#aren’t casualties in trimming the fat

[thestarlightforge]

A really tragic (hopefully unintended) consequence of the films-side of the MCU becoming… How it’s been lately, is some of the best stories are either denigrated or relegated to the sidelines.

However: As much as we talk about superhero fatigue. Stuff like this is the A+ result of the TV side of things being allowed to continue.

Sure, a lot (if not most) of the MCU’s movies and biggest-budget TV are either predictable, or they’re character-assassinating horrific laziness. (Of course there have been beautiful, big-budget exceptions—Wakanda Forever, No Way Home, Loki, Guardians 3, arguably others—but post-Endgame, a status quo has been laid of scattershot formula being put towards no discernible editorial purpose.)

But the MCU has ballooned to a point where it almost has an indie scene within itself.

Like, yes—it’s headlined by mid-tier to painful B-movie blockbusters that choke on the television and comics legacies they came out of (e.g. Quantumania and MoM out of Young Avengers and WandaVision). And the TV shows do not get the credit or attention they deserve. But because of that, alongside the mainstream, you get projects like The Marvels and WandaVision and Ms. Marvel and What If…? that take these beautiful opportunities to EXPLORE and PLAY.

okay focusing on NATASHA when Peggy and Steve were reuniting was really a choice wasn't it