User blog comment:LoveWaffle/Well This Is Somewhat Hopeful/@comment-5699975-20121223035004/@comment-3317214-20121223131635

No, I don't think they ever said Avengers Assemble would be a continuation of A:EMH. At least, I always assumed it'd be a new thing that they made to be more like the movie...

They aired every episode in Australia, and I think I know the episode you're saying they missed. If it's the one with Loki and the Destroyer, it's not that good. Surtur's not really in it at all, so that storyline isn't resolved. And the episode itself is probably the worst one of them all. I think it was trying to give some kind of connection between the show and the Thor movie. It was a fairly similar plot to the movie, but instead of being an origin for Thor, it was some kind of weird, unnecessary character developing thing that made no sense.

I seriously think that they intended Surtur to be the climax of Season 2, leaving the Kree thing, the New Avengers, and Galactus to all happen in a third season. But because Marvel cancelled the show, they had to fit two planned seasons into one. So, they left the first 13 episodes of Season 2 untouched so that they could finish the Secret Invasion storyline, but then wanted to include the bigger plans of Season 3 into the last half of Season 2, as well as fitting in some of the Season 2 plans. This would mean that the Surtur storyline was built up through the first half of Season 2 (and left untouched), but was ultimately dropped in favour of the Kree storyline (perhaps mostly because it was relevant to what Kang had warned the Avengers about in Season 1). That's my theory anyway. Thoughts?