So this was a good commentary, but... Not really digging the Avengers spoilers. It's only been ten days, come on... And yes, I have not seen it yet.

The reason being... I just wasn't interested in it, and in fact hadn't seen any of the set-up movies except the two Iron Mans. But I decided I was going to see Avengers after the entire internet seems to have loved it, and figured before I do I should see Hulk, Thor, and Captain America first (in that order). So my week in Netflix rentals was all Marvel all the time, just finished Cap yesterday. What a bunch of mediocre movies. I thought Thor was the best of that trio, and better than Iron Man 2, not as good as Iron Man. But Thor had one moment that totally ruined this shared universe of the Avengers for me.

Agent Coulson and his boys breeze down to the desert plain to greet the Godbot. One of the SHIELD agents says, "One of Stark's?" and Coulson is all, "Haha, Tony never tells me anything, ell oh ell." And it's just a cute little line that's there to remind the audience that Iron Man and Thor are currently sharing the same planet. Except it's NOT, and it TOTALLY pulled me out of the movie.

They spent half the climax ruining Iron Man 2 by having Agent Coulson being all mysteriously interested in this mysterious thing that has landed in the desert and then driving to go check in and see if it's as mysterious as they thought. How exciting! And then the post-credits sequence is him coming up on Thor's hammer or whatever, I haven't seen Iron Man 2 since the theaters and will never watch it again. But regardless, I know that wherever Thor's hammer is, it is within a relatively reasonable driving distance to whatever fucking city Tony Stark lives in.

Are you seeing my problem yet? If not, let me remind you that there's a whole montage in Iron Man where Tony flies to the Middle East in the suit without having to stop for a piss or anything, and just blows the shit out of some terrorists. So Iron Man travels for work, I've just been reminded that he exists, and there's a fucking Godbot marching around tearing up this damned town. In what universe does Tony Stark not quickly find out that this is happening and Iron Man the fuck out there to fight it? This thing is bigger and more destructive than Jeff Bridges or Whip Guy. Showboat Tony would be all over this.

So that was my big, world-shattering problem with the movie, and I think a big pitfall for any potential Thor sequels. Unless the whole movie, or at least most of the threat, takes place in Asgard. Because on Earth, if it's a big enough problem to require Thor, it's probably big enough to draw the attention of the other Avengers, and we know they're all pals now.

Or I assume they're pals. Still haven't seen the movie, but I can only assume that they'll stop butting heads and learn to work together by the end.

I want to know what exactly Fury's plan was for getting Hulk in the Hulk Canister so he could be ejected from the airship, and how exactly he justified building said Hulk Canister into the airship in the first place.