Originally posted by usapp
Skipping those flashbacks didn’t bother me much, because I feel like we’ve already watched the X-Men all die in films at one point or another. Is that sociopathic? I’m like, “Y’all been dead to me since The Last Stand.”
What does get to me is the way that confession is set up. Charles is sweetly tucked into bed, reflecting on how he’s just had one of his best days in years, when you see him start to emotionally cave. He remembers what he did. He knows that he’s murdered the very students he’s meant to protect, and he knows he doesn’t deserve peace for it. And then there’s no hope for redemption, no moment of reconciliation over the anger Logan clearly has, because Fake Logan murders Charles seconds later. Charles dying, believing Logan blamed him — and subsequently punished him — for an unspeakable accident is the real gut punch for me.
Yeah, that got to me too. I was just one of a couple people crying in the full theater in this scene