I LOATHED the farm as Whedon's kind of mid-life crisis urban dude fantasy, but it has real and intriguing potential (and even actual-actual) in other directions.
My headcanon is, if it's flipped so Laura is Barney's widow, and Clint is taking care of his brother's family, then you can still have Clintasha and an OT3 if you want! Although I do really like the nearly-canon OT3 in Ultron, too, it's one of the few things I like about the damn movie, and that still permits for Clintasha and a fandom OT3. -- I like that "disaster Barton" has a real home, I love Linda Cardinelli, I love how Nat has apparently successfully kept the secret for years and years, and how they NAME A KID AFTER HER. Nat is so isolated in the comics, and connection/found family is a huge thing for her in the movies. Old Man Barton's Farm is possibly one of those things that can look nuclear and vanilla from the outside, but meet the different needs of people actually in it, and I like how fic can explore that from all different kinds of angles.
I even love all the fanon about it, stuff like how Laura gave Nat the necklace, or Laura and Nat got together first, or Laura was at SHIELD, or Clint brought Nat to the farm after bringing her in from the cold, or how Nat brings Wanda to meet them after AoU, whatever. I do really dislike how Whedon sets it up as the mid-life crisis cliche thing in the film (will Clint quit his dangerous job? WTF is Tony making that awful joke about making PEPPER live on a farm? WHY does Laura get the horrible line about "Soooo Nat and Bruce"? HOME RENO??). And why THAT SCENE, the one where Nat says she can't have kids and is a monster (I know, I know, not how Whedon meant it, but it still NEGATES the whole setup we've just seen where she's Auntie Nat??) And why is the baby a son. In like every single sff series/movie where a woman is pregnant the result is a boy. Why, just why. A girl could still have the goddamn middle name of Petra or even Pietra, it would be fine.
(Also nobody can convince me Nat would SUGGEST DITCHING EVERYONE ELSE IN HER LIFE for Bruce while standing in the NURSERY of her found family OT3. Just....why, Whedon? So badly done. sigh.)
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I LOATHED the farm as Whedon's kind of mid-life crisis urban dude fantasy, but it has real and intriguing potential (and even actual-actual) in other directions.
My headcanon is, if it's flipped so Laura is Barney's widow, and Clint is taking care of his brother's family, then you can still have Clintasha and an OT3 if you want! Although I do really like the nearly-canon OT3 in Ultron, too, it's one of the few things I like about the damn movie, and that still permits for Clintasha and a fandom OT3. -- I like that "disaster Barton" has a real home, I love Linda Cardinelli, I love how Nat has apparently successfully kept the secret for years and years, and how they NAME A KID AFTER HER. Nat is so isolated in the comics, and connection/found family is a huge thing for her in the movies. Old Man Barton's Farm is possibly one of those things that can look nuclear and vanilla from the outside, but meet the different needs of people actually in it, and I like how fic can explore that from all different kinds of angles.
I even love all the fanon about it, stuff like how Laura gave Nat the necklace, or Laura and Nat got together first, or Laura was at SHIELD, or Clint brought Nat to the farm after bringing her in from the cold, or how Nat brings Wanda to meet them after AoU, whatever. I do really dislike how Whedon sets it up as the mid-life crisis cliche thing in the film (will Clint quit his dangerous job? WTF is Tony making that awful joke about making PEPPER live on a farm? WHY does Laura get the horrible line about "Soooo Nat and Bruce"? HOME RENO??). And why THAT SCENE, the one where Nat says she can't have kids and is a monster (I know, I know, not how Whedon meant it, but it still NEGATES the whole setup we've just seen where she's Auntie Nat??) And why is the baby a son. In like every single sff series/movie where a woman is pregnant the result is a boy. Why, just why. A girl could still have the goddamn middle name of Petra or even Pietra, it would be fine.
(Also nobody can convince me Nat would SUGGEST DITCHING EVERYONE ELSE IN HER LIFE for Bruce while standing in the NURSERY of her found family OT3. Just....why, Whedon? So badly done. sigh.)