{"id":232700,"date":"2014-01-13T19:41:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T19:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/13\/lemonsharks-tereshkova2001-vaspider\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:14:10","slug":"lemonsharks-tereshkova2001-vaspider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/13\/lemonsharks-tereshkova2001-vaspider\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-232700 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/13\/lemonsharks-tereshkova2001-vaspider\/attachment\/232701\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/13\/lemonsharks-tereshkova2001-vaspider\/attachment\/232702\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o2_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/13\/lemonsharks-tereshkova2001-vaspider\/attachment\/232703\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o3_r1_640-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o3_r1_640-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o3_r1_640-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/13\/lemonsharks-tereshkova2001-vaspider\/attachment\/232704\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o4_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o4_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mqj5rtkKkv1rvm859o4_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lemonsharks.tumblr.com\/post\/68325052676\/tereshkova2001-vaspider-letsgetdowney\" target=\"_blank\">lemonsharks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tereshkova2001.tumblr.com\/post\/66442207777\/vaspider-letsgetdowney-gearsinthephoenix\" target=\"_blank\">tereshkova2001<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/vaspider.tumblr.com\/post\/66431244890\/letsgetdowney-gearsinthephoenix-no-but-you\" target=\"_blank\">vaspider<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/letsgetdowney.tumblr.com\/post\/56510806713\" target=\"_blank\">letsgetdowney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gearsinthephoenix.tumblr.com\/post\/56497393397\/no-but-you-dont-understand-why-i-liked-iron-man\" target=\"_blank\">gearsinthephoenix<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No, but you don\u2019t understand why I liked Iron Man 3 so much.<\/p>\n<p>In all the other Avengers movies, we see characters going through pain and trauma and heartache.\u00a0 We see Steve lose practically his whole world and still carry on.\u00a0 We watch Bruce struggle with trying to figure out just how the Hulk fits into his life and his psyche; it is implied that he deals with depression and tries to end his life.\u00a0 We hear Clint and Natasha and their angst about the \u201cred in their ledgers\u201d, the things they have done, and we watch as Thor essentially comes of age and deals with the pain of having his brother fall down deeper and deeper.\u00a0 We KNOW the pain and the issues and the upset are there.<\/p>\n<p>But Iron Man 3 is the first time we actually get to witness\u2014REALLY witness\u2014the aftermath of heroics.<\/p>\n<p>In the first part of the movie we see Tony Stark dealing with real, honest-to-god PTSD.\u00a0 He has panic attacks, he can\u2019t sleep, he gets reckless and has a harder time taking care of himself, he obsessively spends hours working on suits so he can protect Pepper\u2014even though in doing so he is unintentionally threatening their relationship. Rarely has such a thorough job been done in showing that all the flash-bang-let\u2019s-save-the-world action would, in real life, have some serious psychological consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Then, as the film progresses, we see him laid low.\u00a0 REALLY low\u2014we see him get taken apart piece by piece.\u00a0 He loses his home, he loses contact with the people he cares about, he loses his suit\u2014which means, in the context of the past few films, that he is in some ways dead.\u00a0 \u201cHe is Iron Man\u201d, after all, isn\u2019t he?\u00a0 The public sees him as one with the suit, and in a sense, so does he\u2014a good deal of his self esteem, his sense of being able to defend people, is locked up in what he can do in the suit.\u00a0 And now he\u2019s stranded in the middle of nowhere\u2014he can\u2019t fly, he can\u2019t fight much, he\u2019s still suffering from PTSD, he\u2019s being actively hunted by the few people who don\u2019t think he\u2019s dead.\u00a0 All of his real ability is locked up in his brain, a place not everyone would think to look.\u00a0 We see him almost completely broken down.<\/p>\n<p>And then we watch him build himself back up again, but with one major difference: he does it without the suit.<\/p>\n<p>In most of the second half of the film, in almost all of his major victories, Tony is <em>not in the suit<\/em>.\u00a0 He breaks into Killian\u2019s mansion essentially with odds and ends he\u2019s cobbled together.\u00a0 He saves the passengers from Air Force One with a suit he\u2019s <em>remotely controlling.<\/em>\u00a0 He wins the final battle with a whole bunch of suits that he is not in at all<em>. \u00a0<\/em><em>Rhodes<\/em> saves the president, and <em>Pepper<\/em> kills the villain.\u00a0 Not Tony.\u00a0 And at the end of the day he blows up all the suits and tosses his mini arc reactor into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Iron Man 3 is brilliant and underrated precisely because it lets the hero be a real man\u2014a <em>man<\/em>, not a man in a suit.\u00a0<strong> A person who can still work wonders even when he\u2019s at his very lowest, when he\u2019s stranded and battling mental illness.<\/strong>\u00a0 Someone who can\u2019t operate completely alone, who lets other people have some victories as well\u2014heck, who needs his friends and teammates to win.\u00a0 And as he says at the end of the movie, while he may not always wear a suit, he will <em>always<\/em> be Iron Man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And personally, I think that is an A-freaking-plus storyline to bring into this franchise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>THANK YOU AND BLESS THIS POST<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>emphasis mine<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I liked this part of IM3. I did not like the villain or his plot, and a lot of the stuff didn\u2019t make sense, but I did love Tony\u2019s character arc. And Pepper\u2019s. And Rhodey.<\/p>\n<p>As with Thor, I loved the characters more than the movie.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually really adore what they did with the Mandarin &#8211; because he\u2019s a caricature, he\u2019s everything Americans fear about terrorism, created by the corporate end of the military-industrial complex, and his entire character is a sham. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And what they did was literally the only way they could have handled that character and that plot that could\u00a0<em>work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because the Mandarin isn\u2019t the villain &#8211; the Mandarin is a boogeyman, he\u2019s a falsehood created and directed by the people who <em>want<\/em> America\/ns to fear what they <em>think\u00a0<\/em>Islam is. \u00a0The\u00a0<em>villain\u00a0<\/em>is the guy propping that up, the guy selling a lie about \u201csafety\u201d, but doesn\u2019t actually give half a damn about anything other than lining his own pocket and polishing the image of his own self-serving genius.<\/p>\n<p>It is literally the\u00a0<em>only\u00a0<\/em>way they could have used the Mandarin and have had it work.<\/p>\n<p>I got my degree in homeland security &#8211; they do\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>teach about the 3 billion Muslims who are the guy standing in front of you at the grocery store, or the girl in the Hello Kitty hijab. \u00a0They don\u2019t touch the 80-90-some-odd-percent of terrorism in the US being perpetuated by right-wing Christians, because that doesn\u2019t fit with the story that creates contacts, jobs, and rocket launchers. They teach about the spectre, the big scary\u00a0<em>idea\u00a0<\/em>of what a terrorist is\u00a0<em>supposed\u00a0<\/em>to looklike &#8211; they teach about the Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone that story right up, and that:\u00a0<em>that\u00a0<\/em>is downright terrifying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lemonsharks: tereshkova2001: vaspider: letsgetdowney: gearsinthephoenix: No, but you don\u2019t understand why I liked Iron Man 3 so much. In all the other Avengers movies, we see characters going through pain and trauma and heartache.\u00a0 We see Steve lose practically his whole world and still carry on.\u00a0 We watch Bruce struggle with trying to figure out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/13\/lemonsharks-tereshkova2001-vaspider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13270,241,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232705,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232700\/revisions\/232705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}