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shadowsword87 posted...

It's god damn wild that it's that far and that much goodwill has been juiced.

I mean, I've been reading comic books since I was 7 and I don't think I've ever missed a single comic book movie ever (no matter how bad) prior to 2020. I mean, I watched 80s Punisher and Captain America for fuck's sake. And I'm one of the handful of people who actually liked Green Lantern. And Superman 3. My standards aren't that high.

But I honestly have no interest in any of the Disney+ shows, and no real intention of watching any of the new MCU movies. For me, the franchise ended with Phase 3 (with Far From Home and No Way Home being the only post Endgame movies I've bothered with).

If you'd told me 10 years ago that they'd be releasing Marvel movies that I had no interest in seeing, I'd have thought you were insane. Especially if you told me I'd be skipping Doctor Strange 2 and Guardians 3. But that's where we are now.

And it's not even "Oh, you're older now so you've outgrown it" or "Well, your tastes have just changed, that's all". I was literally rereading old comics about a day ago, and I was absolutely hyped when they announced they were coming out with an Avengers game (until it turned out to be absolute shit). I was even interested in the idea of Midnight Suns (until it turned out to be a shitty card-based X-Com clone).

The part of me that loves comics and wants to love comics is still in there. They've just done such a catastrophically bad job that that part of me can't even rationalize the new stuff being worth it.

It's pretty much how I feel about most of my childhood nerd love intellectual properties though. LotR? They ruined that. Doctor Who? Ruined that. Star Wars, Marvel, DC... pretty much ruined as well. Tabletop RPGs? Mostly shit these days.

About the only thing left that I loved as a kid that they haven't managed to ruin somehow is the concept of Choose Your Own Adventure. And I'm sure someone somewhere is trying to figure out a way to ruin that too.