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As I said above:

"I have seen people focusing too much on the computer saying it hasn't been backed up in 6 months, 22 days, and 4 hours. They were only gone for 6 months, as Dale says in the following episode that it's Day 189 of him living off-the-grid, making it 188 or 189 days (I'm assuming 189, since the end of Season 2, Episode 10 is evening as they drive off, with Season 3, Episode 1 opening 36 hours later and it's morning - plus it fits slightly better with the computer having not been backed up since around the time Alex was possessed) since the end of Season 2. Alex just hasn't backed it up since around the time he was possessed."

I'm OK with Inhumans being rebooted, because a) it was pretty bad and b) it doesn't unravel anything else, so long as it's a one-off. But rebooting it does vindicate the wrong people and open up an unfortunate question for everything else... again, don't really want to talk about that as a possibility.

Not sure Feige has much hair left😂, but yeah he definitely doesn't want to deal with the SUoMC.

I don't think it's too hard to explain the full merging with Netflix though. Spider-Man was just caught up with street crime and didn't realise Fisk was such a threat until he was gone, or didn't know how to deal with something in that league. Who knows, honestly you could even just not explain it. He's just been there and Spider-Man happened to not deal with him and you can fill in the blanks, the way we already do.

I have mixed feelings about the MCU and its rigid storytelling. I stand up for Marvel Studios when people say all their films are the same, they're not. But at the same time, one of my major problems with the loss of Marvel Television is that, even though Marvel Studios dabble in different genres and styles, there is definitely nonetheless a uniformity to it - a certain sheen and confines to it. Marvel Television afforded more opportunities outside of those confines. It's not about "R-rated" specifically as some people have reduced it to, it's just freedom and lack of restraint to tell stories such as Jessica Jones: Season 1. This kind of thing (not necessarily "the balls" so much as just "the freedom").

And I like how the MCU films have a certain feel to them regardless, it makes it feel like a tight construct, and for that reason I don't like the idea of Deadpool joining the MCU, because his fourth wall-breaking shatters that integrity - and I don't think his style gels with the MCU anyway. I know people argue "Well, they're all in the same universe in the comics and no one minds", but the comics aren't relying on that interconnectivity. The comics are just built with it inherent in their foundations, just the Marvel brand happening to exist in the same universe while all doing their own thing and happening to have that opportunity available to them to cross over whenever they want. But the whole thing about the MCU is that it's interconnected, it's the whole pitch that the Marvel Studios content should all be built in an intricate web. Messing with the universe in one messes with everything.

But, while I wanted more crossover, I otherwise liked the Marvel Studios/Marvel Television setup, having that tightly-woven set of Marvel Studios content with the shared style all together, and then Marvel Television being afforded the opportunities to take more risks, get darker, or lighter, whatever suited them. And the Marvel Studios content being the tent-pole big special moments of the year, and Marvel Television tiding you over between.

It's been pointed out that with Disney absorbing Fox, you might not get things like Logan again anymore. When Logan came out, a podcast I love said "Do something like that for Steve Rogers in the MCU!" and it made me think about how the way the MCU functions, that wouldn't work. The reason Logan has the freedom to do what it does is that the X-Men Universe ' s continuity is very loose. It's not tightly woven together and it's riddled with mistakes, so it gets to just do its own thing without regard for anything else. You don't have to worry when watching the rest of the films coming out after about "Well, what's the point, since we know that all the X-Men die in 2028 anyway?" because it doesn't feel like one tight timeline. But the way the MCU is, if you jumped forward in time and revealed that the world is still fine and everything decades in the future, and the Avengers are around - until a certain point where they all die, then you've just ruined everything that then comes out that's set prior. Plus at this point, taking established characters down darker/grittier routes would feel jarring.

We'll see, they seem to be saying that with Disney+ they'll get more out-there with things. I just still feel like nonetheless it will all be that Marvel Studios sheen, which is a shame to me.

As for what you say about timeline organisation, honestly, this Marvel Television thing is great for the timeline. It means there's less content coming out (even though it feels like more because they're making everything "special"), and it's all overseen by one group and certain things like the Snap don't cause timeline problems anymore. I just wish that it was Marvel Television falling under the Feige umbrella, not Marvel Television being dissolved and some of its staff taken by Feige.