The Old Guard
Aug. 5th, 2020 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potofsoupWatched it this past Sunday.
Nile is adorable, I can totally understand why fandom is gaga over the Crusade husbands, and Andy (like all world-weary warrior women) makes me weak in the knees.
That said,
1) I'm kind of tired of stories where violence solves problems. (Where are the stories where community solves problems?)
and
2) The ending.
Okay, I was watching along, and then Quynh and the iron maiden thing happened and I was so freaked out that I had to go look up spoilers just so that I know what's going on with that whole thread. (As in, whether she would show up mid-movie). I'm glad that she made it out of the underwater prison, but I hate that she's being set up as the antagonist for the next movie, particularly against Andy.
Like, I get from a character motive perspective why her character would hate all humans, or whatever else, and that good stories need these dramatic moments, but ... why put her through all this pain in the first place? It's like, first they fridge her to advance Andy's pain, and then they bring her back to make her a Crazed Villain?
It also makes me so sad that Quynh couldn't dream about Andy, Nicky or Joe for the past 500 years, but only Booker and now Nile. Imagine only catching glimpses of Andy through Booker's eyes??
Anyway, I would have much preferred any of these:
- something where Nile is like "um guys, have you tried since the 1800s? Cause survey equipment is much better now" and then they find her, and sure, she's basically been constantly dying / in solitary for 500 years, but now you can have a recovery arc. Maybe she asks Andy why humans are worth helping, and tags along as a grudging "prove it" sort of aunty figure until something happens that lets her decide to help
- something where she kicks her way out of the underwater prison much earlier, say in the 1800s, and just decided to fuck off with Andy's band of mercenaries and become a mountain farmer or some such, and whenever Andy is like "why the fuck do I still do this?" she's thinking about her wife and a simple life
- something where she finds Andy instead of Booker and yes, the reunion is painful and violent and there's a lot of blood and tears, but they fucking reconcile and Andy retires with her to be happy lesbians for as long as Andy remains alive. (And Nile is like, "hey rest of the group, have you considered expanding ways to help people?")
As it is, it's probably going to be pitting the Immortals against each other, and the final reconciliation coming only after Quynh accidentally killing Andy or some such. :/
Maybe I should read the comic just to see how much of my prediction is going to be true.
Nile is adorable, I can totally understand why fandom is gaga over the Crusade husbands, and Andy (like all world-weary warrior women) makes me weak in the knees.
That said,
1) I'm kind of tired of stories where violence solves problems. (Where are the stories where community solves problems?)
and
2) The ending.
Okay, I was watching along, and then Quynh and the iron maiden thing happened and I was so freaked out that I had to go look up spoilers just so that I know what's going on with that whole thread. (As in, whether she would show up mid-movie). I'm glad that she made it out of the underwater prison, but I hate that she's being set up as the antagonist for the next movie, particularly against Andy.
Like, I get from a character motive perspective why her character would hate all humans, or whatever else, and that good stories need these dramatic moments, but ... why put her through all this pain in the first place? It's like, first they fridge her to advance Andy's pain, and then they bring her back to make her a Crazed Villain?
It also makes me so sad that Quynh couldn't dream about Andy, Nicky or Joe for the past 500 years, but only Booker and now Nile. Imagine only catching glimpses of Andy through Booker's eyes??
Anyway, I would have much preferred any of these:
- something where Nile is like "um guys, have you tried since the 1800s? Cause survey equipment is much better now" and then they find her, and sure, she's basically been constantly dying / in solitary for 500 years, but now you can have a recovery arc. Maybe she asks Andy why humans are worth helping, and tags along as a grudging "prove it" sort of aunty figure until something happens that lets her decide to help
- something where she kicks her way out of the underwater prison much earlier, say in the 1800s, and just decided to fuck off with Andy's band of mercenaries and become a mountain farmer or some such, and whenever Andy is like "why the fuck do I still do this?" she's thinking about her wife and a simple life
- something where she finds Andy instead of Booker and yes, the reunion is painful and violent and there's a lot of blood and tears, but they fucking reconcile and Andy retires with her to be happy lesbians for as long as Andy remains alive. (And Nile is like, "hey rest of the group, have you considered expanding ways to help people?")
As it is, it's probably going to be pitting the Immortals against each other, and the final reconciliation coming only after Quynh accidentally killing Andy or some such. :/
Maybe I should read the comic just to see how much of my prediction is going to be true.
