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Oh! Did I mention I finally watched Age of Ultron?

I hadn't been in a hurry to see it because fandom had given me the inpression it was extremely missable.

Somehow fandom failed to inform me that the plot of Age of Ultron is:

One of the Avengers loses his best friend and partner, the person who's know him better than any other for longer than any other through bad and good. He goes down while fighting a supervillain, the Avenger blames himself, then discovers his best friend might be alive but amnesiac in enemy hands. So he decides screw everything, screw the world and his friends and good sense, he's getting his best friend back. So he says "This is the end of the line," while his other friend is telling him to stop, and saves him, but discovers that he's not quite the same person he was before, and he may now carry the seeds of destruction deep in his mind.

(And then Civil War is the story of two Avengers both failing to deal well with having lost-but-not-quite-lost their best friends.)

I mean. Kids. Tony literally said "This is the end of the line." Why was fandom not all over this, loudly, on Tumblr.

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yay, now there's like three people other than me who really liked that movie.

"Really liked" might be a slight exaggeration. :P But the A-plot worked a lot better than I expected, it gave a lot of good robot, and as long as I loudly pretend Joss Whedon did not at any point attempt to write a het ship into it, it's not even my least favorite of the movies.

Ha, well I'm one of maaaaybe two people who even liked the het ship, though it was a fucking mess, and hamhanded to say the least (poss like the idea of the ship, but not the execution). Though have you seen the Wolf Like Me vid for it?

But those were quality robots. A+ jobs, Spader and Bettaney.

I ship nat/bruce! In theory. Just not as practiced by that movie. There was some good fic for it after the first movie that did a very good and careful job with all the stuff Joss trampled with hobnails.

Similarly I have come round to liking Hawkeye's secret family except that the execution made no sense and also I prefer wives to have at least something approaching a personality beyond "supportive".

Edited 2016-06-20 02:40 (UTC)

Well, when you put it like that...

I enjoyed the movie, but I hadn't quite made the parallel myself.

I mean. I might not have made it myself (although I am always there for Tony + Robots) except, a) The End Of The Line, srsly, and b) watching it right after I watched Civil War made it really obvious that Tony was having his "my best friend is dead" breakdown all over that movie.

(Not to disparage Rhodey who is also his best friend, but Rhodey isn't the person who got him through the death of his parents and single-handedly kept him mostly functional for years after, so.)

I am always there for the Tony + Robot show! (And the Bucky's Metal Arm Show -- all the science/engineering shows, basically.)

To be fair, Tony also has a meltdown after Rhodey's hurt.

Are you sure you're not confusing Age of Ultron with The Winter Soldier? Because you just described the plot of The Winter Soldier.

No, no, Tony definitely said "This is the end of the line" when Bruce was trying to convince him that Jarvis wasn't for saving, that was in Age of Ultron.

I can see how you might be confused, though.

The key to telling them apart is that Winter Soldier had enough Sam Wilson in it and Ultron definitely didn't have enough Sam.

Edited 2016-06-20 00:37 (UTC)