Well, now I've seen The Avengers and listened to the podcast and read the comments, and I admit I'm still in the dark. I mean, I guess there was a little bit of armchair psychoanalysis there in the discussion of Black Widow's interrogation scenes (personally, I haven't come to any conclusions about her character's presentation in the movie yet, but I'm fascinated by the discourse) and maybe one or two other places, like a call-back to their joke in the "Cabin Fever" podcast about "The Networks" (which I never took very seriously).

Mostly, the podcast struck me as two people good-naturedly poking fun at a film they thoroughly enjoyed and occasionally getting into an aspect of it they didn't enjoy so much; and the comments seem to be mostly about discussing the depiction of Black Widow, which as I said, I find interesting to follow.

I don't mean to be combative here, and I apologize if I come across that way. I'm very interested in your perspective on all this - it's just that so far, I'm having trouble seeing it that way.