Ways the Time Spent Developing the Bruce/Natasha romance could have been better spent.......

1. Explaining why Tony rebuilt his suits.

2. Explaining why the Avengers are now working together.

3. Explaining why Steve isn’t still looking for Bucky.

4. Giving Falcon more than a minute of screen time.

5. Developing the father-daughter thing they had going with Fury and Nat.

6. Showing Steve and Tony actually building up a friendship so Civil War will at least have a smidgen of emotional impact.

7. Spending more than a minute on why Tony and Bruce thought Ultron was a good idea (and why they have apparently never seen a sci-fi movie)

8. Having Tony get to talk to the Vision about Jarvis.

9. Vision/Scarlet Witch 

10. A Natasha backstory going into her being forced to kill as a child/losing her identity, anything but “I can’t have babies so I’m a monster!” 

11. Explaining the media reaction to all this. (We hear they want Bruce arrested, but how do the people feel about the Avengers working without Shield? How is the world responding without Shield? 

12. Natasha picking up Mjolnir (don’t tease it and not carry through, Joss). 

13. Basically, any scene showing any continuity with Phase 2. 

14. Who am I kidding? Basically any other scene. A training sequence. 20 minutes of Falcon baking cookies. An explanation of how Hulk’s pants work. An hour of all of them playing with Clint’s kids. Anything would have been better. 

You know Sam doesn’t stint on the chocolate chips.

100% on board with all of these suggestions. So glad the Russo brothers are taking it over from him. Ugh.

Also an explanation as to how Nat and Bruce worked together to learn to trust each other. Where the Lullaby even fucking came from. What made Steve go back to calling Natasha “Romanoff” out of nowhere. NOT GETTING RID OF JARVIS TO MAKE VISION! Actually having a dialogue between Tony and the Twins. Not having Steve bringing the twins to the Tower. More Rhodey. More Fury. More Sam. More Helen. Literally anything but what we got.

In addition to all of the above, I feel like if this:

had actually happened, things would have gone a lot differently too.