Nostalgia

I’m still reeling from Avengers Infinity War. If you’ve seen it, you know. If you haven’t, well I won’t spoil you, but just prepare yourself because it’s a doozy. 

 

I was glad I went with tickets at the Starlight because you buy your actual seat in advance and it’s a recliner so there’s a ton of space and you don’t have to worry about going to the theater 8 hours before the movie starts in order to get a good spot for the viewing. 

 

At the same time, I kind of miss those days of lining up at 8 o’clock at night to sit for three and a half hours waiting to get properly seated for the midnight viewing with every other giant fan dressed up in costume. It was like going to a mini-convention for a night. You were surrounded by nerds, usually including your friends who also shared your passion. It was great! And you left the movie theater and stupid o’clock in the morning because the movie was always something like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings that lasted like three hours and then you’d spend another hour or two talking with all the people who’d just seen what you’d seen, breaking everything down and talking about how you’d be seeing again in the course of the next week or so because it was just that amazing even if you were mad that they didn’t do x, y, and/or z in the movie the way it was in the book/comic etc. 

 

I remember 8 or so years ago when the Avengers first Assembled going to a show in the middle of the night with my friend. We got dinner and then went to wait in line with all the other fans. We watched and then talked after and it was after 4 am by the time I was heading home. Later that weekend I saw it again with another friend. I saw it about four times in the theater all told. It wasn’t perfect, but it was something I loved. 

 

I think that was one of the last times that I went to a midnight showing like that. Not long after, the movie theaters started getting permission to show the big blockbusters like that at more reasonable times--more like 7 pm or 8 pm. 

 

There are still lots of places that don’t have the assigned seating and you have to line up early to get a good seat, but still, you don’t have to do it so outrageously early to see a movie in the middle of the night. And again, that’s not all a bad thing. I don’t have to take the next day off to see the premiere of a movie anymore. And there are still a ton of fans mingling and lingering not to mention that we’re living in the height of online discussions and messaging. 

 

I don’t know, I guess going to see the movie just made me a little nostalgic. Also, because there were small children, including someone who brought a toddler to a three-hour action-packed movie, it didn’t have quite the same atmosphere as it would have if I gone to a midnight showing.

 

And I’m whining about “the old days” (hah!) when I got to watch Avengers Infinity War in a leather recliner, which is just silly. 

 

Also, for all the death and destruction in Infinity War, there were some incredibly funny and fantastic moments. The special effects were incredible. I wasn’t rooting for Thanos, but he was far more emotionally compelling than I expected. 

 

I would’ve loved it if Shuri had had a little more time to shine. It would’ve been amazing if Okoye and Natasha could’ve had a little more time to talk. Just more lines for Natasha, in general, would’ve been great, but I will say Okoye had one of the best lines in the whole movie. And Wanda! My heart! 

 

I’m still grumpy about Hawkeye not being in it at all, of course, because that’s just who I am. 

 

But really for all I whine about it, it was a good movie. There were a ton of things going on across the Galaxy and they handled it incredibly well considering. That the movie felt fluid and cohesive overall with so many plot lines, characters, interactions, and leaps through time and space, it’s really incredible what they managed to do. I know when I see it again, I’ll find flaws but I think there will also be things I get to appreciate more. I will have to see it again, I think, for all that it’s bound to leave me an emotional wreck all over again. 

Infinity War and FanFiction

 
Originally I had thought that I would wait to watch Avengers: Infinity War to write any further fanfiction. I thought I would have more of an arsenal and I was thinking it would be fun to try to be semi canon compliant.

 

If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll probably understand why I’m feeling a little off balance. The movie didn’t really end. I mean it did, but it’s definitely a “part 1” kind of movie so it’s not like the end is really a resolution. Not that with the Phases of Marvel that the end of any movie is a RESOLUTION in the strictest sense of the word. You always know there will be more and with superhero movies, I don’t believe anyone is ever really totally dead.

 

My point is that because of the overwhelming nature of Thanos and the infinity gauntlet and his whole situation makes fanficing the situation daunting to say the least. Which means either taking on a huge project, magic-wanding and/or fast forwarding, writing pre-Infinity War, or going AU.

 

With the Avengers table, I don’t know if the original intention was for it to be just the movies or if it was okay to use comic book situations but I took it as I could do whatever I wanted and pull from whatever material I wanted. So I guess my other option would be to use comic book timelines/plots/character development and that could work. I still have like 43 word prompts in the table to go and I don’t want to stop working on those prompts for a year and a week while I wait on the as of yet unnamed “part 2” to come out.

 

I’ll have to keep working on these things. *Le Sigh* Good luck out there everyone.