She-Hulk – A deeply different experiment that attempted to channel the playfulness and goofiness of She-Hulk in the comics, but was lambasted by Very Angry Men who did not like its feminist messaging or comic-like asides like She-Hulk twerking (in the comics, She-Hulk famously jump-roped naked in one sequence). The television streaming era for Marvel has been absolutely all over the place in terms of the both the qualities of the shows, but also how they’re handled heading into the future: 3, but now Marvel has lost James Gunn who has gone over to run DC, which is not great for them. The best Marvel movie in this recent era has been Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. But also what should have been surefire hits like Thor: Love and Thunder and Multiverse of Madness were not. Marvel has released some truly bad movies as of late, the most obvious one being Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which was a very long introduction for Kang, the new supervillain who is very much Not Thanos and is very much in limbo with his actor facing assault charges and other accusations. What used to be a must-see slate of films and hype-creating shows has become a slog, an attempt to recreate the magic that led up to Avengers Endgame, which they’ll never be able to do. Marvel feels like it’s in the worse spot. Everything else does not especially fit together, but it feels like people are having fun with what they have to work with, at least, rather than feeding everything into some shared universe gluttonous machine like Marvel. I’d consider The Rise of Skywalker, The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi to be the only genuinely bad things from the new era (even Solo is better than people say). Still, I think there are relatively few total misses in Star Wars. Ahsoka has been okay, but without 11 seasons of connection with these characters, new audiences may be lost. The Mandalorian has outlived his usefulness, causing those making the show to say that oh it doesn’t have to be about him as the Mandalorian, but any Mandalorian, indicating where that series may be headed.
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