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jackI saw X-men 3 again. It's still well done (though still silly in all the ways people said it was before).
* It definitely benefits from a big screen
* Magneto and the tattoo, magneto and the bridge, Hank "There comes a time when any man... oh, you get the idea", are all my favourite moments.
* It's still stupid to build a magneto-proof prison out of metal. What's next, out of money or high explosives?
* I notice Magneto, despite being willing to kill all humans in the world last film, still attacks on foot rather than, eg. dropping a nickel-iron asteroid on alcatrz island
* Alternatively, I notice Storm, Magneto, Wolverine, Charles, Pyro, etc could nearly run the economy of a small country. What would it be worth to never have any storms devastate any coast for ever, or free space travel, or free heat, or free meat? Oil barons get legal breaks, how about mutants? :)
ETA: Did Magneto's powers start coming back for any particular reason? Is he just that cool? Do class 4 mutants have greater powers in other ways? Or did they just not have enough long term testing for the cure and it's going to wear off for *everyone*. That would have been handy to know before.
ETA: The academy is going to be fun with Jimmy in some classes, it'll keep some people on their toes.
* It definitely benefits from a big screen
* Magneto and the tattoo, magneto and the bridge, Hank "There comes a time when any man... oh, you get the idea", are all my favourite moments.
* It's still stupid to build a magneto-proof prison out of metal. What's next, out of money or high explosives?
* I notice Magneto, despite being willing to kill all humans in the world last film, still attacks on foot rather than, eg. dropping a nickel-iron asteroid on alcatrz island
* Alternatively, I notice Storm, Magneto, Wolverine, Charles, Pyro, etc could nearly run the economy of a small country. What would it be worth to never have any storms devastate any coast for ever, or free space travel, or free heat, or free meat? Oil barons get legal breaks, how about mutants? :)
ETA: Did Magneto's powers start coming back for any particular reason? Is he just that cool? Do class 4 mutants have greater powers in other ways? Or did they just not have enough long term testing for the cure and it's going to wear off for *everyone*. That would have been handy to know before.
ETA: The academy is going to be fun with Jimmy in some classes, it'll keep some people on their toes.
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Date: 2008-01-03 06:51 pm (UTC)I can just about see your point about "normal", but I still think it's less bad than either "mundane" or "human", and importantly although some people think there's automatically something wrong with not being normal, not everyone does. Both the other terms are hard to see as anything other than insulting on the part of whoever thought them up.
I don't know what you'd pick if you still weren't happy. Hmm. "Mutant" means "changed", so we're implicitly recognising that humans used to not have special powers and now some of them do. So "original", or some synonym of that, might be a place to look which doesn't introduce any more connotations than are already implicit in "mutant"?