ratcreature | I watched X-Men: Apocalypse tonight

That left things in a better spot that X-Men:DOFP. As a Charles/Erik shipper I appreciated that it left Charles and Erik on mostly friendly terms, and had Erik help rebuild the school, even if he didn't stay.

Though the ending kind of glossed over any fallout from Erik helping facilitate a giant, world-wide catastrophe, even if he switched sides at the end. I mean, Storm helped Apocalypse too, but her impact was localized, she's younger, less experienced and it didn't look as if Apocalypse left her many options anyway, but I'm less generous towards Erik.

I also liked the Charles/Moira bits. I was happy to finally see Charles apologize for taking her memories, and I'd be up for reading some post movie ship fic with them. I also liked that Charles and Raven are working together again.

In parts I was a bit lost, because I'm not very familiar with the X-Men comics, so the parts with Caliban and Psylocke in particular didn't connect with me. They really should have introduced them and their powers better. Like, what is Caliban's power? Is he some kind of mutant mobster? And how does Psylocke's power work? Like, that purple energy seemed to be able to cut through things, yet in the fight with Beast she chokes him with it? Why doesn't it cut Hank's head off?

Quicksilver was a lot of fun again, and I enjoyed Nightcrawler as well, but was indifferent to Angel besides a vague curiosity about how he ended up in some kind of underground fight club in East Berlin of all places.

I liked the introduction of Scott, though I was sorry to see Alex get killed via futile heroism. But at least he got to do stuff. Meanwhile the fridging of Magda and Nina felt as gratuitous as that kind of manpain plot device usually does by now. I can see why they wanted to up the stakes for Erik like that, i.e. he tried Xavier's way of coexistence and family and once again his family ends up dead, so he takes the opportunity for an Apocalypse-enabled power-up to lay waste to civilization, but frankly without a new family if he had just been laying low, passing as human, and his colleagues turned on him for saving one of them, combined with Apocalypse tempting him with more power or something, probably would have worked as scenario for temporary super-villainy in a similar way, without introducing two female characters only to kill them off right away.

His daughter's animal power was cute though. I hope to see some Erik/Magda domestic fluff and kidfic being posted after this movie.

BTW, what were the ominous giant robots we see with the X-Men at the end, Sentinels? That confused me a bit.