Hmmm I agree with you on some points
*puts away lace knitting that's effing with my ish*
Mind, bear with me a bit here, Tony should go "Well, that didn't work. Oh well, time to think up something better, might have to re-jig a few ideas, refine the plan a bit. When something's not working you try to figure out why and then make the approporiate adjustments."
Fair enough, here, re: the SHRA what it stood for on paper, but the fact that he used Thor's cells to commit a henious crime in his name (the Chor thing was really appalling) I can see why Thor would be carrying around a mad for Tony, true fax. Also, for Tony's being a slave to modernity doesn't mean that he should have sacrificed some sort of well... I don't want to use the word 'morality' because that's not what I'm looking for, but even with science and such there's the whole 'ethics' argument that can be argued. If they had shown Tony arguing with that form of ethics instead of him and Reed going better and geeing each other on, it might have been a better story.
Mind, i kind of see Tony as a symbol for Modernity, with all the problems and weirdness inherent in that.
No argument here. Tony is convergence in the best and worst ways. He's science, math, money and humanity all in one. He's a powerful man, and to his credit, he has tried to adhere to the maxim about absolute power and all its inherent problems, but... with CW he went off the rails, and the thing with Tony Stark is... at the end of the day, he knew when to man up, when to take a step back and apologise or make amends. He did it with his drinking, with his armour, with his friends, and Fraction not getting that is vexing. Tony mans up. He just... doesn't do that here.
The problem is of course that Tony isn't as rational as he might think (he has a slew of personal emotional issues) and neither are other people. So he's going to fail spectacularly, quite often. But he'll keep trying, because that's what he does.
True, to quote jwaneeta (an lj poster) Tony Stark is a mess, he knows that he's a mess, but he keeps trying anyway. I get that, but Tony is a man who's self aware enough to know if he's gone too far, and makes amends if he has to. He's also a man of The Great Gesture though - so him autobrain deleting himself shouldn't probably surprise me, because it's his way of wearing sackcloth and ashes - but I wish the story that Fraction's writing wouldn't bore or vex me so.
*cue people going "You hate Fraction because of the Tony/Pepper *