[ SECRET POST #6257 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6257 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Unexpected Star - Michael McIntyre's Big Show]



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Comments

[sparklywalls]

For me it's not so much the formula, which can still be fun if you go into something knowing this is what you're going to get but you just want to enjoy yourself for two-three hours...it's how they're having to underpin the formula to keep trying to make it work in a way that keeps you coming back.

If you keep having to make the bad guy even bigger and badder, more universe ending etc, you then have to overpower the heroes a little bit more so that it's a fair fight, and eventually you run into "well why didn't Y character show up earlier" and "hey, if X character always had the capability of learning to do that, why didn't they do it sooner?" I know you can sorta handwave some of this with plot conveniences that explain why something didn't happen before that point but I think the general tolerance of the audience is waning on that too.

It's sort of like, as much as it annoyed me I understand why they hedged their bets with magic in the MCU for so long in Phase 1-2 because now we're at the tipping point where some magic wielders are virtually unbeatable unless they remove themselves from the equation e.g. Wanda.

It's funny how comic book films have engineered themselves into the inescapable Complaints Department of actual comic books too. Sort of like...finally we're getting the FULL comic book experience in live action!

I feel the end of season episodes of post-2005 Doctor Who have a similar problem with perpetually upping the peril fwiw. Except for in that case we just seem to get The Doctor Vs Daleks Vs Whoever and "the Earth/Galifrey/another planet/a galaxy/the entire universe/all of reality is doomed" on a loop.