Right. I think you're starting to get why I'm totally nonplussed that Erik was the hero of the movie and Charles was just a dick who got in the way.
I think a lot of the cognitive dissonance people are having with the ending of XMFC is that they expect like a Darth Vader narrative- Erik turning into a being of pure evil- and the ending doesn't justify that. But putting on the Magneto costume and ditching Charles isn't tantamount to turning into Darth Vader, if you know what the two characters are like in comics continuity. There's a lot more ambiguity and even heroism to Magneto's struggle, and there's a lot that is extremely dangerous about Charles's path.
I just hope that in XMFC2 we see the way the twisty interconnections between Charles and Erik and Moira and Raven continue to unravel because all four of them are damaged and incredibly flawed people. I mean, frankly I just hope that Moira gets a role in the new movie in any form.
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Date: 2011-07-12 14:49 (UTC)I think a lot of the cognitive dissonance people are having with the ending of XMFC is that they expect like a Darth Vader narrative- Erik turning into a being of pure evil- and the ending doesn't justify that. But putting on the Magneto costume and ditching Charles isn't tantamount to turning into Darth Vader, if you know what the two characters are like in comics continuity. There's a lot more ambiguity and even heroism to Magneto's struggle, and there's a lot that is extremely dangerous about Charles's path.
I just hope that in XMFC2 we see the way the twisty interconnections between Charles and Erik and Moira and Raven continue to unravel because all four of them are damaged and incredibly flawed people. I mean, frankly I just hope that Moira gets a role in the new movie in any form.