Time Travel in the MCU
Jun. 4th, 2018 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethMy usual thing being hung up on the possibilities of time travel to just hit undo and fix it
meets current canon that I'm refusing to watch until the other half is out.
Time travel seems likely to be useful around then.
So I keep wanting to rewatch everything and figure out what exactly needs tweaking to end up in a better place for that one Really Bad Day.
... Civil War is obvious, but not easy. People who think it is easy tend to just take one side and decide the other should quit. Which doesn't exactly resolve anything.
But the usual thing is, all the good guys are doing their best anyway
so what you really need to do
is reposition the bad guys.
... which is kind of my favourite thing anyway.
Going a few steps further away from canon and introducing more actual women would be a good one as well. Funnily enough. That one gets frustrating.
And I'm a couple seasons behind on Agents of SHIELD because DVDs, so I have no idea what needs fixed there, but from the fanfic summaries possibly an overly angsty everything?
Being behind means not really being able to do this self appointed challenge.
Also, the thing SHIELD is most likely to want to do is to warn SHIELD with like a really specific list of HYDRA agents and fix that, so there is still a SHIELD. Which is fair from their perspective. But SHIELD needed a lot more fixing than just getting rid of some bad guys. Some of which the series did, some of which it didn't seem to notice needed done. Choosing sides again. Are SHIELD the good guys? If not, how to fix that? Because that is way less simples than bringing an enemies list. Enemies list was the problem.
Another approach to fic is to bring the massive crossover and have, say, the Legends crash land in the MCU. How would they fix it?
... a speedster is like a multitool of fixing. I mean, the time travel is even built in.
Marvel speedsters don't time travel, do they? Or do they? I know there's mutant time travel powers in the X movies but...
... that's another xover, bring all the Marvel parts back together.
Thing is, while I do go over and over things in my head, I also do know the drama is why we cared in the first place. Just making it all not happen wouldn't be sufficient preparation for the day anyway. I mean a time traveller could keep Tony out of that cave in the first place but that's only good for Tony. Which kind of sucks. Except then the trick is to imagine circumstances where Tony could be his best self without his worst day.
Mostly though, imagining bits I would fix, it's always more drama to fix things right after they've gone wrong. The problem is exposed, now everyone can work on it.
Only many everyones have a different idea of what both problem and solution is from what I do.
I like my recruiting the bad guys bit.
And the whole regulation and oversight and... Hydra using 'into the light' was a bit annoying, because SHIELD was all scuttling around in the shadows and it wasn't good for it.
Just figuring out how to treat people better and that brings together more people to be stronger when the really unavoidable stuff turns up.
But I haven't really been reading much fanfic since Civil War, except for AUs, because... mess. Big mess. Everywhere. And such conflicting ideas on how to de mess it.
... also because Steve/Bucky got way more plausible than Steve/Tony just when the Steve/Tony turned into my favourite thing where fixing the world in microcosm is required. But that's a whole other thing...
Okay, incoherent thoughts not helping, onwards with my day...
meets current canon that I'm refusing to watch until the other half is out.
Time travel seems likely to be useful around then.
So I keep wanting to rewatch everything and figure out what exactly needs tweaking to end up in a better place for that one Really Bad Day.
... Civil War is obvious, but not easy. People who think it is easy tend to just take one side and decide the other should quit. Which doesn't exactly resolve anything.
But the usual thing is, all the good guys are doing their best anyway
so what you really need to do
is reposition the bad guys.
... which is kind of my favourite thing anyway.
Going a few steps further away from canon and introducing more actual women would be a good one as well. Funnily enough. That one gets frustrating.
And I'm a couple seasons behind on Agents of SHIELD because DVDs, so I have no idea what needs fixed there, but from the fanfic summaries possibly an overly angsty everything?
Being behind means not really being able to do this self appointed challenge.
Also, the thing SHIELD is most likely to want to do is to warn SHIELD with like a really specific list of HYDRA agents and fix that, so there is still a SHIELD. Which is fair from their perspective. But SHIELD needed a lot more fixing than just getting rid of some bad guys. Some of which the series did, some of which it didn't seem to notice needed done. Choosing sides again. Are SHIELD the good guys? If not, how to fix that? Because that is way less simples than bringing an enemies list. Enemies list was the problem.
Another approach to fic is to bring the massive crossover and have, say, the Legends crash land in the MCU. How would they fix it?
... a speedster is like a multitool of fixing. I mean, the time travel is even built in.
Marvel speedsters don't time travel, do they? Or do they? I know there's mutant time travel powers in the X movies but...
... that's another xover, bring all the Marvel parts back together.
Thing is, while I do go over and over things in my head, I also do know the drama is why we cared in the first place. Just making it all not happen wouldn't be sufficient preparation for the day anyway. I mean a time traveller could keep Tony out of that cave in the first place but that's only good for Tony. Which kind of sucks. Except then the trick is to imagine circumstances where Tony could be his best self without his worst day.
Mostly though, imagining bits I would fix, it's always more drama to fix things right after they've gone wrong. The problem is exposed, now everyone can work on it.
Only many everyones have a different idea of what both problem and solution is from what I do.
I like my recruiting the bad guys bit.
And the whole regulation and oversight and... Hydra using 'into the light' was a bit annoying, because SHIELD was all scuttling around in the shadows and it wasn't good for it.
Just figuring out how to treat people better and that brings together more people to be stronger when the really unavoidable stuff turns up.
But I haven't really been reading much fanfic since Civil War, except for AUs, because... mess. Big mess. Everywhere. And such conflicting ideas on how to de mess it.
... also because Steve/Bucky got way more plausible than Steve/Tony just when the Steve/Tony turned into my favourite thing where fixing the world in microcosm is required. But that's a whole other thing...
Okay, incoherent thoughts not helping, onwards with my day...