Totally called Red Skull. No one believed me when I said that.
That is amazing!! How did you know?
I don't see this as producing a lot of fic, or at least, what I want to read.
I've been seeing a lot of people going "Well this is BETTER than when he was in the freezer in Wakanda" and I'm just like....really? Wha? Like, apparently they think he could be time-travelling or in another dimension or in Wonderland with Alice or whatever, but....it was pretty clear everyone died. I could fankwank them all going to the soul planet maybe, since that was where Teentsy Gamora? was, but how are they going to get out? They're just going to have to be rescued, so anythin anyone writes will be jossed. IDK. I know fandom loves to play with the narrative but that just felt nasty.
I see this as the fandom I've known and loved for four years, Steve/Bucky and the Cap Family (with Sam and Nat), either rage-quitting or just drifting away in sadness. I've watched this happen before to open canon fandoms with deaths or cast culling. I'm feeling very sad about this. I'd love it if fandom proved me wrong, but I've been in fandom a damn long time…
Well I keep meaning to write my latest Stucky fic! it's just sort of in that post-TWS bubble where I take a hard left at AoU and nobody's going to want to read it, heh. We might see booty-call-in-Wakanda fics? Again IDK. It seemed like Stucky fandom really stalled out after CW (altho people kept telling me no no, more and more fics are being written!....mostly modern AUs). I hope it doesn't happen even more now. But it feels like the same situation as CW: open-ended (like a LITERAL CLIFFHANGER, this time) but also too final (Bucky being frozen, Bucky being....IDEFK, smoke-disapparated).
And I'm already hearing from people that seeing Bucky die in front of Steve's eyes again was a bridge too far, even with comic-book rules.
Yeah, I don't want to see that. I saw a fucking terrible camrip and that was bad enough. I don't want to see that on the big screen. Steve carrying Peggy's coffin was bad enough in CW. (It doesn't help I think the Russos totally under-directed Evans in most of the clips I saw, like they did in CW.)
Marvel has this idea that people only care about Iron Man and Spider-Man
I've heard "Well they didn't have time for a big long farewell with Bucky and Steve, he was in shock, it was perfectly legit," and LOL with the long fucking operatic goodbyyyyyyyye with Tony and Peter. And in AoU Cap was the one dying in his arms! Feels like they really are phasing Cap out, and not in a great way.
Cumberbatch is an unsettlingly good actor. I saw him in Fifth Estate and as Guy Burgess in a BBC thing and was like, whoah, he really is them. I think I formed my impression of him in stuff that was just terrible, like BBC Sherlock or Imitation Game. He was about as terribly miscast in Hollow Crown as Hiddles.
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That is amazing!! How did you know?
I don't see this as producing a lot of fic, or at least, what I want to read.
I've been seeing a lot of people going "Well this is BETTER than when he was in the freezer in Wakanda" and I'm just like....really? Wha? Like, apparently they think he could be time-travelling or in another dimension or in Wonderland with Alice or whatever, but....it was pretty clear everyone died. I could fankwank them all going to the soul planet maybe, since that was where Teentsy Gamora? was, but how are they going to get out? They're just going to have to be rescued, so anythin anyone writes will be jossed. IDK. I know fandom loves to play with the narrative but that just felt nasty.
I see this as the fandom I've known and loved for four years, Steve/Bucky and the Cap Family (with Sam and Nat), either rage-quitting or just drifting away in sadness. I've watched this happen before to open canon fandoms with deaths or cast culling. I'm feeling very sad about this. I'd love it if fandom proved me wrong, but I've been in fandom a damn long time…
Well I keep meaning to write my latest Stucky fic! it's just sort of in that post-TWS bubble where I take a hard left at AoU and nobody's going to want to read it, heh. We might see booty-call-in-Wakanda fics? Again IDK. It seemed like Stucky fandom really stalled out after CW (altho people kept telling me no no, more and more fics are being written!....mostly modern AUs). I hope it doesn't happen even more now. But it feels like the same situation as CW: open-ended (like a LITERAL CLIFFHANGER, this time) but also too final (Bucky being frozen, Bucky being....IDEFK, smoke-disapparated).
And I'm already hearing from people that seeing Bucky die in front of Steve's eyes again was a bridge too far, even with comic-book rules.
Yeah, I don't want to see that. I saw a fucking terrible camrip and that was bad enough. I don't want to see that on the big screen. Steve carrying Peggy's coffin was bad enough in CW. (It doesn't help I think the Russos totally under-directed Evans in most of the clips I saw, like they did in CW.)
Marvel has this idea that people only care about Iron Man and Spider-Man
I've heard "Well they didn't have time for a big long farewell with Bucky and Steve, he was in shock, it was perfectly legit," and LOL with the long fucking operatic goodbyyyyyyyye with Tony and Peter. And in AoU Cap was the one dying in his arms! Feels like they really are phasing Cap out, and not in a great way.
Cumberbatch is an unsettlingly good actor. I saw him in Fifth Estate and as Guy Burgess in a BBC thing and was like, whoah, he really is them. I think I formed my impression of him in stuff that was just terrible, like BBC Sherlock or Imitation Game. He was about as terribly miscast in Hollow Crown as Hiddles.