dragonmuse:

assetandmission:

So just to recap (x):

• Marvel didn’t want the Clint farm storyline, but Whedon insisted they leave it in the movie. In exchange, he cut much of Thor’s vision subplot, which made very little sense as a result.

• Whedon really wanted a BruceNat relationship after writing the Hut scene in the Avengers. You know, the scene where she’s terrified of Bruce.

• Whedon fought against a Clint/Natasha relationship, even thought it was planned, for no fucking reason.

• Whedon wrote a scene where Natasha is rejected by Banner after offering to run away with him, and originally planned the bedroom moment to be a scene where her flirting turns him into the Hulk?

And then he laments the fact he didn’t have enough time so the plot seemed rushed. Even though he spent like 30+ minutes at the farm, and building up BruceNat, and everything the executives wanted to cut for the movie to run smoothly and make sense.

I just… what the fuck, Whedon??? The film could have had a completely different vibe.

Because to Whedon characters like Black Widow must be tethered to a man as close to himself as possible and it’s only gotten worse and more predictable as his career goes on. 

It’s one of the reasons it drives me crazy that we’re so hard on women writers that use ‘Mary Sues’. Half of Whedon’s body of work is his masturbatory fantasy that a small yet physically strong woman who is smart and good wants nothing more than to hang out with him and give him her full attention.