/but you'd think the eventual pay off for this set up would be some type of confrontation scene involving Tony Stark near the end, but no. He never finds out the reason why Wanda picked him first to mindmess wit./ - Ah, what I wouldn't do to actually see that confrontation scene! Hopefully fandom will indulge me. /and here's the movie death which did make me mourn (as opposed to Pietro's)/ - Oh, I was so sad for both of them... Especially because Pietro being dead means he left Wanda alone... :( /Vision is the new character who really gripped me, despite his existence meaning that JARVIS is irrevocably gone/ - Yes, Vision was fantastic! *_* /as someone who loved many of Asimov's robot stories and TNG (with Data) as a teenager, I just imprinted on good Artificial Intelligence, okay?/ - LOL me too. Three Laws of Robotics FTW! :) /Seriously, say what you want about the Avengers, but these are characters who understand that getting people to safety has to become before beating the bad guy and act on this understanding, consistently./ - Absolutely, take that DC! ;) /Erik S. gets to be supportive of Thor and show off his knowledge of Norse legends/ - Actually, I found his presence a bit baffling. Why would Thor need someone to teach him about Norse legends when they were all inspired by his people in the first place? Also that pool scene felt a bit clunky and weird to me, like it was part of a bigger scene but something got cut off. For example, wasn't Selvig out of nowhere clutching some kind of box when he and Thor arrived at the pool? Also I distinctly remember a scene from one of the early trailers with a black lady standing on top of what seems like the very same pool, a scene which obviously didn't make the final cut. /"when you and Tony are finished gazing into each other's eyes"/ - LOL, yeah, I loved that. :) /there's a great pay off to the gag about Thor's hammer set up in the early scene/ - Oh, yes, a terrific pay off! And to think I was convinced that scene was there mostly for laughs, to see it take such an important place in the main plot was awesome. *_* As for Natasha/Bruce, it weirdly reminds me of Buffy/Angel. Like Angel, Bruce has a monster inside. Like Angel, he let it out once and it hurt the woman he loves. Like Angel, he tells the woman he loves that they can't be together because she won't have a future with him: he could never give her a normal life and children. (Which is just as irritating to hear now as it was then.)
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/and here's the movie death which did make me mourn (as opposed to Pietro's)/ - Oh, I was so sad for both of them... Especially because Pietro being dead means he left Wanda alone... :(
/Vision is the new character who really gripped me, despite his existence meaning that JARVIS is irrevocably gone/ - Yes, Vision was fantastic! *_*
/as someone who loved many of Asimov's robot stories and TNG (with Data) as a teenager, I just imprinted on good Artificial Intelligence, okay?/ - LOL me too. Three Laws of Robotics FTW! :)
/Seriously, say what you want about the Avengers, but these are characters who understand that getting people to safety has to become before beating the bad guy and act on this understanding, consistently./ - Absolutely, take that DC! ;)
/Erik S. gets to be supportive of Thor and show off his knowledge of Norse legends/ - Actually, I found his presence a bit baffling. Why would Thor need someone to teach him about Norse legends when they were all inspired by his people in the first place? Also that pool scene felt a bit clunky and weird to me, like it was part of a bigger scene but something got cut off. For example, wasn't Selvig out of nowhere clutching some kind of box when he and Thor arrived at the pool? Also I distinctly remember a scene from one of the early trailers with a black lady standing on top of what seems like the very same pool, a scene which obviously didn't make the final cut.
/"when you and Tony are finished gazing into each other's eyes"/ - LOL, yeah, I loved that. :)
/there's a great pay off to the gag about Thor's hammer set up in the early scene/ - Oh, yes, a terrific pay off! And to think I was convinced that scene was there mostly for laughs, to see it take such an important place in the main plot was awesome. *_*
As for Natasha/Bruce, it weirdly reminds me of Buffy/Angel.
Like Angel, Bruce has a monster inside. Like Angel, he let it out once and it hurt the woman he loves. Like Angel, he tells the woman he loves that they can't be together because she won't have a future with him: he could never give her a normal life and children. (Which is just as irritating to hear now as it was then.)