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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 332450" data-attributes="member: 5079">True, and what soured WANDAVISION for me was MoM&#039;s undoing as well.To start, I enjoyed MoM.&nbsp; It satisfied my basic requirements for a movie: I wasn&#039;t bored.&nbsp; On second viewing and after kicking it around in my head a bit, the movie more or less collapsed.I approached the introduction of the multiverse into the MCU with some wariness.&nbsp; The first film to delve into the matter was exhilarating, but the concept is already becoming exhausting.&nbsp; And this may be the primary source of my MCU burnout: the MCU has caught up to comic books.&nbsp; I abandoned comic books ages ago because I found them increasingly tedious.&nbsp; Too many characters.&nbsp; Too many alternate versions of the same characters, passing around iconic identities to random new character. Too many cameos, crossovers and events.&nbsp; The weird obsession with power levels, as if the value of characters is who&#039;s stronger.&nbsp; The muddled, sloppy morality.&nbsp; The sheer inconsequentialness of it all.&nbsp; (Character dies?&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t matter! We&#039;ll bring in one from another universe!)&nbsp; All that is pretty much the MCU at this point.I thought WANDAVISION was somewhat ruined by its manipulative morals with Wanda: she was the villain of the story but, boohoo!, feel bad for her.&nbsp;&nbsp; MoM ran wild with that.&nbsp; Wanda is now one of the most terrible villains the MCU has introduced, but the entire story is structured to make her last minute sacrifice seem noble.&nbsp; That&#039;s STAR WARS level simplistic and awful morality.&nbsp;&nbsp; (On the matter of Wanda&#039;s basic storyline here, going nuts for not having kids, I couldn&#039;t stop thinking of Pam wanting to throw herself off a building in DALLAS.)And then there&#039;s magic and how tricky it is to incorporate into a story so that it makes any sense.&nbsp; So Wanda can make body parts disappear (Black Bolt&#039;s mouth)?&nbsp; So why didn&#039;t she just make Strange&#039;s hands disappear, so he couldn&#039;t cast spells?&nbsp; Why didn&#039;t she make America&#039;s legs disappear, so she couldn&#039;t keep running?&nbsp;&nbsp; I accept narrative fiction is built on contrivance, but this is what Roger Ebert used to call an Idiot Plot: the story should have been over in 5 minutes, if every character wasn&#039;t written as being dumb.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 332450, member: 5079"] True, and what soured WANDAVISION for me was MoM's undoing as well. To start, I enjoyed MoM. It satisfied my basic requirements for a movie: I wasn't bored. On second viewing and after kicking it around in my head a bit, the movie more or less collapsed. I approached the introduction of the multiverse into the MCU with some wariness. The first film to delve into the matter was exhilarating, but the concept is already becoming exhausting. And this may be the primary source of my MCU burnout: the MCU has caught up to comic books. I abandoned comic books ages ago because I found them increasingly tedious. Too many characters. Too many alternate versions of the same characters, passing around iconic identities to random new character. Too many cameos, crossovers and events. The weird obsession with power levels, as if the value of characters is who's stronger. The muddled, sloppy morality. The sheer inconsequentialness of it all. (Character dies? Doesn't matter! We'll bring in one from another universe!) All that is pretty much the MCU at this point. I thought WANDAVISION was somewhat ruined by its manipulative morals with Wanda: she was the villain of the story but, boohoo!, feel bad for her. MoM ran wild with that. Wanda is now one of the most terrible villains the MCU has introduced, but the entire story is structured to make her last minute sacrifice seem noble. That's STAR WARS level simplistic and awful morality. (On the matter of Wanda's basic storyline here, going nuts for not having kids, I couldn't stop thinking of Pam wanting to throw herself off a building in DALLAS.) And then there's magic and how tricky it is to incorporate into a story so that it makes any sense. So Wanda can make body parts disappear (Black Bolt's mouth)? So why didn't she just make Strange's hands disappear, so he couldn't cast spells? Why didn't she make America's legs disappear, so she couldn't keep running? I accept narrative fiction is built on contrivance, but this is what Roger Ebert used to call an Idiot Plot: the story should have been over in 5 minutes, if every character wasn't written as being dumb. [/QUOTE]

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