I really enjoyed The Avengers, but something happened after it, I can't put my finger on it, but it's almost like the writers want you to be all "gee whiz", at the expense of pretty much everything else. I watched both Guardians and Age of Ultron at home, rather than surrounded by the teeming fanboys, and you know…

Some things I know, and some things i don't.

A modern day Mariah Carey?

Could it be (and let me preface by saying "I can't believe I'm eve making the case for this") that Rafi's narration is untrustworthy, seen through the filter of his present day self?

Of course, they didn't show us how it started, just the events immediately after.

You have a decent point, Moonraker was terrible. Die Another Day was also terrible. Both gave us a great film after (For Your Eyes Only and Casino Royale)

Skyfall makes the critical error of thinking we wanted the third act to be Home Alone.

It was pretty clearly written that way. I think they should have moved everything post "ball attack" from CR into QoS, it would have improved things. It's not a bad film, it's just a bit too dour, and there isn't a lot to get excited about.

The plots are pretty comprehensible. Octopussy is the high water mark for "what the hell is the lot in this film", but Connery's films are all pretty straightforward.

I think it's the story structure. We have the big showdown with Le Chiffre, then Bond is recuperating. Normally, things would end here. Arguably, Quantum would have benefited if everything from the recovery on had been placed in it.

Brosnan wasn't a bad Bond, but he had a lot bad writing around him. Goldeneye was the only "great" Bond film he made, the middle two were "meh", and Die Another Day makes a strong case for being the worst Bond film ever.

Especially with the Walking Dead issue still very prominent in people's mind. Can't be killing T-Dog.

"Masterpiece"? Seriously? We're going there? Good. Hell yes. Great, okay I'll give you great, best of the Star Wars by a wide margin. But Masterpiece? Not even close.

And the podrace. We all seem to forget the super amazing podrace.

The podrace was pretty awesome, you have to admit.

Right, my greater point was that while individual fates have changed, we've followed the big events and locations of the comics fairly faithfully.

I'd say the show as deviated on an individual level, but consistently follows the source material in the big picture (events, locations, etc).

Dwight. Not Dwayne.

There's no real reason to show how the outbreak started. It's a moot point, doesn't change anything for the characters, doesn't change the plot or the reality.

Nope. Nameless guy lost his arm, Wayne cut it off.