{"id":50365,"date":"2015-05-05T21:29:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T03:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/bits-and-bobs-of-would-have-been-age-of-ultron.html"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:29:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T03:29:25","slug":"bits-and-bobs-of-would-have-been-age-of-ultron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/bits-and-bobs-of-would-have-been-age-of-ultron.html","title":{"rendered":"Bits and bobs of Would-Have-Been-Age-of-Ultron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some substantial spoilers in the attached, obviously. Mostly highlights of things that <i>didn&#39;t<\/i> happen in AAoU based on a lengthy Joss Whedon interview.  (There&#39;s more on the bits about Thor here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksofdoom.com\/2015\/05\/05\/joss-whedon-thor-avengers-age-of-ultron-subplot\">http:\/\/www.geeksofdoom.com\/2015\/05\/05\/joss-whedon-thor-avengers-age-of-ultron-subplot<\/a> .)<\/p>\n<p>That there were 54 minutes eliminated from the rough cut makes me <i>really<\/i> hopeful that some of this stuff shows up elsewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2015\/05\/see-alternate-avengers-age-of-ultron-scenes.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/BqKchZB3pghoiEE8HtyU_2OjS5jJLWBibn4IGLVTlRSW2L71yqowxJsh228ahjl9CZCk9pxH59bdNI4COGoQ6V31M8qhpfBO-ICqz3sJYK1O4dyo_faowjQkmGhwuKwIQ1zoU-4RGecZVuquyQM=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2015\/05\/see-alternate-avengers-age-of-ultron-scenes.html'>See Alternate Avengers: Age of Ultron Scenes &#8212; Vulture<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nJoss Whedon went into <em>&Uuml;ber<\/em>-specific detail.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/GtAvtqM9xo5'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some substantial spoilers in the attached, obviously. Mostly highlights of things that didn&#39;t happen in AAoU based on a lengthy Joss Whedon interview. (There&#39;s more on the bits about Thor here: http:\/\/www.geeksofdoom.com\/2015\/05\/05\/joss-whedon-thor-avengers-age-of-ultron-subplot .) That there were 54 minutes eliminated from the rough cut makes me really hopeful that some of this stuff shows up elsewhere. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/bits-and-bobs-of-would-have-been-age-of-ultron.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bits and bobs of Would-Have-Been-Age-of-Ultron&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132961,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/movie-review-avengers-age-of-ultron.html","url_meta":{"origin":50365,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Avengers: Age of Ultron&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Mar-17 7:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"A messier movie than the first, but with some great character bits (as one would expect from Joss Whedon), and still, net-net, a fun rewatch:Full review: https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/avengers-age-of-ultron\/1\/Original review: https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/avengers-age-of-ultron\/4\/5 stars and a heart. \u00a0 View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/c6f53bacb3b8b0605efb74d0c5bf95cf5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":50373,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/the-unbearable-geekitude-of-joss-whedon.html","url_meta":{"origin":50365,"position":1},"title":"The Unbearable Geekitude of Joss Whedon","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-May-15 11:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Doing Avengers: Age of Ultron sounds both horrifying and deeply fulfilling. 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