seb cancelling everything including a convention appearance and flying cross country to film a tiny cameo in ghosted with chris confirms what i've always suspected: marvel saying they gave his part in aou to peggy because seb was "busy" so couldn't film a short scene was bullshit
Me watching Avengers: AOU over and over again because I knew this was the softest the avengers/MCU will ever be when everyone was complaining over trivial details. I’m sure you miss this Era now, don’t ya?
shameless self promo time before i continue writing for my requests. i have like three fics on wattpad (same user: vamphrrr)
— SINKING TEETH: bucky barnes x m!oc, based off the movies series, starting from CATWS & planning AAOU & CACW, one chapter so far
— TWO GRAVES: chishiya shuntaro x f!oc, based off the show series, starting from season 1 & planning season 2 (& season 3? we’ll see), only the fucking synopsis or wtv it’s called💀
— UNDEAD HEART: percabeth x m!oc, based off the book series, starting from the lightning thief & planning the rest of the PJO also hopefully HOO but that one would be a second book, four chapters so far
i have not updated the first two in so long tho bc i’ve been writing for pjo. and i write real fucking slow LMAO. for the pjo ik some imagine the characters like how they look in the show then the rest how they were in the books, so i’m mixing their book and show features together or describing them vaguely? if that makes sense (except percy he’s staying with black hair and green eyes srry not srry)
The biggest tragedy with the Russo brother’s direction of Natasha was making her a sub-plot side character. At least the first two films had a better balance of screen time for the OG6.
P.s. this doesn’t make Joss Whedon a ‘George Lucas savior’ either, this ain't Star Wars or DC baby, stay in your corner, you're still trash.
Its issues are obvious even on the brain-dead popcorn flick level much of the MCU is trying to excel at. If you watch AAoU with your brain off, you won't notice anything wrong, because you are in a coma. But if you are just awake enough to process what's going on, you'll notice that the Avengers struggle against a few of Ultron's Ultron-bots in one scene, Ultron does some upgrades for his next line of Ultron-bots, and the Avengers just mow them down like cannon fodder.
If your brain is all the way on, it should be obvious what they were going for. Ultron asks the Avengers how they hope to stop him, Iron Man says "together," and then the Avengers win. The Avengers win because of teamwork. But we are told this through dialogue; the Avengers used more teamwork in the first fight scene, because the act 3 Ultron-bots are too flimsy to need anything more than a bullet or a shove to beat them.
You know what would have been a really effective way to highlight this? If Ultron had spent all his efforts upgrading his one core body, making it far more powerful than any individual superhero, but the Avengers still beat him by working together! A lone villain falling against a team of heroes is such an obvious, straightforward way to demonstrate the power of friendship/teamork/whatever.
But I guess then we wouldn't get the act 3 army battle that signifies MCU team-up movies as something bigger and badder than ordinary villains.