Thank you! (I think it was less an essay that an extended AAAAAAAAGH but I certainly tried to make it more articulate than that ...)
I think that Magneto very often holds an understandable position, given his life experiences, and that Charles is often too optimistic that everything will totes work out this time, but he's still way too murder-y to support even when I think he's right in his basic position!
All too often it's like there's a house that's on fire and Charles is reacting by pretending that everything is fine and they just need to talk to the fire, while Erik acknowledges that this is a big problem but his reaction is to set the house next door on fire, too. Neither of these is a helpful strategy!
And ultimately the reason I struggled with First Class and haven't watched any further in that series is that I couldn't see any way in which that Magneto was morally distinguishable from Shaw - like, apart from Shaw killing his mother, there doesn't seem to be any reason for Magneto not to join him, because they appear to have the same goals and methods.
Pretty much. Days of Future Past is probably my favourite X-Men film, but seventies-era Erik doesn't exactly cover himself in glory. It seems that by 2023 when the world is almost destroyed by Sentinels he has finally bought a clue and teamed up with the remaining X-Men. So it's nice that he got there in the end? But then in Apocalypse eighties Erik is even more murdery than usual, so.
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Thank you! (I think it was less an essay that an extended AAAAAAAAGH but I certainly tried to make it more articulate than that ...)
I think that Magneto very often holds an understandable position, given his life experiences, and that Charles is often too optimistic that everything will totes work out this time, but he's still way too murder-y to support even when I think he's right in his basic position!
All too often it's like there's a house that's on fire and Charles is reacting by pretending that everything is fine and they just need to talk to the fire, while Erik acknowledges that this is a big problem but his reaction is to set the house next door on fire, too. Neither of these is a helpful strategy!
And ultimately the reason I struggled with First Class and haven't watched any further in that series is that I couldn't see any way in which that Magneto was morally distinguishable from Shaw - like, apart from Shaw killing his mother, there doesn't seem to be any reason for Magneto not to join him, because they appear to have the same goals and methods.
Pretty much. Days of Future Past is probably my favourite X-Men film, but seventies-era Erik doesn't exactly cover himself in glory. It seems that by 2023 when the world is almost destroyed by Sentinels he has finally bought a clue and teamed up with the remaining X-Men. So it's nice that he got there in the end? But then in Apocalypse eighties Erik is even more murdery than usual, so.