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‘[Commentary]: One First-Class Narrative Arc’ – Redring91

Redring91’s Magneto-centric movie commentary for ‘X-Men: First Class.’

Featuring Erik Lehnsherr appreciation; cherik feelings; and judgemental critiques about the X-Men behaving like hypocrites.

Chapter 04: Love Love

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Part of the Redring91 Commentary Compilation

‘[Commentary]: One First-Class Narrative Arc’ – Redring91

Redring91’s Magneto-centric movie commentary for ‘X-Men: First Class.’

Featuring Erik Lehnsherr appreciation; cherik feelings; and judgemental critiques about the X-Men behaving like hypocrites.

Chapter 02:

Filled with hope for their future

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‘[Commentary]: One First-Class Narrative Arc’ – Redring91

Redring91’s Magneto-centric movie commentary for ‘X-Men: First Class.’

Featuring Erik Lehnsherr appreciation; cherik feelings; and judgemental critiques about the X-Men behaving like hypocrites.

Chapter 01:

The pair of them immediately act like they’re already married

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And so, we bid farewell to my MAYhem2024 event!

(Unsurprisingly, MAYhem may end up becoming another annual undertaking of mine…)

Throughout June, I’ll be posting a compilation of the movie commentary live-blog I did for ‘X-Men: First Class.’

(For those who caught the original live-blog, there will also be some extra commentary during these updates – further analysis of images, plus a bonus chapter exclusive to the AO3 release.)

‘One First-Class Narrative Arc’ – a chapter to be posted each Wednesday of June 2024.

I’ll continue with this commentary theme into July, with an analysis of ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past.’

And thus concludes my commentary for ‘X-Men: First Class.’

I’m exploring formatting options, and then I’ll post the commentary as a whole on my AO3.

If people are interested, I could put together a reading list for the existing XMFC-centric stories I’ve written, which further explore some of the issues I touched on during this commentary.

And as if we haven’t taken enough emotional damage.

The song played during the credits is ‘Love Love’ by Take That.

It's an excellent song.

Emma’s decision to simply remain at CIA is such interesting characterisation.

Moira’s willingness to prove her loyalty makes her character interesting.

Would she have succeeded?

But this a risk Charles is no longer prepared to take.

Charles uses the same tactic that Raven used on Erik earlier, hiding his true motives behind a physical gesture. He wipes Moira's memory.

And with Erik gone, there’s no one left to hold Charles accountable, to challenge him over the ethical dilemma – does taking a person’s memories do them an injury?

We see Moira being debriefed, and her colleagues and superiors are not impressed with her. What would this have cost her career?

And to what extent is Charles’s decision motivated by Erik’s earlier assessment of Moira as their ally? Perhaps Charles can no longer believe this – but which bullet was the one to change his mind?