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I made it.

I’ve been fairly vocal on Reddit (my forum of choice lately) about my disdain for Joss Whedon’s approach for the Avengers—after all, what’s even the point of live-action superheroes if they’re not even going to try to make them believable—so I can readily forgive the handheld and emphasis on wholesale destruction, which is the least I’d expect were gods to walk the earth.I might as well commit my hope for the sequel to writing, because as surprisingly pleased as I was by this introduction (my reaction to Batman Begins, conversely, couldn’t prepare me at all for the majestic follow-up), I’m almost certain to be disappointed by any let-up in the breakneck pace. Nothing save the Justice League will top the Marvel squad now, so instead of spending $300 mil trying to convince us it can be done with Metallo or Brainiac or Luthor in ludicrous armor, I suggest the monomaniacal multi-billionaire use his resources to round up the world’s finest challengers to the alien threat. That pilot who was inducted into an intergalactic police force might be hailed back with enough investment in the right technologies. Rumors of vigilantes in Central City and Gotham investigated. He could even Charles Widmore a trip to a legendary lost island of the Amazons. And Atlantis. They’d all go at him, of course, which is what I’d rather have seen between Thor, Iron Man and the Hulk than them squashing that incompetent army Loki skimped on, then realize that he’s the real deal, the Man of Tomorrow.

The day’s come and gone, and I’m writing this through the “Red Wedding” episode of A Game of Thrones, but I do remember this much: I returned to my last job, where I had been nurturing something of minor significance (in a jar, of all places, but then that’s just like me), but would reveal itself in its fully grown form to be an alien that resembled a green MCP or The Face of Boe.

It recognized my kindness and now asked for my company on a cosmic journey to carry forth to all worlds the word of peace. Or love and understanding, I forget.