2. Leave The Defenders Out Of It
I still have trouble believing we got an Avengers movie. An Avengers movie directed by Joss Whedon, no less. Again, this truly is a golden age for all geek-kind. It wasn't always a smooth road getting to The Avengers. As much as I enjoyed that movie, I never appreciated that Marvel wasted precious screen time in the Phase One movies
selling me on The Avengers. Well, actually, they weren't selling us nerds on that movie. If Hulk smashes, we're there. No, Marvel was selling the straights people who never go near a comic on the idea that all these movies were connected, and that bigger and better and Hulk-smashier things were ahead. And they did an amazing job of selling it, but incorporating that material naturally into whatever story they were currently telling? Not so much. I get that the entertainment business is a business, but blatant franchise-building was one of the chief reasons why Iron Man 2 was such a train wreck. It's in this show's best interest to avoid the franchise-building mentality. We don't need it anymore. Internet hype is part of mainstream culture now even my mom knows J.J. Abrams is directing the new Star Wars movie, and that's never happened before. Marvel has educated us on how to watch their stories, that one story leads to another. They don't have to call attention to it anymore. Give us ten great episodes about Daredevil. We all know The Defenders is coming. Let it wait.