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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Avengers 6
Fade in.
Bruce Banner and Natasha Romanov sit on a couch with Drax between them. Mood awkward. Something terrible for everyone has just occurred.
Bruce: "I... I thought swinging might help"
Natasha: "Well obviously not."
Drax: "Hilariously derailing one-liner"
edited 13th Mar '18 9:25:09 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah, my thoughts on Brucetasha being back are...basically what everyone else said. It's super weird to me that they're doing the relationship again in Infinity War, when, even with the recording/lullaby in Ragnarok (and—correct me if I'm wrong on this—Natasha not talking about Bruce at all in Civil War), I got the impression that that ship had...pretty definitively sailed.
Maaaaaan, I just want more Bruce introspection, and more Natasha introspection, but entirely separate from each other.
edited 13th Mar '18 9:56:36 PM by unexplainedEnemy
they're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon/and the canterbury tales will shoot up to the top of the best-seller listI think they're wise enough not to make it a subplot again or anything. Just an acknowledged Thing That Happened.
As awkward as Steve kissing Sharon was, that's all it was; a single obligatory kiss to fill the Hollywood execs' romance quota, then back to cool stuff.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!They won't because they already did that, and unlike the individual characters' movies there isn't room to have a primary romance as a major, repeating subplot. Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane, etc, those are a primary part of their series' character development, but Avengers has way more going on.
However that gets resolved, the chances of it being a major dramatic arc aren't too high.
The actor did, yeah, and he didn't say anything about how prominent it was in the movie or even what the actual plot between them it going to be.
He's basically saying that it's important to the characters, and continues to be important to them. As apposed to going away as a plot point.
edited 13th Mar '18 11:27:56 PM by KnownUnknown
I didn't say he was lying or mistaken. There's no reason why you shouldn't trust him (well, beyond the fact that actors don't really know much about the seires' overarching plans and may, as the case may be, be obligated to lie to the press, but neither of them are too relevant here).
edited 13th Mar '18 11:31:35 PM by KnownUnknown
I didn't say that either.
There's a world of difference in between "big, dramatic Shakespearean plotline" and "two or three sentences." And as I said, Ruffalo is telling us about where the characters are emotionally (which is what, as an actor, he would have the best perspective on), but not telling us about what they'll be doing or what the plot is going to be like.
edited 13th Mar '18 11:35:01 PM by KnownUnknown
As someone who didn't mind the Bruce/Natasha thing, nor did I find it "sexist" at all (and I tend to have little tolerance for such things, so that's saying something), I have no issue with it coming back (I mean Ragnarok already made a specific point allude to it anyway, so it's clear that it's not being dropped completely).
Also the "it wasn't built up to enough" isn't really much of a believable complaint, given that Natasha was in one movie (which didn't feature Bruce) and Bruce was a cameo in one movie (which didn't feature Natasha) in the entirety of Phase Two. So no duh there was no buidup to it.

It's a pretty standard relationship trouble. Natasha wants Banner to go into the hole and get really big, but Banner just doesn't want to right now.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!