Anonymous asked: I'm not expecting to convince you to go see GotG, but if I was gonna try, I'd matter-of-factly inform you that GotG is the PacRim of the MCU. Hope, platonic love, teamwork, human intuition, and raw spirit triumphing over evil in a way that none of the other movies grasped. And Chriss Pratt, well...he's good but he doesn't hold a candle to Vin Diesel's Groot. Also while I'm okay with Laverne Cox as Wonder Woman, I'd prefer Gina Torres personally. :D

Cox is movie live action Wonder Woman. Gina Torres does TV and the voicework for the cartoon series.

Which is also to say, anon, yeah, I’ve heard that Groot is really charming. But I’m avoiding GOTG not only because of the misogyny and erasure of queer ladies and every single fucking main cast POC being a you-can’t-actually-tell-they’re-played-by-a-POC alien, but also because reliable sources tell me that the one storyline that I would actually be into (Gamora and her ASSASSIN MURDER SESTRA RAISED BY THE PEOPLE WHO KILLED YOUR FAMILY ) is criminally under explored?

So. I ain’t got time for something where the return is going to be pretty low for me.

By the way, I’m charmed as hell that “hope, platonic love, teamwork, human intuition, and raw spirit triumphing over evil” is why you think I like Pacific Rim. :D

(Actual reasons I love Pacific Rim: Mako Mori, Mako Mori, Jaegers, The Drift, GdT’s visual style, Jaegers, in-text recognition of the way that even if you are awesome, you can’t win every battle, plus explicit recognition of how society divides into the haves and the ones that the haves don’t give a fuck about/have-nots having to put their lives on the line in order to get basic needs like food and physical safety, white boys being wrong ALL THE FUCKING TIME, white boys being right only when they follow the orders of a black dude, more white boys being wrong ALL THE FUCKING TIME, Stacker Pentecost being the traditional Confucian father who actually deserves the love and respect and filial piety that Mako gives him? And kinda the opposite of platonic love, in that Raleigh Becket would be 1000000000000000000000% down for growing gills in order to go down on Mako underwater, and I read Chuck Hansen as Mako’s ex who is salty as fuck about the fact that Mako hit it and quit it and now has an upgrade, and I also read Herc Hansen and Stacker as ring-exchanging Hot Dads?

Also, Jaegers hitting kaiju with oil tankers.

Also, Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaako Mori, who is helpfully actually shown not only being not-covered-in-green-makeup, but also being really really really East-Asian-living-in-and-navigating-Westernish-society in a way that speaks to my motherfucking SOUL.)