Connie, the time travel adventure I most enjoyed was the Doctor Who adventure City of Death.

Things I noticed on rewatch:

I caught sight of M'Baku charging with the other characters from Wakanda.

When Tony makes the decision to take the stones from Thanos, he looks over at Strange, and Strange holds up his finger. This is the one way out of 14 million.

Tony's arc is from self-centerdness to self-sacrifice. Cap's is from shouldering all of the burdens to allowing other people to do the things that need to be done.

When he stands up to Thanos and his armies with a broken shield, ready to die, and everyone appears to back him up, T'Challa nods at him. They got this. He doesn't have to be the only one, like he was the only one who could stop Red Skull, the only one who could rescue Bucky in TFA, the only one who could get through to the Winter Soldier, who could stop Tony from killing Bucky.

He looks so tired and lost when he sees Peggy in 1970, but it's okay for him to go and be selfish and have that life he sacrificed.

When Tony

So, I re-watched Infinity War last night, and when Strange tells Tony there's only 1 future where they win, now I understand Strange's hesitation before he answers. Because he knew the only way to win is for Tony to die.

Strange said to Tony something like, "If I tell you what's going to happen, it can't happen." I was pretty sure then that Tony was going to die .

You guys are giving me all the feels again. Especially Dana's description of the character arcs. Stop it (don't stop)!

When I realized that Tony already had his happy ending, his comfy place with Pepper, the kid named Morgan, and we weren't that far into the movie, it was dread all the rest of the way.

I also appreciated the few times they had to remind the audience about stuff, in case they'd forgotten the context. Loki shapeshifts into Cap to set up the Cap vs. Cap battle. When Thor gets Mjolnir, his "I'm still worthy" isn't just about his sense of self (though that's huge), but to also remind you what it takes to lift the hammer.

I feel like there's at least one more I can't remember, but in general I thought it was done well.

OK, so I've seen it a couple of times, and overall, I think it's a tremendous capper to the whole saga. Three hours flew by. There were quite a bit of different tones to juggle, and they were very good at shifting from drama to comedy to action. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats.

I haven't quite made peace with Natasha being gone though. I mean, I like Clint, but I have about 100x more emotional investment in Nat as a character than Clint, and while in-universe, it makes sense for Nat to sacrifice herself (and beat Clint in a fight to do so), on a meta level, it really chaps my hide that they killed off the only woman among the original Avengers. As a matter of fact, I was SO SURE that it would be Clint who would die (I mean, it was a given one of them would bite it once we knew where the two were headed) that it took me good half an hour to recover from the shock. I'm not... angry per se, but it's been sitting ill with me ever since. Tony had a huge beautiful character arc culminating in him literally saving the world with his sacrifice (I mean, I cried buckets, don't get me wrong) with everyone coming in to mourn him afterward, and Nat was... I don't know, not forgotten, precisely. We had that conversation between Clint and Wanda, but I feel like she deserved more.

Anyway, other than that, I really had no complaints. The timey-winey ness hurt my brain, but I can roll with the multiverse explanation with generation of alternative timelines (so Steve presumably lived in an AU timeline where he could have told Peggy all about Hydra and saved Bucky from cryo-torture, etc, and only dimension-hopped briefly to give Sam the shield, or something like that).

My main head scratch question is about Peter. If he's been gone for 5 years, how come 1) Ned is still in high school (at least that looked like a high school hallway, with lockers and all)? And if Ned was also Snaptured, how come he looked so teary-eyed at seeing Peter again?? They better have answers about this in the next Spider-Man movie OR ELSE. Will ALL Marvel movies coming on the heels of this one be set 5 years from now?? Inquiring minds, etc.

Re Vonnie's question, I think Ned was also Snaptured, and he was crying when he met Peter in the hall because (a) now they have to finish high school with a bunch of strangers who lived 5 years in a world they missed, and (b) everyone must know what the Avengers and Company did to get them back, but Ned's the only one (in school anyway) who knows that Spider-Man is Peter Parker and knows what his friend Peter did to save the world.

Vonnie, I felt the same as you about Natasha.