2) feel extremely smug that I spotted the epic homoerotic subtext between Magneto and Xavier ages ago
LOL, to be fair, in the comic books it's been almost canon. Like in 616 Charles left his wife for Erik. In Ultimates verse, when Erik and Charles discover each other, it's a coup de foudre and they both leave their significant others for each other. Then there was Onslaught in the 1990s when Charles and Erik mindmeld (Charles takes over Erik's mind in a fit of passion and anger) and stuff went down.
From the get go there was always this push and pull between Xavier and Magneto for a long time, but the movie just makes it bleed across the screen. I tell people that if the leads had been het, they would have kissed on screen from that satellite scene, or that beach scene. The director (Vaughn) was trying to have a b plot where Xavier and Moira were falling in love, but he couldn't do it, because it was truly about Charles and Erik.
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LOL, Erik/Charles have always almost been canon.
Date: 2011-06-22 06:47 am (UTC)LOL, to be fair, in the comic books it's been almost canon. Like in 616 Charles left his wife for Erik. In Ultimates verse, when Erik and Charles discover each other, it's a coup de foudre and they both leave their significant others for each other. Then there was Onslaught in the 1990s when Charles and Erik mindmeld (Charles takes over Erik's mind in a fit of passion and anger) and stuff went down.
From the get go there was always this push and pull between Xavier and Magneto for a long time, but the movie just makes it bleed across the screen. I tell people that if the leads had been het, they would have kissed on screen from that satellite scene, or that beach scene. The director (Vaughn) was trying to have a b plot where Xavier and Moira were falling in love, but he couldn't do it, because it was truly about Charles and Erik.