[ SECRET POST #5687 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5687 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care about plot points unless I care about the characters, and Marvel has shown that they don't give a fuck about the characters. That makes everything boring.

[philstar22]

I don't agree with that at all. They haven't done amazing with every character, but they have created some really amazing, interesting characters.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree on that. Like Nebula! Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is what I'm most looking forward to.

[(Anonymous)]

created? yes. resolved in a respectful and satisfying way? extremely rarely.

marvel can *write* good characters, but it doesn't care about them, and I'd prefer not to care if they're just going to keep sacrificing arcs for infinite money continuity combos, which they have no reason not to do

[(Anonymous)]

marvel can *write* good characters, but it doesn't care about them

I feel like a big part of the problem is that the caring basically ends up falling through the cracks over time. I think the writers who are responsible for writing many of these successful characters care, but there are just so many cooks in the kitchen, and often different people writing each installment, so they may care, but it's a fragmentary sort of caring that inevitably gets watered down with endless strategic and practical considerations.

The audience's natural impulse (and desire) is to care more over time. Like, caring about a character in the beginning is important, but ideally you care more about them as the story progresses, not less. Whereas, due largely to the nature of how MCU movies are generated, whatever caring the writers begin with tends to get lost to attrition over time. Not ideal.

[(Anonymous)]

That's my problem too. There's a couple of titles where I might be interested, but then it's always with the caveat of how they treat the characters. It's gotten completely unpredictable and inconsistent.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the lack of an actual planned long-term arc for most of them doesn't help. The endgame for almost all these characters is "we'll figure it out when the actor wants out of their contract" so no character can actually have a planned start middle and end to their arc, it's all spinning wheels.