#carol is just Done.

[itspileofgoodthings]

Good morning what are the movies or tv shows that traumatized you as a kid mine are the BBC production of A Christmas Carol and a handful of David Suchet Poirot episodes

#my dad always thought if something was well done it was appropriate for children #so we never watched the silly little kid version of things. The muppet Christmas Carol? My dad would N E V E R #anyway a Christmas Carol ruined Christmas for me for YEARS #i hated to think about it #and poirot was just. traumatizing #there’s one called murder on the links which involved a golf course at night which is one of the most terrifying locations I can imagine #also there’s one called death in the clouds #and poirot uncovers the murder because there are two spoons on the dead lady’s tray of airplane food #and the way he says ‘he picks up a spoon giving him the task of a waiter to carry out’ #when explaining the murder at the end to this DAY sends chills up my spine #I know this is very obvious but the thing about fear is that it isn’t about logic or reason but it is about revelation #it’s like the flip side of moments of good and happy insight #at least for me #what terrifies me is a moment where some kind of evil is revealed in a blinding FLASH #a motive or (I guess) a ghost #and there is this presence of some malevolent entity underneath the reality of things #and something about it being SEEN almost more than it existing #is so scary. Like I. #Poirot uncovering the murder and describing it with such studied fascinated careful attention #pulling back the layers of a blind of one kind or another #shakes me to. my. CORE. #and it’s all so visual and instinctive. it’s one tiny little moment that doesn’t fit suddenly pulling back the curtain of reality #with such terrifying abruptness #makes me want to sit down and cry like a baby #the knowledge of evil doesn’t scare me. as in it doesn’t elicit an emotional/physical reaction of fear #but seeing it in embodied action. again. where it’s some tiny ordinary little detail suddenly ripping reality as you know it to shreds #the surprise of it. the recalibration it demands #I !!!!!!!!! Get so afraid

[pyroclastic727]

The Marvels is being scathed by critics, and that's a good thing.

I finally saw The Marvels today. I'm a bit late to the party, so all I saw about the movie was the teaser at the end of Ms Marvel, and way too many critical reviews of it.

Now, obviously on Tumblr you find the good reviews, like, the cats outnumbering the white men and how Kamala Khan is, like, basically all of us. But in person, I've had someone tell me that it's bad because Rotten Tomatoes rates it 43%, which-- besides wondering why anyone would listen to Rotten Tomatoes, I'd have to wonder why the website would give it such a low rating. The easy answer is that the Tomatoes review committee is populated by white men, who, upon having no one to relate to, react badly to the movie. But I think there's more to it.

The Marvels is a revolution. Through its character-driven writing and brazen exploration of morality, it rewrites the superhero formula completely, by questioning what exactly it means to be a superhero.

The Marvels was directed by Nia DaCosta, an award-winning Harlem native and creative visionary whose approach to this film was to define these characters as humans, not as superheroes. Her approach to heroism directly addresses that the idea that a hero is not always right. A hero, DaCosta claims, is "someone who's trying their best with the information and tools they have at the time. They'll always get it wrong." Carol Danvers's arc directly addresses this, as the resolution of her subplot involves her re-igniting the sun that she snuffed out. Her heroic act is to undo the damage that she wrought.

When compared to old Marvel, this message just doesn't come through. In WandaVision, Wanda's grief is for a family that was killed by the Avengers. Yet, she is painted as a villain, even as she searches for a happy home, even as she at one point joins the Avengers. The Avengers cannot undo what they did, and don't really try. They defeat the big bad, sacrifice their lives, but nothing brings back Wanda's family. Nothing undoes that war. No one searches for Wanda after the event, to try to help her with her grief, except for Monica, and she's working against orders. Their heroics are militant, but while they excel at destruction, they leave the people they hurt in the dust.

This antiheroic plot of old Marvel is precisely what appealed to so many American audiences. Their protagonists are: a rich corporation, a super-soldier, a privileged teenager, a scientist who makes weapons, an ex-convict, a man born into godlike power, and I'm sure there are others but I don't actually care that much... (these would be iron man, captain america, peter parker spiderman, hulk, antman, thor, and etc). All these archetypes appeal to American ideals that the wealthy would sympathize with. They claim that there are people who are inherently bad and seek the power that they have, in the way that a poor person might want a job that a wealthy person wants their child to secure. They claim that it is their business to save those which cannot save themselves, and use this to get involved in wars that are not theirs, and beat up badguys whose backstory they have no way of knowing-- and they punch before they stop and listen.

They are cops in every sense of the word. The responsibility of the vigilante is to defend against evil, but part of that responsibility is to figure out who exactly is evil and who is in need of help.

The Marvels creates a team that tries to distinguish evil from good, and delves into the grey area between them. The final battle between Carol Danvers and Dar-benn has the superhero pinning the grey-haired antagonist to the ground as she begs for, then demands, that Carol fix what she damaged. Monica urges her to listen. Through this, The Marvels argues that a hero does not always beat up the bad guy and fight against unrelenting evil, but that a hero can be wrong, and that a hero can reconsider. It's kindness in the way that is revolutionary, where it's much easier to choose cruelty.

The fact that the movie is getting torn apart by critics, then, is not just because it is a "girls movie" or it doesn't have a strong white man for the white male viewer to sympathize with. The Marvels cannot appeal to Marvel fans because it rewrites the genre itself. It takes a film series whose purpose was to depict the struggles of cops, of the wealthy, of people with too much power who are trying to learn how to responsibly wield it, but don't. And it gives that power to people who have watched superheroes try and fail, who are slowly learning to be better heroes than the ones before them.

The next generation is a critique of the last, a group trying not to make the mistakes of the chosen ones that came before them, and as such, the movie exists to critique the movies that came before it. Therefore, a viewer of Marvel who would positively review it, due to sympathizing with the previous heroes and enjoying the power fantasy, would dislike it out of its existence being critical and contradictory to the films they like themselves.

The Marvels is not for Marvel fans-- at least, not those who saw the Avengers as purely heroes. Instead, the film reaches out to people who would have been against the old Avengers, who want a story that dismantles the unquestioned idealism of superheroes and writes about people trying to protect their communities and the people they care about.

So, let the critics complain. The MCU is shedding its roots as a pro-cop and pro-colonialism power fantasy, and evolving into an exploration of what it means to be a true hero.

#the marvels #ms marvel #captain marvel #photon #kamala khan #monica rambeau #carol danvers #.pyro #pyro.txt #the marvels analysis #can you tell that i loved this movie #it's been so long since i've done an analysis but this one SPOKE to me #anyways i'm coming from the perspective of a marvel hater until i watched ms marvel #honestly i just put the images in there to break it up. they are not very relevant. i didn't pirate so i don't have good screenshots

[radiantdanvers]

wait. the song choice for the marvels trailer which was intergalactic by beastie boys where the first lyrics were "Well,Now, Don't you tell me to smile" is for the trolls who said that brie larson/captain marvel "was not smiling enough" in her previous movies, I-

#the marvels #beastie boys #captain marvel #carol danvers #monica rambeau #photon #captain rambeau #kamala khan #ms marvel #mcu #marvel #has anyone done this before? #am i the only one? #i just realized #brilliant song choice btw

[indigosabyss]

You know the "characters react to the media they star in" fics that always have a writer insert facilitating everything? Kamala gives me that energy. She would sit Carol down and have her watch Captain Marvel if she could.

#kamala khan #ms marvel #carol danvers #the marvels #monica walks in and is just like. fuck no ive done this before

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Every Friend Group Has...

#This surely must have been done before but tumbl just makes it impossible to find shit #The Princess Bride #princess bride #the dread pirate roberts #cary elwes #fred savage #princess buttercup #robin wright #billy crystal #carol kane #miracle max #andre the giant #mandy patinkin #inigo montoya #my name is inigo montoya you killed my father prepare to die #post o' mine

[lannisterdaddyissues]

ok not to beat a hornet’s nest with a baseball bat but i keep seeing people on here who say they want to see an icemav pride & prejudice au but they’re always saying ice would be elizabeth and mav would be mr darcy and i just… don’t get that at all. narratively and thematically it makes no sense to me.

first of all, ice is the one who’s coming from a place of privilege in the movie. he went to the academy, he’s the top dog at top gun, he’s a genuinely good guy but mav thinks he’s a dickhead for, well, being a dickhead. second of all, he’s the one who keeps trying to help mav in his own backwards way, not unlike darcy trying to flirt with elizabeth, who sees each of his attempts to woo her as him instigating an argument. thirdly, he tries to help mav in his time of crisis after goose dies, similar to the scene where elizabeth finds out that wickham absconded with lydia.

on mav’s side, he shares elizabeth’s prejudice against rich, snobby men, but instead his prejudice is directed at ice and naval academy-bred pilots in general. he’s also an outsider amongst the other naval pilots because he never attended the academy and because of his father’s reputation, which matches elizabeth’s lower social status and her ostracization by the bingley sisters. i can’t really say how the wickham plotline would factor into the narrative because there is no such character in top gun, but maverick has been shown to be easily taken in by a pretty face (see charlie).

lastly, the way both characters’ opinions of each other change by the end of the movie are a perfect thematic match. ice has decided that while mav is still dangerous, he now sees this as mav’s strength instead of a fatal flaw. meanwhile mav has come to the conclusion that ice is not the asshole he thought he was, and that he can trust ice to have his back in the air from now on. similarly, darcy was able to rise above his previous reservations about marrying elizabeth due to recognizing that his estimation of her was in fact incorrect and that he needed to reevaluate his beliefs, while elizabeth came to realize that darcy was a better man than she had thought.

is there anything that i missed? i promise this was by no means a callout post, i’d love to hear what other people’s thoughts are because i’ve seen the opposite take in several posts but i simply can’t see it myself. if anyone wants to weigh in with their perspective please do!

#can y’all tell i love pride & prejudice #i’ve done so many analyses on it for school lmfao #that’s what happens when you’ve read dozens of published fanfics for it though i suppose #top gun #top gun 1986 #top gun (1986) #top gun og #icemav #iceman x maverick #maverick mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #iceman kazansky #tom iceman kazansky #ALSO I JUST WANNA REITERATE THIS IS MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION #ANYONE WHO WRITES A PRIDE & PREJUDICE AU CAN WRITE WHAT THEY PLEASE LMFAO #but as someone who loves to analyze that book i’d love to know what the rationale behind it is! i love to hear other people’s perspectives #also this is unrelated but i’m js carole and goose as jane and bingley would be so cute…

[secret-strawberry]

ive said it before and ill say it again house md needed to do one of those stupid 2000s tv show drama musical episodes. none of the angst would've even mattered to me if house and wilson had a duet about being doctors or whatever

#house md #i have thought about this a LOT #there are so many ways they could've done it and had it not be canon just make it someones hallucination or something #it couldve been for a christmas special #OK BUT HEAR ME OUT THEY DO A CHRISTMAS CAROL PARODY AND HOUSE IS SCROOGE #THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST COULD BE CHASE OR CAMERON FROM HIS OLD TEAM OR EVEN CUDDY TALKING ABOUT BACK WHEN SHE HIRED HIM IDK THERE ARE #POSSIBILIES #i loved the get happy singing sequence and i just think it would be healing to have more of those #we know rsl can sing he used to be a musical kid #and we know jesse spencer can sing bc of when he did in the show and it was randomly great #please i wish they had done this it would make my life #hate crimes md #hilson #james wilson #gregory house #speaking into the ether

[celluzu]

Wallace would have made for pretty good Nidere bait if he hadn't died so early.

....... it's pobably good that Wallace died early.

#Carol was down to sacrifice a kid lord knows what she would have done to wallace #idk I was just thinking about how Jeffery threw pretty much his whole inventory at the thing #opq

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Hey, you know who she looks like actually?

waitwaitwait-

#I'm having one of those Easily Sidetracked days #I don't remember what I was meant to be doing rn #anyways if they'd done a live action steven universe thing like 10 years ago this would be my casting #I think. #idk if she can sing. just don't give her any songs lmao #steven universe #the walking dead #that's a cursed combination #carol peletier #pearl steven universe #she wears pearl earrings I mean c'mon

[molinaesque]

"WHY did they make him hot???" x100

Have none of y'all ever just stopped and considered

"Why not?"

#ebenezer scrooge #scrooge a christmas carol #For real y'all this is getting old seeing the SAME QUESTIONS OVER AND OVER IN EVERY REBLOG OF EVERY GIF POST THAT I'VE DONE #Just accept it and move on #It's really not that deep #I'm tired y'all #Like are you guys REALLY that surprised?

[the-chiseled-dorito-of-justice]

I would give my left arm for The Amazing Devil to do a holiday album with almost all of it being covers of Victorian or medieval era carols. (Do I just want to hear them sing Silent Night and O Come, O Come Emmanuel, yes, but also just imagine it)

#the amazing devil #joey batey #madeline hyland #like imagine madeline singing silent night and how beautiful it would sound #and joey's voice on o come o come Emmanuel #i hate Christmas time and carols #but they would make the holidays just a little bit more bearable #idk what era carol of the bells was but throw that one in there too #okay now im done

[icemavsupremacy]

So is anyone gonna write an IceMav Pride and Prejudice (2005) retelling with Ice as Mr. Darcy and Mav as Elizabeth or am I gonna have to do it myself?

#if someone has already done it pls link me to it #i like the idea of goose as bingley and Carole as Jane cause I think the dynamic between goose and ice would be so fun #but slider as bingley and goose as Jane would fit just as well and probs even better #Charlie would probs be Caroline cause I don’t think she could be Wickham like we won’t insult charlie like that #Jester is the mom and Viper is the dad #someone please help I don’t know who else would fit in for characters #like who would be Charlotte? #wow. wow am I an idiot I have to be ofc Charlie is Charlotte wow I’m a dumbass #or Carole as Charlotte? gosh idk #icemav #icemav au #pride and prejudice au #top gun #top gun 1986 #top gun au #tom kazansky #pete mitchell #iceman #maverick #iceman kazansky #maverick mitchell

[elaynetrakand]

It’s the first of December, and until Christmas, I’m going to list one thing a day that I like about my favorite holiday story, A Christmas Carol. Some of those things will be fun and silly, some will be more serious, but they’ll all be things that aren’t often talked about with regard to that story. It will mostly be about the novel, but I’ll also touch on things from some of the many film versions, too. Idk if I’ll be able to come up with 25 things to take me all the way to Christmas Day, but I’ll try.

Why? Because it’s fun and it will make me happy!

#a christmas carol #<-just block that tag if you don't want christmas nonsense on your dash #this will be one of the dorkier things i've done but idc i embrace the cringe

[darehearts]

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#| ★ EDIT #| ★ KIRKVERS #just a little something #Tania got done for me and i lOVE IT. AS I SAID IT'S CAROL AND #OLD MAN JIMBO ksdjfsjfjfsjf i love them so much they ruin me

[quill-pen]

"You never have to work for my affections. You never have to slave to keep me or make me happy. You are worth so much more to me than what you can or can't do."

~Ebenezer to Bess

@rom-e-o I'mma just say it: Oliver definitely threatened to break things off with Bess throughout their relationship if she didn't do something or get something done for him when he wanted it. And we all know Bea would've made life hell if Bess didn't do exactly as she wanted, when she wanted.

#the fact he even has to say this to her completely breaks his heart #her mother and oliver screwed her around BAD #they are the reasons why she apologizes so much if she's behind schedule on her to do lists #they are the reasons she has panic attacks when something that should be done isn't #they are part of the reason she works so hard in her and Ebenezer's home #but a lot of her labor also comes from her just being so happy and proud she has her own home too #she's definitely locked him out of the house or a room in a panic before because something wasn't finished or didn't get done #netflix scrooge #scrooge 2022 #scrooge a christmas carol #ebenezer scrooge #scrooge #bess scrooge #ebeness #fanfiction #ebenezer x bess #scrooge x oc

[ickypuppi3]

you know when you read a fic and the characterisation of a minor character you love is just so perfect it changes your life

#read part 4 of lover with a radar phone #and carol is just so carol #it’s so rare i read something and i’m like yeah that IS carol but like #that fic is literally her #to me that is her #makes me want to pull my hair out but in the best way possible #also the way billy’s such an angel to her i could cry about it so much actually #anyway #i love carol dearly and i have done since day dot #there’s just something