More on Ant-Man I
Jul. 19th, 2015 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineThis may ramble a bit.
Yeah. As I wrote yesterday, I had fun with my first viewing. It's a smaller-scale piece, the HYDRA/SHIELD war and the building and/or fracturing of the Avengers as sidebars to the main event between Pym, Van Dyne and Lang on one side and Cross on the other. That's alright with me. Not every story should have the level of stakes that a Guardians, Avengers or Captain America movie likely will. Agents of SHIELD on TV fills some of the gaps between the movies, and is more about the lives of people who often end up being the "red shirts" in those larger tales. So there's a space for stories like this one.
I admit to being a sucker for family-loyalty themes at times. I wonder if anyone else sees the kind of extended family that Scott's stumbling into building here.
Does anyone else see the sense of the choice of the Falcon as the Avengers antagonist for the second act? I suspect that anyone else on the current roster would've turned Scott into lunchmeat - perhaps literally in a couple of cases - and Falcon's just new enough to the business at this point in the MCU that it would be a fair fight. And, of course, if you saw both closing stings packaged with the end credits crawl, there's that other reason.
Which makes me think that this movie, and the next one are meant to be treated as occurring with some degree of direct timeline overlap...
Yeah. As I wrote yesterday, I had fun with my first viewing. It's a smaller-scale piece, the HYDRA/SHIELD war and the building and/or fracturing of the Avengers as sidebars to the main event between Pym, Van Dyne and Lang on one side and Cross on the other. That's alright with me. Not every story should have the level of stakes that a Guardians, Avengers or Captain America movie likely will. Agents of SHIELD on TV fills some of the gaps between the movies, and is more about the lives of people who often end up being the "red shirts" in those larger tales. So there's a space for stories like this one.
I admit to being a sucker for family-loyalty themes at times. I wonder if anyone else sees the kind of extended family that Scott's stumbling into building here.
Does anyone else see the sense of the choice of the Falcon as the Avengers antagonist for the second act? I suspect that anyone else on the current roster would've turned Scott into lunchmeat - perhaps literally in a couple of cases - and Falcon's just new enough to the business at this point in the MCU that it would be a fair fight. And, of course, if you saw both closing stings packaged with the end credits crawl, there's that other reason.
Which makes me think that this movie, and the next one are meant to be treated as occurring with some degree of direct timeline overlap...
