity.
Which kind of fits with his position as someone with Tony Stark as mentor and resource.
On Hawkeye: I want
Armand Jack to join the LARPers.
I want it a lot.
Jacques! Or is it Jack? Anyway, he needs a leisure time activity.
Oh, shit, right. Will edit. But he DOES need a leisure time activity!
Perhaps Armand the youngster could join the LARPers too -- as a quintain.
I still say Armand IV is a clone. There has been no evidence of that whatsoever but I’m quite certain. Anyway, I would allow him to LARP as well.
There's definitely something weird going on with that family, especially with Armand III not being sure how many there are.
Then again, apparently my company's head lawyer is the 6th of his name and his son is the 7th, so there are real families that still do that sort of thing.
One of my high school room-mates was a 13th in unbroken line. There was unspoken pressure on him to plan to get married and have at least one boy to continue the tradition, but he was pretty relaxed about it.
I would like someone to edit a supercut of the trick arrows from Hawkeye with their equivalent angry birds sound effects.
