#commentary posts

[winter-seance]

Captain America Commentary Posts Index I kind of made more commentary gifsets than I originally meant to, so here’s an index for finding my commentary posts more easily.

Captain America: The First Avenger Commentary

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Commentary

Captain America: Civil War Commentary

All Captain America Commentaries

All commentary posts (will soon include commentaries for other Seb roles)

[waxphilosophicalpowerhour]

I swear, Trucy behaves like a relatively normal kid 90% of the time and then once Phoenix is brought up she suddenly shifts into this state where she’s been replaced with an alien who only looks like Trucy.

There’s keeping your chin up in hard times and there’s...exactly what served as a huge thematic point to be deconstructed in Turnabout Big Top. It’s not cute. It’s creepy and concerning.

Would’ve been really great if they showed us any indication of that, because I’m not buying a word coming from Phoenix, game.

[waxphilosophicalpowerhour]

The first allusion to Apollo’s friend, I forgot it occurred as early on as the second case. I’m so used to thinking of him as the victim, it’s strange to remember that Apollo knew him as alive prior to that case...

It’s interesting to see all these bonds established--from something that’s fully fleshed out in the beginning as Athena and Juniper’s (well, not “fully” in the sense that we know their history--that’s for case 3--but fully in the sense that we get a good grasp of their friendship) to ones briefly alluded to like Apollo and Clay’s. It makes for a more involved experience, and I think the writers of Dual Destinies understood one of the major things that made the original trilogy such a success was the memorable relationships between the characters and how essential they are to making the cases compelling.

[waxphilosophicalpowerhour]

Why the hell haven’t you told them, Phoenix? At least Thalassa has the excuse of having just gotten her memory and sight back.

[waxphilosophicalpowerhour]

I...I completely forgot Kristoph had a dog! Weirdly, I don’t think the fandom remembers most of the time, either? I feel like this topic would have spawned a wealth of material, yet I don’t remember seeing any fanart or fanfic prompts pertaining to it in the Kink Meme.

[waxphilosophicalpowerhour]

The beginning of an adorable partnership. Dual Destinies’s repeated depictions of coping mechanisms and mental health is one of my favorite things about it.

[waxphilosophicalpowerhour]

Even this walkthrough-er couldn’t resist making a crack about this, haha.

[waxphilosophicalpowerhour]

I wanted to wait until the end of the game before I said anything I might have forgotten about but god, they did not set this up well at all. A big part of the problem is that they didn’t set up Klavier’s character itself well up at all--it’s hard to get a read on his main, default personality when it’ll flip from easygoing and chill to petty and arrogant at the drop of a hat.