#nsanchezfw

To start with, it was hands down the best Avengers movie, though that isn’t hard for me, since I tolerated Avengers 1 and hated Age of Ultron. I thought the film did surprisingly well in balancing all the characters - I’d expected a hot mess, but the decision to mix the characters up and split them off was a good one and everyone got a chance to do something. Obviously we know that the majority of the characters aren’t going to stay dead, since they’ve got sequels coming up, so the emotional impact of the snap deaths wasn’t huge but they did a good job of showing the impact in-universe.

Thoughts:

- The early scenes with Tony and Strange (still haven’t seen Dr Strange) were great and made me kind of like Strange

- Thor’s big hero entrance in Wakanda was a serious fuck yeah moment

- I thought Loki had a good death and I wouldn’t mind him staying dead. He finally chose his side and died protecting his home and being the man Thor believed he could be. That’s not a bad ending for him, and honestly bring him back from the dead a third time is just going to be silly

- Red Skull!!! I was seriously shocked to see him, since Weaving had put paid to any thoughts of Red Skull ever returning. It was nice to see that forgotten question of what happened to Skull at the end of TFA answered and I thought he was good choice in that scene - Skull was a seriously evil motherfucker, so if HE’S like, ‘this was a mistake’, then you know it’s serious. I don’t think most of the people in my showing knew who he was, because there was no reaction to him

- I thought Nebula was great, especially for the reasonably small part she played. That torture scene was just painful to watch

- I was also really impressed with Gamora. I haven’t thought too much to Saldana’s acting in the two GotG, but IW really gave her something to work with. I thought the girl playing her as a child was really well cast, as well

- Thanos was a really good villain. He was sympathetic and compassionate in parts, which made him even scarier. How do you stop someone who truly believes they’re doing the morally right thing and has the power to make it happen. I see a parallel with Steve there, both in being an ideologue who can’t be swayed from what he believes is right, and in losing everything to make it happen. Hopefully they’ll draw some sort of comparison in A4

- I loved Bruce in this! I loved that they gave him a chance to shine and be a hero without Hulk and I loved that they kept his new weird personality from Ragnarok. I do wish they’d acknowledged his feelings about Ross in the scene with Rhodey on the holographic conference call, but I’ve come to expect that they’ve wiped Betty’s existence from the MCU (and not in the Thanos way)

- Wanda/Vision did absolutely nothing for me. I didn’t find it compelling, I don’t particularly like Vision as a character, and I’m not into the standard young woman/much older man pairing (visually, rather than character wise)

- Quill was The Worst, and pissed me off so much in that gauntlet scene. Of course, if they had got the gauntlet off, Thanos would have easily got it back, but damnit, Quill, that was your plan and it was actually sort of working! I felt similarly about Strange and the time stone - Tony was clearly right that it had to be destroyed

- Spidey was The Worst for an entirely different reason, that being that he made me cry at the end. Any character saying they don’t want to go while dying = immediate waterworks for me

- WHY WAS BUCKY THE FIRST TO GO. WTAF

- Also Sam disintegrating without anyone around to see it ;_;

- I think (I hope) Cap’s going to get a happy ending in A4 if Evans does retire from the films. People at my work tease me about how Cap’s going to die, but I really don’t think he will, and not just because I’m a fangirl. Out of all the title characters, Cap’s been subjected to the most misery, pretty much constantly since midway through TFA, and I don’t think his story’s going to have a downer ending. MCU just isn’t really that type of franchise. I was joking with a friend before IW that Steve should go back in time to the 40s and live out his life with Peggy, but since I think time travel’s a given for A4 now, I kind of hope that actually happens

- The only two things that I didn’t like weren’t story-related things: the first was all the wigs, especially that awful one on Wanda, and the second that dodgy CGI at the end with Bruce in the Hulkbuster.

- I can’t figure out how they’re going to deal with this in Agents of SHIELD. They established in the last episode that the initial attack in NYC is on the news and I don’t see how they’re going to avoid having half the cast disintegrate without just completely contradicting canon