Bessie is his favorite milkcow

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Yesterday it snowed for the first time! Only very little in the evening and this morning, and there's nothing left, but it was a nice sign of the coming winter. That, and that it's freezing cold outside.

Together with mom and LB we watched Igudesman & Joo's "A BIG Nightmare Music" at the Vienna Konzerthaus yesterday, it was a lot of fun. My face literally hurt from smiling so much. Their version of "I Will Survive" was maybe my favorite (similar to this one), but I may be biased because it was also the last piece. Mozart Bond and "Kein Schwein ruft dich an" were also great, and all the others. Seeing the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra dance with them, including a Riverdancing cellist and a guy riding his tuba like a horse, and doing some sort of Ministry of silly walks thing was also great. Igudesman speaks great German (he studied in Vienna) and Joo decent, so they even had some jokes in German, which was extra nice.
Before the concert the older couple behind LB and I was surprised that the big hall was full, "they're not that famous." They kind of are. "And so many young people, young people don't like classical music." Oh please.
I told LB he should try to incorporate Igudesman's hip swing into his violin class mini concert today. I'm going to have to bake him something if he actually does xD

I watched the Captain America: Civil War trailer. Some nice pictures. It seems to frame the conflict as "Steve resists government oversight because he wants to save Bucky", which would be plausible but makes it harder to explain the motives of his supporters (except Sam.) Probably the government is way out of line in how they try to capture Bucky. The movie also seems to try to set up a Steve-Tony story that you can't tell in the MCU because they don't have nearly as much history together as in the comics, plus after AoU I completely lost my handle on Tony. I'm curious about Black Panther. May 2016, much later than I thought.
"The Martian" seems to be almost out of cinemas here, I'll see if I'll still manage to see it.

Other random things: after a two week break because of my dental surgery I finally had hockey practice again, yay! (I love hockey practice, I don't like going to hockey practice, it's a problem.) I ate some good food in the last few days, in restaurants and by my roommate TW. I started playing Flight Rising and I already have some pretty dragons. I read Shadows of the Apt 5 because I have no self-control and I'll probably read the next one soon. I'm making good progress outlining my Yuletide fic and I'm having fun with it. I'm getting better at keeping the apartment clean but I really need to clean my room, and especially my desk. Pens won and Sid&Geno scored, nice.
Lunch now.

Comments

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It seems to frame the conflict as "Steve resists government oversight because he wants to save Bucky", which would be plausible but makes it harder to explain the motives of his supporters (except Sam.)

Yup. This is something they REALLY need to flesh out. Forex, Hawkeye wouldn't even need to register, so why the fuck is he fighting?

The movie also seems to try to set up a Steve-Tony story that you can't tell in the MCU.

Yup, again. I was telling a friend "Does this version of Tony REALLY think that Steve would choose him over Bucky?!" Maybe it'd be more effective if MCU had actually been having these characters do cameos in each other's movies, so you can see some sort of relationship building. But... that's really, really not what they've done.

There's no reason for Tony to sound hurt in that little snippet and he does sound hurt to me. If they really try to push the "Tony/Steve being besties like in the comics" thing, it's going to fall flat.

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I understand Wanda being on Steve's side: she's not a big fan of the government and she'd understand Bucky wanting to get away. Sam, okay he's Steve's second-best friend and would do a lot for him, but nothing that goes against his principles so you have to convince me even there. Clint... they better explain that one well. He obviously hates brainwashing of any kind, and if the government tried to kill Bucky without even giving him a trial he'd hate that, but fighting against it? Against Natasha? (Okay we'll still see what she ends up doing, probably playing her own game.)

Also, Cap operating with "unlimited power and no supervision" - what? He was working for SHIELD until SHIELD imploded, and in AoU he's - okay admittedly I don't know exactly who he's working for (AoU was a mess) but not on his own.

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yeah, with Clint... he doesn't have to register. So WTF is he doing there? I'm kind of hoping it doesn't boil down to "well, these are the new Avengers, so they'll support Steve, by default."

(unrelated? plothole: Didn't Nat release all of SHIELD's databases to the world in TWS? How did Hawkeye keep his family secret, if so?)

I think that line refers directly to Sokovia in AoU. I can see the Avengers being an independent agency that's doing their own thing, with this being "look at what you assholes did when we weren't watching you?"

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I'm not even sure they're doing registration. Registration was a tool, what the conflict boils down to was the level of government control, and you can fight over that without registration. There are (almost) no secret identities in the MCU, so making it about that wouldn't make any sense.

Good point about Clint's family.

Hm, true, but Sokovie was them fixing their own fuck-up, and it was Tony who created Ultron. There's no way "it's great you saved the world but next time wait for our stamp of approval first" could come across well.

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You make good points. XD I was assuming registration is the problem, but like you said - it's just a tool.

And, yea, that'd go over like a fart in church. Especially since the Avengers know that, most of the time, you really don't have time to wait for the bureaucrats to sign off on things.

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Sounds like you're having a good time! Productive and fun, yay!

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Fun, yes, productive, meh... it'll get better :)