Captain Marvel ship possibilities

[snickfic]

Being as vague as possible here, but I'm pretty excited about this article:

Carol Danvers doesn’t have a love interest in Captain Marvel, a welcome choice considering the number of superhero films with paper-thin romantic subplots. (Rachel McAdams in Doctor Strange, we hardly knew ye.) Instead, the great love story of Captain Marvel is Carol’s friendship with her Air Force buddy Maria Rambeau, played by Lashana Lynch.

At a recent press conference, Brie Larson talked up the “tight-knit bond” between Carol and Maria. The two characters went through military training together and were the only two women in their group, but Larson thinks they would have become friends even without that experience. “This is the love of the movie,” she said. “This is the great love. This is the love lost, this is the love found again, this is the reason to continue fighting and to go to the ends of the Earth for the person that you love. And it’s her best friend and her best friend’s daughter which, to me, is so natural.”

Put it in my eyeballs!

Comments

[schneefink]

That indeed sounds very promising :D

[snickfic]

Truly my greatest wish for this movie is that it will give me quality femslash fodder. I also have hopes for Carol/Gemma Chan's character, because Gemma Chan. :D

[glitteryv]

Carol/Maria, FTW!!!! I'm always (ALWAYS) here for more F/F ships. :D

Also, I'm super happy that there aren't any romantic subplots in the movie. That's made \o/ a lot.

[snickfic]

No romnantic subplots plus femslash potential is a GREAT combo.

[lazaefair]

On one hand, that sounds very rhetorically similar to the queerbaiting the Russos did with Steve and Bucky for Winter Soldier/Civil War. On the other hand, it sounds like there's no shoehorned-in Sharon Carter equivalent solely to Establish That Our Hero Is Straighty Straight Straight, so that's progress.

On the third hand, I'm already pouty over the certainty that there won't be any actual femslash because Hollywood is full of cowards. But on the fourth hand, I'm actually very interested in this kind of portrayal of deep platonic love between two women because I'm in a similar relationship myself. Functionally married to my best friend, living with her - and most importantly - almost completely cutting the need for men out of our lives.

I'm pretty sure that's why knowledge of how common this kind of thing used to be - women supporting each other whether they were queer or straight - has been so comprehensively erased in favor of the image of the 1950s nuclear family. And I'd be glad to see it brought back into mainstream portrayals, without any need to bring in male love interests to soothe homophobic audiences, just letting the relationship stand on its own.