Aww, you like my brain *grins*. I type out long things on Word first to avoid it getting swallowed. Also, because the spell check on LJ hates me :S

Yes! I love how every woman in this film has their own thing to be doing; that if they’re not around it’s not because they’ve been locked away in a safehouse to twiddle their thumbs. That’s an interesting thought, that Natasha, supposedly the strongest front female character, is the one that comes the closest to having a guy be at the centre of her actions and purpose. But then that’s where we have to see Clint as a person rather than just a guy. I think if they’d had a sexual or obviously romantic moment during the film then that would have taken away from Natasha.

“You and I remember Budapest very differently.” At the moment I can totally see him as a character from a Western! He sounds a bit scared, I think, and who wouldn’t, but it’s kind of a last stand, quick draw, job that needs doing… Yes, I can see it :D how he basically runs the bad guy show while Loki's off on distraction duty - THIS, YES, because Loki is the distraction that Clint needs so that Clint can get the job done, it’s Clint that’s doing. Can you imagine if SHIELD didn’t have the cube and Loki appeared somewhere else and the people he picked to help him were different? SHIELD has shot itself in the foot, much as it does by working on weapons that run off the cube…

Love, love, love the use and theme of language :D

Okay, when I say I’m not a shipper I mean that pairing off characters doesn’t interest me. Character dynamics, and any kind of dynamics, does. For me Avengers is an ensemble film. I love ensembles and I love what Joss Whedon does with them. Take Firefly, with a crew that’s a film, and the Scoobie’s in Buffy, the gang in Angel, the house in Dollhouse. What I love is the many layers and interactions between characters in ensembles, how smaller interactions affects the group as a whole, the dynamics. What I like about Clint and Natasha is that they have no superpowers, they’re a part of SHIELD and things in a way that none of the others are, they have their own language and morality and a different kind of experience to everyone else. They’re different and I love their characters individually, but then they’re also this separate little group within the group as a whole and I find that fascinating.

Also, everyone else has had a movie. We get some Clint and Natasha backstory to make up for that in he Avengers, but they’re really the two with the most room to play and they’re all shiny and new :D