If you haven’t seen it yet, Marvel released the third official trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron today and it’s a doozy. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a moment.

See? A doozy. This is the villain trailer, starting right out of the gate with the foe for this installment, and the full cast of Avengers heading into battle with it. It looks to me like now everyone must face Tony Stark’s inner demons, which could prove really interesting. They’ve also got the two “miracles” (which is what they’re calling mutants because they sold the licensing for the word “mutant”). I also highly approve of Natasha’s new toys: Black Widow is one of my favorite parts of these movies.

This trailer comes the day after the mid-season return of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the beginning of the Inhumans story arc. It’s an exciting turn for the story which struggled in its first season before the reveal of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s infiltration and fall in Captain America: Winter Soldier. This series now stands on its own two feet, solidly planting itself in the same world as the movies and yet carrying its own plots and twists that could wind up playing heavily into future features. Of course, there is an Inhumans movie in the docket, but as of now it’s not scheduled to be released until summer 2019, so there’s a lot of TV time before that for the show to build a foundation.

In the meantime, we’ve all fallen in love with Agent Carter. Very wisely listening to the fan base, Disney and Marvel gave Peggy Carter her own mini-series that was intended to be a one-off run, but proved to be so well written and well received that there is chatter now of a season two. I certainly wouldn’t be opposed to that! We barely scratched the surface in this eight episode arc, and didn’t even touch on the founding of S.H.I.E.L.D., which could be so fascinating to watch.

What I’m really interested in is seeing how all of these will tie together. The shows and the movies have done a good job of blending seamlessly together without having any huge impacts on one another, and the cross-over characters work in both formats to establish this as one big universe. And that’s the amazing thing about the Marvel Cinematic Universe: it all seems to work together so well.

I know there are decades of comics to draw from, but that can prove to be a distraction or too much of a burden. Look at the problems faced by the X-Men movies; they struggle with consistency, and with different time periods not fitting together with different parts of the story. Heck, in the most recent film, they effectively had to undo everything that happened in X-Men: The Last Stand because it was ridiculously awful. But the Marvel properties coming out of Disney have a consistency that is impressive and that I really appreciate.

Full disclosure: I didn’t read Marvel comics as a kid, and I still don’t for the most part. I’ve enjoyed the new Black Widow comics and I’m interested in the Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman comics but for the most part all I know about this world is from the movies and TV shows. I know that a lot of the adaptations are distressing to the old guard, the fans who’ve been reading these things their whole lives. But I have to say, as a new fan, this has been fantastic. It’s something I can get excited about and has made what is often a very difficult fandom to enter so much more accessible, and at least in my option, any time good storytelling can be more accessible, the better.

With that I’ll sign off, but at least you’ll know where to find me May 1: at the theater.