Originally Posted by
Adam Allen
It's not like I'm saying I would have expected some big detour of the narrative to go hunting rogue Widows during Endgame or Infinity War -- those movies are long enough as is, and as you point out, the stakes they were dealing with were the highest of any we have seen yet, so having them chasing random assassins (or seeking out lost ex-assassins) would have been a bizarre turn for the narrative. However, if Black Widow had come out before Infinity War, they could have easily included at least a single scene ... maybe during the flight to Vormir, for instance ... where Natasha just shares with someone that the "red in her ledger" she'd mentLioned in earlier movies had been resolved, that she'd reconnected with the family she'd loved as a child, that, I don't know, there's something like a hundred random previously mind-controlled super assassins out there in the world, so when there is time, somebody might want to think about possibly looking into that.
Like, if I recall, Yelena, Red Guardian and whatever the mom's name was, were supposed to go looking for all those lost assassins, at the end of the movie. If Black Widow had come out before Infinity War, then some kind of note about what they were doing post-snap might have easily been included. Did all three of them get snapped out of existence? Would definitely have added to the loss Natasha was experiencing at the start of Endgame. If they didn't, then again, you'd think some kind of note of if she'd been in contact with them that whole five years might have been included.
I mean, we can only conjecture about it now, because the fact is that they didn't make Black Widow until after Endgame, and I feel like the lack of continuity there shows.
But hey, apparently I'm the only one who thinks so, so fair enough.
Different topic, on the show ... I mean, I'm enjoying it well enough, but it has a much less fun tone to it than the dual-Hawkeye books, that I have read. Those were much more light-hearted. They did try to include some of that with the ridiculousness of the Tracksuits as a villain group, but I suppose the MCU overall at this point is kind of a gloomy place ... and of course, comics Clint and MCU Clint are pretty different too, so there's no way they could have translated it perfectly. More's the pity though, because I really enjoyed those books!