Originally Posted by
Nomads1
So, the fact that I don't like the current direction of the MCU, that I find it boring, unimmaginative and formulaiac, hads suddenly become about the fact that I'm automatically against diversity? I see.
Well, to answer a poster about him not seeing the current productions being political, don't get me wrong, movies, comics, pop culture in general, has always been political. Marvel, especially, always had quite a left-wing view most of the time (nowadays,with cancel culture at full throtle, it's hard to imagine a part of the industry which does not). As a non-American, I could not help but feel bothered when the action movies of ther 80's and 90's always used to picture anyone south of the border as a barely literate tribe of Cuban-inspired revolutionaries, who always lost easily to the mighty freedom-loving Americans (Hollywood's view of world politics has always been appalling, to say the least). In the same way, I don't appreciate the current trend to bash all of America's accomplishments as result of oppression of women, other etnicies and it being just a WASP paradise. It's an equally simple-minded view of things, and, likewise, it's America's problems. Keep it to yourself. The world has enough problems that don't limit themselves to this. My point is, politics has always been inserted in pop culture, it just seems to me that, in recent years, they have crossed the line and have become TOO heavy-handed (so much so that the politics, the agenda, no longer serve to enrich the story, it has BECOME the story, the story must bow itself to the dictates of the agenda. That's not entretainment. It's propaganda. Political propaganda). So much to the point that, even in a comics forum, you have to thread very carefully as to not have everything, even your personal tastes, become a political discussion. Just because you happen to agree with the politics being inserted in the movies and comics, it's not fair to say it doesn't exist.
That's all I'll say on the subject, and I would rather stick to what I proposed in the OP, different paths that the MCU could have taken with phase 4. Other then mine, I didn't see many people come up with their own ideas.
As always,
Peace