although really my first comment was why did Gilette not do a black widow mock tie-in razor because SERIOUSLY.

As for the movie, I was somewhat spoiled going in, so none of the big scenese were surprises.

I liked Bruce/Nat a lot better than I expected to from spoiler comments, really my only issue with it was the fact that having one woman on the team makes the dynamics of her getting a romance plot iffy.

and for all the bitching on tumblr/etc about the prima nocte line, the issue I have with it is that it was just way too obscure to make sense.

like, MCU Tony can be inappropriate; that's not OOC, but it's really obscure, I don't see him likely to know it (or if he did, he'd feel the need to explain his genius in an aside), so it's just Joss being

obscure rather than the character.

I did see some hilarious comment (which mirrors my thoughts on it) about how many times Tony is going to "quit".

Steve's probably running the betting pool on when he'll be back.

Tony has seen Braveheart, I'm sure. Half the plot is based on that concept, so that's where most people would know it from if they're not medievalists. Or wannabe medievalists.

I haven't seen AOU yet though so I should slink away.

It's still kind of obscure these days.

aaaah. I never saw Braveheart, didn't know it was mentioned.

No one in the theater (which was mostly full) reacted to it at all.

Partly because it was so quick, too -- there was a lot of very snappy Joss dialog, and I'm not sure I would have actually known what he said if I hadn't seen stuff beforehand.

Yeah, in the movie (not in history), the whole rebellion starts when Wallace marries in secret so he won't have to share his wife with an English lord.

My impression is that historically, prima nocte was not really a thing, much like chastity belts weren't.

But I'd have to double down on research to say anything definitive. I know if it did happen, it was pretty rare and not necessarily in the areas we now associate with it.

Or it may be one of those things that was used as a scare tactic, like "Death Panels."

I made a quick face at prima nocta but it moved on before I could dwell on it. And Tony is inappropriate

yeah, as an inappropriate braveheart reference it seems perfectly IC then -- he makes some occasionally skeevy remarks. Without it being a reference, though, it made no sense to me.