User blog comment:LoveWaffle/Well This Is Somewhat Hopeful/@comment-5699975-20121223035004/@comment-3317214-20121225104128

Well, if they're saying now that A:EMH and Avengers Assemble aren't connected, and they never actually said it was before, I'm guessing they didn't intend them to be connected. But yeah, I'd be way too scared to face a bunch of fans and tell them that A:EMH had been scrapped for a show in the continuity of USM...

Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong. Most of the episodes in the second half of the season are great. But yeah, Galacuts was over in an episode, the Kree didn't have that much of a build up. It was just, "Oh, that's the thing Kang was talking about", and then it was over. And the winter soldier was dealt with fairly quickly (we didn't really see anything of Falcon at all), and I felt like the addition of Vision and the return of Ant-Man as Yellowjacket were a bit patchy. There wasn't really any time to see them grow as Avengers, and most of the time, they weren't there. It wasn't like beofre, where we really got to see some great character development with Cap, Hawkeye, Black Panther, Ms Marvel, and Hulk when he left and returned. And I totally forgot about Korvac. It would have been great to have some kind of resolution on the Korvac thing, and the Surtur thing.

But I'm not saying that series have to be plot based to be really good. Doctor Who, for example, in Series 6 was very heavily into a complicated story arc carrying across a season. However, what we're seeing now in Series 7 is more about episodes that stand by themselves instead of building an arc. And I love both of these seasons. So, I don't think it's so much a matter of which type of episode they were going for, but moreso, just execution of that type. And I think that the latter part of Season 2 was executed pretty badly.

Oh, and the mention from the Season 1 premiere, do you mean Doctor Doom, not Mandarin? (who was actually followed up a bit in Season 2). But yeah, overall, I'm happy with what we got. It just kinda sucks to end on a kind-of lower note. But yeah, the real crime here is Spectactular Spider-Man ending when it did...