User blog comment:LoveWaffle/Well This Is Somewhat Hopeful/@comment-5699975-20121223035004/@comment-1895174-20121225015019

His comments at Comic-Con are clearly talking about a connection between the two shows. Also remember who his audience was - these people probably would have walked out if he had said something along the lines of "we scrapped A:EMH to make an Avengers cartoon in-line with USM."

And while I think the latter half of season 2 felt different from the first half, it didn't feel rushed to me. There was just more of an emphasis on single episodes oppose to building an arc, like the first season did. And it's not like that was a bad thing - "Assault on 42" is my favorite episode. Galactus in the Season finale may have done better with a few more episodes, and I wish the Red Skull/Winter Soldier plot lasted a few more episodes, but otherwise I'm fine with the product we got. Certain plotlines that weren't really well developed in Season 2, like Sutur and Korvac, and the Mandarin was even hinted at all the way back in the Season 1 premiere, may be left dangling, but at least the people behind the show had a S2 finale that could stand as a series finale. This isn't Spectacular Spider-Man that got cancelled after only 26 of its planned 65 episodes were made.