I had two Skype interviews today (for one-year Visiting Assistant Professor positions, blargh) and I want to keel over. But instead I’ll watch Iron Man 3 illegally and liveblog it.
They seem to be showing early Tony as less sexist than in the first movie. The woman he picks up in Bern is a scientist and he listens attentively and asks questions about her research before they have sex. “Iron Man 1” just showed him hooking up with ditzy fangirls and being condescending to a journalist before banging her.
Tony you FUCKING MORON why would you announce your address on the news?!
Tony’s “don’t leave me, buddy” when JARVIS goes to sleep makes me so sad about AOU.
The kid asking “Are they coming back? The aliens?” also makes me sad about AOU.
Tony called the light-up guy who threatened the kid “Westworld.” I guess it was a reference to the Crichton book, but… how strangely current.
The Extremis soldier/agent in the sweatshop in Afghanistan (I think) looked really familiar, so I looked her up and it turns out she played Zelena (the Wicked Witch of the West) on “Once Upon a Time.”
“You used to have a moral psychology”? Dude, that’s not what “moral psychology” means. It’s not a mindset that’s morally upright, it’s the study of how people are motivated to do morally good and/or bad things. I think what you mean is “moral compass.”
He named the big strong suit that lifts heavy things “Igor”?
Holy shit Rhodey is such a fucking badass
Wait… if he could have just gotten surgery to remove the shrapnel, then why was he letting himself be poisoned by the palladium in “Iron Man 2”?
Loki is the Philosopher King 