The elder child of the house is making us watch every Marvel film in chronological story order.
I sortov understand the desire for this, watch a multi-threaded story on a chapter-by-chapter basis; I get that. But I’m not sure what it’s teaching us.
A partial look at the genesis of SHIELD, yes, I get that. But SHIELD isn’t a foreground device; look at SHIELD’s notable absence in the Guardians of the Galaxy series, for example.
The individual compartments of the Marvel catalogue are watchable in their distinct entries, but this viewer finds the way that they blend together is uncomfortable. For example Iron Man 2 (which, by the way, is pretty dire) concludes with the discovery of Thor’s hammer. But the next film in the chronology is Incredible Hulk. So that’s a big ‘huh?’ from me.
And the whole Guardians of the Galaxy thing (one and two) sit uncomfortably between Thor: Dark World, and Iron Man 3.
I’ll carry on enjoying the films individually, but getting them as one big knitted story? That’s a no from me.
I am so with you on this.
Thoroughly enjoy all the films individually, but as far as trying to tie them to one another, I am completely lost.
And I don’t really like the way universes have merged: pretty sure Spiderman wasn’t part of The Avengers originally. Makes it even more difficult to get my head round.
Also:
“The elder child of the house”… that’s you, isn’t it?
I feel a blogpost germinating: superheroes of our youff. Also the elder child of the house is not me. I am the youngest child in the house. Obviously.