Ok responding to this before I respond to your thinky thoughts post. Also learned the hard way that if I type up a response on my phone then come back to finish later, it won't be here :P
I feel like I'm one of the rare viewers who watched this and can still totally see Clintasha happening. Now that's not saying I expect it bc I feel like you can't expect anything in this series anymore. But I can still totally see it happening if Laura doesn't survive the Civil War. Natasha saying Clint is her best friend reminds me of that comic panel when Clint says "you know you are my best friend, right?" And she kisses him. But again, I'm not expecting it. But I don't feel like the ship is destroyed as much as some others feel.
And the whole thing about Aunty Nat and how she loves the kids and the kids love her and she can't have kids on her own. I seriously love Laura. I do. And I love her relationship with Clint and Nat. But if something happens to her, the set up is almost to perfect. But I would take it :P
Anyway. Ok. I effin love mature/settled Clint and finding-her-way Natasha. I think this is the best thing ever. I like it better than the comics even though I love comic Clint. And Omg it's hard to type this with my almost 5 year giving me a running commentary about Micky Mouse Clubhouse in my ear. So apologies for me jumping all over the place. Ok with Renner I like this so much better bc he is obviously older and I think if he was acting like the young goofball he tends to be in the comics it just wouldn't play as well.
I think I love it so much bc I am getting up there (35 years old, 2 small kids) and I def see a difference between myself and those a decade or more younger than me. Now that's not the case with everyone bc I am immature and some younger folks are super mature but in general as I am getting older my perspective on things are changing. So I find a 40-something year old Clint Barton with an awesome wife and family to be more relaxed about a lot of issues bc he has been there, done that, and also his perspective on what's important and what isn't is gets more focused. Natasha on the other hand isn't a child by any means. But when he first found her she had to have been late teens or early 20s. And oh, also not allowed to experience life for herself fully. So to place her with this guy, or couple, or young family (who knows what stage they were at when she first came to SHIELD and when they were all introduced) is just fascinating. I just want to know everything about it, and what everyone thought and again, my mind can't help go there. In my head canon Clintasha will still happen. So it sets up an amazing bag of feels for me. Their relationship (all three characters) with each other and how things may change.
And uh sorry if this makes no sense at all in the slightest. I guess my take home point is I can totally immerse myself in platonic Clint and Nat and Laura -- but Clintasha is always at the back of my mind as still a possibility. The "best friend" and naming the fat baby ;) after her didn't halt my shipping at all- actually did just the opposite.
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I feel like I'm one of the rare viewers who watched this and can still totally see Clintasha happening. Now that's not saying I expect it bc I feel like you can't expect anything in this series anymore. But I can still totally see it happening if Laura doesn't survive the Civil War. Natasha saying Clint is her best friend reminds me of that comic panel when Clint says "you know you are my best friend, right?" And she kisses him. But again, I'm not expecting it. But I don't feel like the ship is destroyed as much as some others feel.
And the whole thing about Aunty Nat and how she loves the kids and the kids love her and she can't have kids on her own. I seriously love Laura. I do. And I love her relationship with Clint and Nat. But if something happens to her, the set up is almost to perfect. But I would take it :P
Anyway. Ok. I effin love mature/settled Clint and finding-her-way Natasha. I think this is the best thing ever. I like it better than the comics even though I love comic Clint. And Omg it's hard to type this with my almost 5 year giving me a running commentary about Micky Mouse Clubhouse in my ear. So apologies for me jumping all over the place. Ok with Renner I like this so much better bc he is obviously older and I think if he was acting like the young goofball he tends to be in the comics it just wouldn't play as well.
I think I love it so much bc I am getting up there (35 years old, 2 small kids) and I def see a difference between myself and those a decade or more younger than me. Now that's not the case with everyone bc I am immature and some younger folks are super mature but in general as I am getting older my perspective on things are changing. So I find a 40-something year old Clint Barton with an awesome wife and family to be more relaxed about a lot of issues bc he has been there, done that, and also his perspective on what's important and what isn't is gets more focused. Natasha on the other hand isn't a child by any means. But when he first found her she had to have been late teens or early 20s. And oh, also not allowed to experience life for herself fully. So to place her with this guy, or couple, or young family (who knows what stage they were at when she first came to SHIELD and when they were all introduced) is just fascinating. I just want to know everything about it, and what everyone thought and again, my mind can't help go there. In my head canon Clintasha will still happen. So it sets up an amazing bag of feels for me. Their relationship (all three characters) with each other and how things may change.
And uh sorry if this makes no sense at all in the slightest. I guess my take home point is I can totally immerse myself in platonic Clint and Nat and Laura -- but Clintasha is always at the back of my mind as still a possibility. The "best friend" and naming the fat baby ;) after her didn't halt my shipping at all- actually did just the opposite.