Phase 4 of the MCU Doesn't Feel Like It Has A Plan

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Hindsight is 20/20, as they say. It's easy to look back on a story or a franchise with a lot of fondness for the process they took because it worked out in the end. Sometimes this means that one becomes more critical of current releases because the route that it's taking seems less obvious without being able to look into the future and know how it ends. The MCU has recently entered a new era, of their universe after closing the Infinity Saga with Avengers: Endgame. Marvel is notorious for connecting most of their movies and having a plan far into the future, and they really proved that with Endgame (either that or they're really good at making it look like there was a plan the whole time).

However, the newest Phase that Marvel has entered into feels a little less coherent. It's sort of the start of a new arc for the MCU, so it could be compared to Phase 1 of the MCU in some ways, but so far it seems to be lacking the amount of concrete planning that prior phases had. A lot of the films coming out during this phase are only connected through short cameos rather than overarching story beats, and it's hard to see where any of it is going (unlike with Phase 1, which had a clear arc towards The Avengers eventually happening). Does Marvel actually have a plan for Phase 4, or are they improvising a lot more this time around?

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Obviously, it's not a totally accurate comparison to look at Phase 1 and Phase 4 side by side, since the stakes and general vibe around the MCU are so much different than they were back in the late 2000s/early 2010s when the MCU was in its infancy. The MCU generally has themselves more figured out now, but their ambitions have also gotten a lot