Ways the Time Spent Developing the Bruce/Natasha romance could have been better spent…….
1. Explaining why Tony rebuilt his suits.
2. Explaining why the Avengers are now working together.
3. Explaining why Steve isn’t still looking for Bucky.
4. Giving Falcon more than a minute of screen time.
5. Developing the father-daughter thing they had going with Fury and Nat.
6. Showing Steve and Tony actually building up a friendship so Civil War will at least have a smidgen of emotional impact.
7. Spending more than a minute on why Tony and Bruce thought Ultron was a good idea (and why they have apparently never seen a sci-fi movie)
8. Having Tony get to talk to the Vision about Jarvis.
9. Vision/Scarlet Witch
10. A Natasha backstory going into her being forced to kill as a child/losing her identity, anything but “I can’t have babies so I’m a monster!”
11. Explaining the media reaction to all this. (We hear they want Bruce arrested, but how do the people feel about the Avengers working without Shield? How is the world responding without Shield?
12. Natasha picking up Mjolnir (don’t tease it and not carry through, Joss).
13. Basically, any scene showing any continuity with Phase 2.
14. Who am I kidding? Basically any other scene. A training sequence. 20 minutes of Falcon baking cookies. An explanation of how Hulk’s pants work. An hour of all of them playing with Clint’s kids. Anything would have been better.
