Have I told you that I love you this week? Because I am giving you a round of applause over here.
You can imagine that I've been fighting the urge to bang my head on the nearest solid object while reading First Class meta that asserts that Erik was right about everything. (Just as I would be if I were reading lots of meta that asserted Charles was right about everything, but somehow I never actually see that argument get made ...)
The film did such a brilliant job of showing Charles Xavier as a complicated human being who is young and foolish and privileged and right about some stuff and wrong about other stuff, but also enormously compassionate. It irritates me when people ignore some of those layers.
(And I love being gainfully employed, but I wish I had more time right now to write fic and meta myself!)
Which is amazing considering the state he's in and I don't just mean the being shot and crippled for the rest of his movieverse life part.
Charles Xavier's ability to put aside his emotions and deal with the immediate situation is his other mutant power. Having seen the backstory, I now understand better how he manages the events of X2. Where his immediate reaction to being used a weapon by two factions of people who between them are trying to make him kill everyone on the planet (one of which consists of Erik and his adopted sister) and then losing his surrogate daughter is ... to put on a clean suit and go have a friendly chat with the President of the United States.
I think everyone has good cause to be grateful about his epic capacity for repression.
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You can imagine that I've been fighting the urge to bang my head on the nearest solid object while reading First Class meta that asserts that Erik was right about everything. (Just as I would be if I were reading lots of meta that asserted Charles was right about everything, but somehow I never actually see that argument get made ...)
The film did such a brilliant job of showing Charles Xavier as a complicated human being who is young and foolish and privileged and right about some stuff and wrong about other stuff, but also enormously compassionate. It irritates me when people ignore some of those layers.
(And I love being gainfully employed, but I wish I had more time right now to write fic and meta myself!)
Which is amazing considering the state he's in and I don't just mean the being shot and crippled for the rest of his movieverse life part.
Charles Xavier's ability to put aside his emotions and deal with the immediate situation is his other mutant power. Having seen the backstory, I now understand better how he manages the events of X2. Where his immediate reaction to being used a weapon by two factions of people who between them are trying to make him kill everyone on the planet (one of which consists of Erik and his adopted sister) and then losing his surrogate daughter is ... to put on a clean suit and go have a friendly chat with the President of the United States.
I think everyone has good cause to be grateful about his epic capacity for repression.