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Jun. 5th, 2006 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spokeStill frittering time away nervously, waiting for it be Friday. Feels like I'm waiting for it to be Christmas, and I don't know how I'm going to get to sleep after the surgery when I'm going to want to be looking at things - without glasses!
Although there is also the nervousness of what if the surgery goes wrong, and of course how am I going to pay for this, because it is $3000 I don't have, but. I'm trying not to think about those things, since the one I can do nothing about, and the other, well... I am thinking of hunting for some kind of part-time job? At least temporarily? Because the sooner I can get that paid off, the better.
Though the holiday season is going to be my best bet for that.
Movie thoughts! So, I might just go see Snakes on a Plane. Because the trailer just amuses me, and hey - it's Samuel L. Jackson, who is cool. And also I don't seem to get tired of saying 'snakes on a plane!' Maybe I'm too easily amused? :P
I am totally going to see Dead Man's Chest. Everyone should go see that. I was so very very thrilled with the trailer, and thinking things might happen that I rather wished had happened in the first movie, and just. So. Excited. :D
Spoilery X-Men thoughts! So, it is just me, or did Xavier go utterly creepy on us there? In the way that powerful individuals on the side of Good and in the context of Light sometimes do. He said 'I don't have to explain myself.' and I wanted to yell in the theater, because oh no he did not place himself above accountability.
Because never mind what he did to Jean, if he believed he was right he should have been willing to explain. That was just - what should have been an intelligent if very aggravating conversation instead became a slap in the face, and what the hell did he think Logan was going do after that? This is not a man you just blow off without trying to explain to, and Xavier was just. Not. Talking. Because he knew best and that's all there is to it.
Really, I can see where Scott got that stick up his ass.
So, the bit at the end made me twitch, but it didn't surprise me - nor was I entirely pleased. My reaction was more 'Oh you would, you little hypocrite.' Because once you've put yourself above accountability like that? Of course the moral constraints that apply to lesser beings no longer apply to you.
Now as for what he did to Jean? That all by itself was totally immoral. He seemed to be putting it in an all or nothing context, but the Phoenix wouldn't have existed if he hadn't been screwing with Jean's brain in the first place. This is like clipping a cat's claws and claiming it's for the cat's good instead of for your own convience. Or, another example: Stargate:Atlantis. 'Curing' the Wraith. The idea was to treat these inherently predatory beings like they were humans with a nasty disease, and fixing it.
The underlying reality being that you're scared of or inconvienced by something, and you want to put a pretty moral gloss over your solution rather than putting in the time and effort that the truly moral choice would require. Train the cat. Continue being at war with the Wraith. (Since they won't be not-eating you anytime soon, ha.)
Train Jean. In an isolated setting, necessarily - you'd need an area that could take some damage without, oh, people dying. Possibly (probably) with restraints that she would be aware of and able to work within. But to just lock away her unconscious mind and the bulk of her power? In what reality is this a good decision? He knew the power was still there, that it would never go away. And whatever he might, might have planned to do in the long run, we don't know because he couldn't be bothered to explain himself. Although I'm betting his plans ran along the lines of 'keep checking the locks and hope she never-ever gets out.'
(Okay, rather ticked off at the ol' Professor here.)
Rouge. Well. It's probably been said before, but - nooooo!! No, no, no. And you know, considering the cure is going to wear off, I hope she at least gets laid beforehand. Because the emotional damage caused by that had better be for something, that's all I can say. Geez.
And, you know. Several moments of squee. Iceman! I was crossing my fingers, and I have a tiny irrational soft spot for Pyro, but Bobby! Was getting flattened! And I really wanted that he should get his butt into gear, there. And wow. That was so cool.
Also cool - the Beast. It was a little odd hearing Fraser's voice there, and that one moment in the fight I had a disconcerting image of a suit overlapping him, but still. He was a good Beast, all things considered. And he called Logan 'boy'. XD And his reaction to trying to touch Leech was beautiful.
....awww, Leech! And Archangel. They so needed more of him. And he saving his Dad was so wonderful. That tiny smug expression that was so saying 'and you wanted me to lose the wings'. XD
And, I am losing coherancy. Getting a little too tired. But one last thought?
Am I the only one who saw that pan out on Logan at the end, and thought 'Wolverine, Lord of the Manor.' ?
Now off to place my prescription for the eye drops that I have to start taking before the surgery.
Although there is also the nervousness of what if the surgery goes wrong, and of course how am I going to pay for this, because it is $3000 I don't have, but. I'm trying not to think about those things, since the one I can do nothing about, and the other, well... I am thinking of hunting for some kind of part-time job? At least temporarily? Because the sooner I can get that paid off, the better.
Though the holiday season is going to be my best bet for that.
Movie thoughts! So, I might just go see Snakes on a Plane. Because the trailer just amuses me, and hey - it's Samuel L. Jackson, who is cool. And also I don't seem to get tired of saying 'snakes on a plane!' Maybe I'm too easily amused? :P
I am totally going to see Dead Man's Chest. Everyone should go see that. I was so very very thrilled with the trailer, and thinking things might happen that I rather wished had happened in the first movie, and just. So. Excited. :D
Spoilery X-Men thoughts! So, it is just me, or did Xavier go utterly creepy on us there? In the way that powerful individuals on the side of Good and in the context of Light sometimes do. He said 'I don't have to explain myself.' and I wanted to yell in the theater, because oh no he did not place himself above accountability.
Because never mind what he did to Jean, if he believed he was right he should have been willing to explain. That was just - what should have been an intelligent if very aggravating conversation instead became a slap in the face, and what the hell did he think Logan was going do after that? This is not a man you just blow off without trying to explain to, and Xavier was just. Not. Talking. Because he knew best and that's all there is to it.
Really, I can see where Scott got that stick up his ass.
So, the bit at the end made me twitch, but it didn't surprise me - nor was I entirely pleased. My reaction was more 'Oh you would, you little hypocrite.' Because once you've put yourself above accountability like that? Of course the moral constraints that apply to lesser beings no longer apply to you.
Now as for what he did to Jean? That all by itself was totally immoral. He seemed to be putting it in an all or nothing context, but the Phoenix wouldn't have existed if he hadn't been screwing with Jean's brain in the first place. This is like clipping a cat's claws and claiming it's for the cat's good instead of for your own convience. Or, another example: Stargate:Atlantis. 'Curing' the Wraith. The idea was to treat these inherently predatory beings like they were humans with a nasty disease, and fixing it.
The underlying reality being that you're scared of or inconvienced by something, and you want to put a pretty moral gloss over your solution rather than putting in the time and effort that the truly moral choice would require. Train the cat. Continue being at war with the Wraith. (Since they won't be not-eating you anytime soon, ha.)
Train Jean. In an isolated setting, necessarily - you'd need an area that could take some damage without, oh, people dying. Possibly (probably) with restraints that she would be aware of and able to work within. But to just lock away her unconscious mind and the bulk of her power? In what reality is this a good decision? He knew the power was still there, that it would never go away. And whatever he might, might have planned to do in the long run, we don't know because he couldn't be bothered to explain himself. Although I'm betting his plans ran along the lines of 'keep checking the locks and hope she never-ever gets out.'
(Okay, rather ticked off at the ol' Professor here.)
Rouge. Well. It's probably been said before, but - nooooo!! No, no, no. And you know, considering the cure is going to wear off, I hope she at least gets laid beforehand. Because the emotional damage caused by that had better be for something, that's all I can say. Geez.
And, you know. Several moments of squee. Iceman! I was crossing my fingers, and I have a tiny irrational soft spot for Pyro, but Bobby! Was getting flattened! And I really wanted that he should get his butt into gear, there. And wow. That was so cool.
Also cool - the Beast. It was a little odd hearing Fraser's voice there, and that one moment in the fight I had a disconcerting image of a suit overlapping him, but still. He was a good Beast, all things considered. And he called Logan 'boy'. XD And his reaction to trying to touch Leech was beautiful.
....awww, Leech! And Archangel. They so needed more of him. And he saving his Dad was so wonderful. That tiny smug expression that was so saying 'and you wanted me to lose the wings'. XD
And, I am losing coherancy. Getting a little too tired. But one last thought?
Am I the only one who saw that pan out on Logan at the end, and thought 'Wolverine, Lord of the Manor.' ?
Now off to place my prescription for the eye drops that I have to start taking before the surgery.
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Date: 2006-06-05 01:45 pm (UTC)with regards to xavier, i just had to speak up! i do think he was being a bit of a dick but what i like about it is that it makes xavier human. he is a very wise, very good man in most respects, but like any man, he is not perfect, and he has reacted humanly. i think i have always liked what they did with him in some of the ultimate xmen books for the same reason.
i always thought why he put the circuit breakers on jean was partly his own fear that he couldn't train her to control her, and was hoping maybe eventually they'd become unneeded, but when the whole phoenix thing developed he realized he'd made a big mistake and by then it was too late. and so when logan asked, he, like any man confronted about a bad decision, reacted badly.
and yeah... poor rogue. though i do understand. her power majorly sucks to have.
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Date: 2006-06-06 02:22 pm (UTC)I hadn't really thought of it that way? Which reminds me that my first reaction tends to be an over-reaction, actually. ...also makes me think that I buy into the super-humaness of leaders like Xavier a bit too much. :P
I mean, with leaders like Magneto the flaws are obvious from the start. (Though I wanted to slap him for turning away from Mystique, too.) But Xavier, (Dumbledore, etc.) I guess I have higher standards for, and react worse when they screw up. ooops? ^^;