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Dec. 4th, 2019 06:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyI've thought of myself as falling away from the MCU, even preparing myself to walk away from it, if need be. Or at least not watch everything anymore, though some of the individual movies are probably still going to be pretty good. When I first heard the Black Widow trailer was out yesterday, I briefly wondered if I'd even watch it.
Then I got home, and did.
I suppose it still might not be one of their better movies. But just seeing Natasha again, seeing the pieces of her past and a few people from it, and knowing that at last she's getting a story at her own, even if it's just her settling everything with herself before her upcoming heroic sacrifice...yes, Marvel has squandered a lot. Yes, the lead is problematic. Yes, Clint clearly being off being Ronin during it has gone from being bad to being relieving, thanks to the latest events concerning his actor. But I'm going to be in my seat for this one. This was the first female superhero we got out of the MCU, this is a woman whom for ten years we have watched struggle and grow (when Whedon wasn't wrecking the character he'd created anyway), and we now have to say goodbye to. We might as well see it through to the end, I suppose.
Then I got home, and did.
I suppose it still might not be one of their better movies. But just seeing Natasha again, seeing the pieces of her past and a few people from it, and knowing that at last she's getting a story at her own, even if it's just her settling everything with herself before her upcoming heroic sacrifice...yes, Marvel has squandered a lot. Yes, the lead is problematic. Yes, Clint clearly being off being Ronin during it has gone from being bad to being relieving, thanks to the latest events concerning his actor. But I'm going to be in my seat for this one. This was the first female superhero we got out of the MCU, this is a woman whom for ten years we have watched struggle and grow (when Whedon wasn't wrecking the character he'd created anyway), and we now have to say goodbye to. We might as well see it through to the end, I suppose.
