Not to mention seeing Kraglin, a guy who, by all rights, should barely be on the audience’s radar, lose his shit in mourning joy to see the fireworks.  It’s very emotionally potent.

Boy never did learn to serpentine.

And this:

Right.  For me, it wasn’t just the accident in Nigeria, it was the fact that they basically ignored Nigeria’s sovereignty to run a clandestine operation with their private paramilitary organization.

The thing is, at least as presented in Civil War, the Sokovia Accords seem to mostly affect being an Avenger or some other formally sanctioned hero that could be deployed internationally. I think it gets glossed over a lot how the inciting incident isn’t so much “Wanda did a thing that cost lives” as it is “Wanda did…

I can also excuse a lot of the coincidences in Zemo’s plan because it feels like we’re just seeing the path things took, but he was a chessmaster who had contingencies within contingencies.  I mean, to a degree, they showed that: he had presumed that Cap and Tony would team up in the first place and show up in Siberia…

The Martian is a great movie in which Queen Lilandra leads a team of Luis, Bucky and Sue Storm to enact a plan laid out by Mordo, Wong and The Prowler to rescue the actor Loki hired.

“And Tony Stark was all, ‘I’m totally gonna get this gauntlet off him’. But then Peter Quill got all in Thanos’s face, like, ‘Why’d you kill my girl?’, and Thanos was all, ‘Nah, bro, she wasn’t your girl.’”

Wait, so who is the Shirtless Fuckboy?

I thought I heard Payton Reed say they put her in when she didn’t exist, but A. it’s been a bit and B. I might have misinterpreted. 

Wait, why is he dressed like Bucky?

Admittedly, my Peak Comic Reading times were late 80s-early 90s, and then against though the early 2000s, but Rick Jones seemed to already have been left by the wayside at that point.  He only seemed to come up as a remnant of the past.  Even now, until this very moment reading these comments, it hadn’t even occurred…

Also not in Wright’s draft: Hope.  Or any female characters, apparently.

I mean, Sokovia is pretty central to the story, and I don’t know what’s explicitly non-sensical about the geography in Johannesburg. (I mean, yeah, presumably there’s an odd bit of distance between the tankers and the downtown, but it doesn’t have to be that far.) But more importantly, having the Avengers here taking…

I suppose that’s true, but a stated goal in the production of this one was to make it feel more international.  Scenes in South Africa and South Korea were specifically to make it less US-Centric.

Sure, Jan.

There’s also Malkovich’s Russian accent from Billions.

Hmmm, let’s see.

“Ultron says we’re monsters. It’s not just about beating him, it’s about whether he’s right.”

Funny thing-- apparently Luis’s storytelling never came from Wright, even though people consider it the definitive “this is what Wright’s version would have been like” bit.  That came all from Payton Reed’s team.