My biggest issue with the MCU as a whole is scale creep. The stakes don’t always have to be larger than last time. When the scope becomes so vast that our place in it becomes lost, the catastrophe you’re trying to avert stops being a tragedy and starts being a statistic, and then an abstraction. Big enough stakes are no stakes.
And ffs, can we do something other than sky beams opening portals? These stories ride on the personalities of the characters and how they react to different situations. Not the same situation in a different shade of purple this time.
That was one of the things that made Guardians of the Galaxy 3 interesting.
The stakes were so low! Would it have changed anything on a galactic scale if Rocket had been claimed by the High Evolutionary? No, not really. It would have sucked for everyone personally involved, but Knowhere would have kept rolling on…
I though the movie was fun.
My biggest issue with the MCU as a whole is scale creep. The stakes don’t always have to be larger than last time. When the scope becomes so vast that our place in it becomes lost, the catastrophe you’re trying to avert stops being a tragedy and starts being a statistic, and then an abstraction. Big enough stakes are no stakes.
And ffs, can we do something other than sky beams opening portals? These stories ride on the personalities of the characters and how they react to different situations. Not the same situation in a different shade of purple this time.
That was one of the things that made Guardians of the Galaxy 3 interesting.
The stakes were so low! Would it have changed anything on a galactic scale if Rocket had been claimed by the High Evolutionary? No, not really. It would have sucked for everyone personally involved, but Knowhere would have kept rolling on…
Same with Captain America: Civil War. Dude just wanted to break up the Avengers, not destroy the world/solar system/galaxy/universe.