Concerning X3...
Mar. 21st, 2006 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ingvild...I just know they're going to butcher Cyclops' character.
Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, isn't an easy character to write. He's emotionally constipated, anal-retentive and seem to have a stick permanently lodged up his rectum. He's been called bland, boring, and a boy scout. Not to mention he's a control freak.
Guess what? If I couldn't open my eyes without punching a whole in a mountain, I would be a bit of a control freak as well.
Personally, I think Scott only has one major flaw: his relationships with women. He's so emotionally dependent that he doesn't seem able to stand on his own, and he will always come back to Jean. Well, here's a newsflash for you, writers: this sort of behaviour isn't attractive in women, and it's not attractive in men, either. How about trying to let him be single and standing on his own two feet for a while?
(Or hook him up with Aurora, who's fiery enough to challenge him, but who also isn't a telepath, so he'll have to actually talk to her, rather than counting on her reading his mind - and he'd probably be good for her as well! But that's just some crazy idea I came up with when it occurred to me that the wrong Beaubier twin joined the X-Men. I digress.)
But getting back to the movie franchise:
In the first movie, all Scott did was getting his friendly overtures brushed off by the hairy no-longer-midget (AKA Wolverine), have a bad landing and leading the others into a trap that Wolverine had to get them out of.
In X2, he got to act bitchy and then he became mind-controlled.
In the comics, Cyclops is the greatest leader the X-Men have ever had. He's a brilliant strategist, an excellent hand-to-hand fighter (he's taken out a group of street thugs while blindfolded), an expert mechanic and pilot, and quite possibly the heart and soul of the X-Men's dream.
In the movie, he's a sideshow character who's mostly been used to make Wolverine look better.
If Wolverine take his place as the person who brings Jean back from Dark Phoenix, it won't be surprising. It will follow the general trend of the movies. Cyclops in the movies has been underused, underplayed and undercut. He's nothing but the shell of the character I know from the comics, and it's understandable that the hairy no-longer-midget has to step up and become the leader. Movie!Cyclops doesn't have it in him.
This upsets me, of course, because I like Cyclops. I wish X3 could reaffirm him as a strong character and the natural leader he is. But alas, I doubt this will happen. It's too easy to keep playing him as a joke.
Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, isn't an easy character to write. He's emotionally constipated, anal-retentive and seem to have a stick permanently lodged up his rectum. He's been called bland, boring, and a boy scout. Not to mention he's a control freak.
Guess what? If I couldn't open my eyes without punching a whole in a mountain, I would be a bit of a control freak as well.
Personally, I think Scott only has one major flaw: his relationships with women. He's so emotionally dependent that he doesn't seem able to stand on his own, and he will always come back to Jean. Well, here's a newsflash for you, writers: this sort of behaviour isn't attractive in women, and it's not attractive in men, either. How about trying to let him be single and standing on his own two feet for a while?
(Or hook him up with Aurora, who's fiery enough to challenge him, but who also isn't a telepath, so he'll have to actually talk to her, rather than counting on her reading his mind - and he'd probably be good for her as well! But that's just some crazy idea I came up with when it occurred to me that the wrong Beaubier twin joined the X-Men. I digress.)
But getting back to the movie franchise:
In the first movie, all Scott did was getting his friendly overtures brushed off by the hairy no-longer-midget (AKA Wolverine), have a bad landing and leading the others into a trap that Wolverine had to get them out of.
In X2, he got to act bitchy and then he became mind-controlled.
In the comics, Cyclops is the greatest leader the X-Men have ever had. He's a brilliant strategist, an excellent hand-to-hand fighter (he's taken out a group of street thugs while blindfolded), an expert mechanic and pilot, and quite possibly the heart and soul of the X-Men's dream.
In the movie, he's a sideshow character who's mostly been used to make Wolverine look better.
If Wolverine take his place as the person who brings Jean back from Dark Phoenix, it won't be surprising. It will follow the general trend of the movies. Cyclops in the movies has been underused, underplayed and undercut. He's nothing but the shell of the character I know from the comics, and it's understandable that the hairy no-longer-midget has to step up and become the leader. Movie!Cyclops doesn't have it in him.
This upsets me, of course, because I like Cyclops. I wish X3 could reaffirm him as a strong character and the natural leader he is. But alas, I doubt this will happen. It's too easy to keep playing him as a joke.
