So I have two comments right off the bat.

CLINT. That look on his Ronin face, etched with sorrow and despair, and the wish that he could be satisfied killing bad guys but knows it will never be enough ... and then recognizing Natasha with a "now I know what you were but I can't stop" look ... That two seconds alone should earn Jeremy Renner a third Oscar nomination.

NATASHA. Wanting to smile because it's Clint, but realizing it isn't - not really, not anymore. The pain of recognition. Yikes.

Okay, three comments:

Did anyone else notice that in the opening when Tony reaches for the head of his uniform, he says "stay on" but in such a manner that it sounds like "STAN" and isn't just so Hamlet "alas poor Yorick"...?



Edited 2018-12-08 08:10 pm (UTC)

I'm so with you on Clint's expression - and I bet that all the drama we saw in Infinity War will probably pale in comparison of what he went through. My guess is that he's the only Barton standing now, and that nothing can fill the void. Gonna be interesting how this all will play into the endgame against Thanos.

That two seconds alone should earn Jeremy Renner a third Oscar nomination.

Keeps my fingers crossed, especially now that the academy wants to open the ballot a bit more for movies like that.


On a different note: did anyone notice that (a) Steve is downright gorgeous in this teaser, and (b) that he's wearing what looks like the stealth suit from "TheWinter Soldier" right before the close-up of his compass?

I feel it could either go two ways, like Clint could blame Natasha a bit cause she was meant to protect his family when he retired and yet shes still here and his family isn't. Or theyre going to go straight into a Clintasha relationship?

I still think the scene goes a bit like Clint talking to the person telling them to run as he sharpens his knife and makes some threat, not thinking its Natasha? Telling them he has nothing left to lose. That's when Natasha realises his family is gone and then she speaks saying something only he would know as her and he turns around and recognises her.

I doubt they'd go straight to Clintasha. Way too soon - unless perhaps the movie is set a couple of years after the Snap, but even then it would have to be very carefully set up, through friendship and shared anguish first. I can see them saying something like "it's too early" and the movie just ending with holding out a future possibility.

I've heard its set 5 years after? but im 100% on that. There was so much symbolism in that trailer like with the compass. But i don't know how much they're leading us on?

They're ALWAYS leading us on ... I'm just waiting to see who rescues Tony (who I assume is with Nebula). Carol? The Ravagers?

Omg, now I'm picturing Kirk (Erm, Sean Gunn. Erm, whatever his character name in the MCU is) and Tony together and I am cracking myself up!

I'm 1) but what if there's no Pepper and she's dusted and Tony's leaving a message for no one :'( because IW angst damn it all and 2) but what if Pepper is alive and well, and using her new superhero connections has already organised someone going out there and finding Tony because she has had ENOUGH with this shit thank you very much and shit is getting organised.

I didn't realize just how much I missed seeing Clint Barton on the big screen. Whether he's firing arrows or wielding a sword, he's got a commanding presence. And my complete attention.

I know it's a stretch, but I would so love to see a "seed" of a Clint/Nat relationship. I don't think there's enough time to devote to a developing relationship, but leaving the door open for them at the end would be the greatest gift the Russo's could leave us with. ;)

A seed, YES! I don't want actual Clintasha (for various reasons, including that I know they'd ruin it somehow and there are so many better fic writers out there to make a BETTER version of it) but something that shows the start of the rebuilding of their friendship with that spark of more. That spark that was in Avengers:Original Flavor that got snuffed out by Joss.

YES! To all that. Having them get back in that car at the end to go off together to Lord Knows Where so I can write a sequel to Going To Ground. Or something...

WRITE IT ANYHOW! DO IT NOW! DO IT DO IT DO IT

I have to admit that did NOT occur to me. Now it has. Oops. I mean, thanks...? :P

Edited 2018-12-09 06:00 pm (UTC)

Yes! Yes! A thousand times, yes. Let's all grab hold of the Time stone and write like the good ol' days.

YASSSSS! DO EEET! (quick, before the movie spoils our ideas!)

It's so good to see Clint again! And damn, how come whenever he and Nat have even the slightest of moments together on screen it's loaded with so much history and emotion?!

And the rest is natually heartbreaking, argh.

Except Scott. Oh, Scott. Bless. So somehow he got out of the quantum realm and i'm wondering if he saw/learnt anything about trapped/lost souls and other dimensions... But mostly HI SCOTT and you little self showing up to help :)

Did you see the thing on twitter about Korg? He's just a big rock, so he gets dusted and breaks into a bunch of really tiny rocks, winds up in the quantam realm and asks Scott if he wants to join his tiny revolution and somehow they escape. heheheehee

*starry eyes*

NO. OH BUT I LOVE IT :D Tiny revolution, ha.

Edited 2018-12-09 03:01 pm (UTC)

Because I like to share the love:

Emma Evans @TrancewithMe
Replying to @ChuckWendig
Korg is made of rocks. So even if he were dust, he would still be...rock. Just smaller rocks.

So Korg made it.

T Ferra @alittlekings
Replying to @TrancewithMe @ChuckWendig
He’s just a bunch of tiny Korgs now, and there’s a whole subplot where Scott is stuck in the quantum realm but a tiny Korg with an army of tiny korgs pulls up in a quantum ship made from tiny korgs and is all “oiy, want to get out of here? Want to join our tiny revolution?”

Where's the <3 button on DW???

Seconded <3

HA!! That's fabulous! I love it.

And so much new inspiration with that retro original Avengers feeling. That trailer gives me so much hope for future fic! (Better get to writing it now - if AoU taught me anything, it's that my hopes and dreams for MCU canon Clintasha will be broken before my very eyes…) ;)

people online are like 'maybe Scott's really Loki in disguise!!' and I"m just like, "Nah. the Russo's aren't that smart."

A visual representation of my mental state:


Seriously I spent at least half of my work day on Friday speculating with my coworkers about what's going on in the trailer XD

Haha, I am trying NOT to let my brain run away with this because it's APRIL until we get the film...but my brain isn't listening. Oops.

CLINT!!! IT'S BEEN TOO LONG MAN!

agreed!

*shows up fifteen minutes late with arrows*

That trailer wreaked me (just look up the gif of Captain Holt from B99 where he's like "Pain").

That look Clint gave Natasha was just heartbreaking because that's the look of a man who has lost everything important to him and is wondering if he should throw himself off the cliff.

I mentioned on Tumblr that that whole clip reminded me of the scene in the generic Action Movie where the Government Agent is trying to recruit the Action Hero for the mission that has a high probability of death and the hero is just like "Okay, I have nothing left to lose."

Like it royally effed me up.

Also that shot of Clint standing in the rain over the pile of people he just murdered wiping off his katana should not be that hot and yet...