I choose to believe that when Tony said he "fixed" Pepper, he meant "made her condition completely controllable, but now she can toast marshmallows with her fingers".
And yes, I was very happy with the Mandarin as well. As with the first movie, the real threat is a white man with American's military-industrial complex behind him, but I think the bluff with Scary Brown People was much more sophisticated this time.
I was a bit eyerolly at Rhodey's adventures in Pakistan, but I liked that the first people he went for got to laugh at his password, and that AIM used his American Saviour fantasies as bait.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-25 12:21 am (UTC)And yes, I was very happy with the Mandarin as well. As with the first movie, the real threat is a white man with American's military-industrial complex behind him, but I think the bluff with Scary Brown People was much more sophisticated this time.
I was a bit eyerolly at Rhodey's adventures in Pakistan, but I liked that the first people he went for got to laugh at his password, and that AIM used his American Saviour fantasies as bait.