azurelunatic | The Old Guard and other dead/undead things

On the strength of the internet saying "Oh wow that was SO COOL", we watched The Old Guard.

I enjoyed it! It felt solid, and included women talking together about women, women talking about powers, Black people having a conversation about a topic including nonwhite people, women having a conversation about domestic violence, and someone getting a richly deserved comeuppance.

It also is about a group of immortal mercenaries who put themselves in dangerous situations. On a scale from The Avengers to Kingsman, this is slightly below Kill Bill, with plot-important and visible gore, stabbings, and torture.

Joe and Nick's relationship is lovely and understated. I like that they get to be competent warriors who are also deeply in love and have been for centuries. They're an established couple who don't get either fawning or eliding. That speech is lovely.

I got a strong Xena/Gabrielle vibe from Andy and Quynh, and I would be unsurprised if it's canonical in the comic that they're together.

I described the whole thing to #adventuresofStNoNo as:

11:23 PM <Azz> The household has watched The Old Guard; I enjoyed it
11:23 PM <Azz> but it's about as violent as you'd expect a confrontation between a handful of immortals and a pharma bro should be
11:25 PM <

lb> wait
11:26 PM <

lb> my imagination just has bungus mcleod sword-behead martin shkreli and absorb his million-dollar wu-tang album
11:26 PM <Azz> close!

11:34 PM <Azz> Martin Shkreli as portrayed by a grown Dudley Dursley

I very much appreciated the Prometheus nod.

The conversation in the chemist's was good. The clerk helps Andy patch herself up and has a conversation that implies that she thinks Andy's being subjected to domestic violence at home, and is in the weird space of supportive without prying and also without inserting oneself into the situation.

It was more violent than the household had expected based on the discussion online, which is why I wanted to underline that.

I got the call back from the phone repair place, who will be replacing my phone as the screen repair did not take. It still powers on and buzzes, but the screen just doesn't. Belovedest and I may attempt to extract some data, but I'm glad that pretty much everything I cared about on there is backed up elsewhere.

I was able to rescue all my open tabs, so there's that.

Today was hot. I'm very flomp.