the trick is to keep breathing

I've seen it. I have thoughts. I have a lot of thoughts, many of them meta, too many for one post: and even though the internet is saturated with people talking about Marvel right now, I'm gonna try to write a lot of them out. It isn't often I get to participate in a big fandom thing as it happens - I'm the queen of walks in 5 years late to this fandom with Starbucks - and so for me, this isn't just a big cool thing, it's part of this cultural phenomenon going on around me in real-time which is its OWN big cool thing.

my tl;dr non spoilery take on Endgame is: I thoroughly enjoyed the hell out of this movie, but I'm also kind of mad at it in a lot of ways?

Part 1 here is gonna be an overview, a general take on the thing, and then I intend to talk about each of the 6 OG Avengers separately, as well as a couple other characters / pieces / parts. Or, I think I am. Partially depends on how interesting people find it; partially depends on whether I remain engaged/enraged enough to do so.

Onward, Part One: Endgame

( And here's the spoiler cut. )