What used to be Marvel’s greatest strength has become its greatest weakness. In the first years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, movies and storylines built on each other. Audiences loved that they knew the backstory for all the characters.
But now the MCU has been going for about 20 years it has built up and enormous amount of content. Enjoying a new Marvel movie now requires pre-watching several others, and probably a TV series or two. It’s gotten overwhelming for anyone but hard-core fans. One way to put it is that watching anything from Marvel requires homework.
What used to be Marvel’s greatest strength has become its greatest weakness. In the first years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, movies and storylines built on each other. Audiences loved that they knew the backstory for all the characters.
But now the MCU has been going for about 20 years it has built up and enormous amount of content. Enjoying a new Marvel movie now requires pre-watching several others, and probably a TV series or two. It’s gotten overwhelming for anyone but hard-core fans. One way to put it is that watching anything from Marvel requires homework.