Who's Strong and Brave
Aug. 20th, 2011 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsFinally finally finally saw Captain America today. And I absolutely loved it!
1. Given the absence of Tony Stark, I didn't go in especially invested in any of the pairings, and now I sort of ship Steve/everyone ever. I'm not sure there was a single character in that movie that wasn't perving over all him and his lovely lovely muscles. I'm pretty sure I can come up with a way to justify Steve/Bucky, Steve/Dr. Erskine, Steve/Howard Stark, and Steve/Peggy all being canon though. (Mostly I really want Steve, Peggy and Howard to meet up in Paris for a threesome, which Steve thinks is the kind where both guys pretend the other isn't there right up until Howard starts macking on him. He is quite happy to be proven wrong though.)
2. Red Skull/Arnim Zola was totally a thing. Much as I wish it wasn't. Ick.
3. I love the Howling Commandos so much! It's always nice when a WWII story remembers that there were non-USA and non-UK countries involved in fighting the Germans. And that the US contains people who are neither worldly New Yorkers nor corn-fed Mid-Westerners. I don't really care than an integrated platoon is anachronistic. (also, Black Howling Commando/French Howling Commando OTP, y/y?)
4. This movie was totally period costume porn for me. All those delicious 1940s dresses, and the awesome hats (hello Dum-Dam Dugan!), and the braces, and oh wow, I just wanted to have sex with Steve's coat. I make no excuses for myself.
5. I was really worried before this movie came out that they were going to screw it up somehow. Steve is, I think, a really easy character to screw up if you don't know him well - it's too easy to reduce him to the dumb tough jock or the jingoistic military symbol (fuck you Ultimates), when the essence of his character is that he is just a really good person. Not perfect, far from it - comics!Steve can be painfully stubborn, and sanctimonious, and it can be a little scary how much faith other people put in him being right. But in a modern world of deconstructed, post-Silver Age, grimngritty, emotionally damaged, violently traumatized, morally gray superheroes, Steve is a person who became a hero because he earnestly and whole-heartedly believed in doing the right thing, and who has refused to let 60+ years worth of combat experience, loss and upheaval make him anything but an optimistic, kind, and determined good guy. So, you know. Whatever criticisms I could level at this movie, they are not enough to trump the fact that they made my Steve Rogers and they made him right.
1. Given the absence of Tony Stark, I didn't go in especially invested in any of the pairings, and now I sort of ship Steve/everyone ever. I'm not sure there was a single character in that movie that wasn't perving over all him and his lovely lovely muscles. I'm pretty sure I can come up with a way to justify Steve/Bucky, Steve/Dr. Erskine, Steve/Howard Stark, and Steve/Peggy all being canon though. (Mostly I really want Steve, Peggy and Howard to meet up in Paris for a threesome, which Steve thinks is the kind where both guys pretend the other isn't there right up until Howard starts macking on him. He is quite happy to be proven wrong though.)
2. Red Skull/Arnim Zola was totally a thing. Much as I wish it wasn't. Ick.
3. I love the Howling Commandos so much! It's always nice when a WWII story remembers that there were non-USA and non-UK countries involved in fighting the Germans. And that the US contains people who are neither worldly New Yorkers nor corn-fed Mid-Westerners. I don't really care than an integrated platoon is anachronistic. (also, Black Howling Commando/French Howling Commando OTP, y/y?)
4. This movie was totally period costume porn for me. All those delicious 1940s dresses, and the awesome hats (hello Dum-Dam Dugan!), and the braces, and oh wow, I just wanted to have sex with Steve's coat. I make no excuses for myself.
5. I was really worried before this movie came out that they were going to screw it up somehow. Steve is, I think, a really easy character to screw up if you don't know him well - it's too easy to reduce him to the dumb tough jock or the jingoistic military symbol (fuck you Ultimates), when the essence of his character is that he is just a really good person. Not perfect, far from it - comics!Steve can be painfully stubborn, and sanctimonious, and it can be a little scary how much faith other people put in him being right. But in a modern world of deconstructed, post-Silver Age, grimngritty, emotionally damaged, violently traumatized, morally gray superheroes, Steve is a person who became a hero because he earnestly and whole-heartedly believed in doing the right thing, and who has refused to let 60+ years worth of combat experience, loss and upheaval make him anything but an optimistic, kind, and determined good guy. So, you know. Whatever criticisms I could level at this movie, they are not enough to trump the fact that they made my Steve Rogers and they made him right.