I generally have a weird soft spot for good people, as long as they're written well and aren't preachy or over-the-top or uninteresting, and as long as we understand that this goodness isn’t reflexive or something that’s rooted in innocence and idealism but that is a choice - they are aware of easier things, but choose to be better.
YES. I am always wary of Captain America stuff because he is this kind of liberal starry-eyed character, and I worry about people forgetting that because he's named Captain America. Honestly, this movie might as well have been called Steve. It was about him and what a hero he was (even before he bulked up.)
AND CAN I JUST SAY that my favorite Steve/Peggy moment was after she believed him dead and she opened the case file and stared longingly at little Steve? She loved him before his arms looked like balloons! I just want to live in a world where the serum didn't work and he and Peggy married anyway and he spent the rest of his dancing while standing on her feet.
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Date: 2011-10-23 03:10 pm (UTC)I generally have a weird soft spot for good people, as long as they're written well and aren't preachy or over-the-top or uninteresting, and as long as we understand that this goodness isn’t reflexive or something that’s rooted in innocence and idealism but that is a choice - they are aware of easier things, but choose to be better.
YES. I am always wary of Captain America stuff because he is this kind of liberal starry-eyed character, and I worry about people forgetting that because he's named Captain America. Honestly, this movie might as well have been called Steve. It was about him and what a hero he was (even before he bulked up.)
AND CAN I JUST SAY that my favorite Steve/Peggy moment was after she believed him dead and she opened the case file and stared longingly at little Steve? She loved him before his arms looked like balloons! I just want to live in a world where the serum didn't work and he and Peggy married anyway and he spent the rest of his dancing while standing on her feet.