Hasta lasagne, don't get any on ya

[kellifer]

Usually, I am slow moving like pudding hopping from one fandom to the next. I started out in Stargate (and yahoo groups, dear, dear, yahoo groups) and basically stuck with it for a few years. Then Supernatural hooked me in (I don't even remember how - I remember avoiding it like the plague initially). That was a long (and still enduring considering I'm working on my spn_j2_bigbang) relationship.

Like molasses, I moved on to Inception, because a movie hadn't hooked me like that for a long time and the stories coming out of the fandom were interesting. The playing field was endless and the bromance epic.

So, Avengers. What the hell? Why did it whup me upside the head and how did it happen so fast? Those of you sticking with me for the Inception and Supernatural, never fear, I'm as slow to let a fandom go as I am to move onto a new one and still have plenty of WIPS in both, but geez. I don't know, I can't explain it.

I ship everyone with everyone. I'll give anything a bash and usually I settle on just the one pairing. There's Steve/Tony of course, but then there's Darcy/Clint, Clint/Coulson, Steve/Bucky, Steve/Clint (I have not seen one story with this yet but hope springs eternal or I'll have to write it anyway) etc, etc. I like reading about them all being BFFs, or doomed romances, or domestic schmoop or, or, or...

Anything.

I rolled my eyes in Chris Evans' general direction at first. But then I saw Sunshine and I was like, okay, he took a risk and moved away from the general pretty boy role. Then I saw The Losers and was... maybe there might be a little bit of a crush there. After Captain America I was firmly in the he is adorable camp.

I was dubious about Thor, ended up watching it on DVD because I got it as a Xmas present and my goodness, it was the most RIDIC, glorious thing ever. Where had Darcy been all my life? Chris Hemsworth, I remember you being in Home and Away you giant goof, how did you grow up like that?

I already had affection for Iron Man (but was sorely disappointed by the second movie - what the hell happened there??).

The thing is, people in RL keeping saying Who? when I mention Jeremy Renner.

For your viewing pleasure, this is Jeremy Renner:


HUM-UN-A

I just... wasn't prepared for him. He's taking over the Bourne franchise and that would have given me the heebies (because I have enduring affection for all three movies and Matt Damon) but now I'm okay, even excited about it because it's him.


HOW EVEN REAL JEREMY RENNER??

He's in stuff I'm excited to see. He has ARMS that I'm excited to see. I gave the new Mission Impossible movie a chance just because of him and boy, was I pleasantly surprised! (I loved the first one, then... DISASTER I guess because hoo, boy were those some bad sequels).

I'm sorry though, I still can't sit through SWAT. Even Jeremy Renner doesn't have that power.


I thought that object by his hand was a gun for AGES, until I realized it was actually a wrench. It's a little... random considering behind him is a car that's UPSIDE down but then I thought, maybe he's so badass he flipped a car just with a wrench.

Anyway, the point of this is to say that I'm smitten, so apologies if that gets old because you're like, what the hell, I don't see it, not my cuppa. BUT I am glacial in my fandom movements so don't think I'm abandoning you if you didn't sign up for Avengers. I'm just playing with my new toy, will return you to your regularly scheduled programming soon, I promise.

Comments

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Oooooh... really?? He's not because he was in Thor and he was on comms with Coulson.

Man, that gives me squillions of fic ideas and would make the character MORE appealing but I'm pretty sure they've glossed over that.

[perletwo.livejournal.com]

Regular Marvel'Verse Hawkeye becomes deaf in the middle of his career with the Avengers, somewhere around the late 1980s.

Captured & with his bow taken, he & (future wife) Mockingbird are being forced by sonic mind control to fight to the death. He's hidden a single trick arrowhead from his captors, & at zero hour he puts it in his mouth and activates it with his teeth. It's a sonic arrowhead & knocks out the mind control gizmo - and his hearing.

The Avengers movie seems to be following the Marvel Ultimates'Verse somewhat, & I have no idea if any of this happened over there. But if this is his first outing as an Avenger, if deafness comes it looks to be down the road a ways...?

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Perhaps... I definitely love the idea of that and him losing his hearing that way by risking himself to save someone else... I really need to start reading the comics because that kind of stuff makes me gooey!

It would definitely be an origin movie because Steve and Tony are bristling at each other from the get-go and Fury pops up in the other movies to recruit.

[jennytork.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know!

I doubt I'll be watching the movie anytime soon, then. That was the only part of it I was really, truly looking forward to and if it's not happening...

Thanks for being honest and don't feel bad! I suspected as much.

(((((HUGS))))))))

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I don't know for sure though!!! All I know is I saw him talking on comms in Thor - but maybe they had a special jaw-vibration comms for him and he's actually deaf and JUST HIDES IT FROM EVERYONE BECAUSE... I DON'T KNOW... THERE'S REASONS!! :D

You could see it with that in mind, that he's REALLY GOOD AT HIDING IT. From comments above though it seems he lost his hearing while he'd been in the Avengers for a while?? - so they might be making it canon later on for DRAMA. :D