AoU wasn’t the best movie I’d ever seen, but I was so jaded by the time I went to see it from spoilers and general anger of people around me that I could hardly enjoy it at all, which was a shame. I really legitimately enjoyed parts, and I’m excited to see what the Russos will do with the series. I need to rewatch the film as something “inspired” by the comics but nothing like the comics at all, so I can try to enjoy it more. I do have a problem that the dialogue often feels like there was just a really really long monologue for one character, but everyone shared lines from it (the characters personalities kind of blended into each other’s and turned into quip after quip). It didn’t really feel like any of the characters were the same people from the other movies, sadly–I kind of got the impression that Joss may have written it before Winter Soldier came out–as a lot of characters reverted to how they were without any of the development they gained in that film. I think the super extended cut of this film will be much more enjoyable, perhaps making it seem less like a bunch of video game cut scenes back to back, and allowing it to flow better and be more coherent.
Of course, I’m salty about some significant changes to many of my favorite characters, and especially the inherent racism in the change of the twin’s heritage (as well as the super tasteless rape joke that Tony made), but it’s a different universe, and I always have my comics where a lot of the real versions of my fave’s live. As a stand alone universe, the MCU is beginning to get more fleshed out, especially with the perfection that was Daredevil (and hopefully the rest of the street-level hero shows). Heck, I even really enjoy Agents of Shield, and am loving the Inhumans stuff.
I like a lot of Joss’s older shows, and where a lot of them suffer from similar problems, I still find them a refreshing breath of air compared to a lot of other “attractive white dude with baggage” Gary-stu type shows we get. I’m not a huge fan of how Joss handles the Avengers, and I’m glad it’s being handed off to another writer, but I still look forward to seeing if he’ll make anything else with his own characters (where he does a much better job). I think it was super immature of him to block people for minor criticisms, but I understand and respect him deleting his Twitter due to death threats (which are never cool no matter how shitty or not someone is). I’m still thinking about how I feel on this whole matter, and everyone I know is really divided on this.
I guess this is just my two-cents in the void, without addressing any of the super divisive and emotion-fueled parts of it. Thanks for listening.

(Side note: The only personal gripe I have is that now it’s going to be all that much harder to have Kate Bishop show up though, and for that I’m bummed.)