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Ascended
I heard they cancelled it?
I don't even know what's happening anymore. What projects are still going forward?
...y'know, Marvel could take all this negative press lately, fold that into Wonder Man's story, and maybe make a really interesting story out of it. I'd kind of like to see, through fictional proxy, the Studio tell their side of this story. But to do that well would require a level of finesse Marvel has never gone after. Still, could be good in the right hands.
F'real. Not unusual for Marvel to wait years between sequels, but I dunno how much I care for the practice. Still, it worked out here.
I wonder why we're not following characters as closely between solo movies. Like with Strange, it took what, five years between solo movies? But he appeared regularly elsewhere, Ragnarok and Spidey3, Avengers 3/4, What If. Characters were used enough so audiences didn't forget about them. Stuff was name dropped more, like the fall of SHIELD. And we're not getting as much of that right now. We've gotten some, Wong showing up a few times, Murdock's two cameos. Oddly I've seen posters for Rogers the musical in a few different things. Obviously a lot of folks mentioned Tony dying and/or the Battle for earth. But nobody's even mentioned there's a new Captain America, or that the king of Wakanda died shortly after returning from the Blip. Has anyone noticed people reading Ant-Man's book, because I haven't. And there's been spots in a lot of shows and films that could have worked in a reference pretty organically, without pulling attention away from anything or eating up screen time.
I feel like the MCU has reached the point where the weird and crazy has become a lot more everyday, less worthy of comment, and I appreciate that (nobody is startled by shapeshifting elves walking down the street, and gods are just a tourist attraction now). And I know there's a lot going on, and too many characters to squeeze in for cameos. It's a bigger MCU than it was in phase 2, y'know? But things feel more disjointed, which is a double edged sword. I like a good stand-alone story and felt in phase 3 that things were getting *too* tied together, and I enjoyed the more stand-alone nature of phase 4. But I think they're going a little overboard with it, or at the least, they're failing to remind audiences of the 'big' events and characters.