All right, so I’m splitting this up into sections to accurately demonstrate my mixed feelings.


I was loving Infinity Wars. I really was. I was laughing most of the time. When Star-Lord and Iron Man got together, I was dying of laughter. And Spider-Man! Oh my goodness. He was just spouting fandom references left and right.

The characters were also spot-on. Thor was so amazingly epic. Captain America was awesome - but I missed the shield. Teenage Groot was incredible. I even liked Iron Man, and I rarely like Iron Man. Scarlet Witch was amazing, especially when she was faced with the choice of killing Vision or letting half the world die. 

Marvel also did a good job with keeping track of all the plot lines. I didn’t feel like there were too many loose ends (except where was Valkyrie?).

All right, here goes to the more controversial parts.


Okay, I just hated how they started it. I mean, I knew that they had to show what happened to Thor, and I understand that what happened had to happen.

But . . . I didn’t want Loki to die that early. I suspected it, but hoped it didn’t happen. I was thinking, how funny would it be for Loki to actually side with the Avengers? He'd probably get teased a lot, but his redemption arc would at least be complete.

(A side note: at least he died trying to defend Thor and defeat Thanos.)


I was getting into the ending, like, okay, the Avengers will come back. They have to. It’s what they do. 

And then . . . they didn’t. Everything went wrong. Thanos got the Mind Stone and did it.

Bucky died. That was the start of my tears. I loved Bucky to death in the Captain America movies. He was just this hurting guy trying to do the right thing, except that he was being manipulated by all the wrong people. And he was gone - just like that.

ALL the Guardians died. Except for Rocket. But seriously? You're just leaving Rocket, the "rabbit" And I get started on Gamora's early death and how Thanos was "crying" later.

And then came Peter Parker, saying "I don’t wanna die, I don’t wanna die," over and over and over. Until he, too, died. That death really hit me hard.

All of this leads into . . .


I guess I like happy endings. I guess I like endings where good triumphs over evil.

But Infinity War's ending . . . . it just violated all of that.

Thanos gets what he wants. He does wipe out half the universe's population. And this isn’t another one of Marvel's "oh, they’re not really dead!" instances.

I hate stories where the bad guy wins and the good guys lose everything. And that’s exactly what happened with Infinity War. What are we supposed to take away from this movie?

Oh, wait. I know.


There’s another thing that ticks me off about this movie.

Thanos.

Sure, I love the relatable bad guy as much as the next person. And on the one hand, I can completely understand why he was driven to do what he did.

But when he was getting the Soul Stone (and I was like, wait, Red Skull is alive??), and he sacrificed Gamora, I was thinking, how could he possibly claim to love her? The very definition of love (well, maybe it’s just my definiton) is "willing to do anything for someone or something." And he killed her! He let his ambition overpower his "love" for her.

Honestly, Thanos sickens me. He operates under the cover of mercy and love. What kind of mixed messages is this sending to people? He says, "They called me a madman." I don’t know if that’s what he is, but his morals are seriously messed up - more than most supervillains of our age.

What makes it worse is the ending of the movie: Thanos will return. I don’t know why, but that irritated me even more. Marvel seems like they almost want for us to root for Thanos. When, really . .  . the guy is the last person in the word we should want to win.

But I know what I got out of the movie. Ambition is more important that morals or loved ones. Also, good doesn’t always win. Sometimes the evilness wins. Which, of course, is completely against my Catholic faith.

(Wow, I just realized how spiteful those last few paragraphs sounded.)


So, how can Marvel come back from this ending? There is such thing as a Time Stone, so hypothetically someone could use that to bring everyone back, and it would be a plausible ending.

But honestly, I just don’t know what to think. On the one hand, it was a good movie. On the other . . . the ending really ticked me off.

I guess we'll see how Ant-Man and the Wasp handles this. . . .

~Nicole

So, what did you think of Infinity War? Did you like the ending?

Happy Easter!

On this day, our Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead in glory. On this day, the women discovered that He was not in the tomb.

It's a day to celebrate! Maybe you get together with family for a meal, or participate in Easter egg hunts.

But today is also April 1st. And all of us writers know what that means . . .

Camp NaNoWriMo.

*cue ominous music*

Isn't it ironic that Camp NaNo and Easter fall on the same day? They kind of send mixed messages. On the one hand, we're invited to celebrate Jesus and his rising. On the other, the panic begins as we struggle to hit our goal word counts for the month.

But this could also be a great reminder to glorify Him in all we write, and to write for Him.

Writing is a talent, given by God. So often we get caught up in the act of writing that we forget to thank the One who gave this gift to us.

And if He gave it to us, then shouldn’t we use it to further His Kingdom?

Writing is a beautiful gift. As we begin the craziness of April with Easter, let's try to remember who we're writing for, and let's thank Him who rose from the dead for us.

-Nicole