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Sounds interesting; Whedon's often said that the central "issue" of The Avengers is explaining why these guys are on a team or even in the same room but from what you've said it sounds like he's tackled that problem well. Hopefully it's a bit more than Fury, Coulson or whomever turning up to each and saying "You doing anything right now? I've got a bit of a problem".
See, I think that approach would kinda work with Iron Man and Cap, on the one hand you have someone you're trying to re-integrate into the world (and by the world, I mean the world of derring do heroism) and on the other someone who thinks the world revolves round them and you need them to be part of a bigger picture. So having Shield lean on them and their inner desire to do good, despite those two issues, works. My issue really came with how Thor would be pulled into it all, obviously his brother is involved so thats how to hook him, but it's not like they could just pick up the phone and go "Hey, Thor, your brother is being a twat, come and have a word". So to see how Thor actually becomes involved initially, sounds cool. Hulks recruitment sounds a little of a side thought, "How do we get him in? I know...Gamma radiation!" It works within the world I guess, but seems a pretty easy way to write him in. But yea, the assembly of the team and those first three set pieces detailed in the book cover around an hour I'd say, maybe a little more or little less; and it sounds pretty good.
Well I didn't mean it would be as shallow as Fury essentially just recruiting them as hired guns, you're right that each one should have a real reason for being on the team which it sounds like they do. Widow and Hawkeye I guess are doing it because they're Shield agents anyway so for them I suppose it's just another mission to a degree.
What I meant really was the sort of montage situation where you see Fury meeting each one for a handshake that signals "they're in". I wouldn't have expected that anyway from Whedon seeing as he values character above all else in this film from the sounds of it but just hoped that it would show the core team's investment in the mission/plot.
I think you guys have dropped enough hints about how Thor comes in that he seems to have his own agenda outside of Shield; honestly I thought that would be the case anyway as he's always been the character that seems most out of place on the team they've selected for the film so I'm very interested in seeing how that plays out.
From what's out there already in this book, Thor easily has the most interesting stuff going on character wise, and given that the Thor/Loki elements were the best bits of his own movie, I'd doubt it would be that way here either.
I guess what really impressed me with the Thor introduction which....and this could now be considered very spoilery.......leads into the battle within the woods, is that he seems more interested in himself/his own relationships than anything else. He sees Iron Man/Cap as the enemy kidnapping/attacking his brother and it appears only later that there may be other outside influences in that battle, which I thought was cool. I really hope it plays more like that on screen rather than, 'oh look, Loki is controlling their minds to fight each other'.
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