Well... just about any time I view media that has anything to do with the Holocaust, that will pretty much be the framework through which I view the entire piece. I have a bit of a fixation--I've been reading a LOT of nonfiction about Nazi Germany in the last year. I agree that it was intentional, I just think that the intention was poorly-thought-out as an arc. (Wolverine movie? What Wolverine movie? As far as I choose to know, X2 was the only movie about Wolverine dealing with his past.)
I want to see more of Beast. Where does he go from here? He was my favorite of the original team, and I was sulky about him not being in the movies for years (although the fact that he was Kelsey Grammer in X3 made me really happy even though I then never wound up watching X3). I just want his arc forever, thanks, moviemakers. And seriously, I want to ship Erik/Raven so bad, I just need to figure out how I can do it so it actually works in my head in a way that's validating for her *and* him.
I agree that there are problems with Civil War too (although in the name of full disclosure, I should mention that I didn't read all of Civil War. It happened when I was still in comics fandom, but when I was in my all-horror-all-the-time phase, so I only read the parts that diadem_chi recced, which basically came down to the Spiderman arc and some Iron Man stuff, plus the tiny bits in Eternals and Runaways, which I was reading anyway. But I read none of the X-Men stuff in Civil War, although I think I have the Civil War: X-Men TPB lurking somewhere in my apartment waiting to be read.)
But one of the things that really struck me in the Abigail Nussbaum review of the movie is that the major flaw of the X-Men as a metaphor for everything under the sun is that they're genuinely dangerous to the people around them. They're not any *more* dangerous to the people around them than non-Mutant metahumans around them, which makes the prejudice really interesting in-universe, but if you pull them out of the Marvel-verse as the movies generally do, it's entirely reasonable for humankind to hate and fear them. And one of the things that I do like a lot about the way Civil War, if not how it played out, is that those kids genuinely screwed up, and it was their powers and their hubris that lead them to do it. So I guess what I want is not so much the entire Civil War arc done with only the X-Men as an X-Men story that comes to grips both with the fact wanting to keep track of who they are is a reasonable thing for the US government to want to do, and also that it has all kinds of dangerous potential consequences for them, which Magneto is totally correct about. I would watch that movie to pieces.
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I want to see more of Beast. Where does he go from here? He was my favorite of the original team, and I was sulky about him not being in the movies for years (although the fact that he was Kelsey Grammer in X3 made me really happy even though I then never wound up watching X3). I just want his arc forever, thanks, moviemakers. And seriously, I want to ship Erik/Raven so bad, I just need to figure out how I can do it so it actually works in my head in a way that's validating for her *and* him.
I agree that there are problems with Civil War too (although in the name of full disclosure, I should mention that I didn't read all of Civil War. It happened when I was still in comics fandom, but when I was in my all-horror-all-the-time phase, so I only read the parts that
But one of the things that really struck me in the Abigail Nussbaum review of the movie is that the major flaw of the X-Men as a metaphor for everything under the sun is that they're genuinely dangerous to the people around them. They're not any *more* dangerous to the people around them than non-Mutant metahumans around them, which makes the prejudice really interesting in-universe, but if you pull them out of the Marvel-verse as the movies generally do, it's entirely reasonable for humankind to hate and fear them. And one of the things that I do like a lot about the way Civil War, if not how it played out, is that those kids genuinely screwed up, and it was their powers and their hubris that lead them to do it. So I guess what I want is not so much the entire Civil War arc done with only the X-Men as an X-Men story that comes to grips both with the fact wanting to keep track of who they are is a reasonable thing for the US government to want to do, and also that it has all kinds of dangerous potential consequences for them, which Magneto is totally correct about. I would watch that movie to pieces.