Thanks for the link, P-C. I had wondered.

But it did feel like it ignored every Marvel movie that had been released in the wake of Avengers.

After Iron Man 3 and Tony saying "Don't leave me, buddy," I think he should have been a touch more upset at Jarvis being mostly killed. And where the hell was Dummy!

I would have been a lot happier if it had been an all-purpose villain instead of something of Tony's that got away. An Avengers story is supposed to be about the team working together, not being so pissed at each other.

Ultron just seems to come out of nowhere, and it's a cliché type of the robots will turn on us and destroy us all thing. With the whole yes, humans are flawed but glorious speech. We were getting that speech from Original Series Kirk in the 60s.

See also, "Blurred Lines" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside," both of which I love even though they're creepy and rapey.

The latter stopped seeming creepy to me after finding out Loesser wrote it for his wife, she considered it "their song," they first performed it together, and while the roles have traditionally been sung with the woman in the ostensibly protesting role there is nothing that actually specifies which is which.

Tony's line in the movie didn't particularly bother me, but then I regard him as a spoiled little boy in a 40-year-old billionaire's body so it seemed pretty much in character. If Steve or Bruce say something similar, I'll be outraged.

Ultron's overpowering smugness and murderous hatred of Stark and humanity in general seemed very poorly explained to me; I assume the Mind Stone pulled those negative personality traits out of Tony and Bruce in the process of creating the new sentience, but it takes a lot of handwaving. And on a purely shallow note, having Ultron's mouth reshape itself as he spoke looked really weird.

I think it would have gotten weirder if Ultron's mouth had never moved. But I noticed that too.

The design choice to give his face that degree of mobility and expressiveness seemed odd.

Especially since they're fine with Iron Man speaking through an unmoving mouth slot when they're not showing RDJ's face. And there weren't any moving parts visible, so it looked like that bad CGI where they make pets talk.

There were enough questionable choices in this film that I think Joss should take a couple years off before doing anything else.

The design choice to give his

I for one support them aiming for this level of expressiveness and technological wizardry: [link] (from around the 1:50 mark).

Just me, or was anybody else thinking that between Dr Cho's technology and the Tahiti protocol, that Pietro would be back ? Not very Jossian of me, I know. But I'm still only half convinced.

Isn't there something in the comics where Wanda brought him back?

Pietro was an Avenger for a long time in the comics, so I was surprised when he died. He's supposed to be there! I thought I didn't care, but I ended up liking both him and Wanda, so, crap, I don't want him to be dead!