let's give the galaxy something to remember us by

[merridia]

Our in-house restaurateur is moving to New Brunswick, and everyone here is devastated. They gave her a real nice sendoff on Friday, but now the reality that they will have to go elsewhere for their breakfasts every day is starting to set in and the vibes are rough.

The weekend kinda breezed right by me, which makes me a little sad because I would like to go back to the quiet, please, but it also means that I only have two more days of work left, so I would much rather just keep going forward, actually. BTE to look forward to tonight, freedom to look forward to tomorrow. I got this.

I... really need to get a start on ordering plane tickets and accommodations for my summer tour already, that shit is somehow next month?? Maybe I'll lock down a travel itinerary tonight.

Nobody seems to be talking much about GotG in my usual haunts, so I shall spend the rest of my day until lunch posting through it!

Goddamn, that shit was so good! A capper to an actual trilogy that feels like its own thing with its own themes and feel and identity that nevertheless fits in perfectly within the wider MCU it inhabits, working with the world to further character arcs?? You love to see it! Also, I keep thinking about the Batch 89 gang too hard at work and getting myself into emotional predicaments! It was very much one of those 'imagine hearing about this a decade ago' moments, the whole 'there's a movie where Rocket Raccoon helps the High Evolutionary create animen; it's gonna make hundreds of millions of dollars and be the saddest shit you've ever seen' of it all.

• Rocket claiming his full name was a nice successor to Yondu getting a proper head fin in the second one, because even in the colourful space adventure with a raccoon and a tree on the team, in 2014 they were still trying to sand down the goofiest comic book edges wherever they could, and we thankfully continue to move away from that a little bit more every year. I know the party line now is that the machine making these movies has it all down to a science at this point, but nah, this shit is still evolving! I am not convinced Namor would have had his perfect little feetsie wingalings had he been in the first Black Panther movie and the world is better for them, is what I'm saying, long live Rocket Raccoon.


• One of the things I came away from Endgame most impressed by was the way they managed to immediately leave the door open for every major character who bit it in Infinity War to still be around without actually undoing any of the deaths? I'm talking Vision, Loki, and Gamora here specifically, I really appreciate the way those characters still fucking died and that remained true and tragic and important even with them all still slated to show up elsewhere. It was a skillful way to acknowledge that revolving door of death superhero comics are known for without letting it lessen the impact of said deaths with 'oh it's fine, they're back now'; maybe these characters are still around in some form, but it ain't the same, and Vol. 3 was so committed to this vibe, I just loved it a whole lot! The Gamora of the first two movies has been dead for years and she's not coming back and damn, that really sucks, and maybe you can be friends with this other one, but it's never going to be the same. We are all products of the events (and the people) that got us here, and this Gamora is a different person who found her family elsewhere, and it's sad but also beautiful, the end!


• Actually, the Gamora stuff goes real well with Groot here, how different he is physically from the OG serving not just as a reminder that he's not the same character as the one from the first movie even if they have the same name, but as a (hilariously literal) showcase of how our environments shape us. It's a feature, not a bug!


• Low-key one of my favourite things to come out of the crazy Marvel timeline was the realization that Nebula and Rocket had been a duo for longer than he had even been with the Guardians in the first place, so I was really happy she got a big moment to herself when they all found out he was gonna be okay. The real besties here, sorry Quill.


• Fucking hell, shifting the reference zone for the needle drops squarely into my personal teenage nostalgia zone was a CHOICE, I was doomed to love this from the first strains of Creep. And also, now that I think about the way the first two movies take place a good twelve years before this one, it makes sense thematically, to set it apart from them in both sound and time like that? They've all changed a lot!


• Damn right they're keeping the High Evolutionary around for now, what a brutal villain. Sometimes they don't need to be sympathetic! Sometimes they can just be monsters! Besides, he can't die until a nice cow lady pulls Wanda out from under Wundagore.


• Sean Gunn continuing to beat the nepotism accusations at every turn, damn I love Kraglin.


• We also love fights scenes that have their own unique feel to them while staying clear and exciting, yes we do.


• Perfectly employed f-bomb.

Ugh, okay, there's more I could say but it's almost lunchtime, GOOD MOVIE, CHEEK HURTS, I WILL MISS YOU JAMES, JUSTICE FOR FLOOR AND TEEFS AND ALSO THE NICE PATIENT BAT LADY

sad cuppa noodle time!