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@zupertramp @Pizzamorg @FuriousMachine Just to interject, I do think the large quantity of TV and movie releases have blunted my interest in the MCU. And to be fair, I feel the same about Star Wars and even the DCU, to a lesser degree. And it’s probably a combination of the all the competing properties, to be honest. There’s a large overlap in the ‘nerdverse’ of people who like Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Tolkien, and other Sci-Fi or Fantasy properties, including video games. In my opinion, the dilution of content by so many franchises and outlets has caused increasing apathy toward nearly all of them. It would have been unthinkable 10 years ago for me not to have watched a Marvel movie or a Star Wars show within the first few weeks of release. Now I am about 3 Marvel movies and 4 TV series behind and 6 Star Wars TV series behind. Same for DC — I’m making my way through The Penguin now and enjoying it, but I completely skipped the last 5-6 movies and all the other shows. The Penguin seems rather standalone so I went for it, although as it turns out, it’s fairly closely tied to The Batman, and I’m grateful I had watched that.

Anyway, I digress, but the ‘homework’ type of sentiment does resonate with me. I don’t think Marvel is as bad about it as Star Wars, and so I’ve been able to keep a better connected to the franchise because of that. But SW reliance of tying things to voluminous animated shows like Clone Wars and Rebels has crippled my ability to participate in some of the recent content. I wonder if that’s part of the reason we haven’t received a major SW movie in a long time (aside from the severe failure of Rise of Skywalker) because they have painted themselves into a corner with all the interconnected TV stuff. I guess there’s a Mandalorian movie in the works, and this will be a test of whether the IP can get back into blockbuster movie status. But first I need to to my homework since I never watched Mando season 3, because I understand I should