Gamora/Peter Quill

[lynnenne]

Hello, and welcome to your weekly Sunday discussion post! This week's topic:

Gamora/Peter Quill. Do you ship it? If so, why? If not, why not? What is your favorite thing about their dynamic? What did you think of their arc in Avengers: Infinity War? How about elsewhere in the MCU, or even in the comics?

Discuss!

Comments

[lazaefair]

Whoops, yes, James Gunn. Hard to keep all the young white male fanboys-turned-directors straight these days! But like I said, at least this particular one proved he was capable of learning. I wouldn’t mind if Marvel hired him back or that he lands on his feet somewhere, at least.

I didn’t super mind Wanda/Vision. I like both the actors a lot and they were doing their level best to sell it, and it wasn’t a non-negligible effort. (Contrast with Natasha/Bruce and how clearly neither of those actors believed in that romance, as well they shouldn’t have, since nobody else on the planet besides Joss Whedon did either.) That said, I heartily agree about the lack of groundwork. So while I don’t mind Wanda/Vision, I’m not at all invested in it.

[sciatrix]

Oh, yeah. I didn't mind Wanda/Vision at all, and I actively hated Natasha/Bruce, so... yeah. It was just very meh, but meh is not the worst place for a on-screen canon pairing to land, not by a long shot.

I think he is going to land on his feet--he's currently working for Warner on the second Suicide Squad movie. The gossip I've heard is that Disney is having one hell of a time finding a director for vol3, that vol1 and vol2 were so marked by Gunn that the directors available feel like it's a risk that everyone will write off as "really Gunn" if it succeeds or attribute to them if it fails. They're definitely using his script without apparently changing it.

I'm pretty pissed off at the firing if only because it was so long ago and he had, as you say, proved capable of learning. But also, his absence stalling vol3 has Disney kind of over a barrel: GOTG are really central to what they want to be doing right now, and that project ain't going anywhere until they can find someone to direct it. And that has me sad too, because I love the GOTG storylines.

[lazaefair]

Now would be a excellent opportunity to hire any of those female/PoC directors who win festival awards, or even Oscars, or make one incredibly successful blockbuster, but afterwards somehow never get any other job offers from a prejudiced industry, I'm just saying...

But yeah. I feel bad for Gunn and I don't like that his firing is 100% the result of the alt-right weaponizing the call-out culture that progressives engineered themselves. The whole thing was fucked up.