WHAT IF Steve went back in time did his thing had his date with Peggy and THEN he did try to save Bucky from Hydra and prevent the suffering BUT that messed with the sacred timeline he got picked up by the TVA like loki was?? And WHAT IF Old Steve is just a TVA agent of some sort and the shield was from like the pile of junk similar to the paper weight infinity stone situation
some folks are so pressed about Wanda bodying the illuminati and it’s just making me laugh bc some of y’all really need to understand context????
like the illuminati didn’t get shredded bc they weren’t powerful enough, they got shredded bc they were arrogant as fuck and underestimated her
“but Reed is so smart he wouldn’t just give away a solution to the enemy” — yeah Reed is fucking smart, but he’s also just fucking arrogant enough to show off to someone he didn’t think was a threat — he thought he could just scare her away
if the illuminati had gotten their heads out of their asses and listened to Strange or taken his comments about Wanda seriously, they would actually be alive, they could have properly strategized on how to take Wanda down, hell, Black Bolt probably would have been able to take her out with his voice if he had the element of surprise — but they didn’t, they were convinced that Strange was the threat and they were arrogant and smug enough to believe that if they think something is right then it must be right
now to be fair their Wanda probably wasn’t a threat and likely never exhibited our Wanda’s level of abilities so in their experience, they just didn’t deem her to be an issue for them
but that’s how you get killed, arrogance and overconfidence and not listening to the concerns of others about the threats you’re facing because you think you already know the answers
and let’s be honest here, arrogance and that know-it-all attitude literally IS a central core of the very concept of the illuminati so this isn’t even any of these characters acting out of character, that’s just how the illuminati acts, I mean look at the scenes, they sat up there in their high and mighty chairs, their attitudes were generally dismissive and smug and seemingly think they were above it all
they could have been ready for Wanda, but their arrogance blinded them and got them killed
this isn’t Marvel “doing dirty” on these versions of the characters, this is just what happens when you’re overconfident and don’t properly prepare
AGAIN what’s with me and halloween drawings NOT IN OCTOBER?? BDCNDNDJ anyways- i feel like i need to explain: so- not a fan of peggy in pearls so i got rid of all the pearls in the design NDHDNDJ it was giving hayes when she was pretending to be nice in that interview you know? i don’t like it
Saw it a couple weeks ago! Had been really looking forward to it, for a lot of reasons. I liked it, but tbh I wanted to like it more than I actually did.
- The main issue for me was that I didn’t buy into the central premise of Wanda as the villain, post Wandavision. It’s not that I don’t believe she has the potential because she 100% does, after all, this is the same character who in the comics went “no more mutants” and in the MCU mind controlled an entire town. It’s that they didn’t convince me that the Wanda who understood the wrongs she committed in Wandavision and genuinely regretted her actions would then immediately turn around and go full ‘I don’t give a shit who I have to murder to steal this other woman’s life and her kids’. I gather the Darkhold was negatively influencing her but IMO they didn’t sell it all the way as ‘this is why, it’s not really Wanda’, and even if they had, honestly I find that a cop-out. So anyway it was hard to appreciate the movie for what it was when the whole time I was just thinking ‘this is not Wanda wtf’. Which is a shame, because I think a villain Wanda I believed in would have been great, and she certainly was pretty scary.
- But I did like a lot of parts of the movie! Especially just Stephen himself. I LOVE HIM.
- I loved America, and I loved her relationship with Stephen. So good. (And at least they kept her moms, though I’m honestly not surprised they managed to avoid yet again showing a character as LGBTQ+.)
- Wong is so great. I was about to be so fucking mad that they killed him off, in my head I was just like ‘no they didn’t no they didn’t he’s FINE’ until finally they showed him okay. Him trying to get Stephen to bow to him was the best.
- Loved the Illuminati! And what a fun way to include some AU things we don’t have in the main timeline, like Maria!Captain Marvel, and Captain Carter (CAPTAIN CARTER OH MY GOD SHE WAS SOOOOO COOL). Xavier in his hover chair! With the cartoon music! I was so surprised to see what’s his name as Reed. (I always think of him first as Emily Blunt’s husband, lol.)
- There were some really cool visuals, notably the montage where America and Stephen are moving from universe to universe. I also liked the fighting with musical notes, and Wanda fighting through reflections.
- Zombie Strange was fucking weird but I liked it.
- I think they used Christine well, and I believed that Stephen genuinely loved her but couldn’t figure out how to be with her, and I believed in her importance to him. I really liked the last scene of him and the other universe’s Christine together, where he finds a sort of closure and peace.
- Also loved Stephen being faced with all the other Stephens’ bad choices, and then being able to make better ones himself, even to the point of saving America when she herself was at peace with that not happening. I got a little teary when he helped her find her own control.
- And for all that this way of doing villain Wanda didn’t work for me, I still cried when Billy and Tommy were scared of her and she realized she had become their monster. That really got me.
- I want Young Avengers Billy (and Billy/Teddy!!) SO MUCH but I was still pleased to see the Wandavision versions of him and Tommy again because the child actors are so charming.
- I loved the goat dude. Glad he’s okay!!
- CLEA! CHARLIZE THERON! CHARLIZE THERON AS CLEA!!!! Oh my fucking God. I almost jumped out of my seat and cheered. Marvel, thank you for this gift, holy shit.
