the sun and the moon and the stars

I ... still haven't seen Infinity War? I think I'm going to go see it today, if the housemate and I can coordinate our windows of having-enough-spoons. Mostly at this stage I want to see it just so I've seen it, and can read the fic and peoples' reaction posts with proper understanding.

I have come to the conclusion that it's not that I'm over the MCU, it's that my ideas of sense and good storytelling diverges wildly from the PTB, who meddle with the ensemble movies in a way that they don't seem to with the single-character movies.

I've enjoyed basically all the standalone movies - some I merely enjoyed, through to some I adored - whereas the ensemble movies have been largely a hot mess. (Though I did enjoy the first Avengers at the time, I think it holds up less well under scrutiny, particularly once you're already disenchanted.)

The up side of missing the release of Infinity War, though, was that I finally got to watch Black Panther now it's out on iTunes (it being the first MCU movie I missed at the cinema). I have to admit, I was a lot less impressed than I expected to be, though that may be because of people talking it up before I saw it. I mean, I did enjoy it, but...

( Spoilery Black Panther reactions: )