#and tfatws went over really well (sam wilson my beloved)

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Multiverse of Madness disorganized thoughts

Overall: A pretty good Marvel movie! Fun and gross and a little scary in the way I want from a Sam Raimi movie and a Marvel movie. Continues to humble Stephen Strange in exactly the ways I want him humbled, and introduced a new character I love unreservedly. Wong (my beloved) present and respected.

I really liked Strange’s arc in this movie. He wants to do the right thing but he lets his arrogant surgeon thing get in the way. The fact that the movie’s climax involves him stepqping back and letting America Chavez come into her power and take care of Wanda? Love it. Contrast with Tony Stark who is also an arrogant white man, but never really learns from his mistakes.

Wong. I am one of nature’s sensible side characters it is so important to me that that Wong be the sorcerer supreme. Yes, please give this important job to someone who will (be charming and) take it seriously and not be distracted by movie plots. Even knowing he would live I almost screamed when he fell off that cliff.

I hate Mr. Fantastic because his powers are so disturbing to look at, and I loved that he died in the most body horror way possible. I cringed and cheered at that scene in equal parts.

I loved seeing Maria and Peggy, and I both loved and hated that they died. No real point here except that it was emotionally effective to introduce them and then brutally take them away.

I wasn’t sure that Marvel would require people to subscribe to Disney+ and watch the shows to understand the movies, but yeah. I would not want to go into this movie without seeing WandaVision and What If?

Music battle my beloved.

I hope America finds her moms. I hope she’s in every MCU project from this day forward.

Wanda. Is she dead? I didn’t hate her storyline if she is. TFATWS also had an arc (John Walker) where a morally decent but not amazing person was given too much power and went nuts, and I think that’s what happened to Wanda? Like, she’s not inherently a monster, but she’s so strong that no one could remain uncorrupted by that amount of power. “Very human character destroys self because they are given too much power” works very well for me as an arc, basically.

I wonder what other Wanda’s story was? Are those Vision’s kids? Did d she have powers before our Wanda took her over? What happened with Ultron in that world? What happened to Pietro?

All I’m saying is that if only humans of almost superhuman goodness should be trusted with superhuman power, Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers are the guys I would trust with that power.

The Illuminati. I know that’s a comics things that I know very little about. But I’m tempted to see them as people who made moral choices that they shouldn’t have made. Peggy went along with the “Stephen Strange euthanasia” plan the same way our Peggy went along with the “recruit Arnim Zola” plan - maybe it seemed like the only thing that could be done at the time, but it was not the right choice.

Fundamentally I am ok with movies that show the morally “hard” choice being the wrong choice. There are morally difficult situations in the real world, but blockbuster popcorn films should probably always prop up the conventionally moral choice.

#doctor strange 2 #doctor strange in the multiverse of madness #mom spoilers

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i think part of the reason why so many of us our losing our minds over phase four is because we’re actually seeing what a difference it makes when you have female directors. we have kari skogland for tfatws, kate herron for loki, cate shortland for black widow, and soon to be chloé zhao with the eternals, making SO MUCH of the mcu content we received this year directed by women. it’s just nice to see women in the directing chair for the mcu and honestly just in general. that’s all. it’s been long overdue <3

#these things!! they’ve already become so beloved!! #eternals hasn’t even come out yet and people are losing their minds #i’m seeing SUCH positive reviews for black widow #and tfatws went over really well (sam wilson my beloved) #besides the uhhhhhhh loki selfcest i think we’re doing pretty good didjdkdkdkddk #marvel #mcu #tfatws #kari skogland #loki #loki series #kate herron #black widow #cate shortland #the eternals #chloe zhao #the falcon and the winter soldier