It’s not subtext, this is straight-up said out loud by Natasha and Steve and maybe Clint too in this movie.

I wish the dialogue in the theatrical version was more explicit about what you said. It’s the bigass superhero finale. Show us big gestures. Just have her, for once, say out loud “Let me do this for my family: you and the Avengers.” or something to that effect so that it cuts through all the weird implications…

Yes this. By killing herself she gives up her found family. Natasha wasn’t the think Hawkeye loves the most. Her new found life was what Nat loved most and she gives that away.

Yeah. This feels a thousand times better. The theatrical version of the scene felt like writers verbally trying to justify her “sacrifice”, but it didn’t work for me probably because I didn’t really buy Hawkeye’s turn and redemption. (It’s also honestly different because Black Widow was raised in a brainwashing…

I have to disagree. Very strongly.

Uh. You should probably edit the paragraph about Mrs. Coulter’s monkey, as it contains a pretty major spoiler if you haven’t read the books. It’s been a long time, but IIRC, we don’t learn that until pretty far through book 1?

I was intrigued when Marvel announced the Eternals, knowing practically nothing about them, but after reading James explanation, seems I knew less than nothing - I was actually confused, and was hoping for a Celestials movie. Think that would have been more exciting. Seeing god-like powers shape the universe, creating…

Is that picture up top... real?

I believe that’s the premise of the MMORPG - if that’s canon. 

I still think the “failure” that causes him to completely abandon Starfleet could only be an act that is completely beyond fixing.

Completely with you on this. By the time Romulus is destroyed, Starfleet is going to be full of people whose careers began during the Dominion War, or who are young enough not to remember what Starfleet was like before. The Federation adopting some nationalist attitudes in the interests of keeping themselves safe,…

That would actually work well with the “All Good Things” future, where the Klingons took over the Romulan Empire and relations with the Federation broke down.

This is how I think it will unfold...

Why isn’t anybody stating the obvious? Section 31 blew up Romulus and that’s what forced Picard to resign in protest and shame because he was aware of Section 31 but assumed since they were Starfleet they’d be honorable too so he didn’t use his position to expose them. If there’s anything that’d make him resign it’d…

I could see a slow response to Klingon aggression in Romulan systems (or sticking it to the Cardassians again), though, if they were trying to avoid more hostilities. Trying to maintain the peace, at the expense of stated values, seems like exactly the sort of thing that might disturb Picard, especially if it turns…

Yeah, I’ve posted this elsewhere... but nothing suggests the timelines line up at all for the “15 years prior” to be the Romulus excursion.

That’s definitely true. The Klingons are fickle forkers.

I remember reading about this — DeConnick’s first story arc in Captain Marvel involved Carol accidentally going back in time. KSD stated that at first she was thinking about Carol meeting herself at the moment of the Psyche-Magnitron explosion, so that Carol would technically gets her powers from her future self...but…

“And the Pokémon Company interpreted that as not being cloth, but his skin. There was no way we could get around that one.”

Immediately after the movie I was wondering how in the world Steve managed to return the Infinity Stones that were originally located in space (since it sure seems like you need a space ship for this journey based on Widow, Hawkeye, War Machine, and Nebula all taking space ships) but now I’m realizing there are way…