silver

Hello hello, I've seen you on pip's entries and also on the marymarshall comm! I think. (I read a lot of episode recaps--that was like my meta fix for IPS.)

How cool was it that Rhodey got to do all sorts of action with Tony as his backup? I loved that, and their camaraderie.

Exactly, he gets to be human! There's a person inside the Iron Man suit, and he's a little squishy in the same way that all people are. I actually quite like how MCU is dealing with stuff like this--like how Steve doesn't just wake up happy with 21st century America, how he hesitates and decides he doesn't want to call Peggy, how he's obviously carrying around his past. I like how their fights aren't just temporary bumps in the road--they have actual lasting effects on the people who go through them, even someone who emits the aura of untouchable (brilliance, money, snark, you name it).

HAHAHA YES to the Bruce thing. I have terrible face recognition so I didn't realize it at the time, but I got home and Googled (>.>) and then all the pieces fell together. Tony! I thought you liked Bruce for his physics and science! And it totally explains Bruce's resigned expression--aww! Incidentally I also really liked how the scene capped off the movie. Protagonists narrating their adventures on voice-over isn't new, but I like how it's given an in-universe explanation--he's telling Bruce, so it totally makes sense that Tony starts off the movie going "it started in this year, oh wait no, 1999", casually.

I already blathered to pip about how Tony might've been sort of hiding behind the arc reactor, maybe, and how it might be a bit like moving on. But on the other hand, I don't like it when fundamental pieces of characters get removed >:( I want to have my cake and eat it too! Same with the suits, partly because of the flashy tech, because c'mon, the suits are cool. But the wording of "Clean Slate" seems to suggest that the slate's just being cleared, it's not being destroyed so no more suits can be made. I hope anyway.

Hahaha, oh no about Sadler! I don't watch a lot of movies so just about everybody is an unknown face to me (plus slap a wig on and presto, new person to me!) but that must've been disorienting! He looks so much like a president to me. Mind you, I can't look at Senator Palpatine in TPM as a harmless old man anymore, so yeah.