I thought the interplay was just fun to watch -- it hadn't occurred to me that she's lonely.
But that makes enormous sense considering that she JUST got her sister back and, less than a year later (from her point of view), has to cope with Natasha's death while still carving out a living for herself, free of the Red Room.
It's kind of a sad backstory now that you point it out. It also jives with how frantic she seemed upon learning she'd been dusted for five years. Her first priority was finding Natasha, who we know was dead by that point, and only just recently at that.
Also, after the "Black Widow" end credits, I'd been wondering how Val could possibly convince Yelena to kill her sister's best friend. And true to that issue, it's clear Yelena was testing Clint on that roof, not legitimately trying to kill him. From her conversation with Kate ("Kate Bishop"), seems like she's still trying to make her mind up.
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fc31 (4845)
3 years ago
I thought she wanted to capture Clint for interrogation, to find out more about her sister's death. If she was testing him then she was really overly confident since Clint had on record defeated and I think captured Natasha, Yelena did not exactly win when she and Natasha fought. Her only advantage was to ambush Clint, also maybe Clint's age.
Either way she went way out of her mission parameters since she was supposed to kill Clint.
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