I’ll warn you that I might be playing with words here.

The MCU is not “thriving like it used to”. But I still think it is thriving.

To use an arbitrary percentage, it’s like Phase 3 was 90% (my view of the public view) and Phase 4 was 70% (my view of the public view).

70% is still pretty good.

And I did like all the shows. I’ll gladly rewatch them (yes, even Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which I got tired from after watching it 5 times in one year, don’t ask).

And I never lumped the “anti-woke mob” with people like you.

And yes, it’s probably true Marvel doesn’t plan stuff. But if the illusion works, and I think it’s working, it’s probably fine.

And Marvel probably is learning how to make TV, but I still liked their earlier shows nonetheless (Secret Invasion’s finale could’ve been longer so we could see Gi’ah and Gravik use more powers, but it was still a good episode).

And I have already solved almost every plothole in both shows. I don’t know why you think those solutions don’t work.

Really the whole critique equaling satire is also a light defense that has tainted it's credibility massively. Which is going to be a problem for more than just the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It just is very evident for them specifically.

Yeah, it was a fixture with the intros to adjust matters briefly in Secret Invasion in terms of time. (even if being the only intro that I skipped cause c'mon. Even if it wasn't A.I, it's ugly and generic)

And in terms of the overall format of length and content, it is hopefully improving as matters go on. They confirmed more specials and different styles and lengths for Wonder Man, Daredevil, etc.

Oh yeah, it isn't all of them and the defense is going to a lot of last minute plots of shorter shows, films that therefore have to connect to them not as well. Stuff that legitimately could improve and the defense to the MCU isn't helping per say.

Personally liked Hawkeye, She-Hulk, and Moon Knight. (mainly for the former as the last two was more for the character's great introduction) However yeah, second seasons for each would be great to elaborate on matters of their personal arcs. Especially for the example noted of Ms. Marvel who in both comics and here is more in her own world of stories and just making her be introduced in six stories to be Carol's sidekick is slightly unfair.

Quantamania is actually in my top 10 MCU projects honestly…😅

@Psychomagalor1 Finally a guy who agrees with me!

Once again liking our own comments aren't we?

It is barely thriving. Its old reputation is helping it. Nah nah nah.

You can't use an arbitrary percentage to support your bias and claim it is the truth. be real man.

I know you liked the shows. I think everyone here knows you liked those shows.

"And I never lumped the “anti-woke mob” with people like you." What does this even mean?

It is a problem when they are just improvising. That just damages the brand.

Secret Invasion finale is terrible.

Your solutions are not at all good. There are not solution to the plotholes in SI. Gravik orders Raava to order Varra to kill Fury. When Varra doesn't kill Fury, Gravik gets mad and sends people to kill Varra. Now it turns out Gravik doesn't want Fury dead because he has the location to the harvest... Then why did you order a hit on him in the first place? Also, G'iah reads Rosa Dalton's memories to operate the Super Skrull machine, when it was Skrull Rosa Dalton who built the machine and knows how to operate it (she just used Rosa's scientific knowledge to merge DNA, not how to operate the machine). In episode 3, we have this unexaplined thread between Zacharias and Skrull Robert. Apparently this Skrull Robert actually cares about the son of the person he is replacing? Then why are you trying to start a nuclear holocaust that will literally have him killed. The show is a mess, and you know why? Because it went under three different Head Writer's visions during production, so it became a terrible mix of different ideas and structure. That is why episode 1-2, 3-5 and 6 on its own feel like three different shows all along.

@Superbattleshipyamato "The thing is, Marvel almost has always had multiple producers separately see projects from start to finish. Remember Jeph Loeb?"

The fact that you can't see the difference between the Marvel TV era being under a separate leadership, and the current Marvel studios era operating under a new leadership with several producers handling several projects because Feige is too busy to do it on his own is proof that you don't understand what you are talking about.

@Marvelus You said that the defense of the MCU often lumps those hating on “M-She-U” with legitimate criticisms. Which I have never done (and if it seems I have, I am more than willing to clarify).

”Then why did you order to hit on him in the first place”. Change of plans. Fury only needed to die if the President needed to die.

I’ll admit you got me there with the “Skrull Robert” thing. I’ll ponder it.

Yeah, there's apparently four hours of an entire other plot that was planned. Which is just plain weird for a show like this. Especially when that's close to all of it's runtime.

@Marvelus To me the difference just seems more of how it’s structured legally than anything practical.

Well yeah, my arbitrary percentages aren’t the truth. I should’ve added “my view of the public view”.

@Superbattleshipyamato There are no logic in the change of plans man... It is just poor writing. The hit on the president failed yes, but Gravik was already looking for the harvest, that is something teased since episode 2 (iirc) so it is something he had always planned. Without the harvest, Gravik knew he would lose to the Avengers, so he needed the harvest to win in the long term, and that is something the show was trying to explain, but they inserted that non sense thread where Gravik ordered Fury's death.