The Unfortunate Problem With Marvel TV Shows

you killed my mother my father you're slaying you're weak have you noticed how all the recent Marvel TV shows feel like they're just bad they all seem to be wandering and Meandering slogs to get through right well that might be because for the last few years the behind the scenes of Marvel television has been nothing short of a mess but hey before we get too deep into today's episode please be sure to like comment and subscribe to nostalgic for more videos just like this one for close to a decade the MCU dominated the box office and the movieo Public's Hearts then things started to falter now we're living under what feels like a near Avalanche of film and TV projects set inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe some of these stories have been great but the overwhelming majority of the post in-game Fair have been uneven to say the least the lack of quality surrounding these projects and specifically the mcu's TV shows have poured jet fuel on growing feelings of resentment and restlessness with Marvel fans uh-uh this is a mess none of these story lines make any sense so is this the end of the MCU as we know it no not in the slightest in fact Marvel brass is very aware of the fact that their strangle hold on global culture is slipping and they're making moves to restructure their TV production pipeline as we speak for a little context the Disney plus era of the MCU might as well be considered Marvel TV 2 .0 for all it bears in similarity to the original Netflix and ABC shows why is that well because Marvel television a subsidiary of Marvel Studios was literally created in 2010 to capitalize off of the success of the mainline MCU movies by ostensibly one man Ike pearlmutter Marvel television is a brand new Venture uh and something that I'm extremely excited about he pushed the creation of a TV division through over the objections of Kevin feige who was worried about this exact problem a watering down of the brand TV and film are two separate beasts and move at completely different Paces maintaining a cohesive Universe of stories where there are two different rates of churn is an almost impossible task which is why the Inhumans Agent Carter the Agents of Shield as well as the Netflix shows like Jessica Jones Daredevil and the Defenders were kind of kept off in their own little circle continuity really only flowed one way from the movies to the shows never the other way around I'm sorry this is a mistake I got to go hey where I can't be a part of this if you ask me you already are due to the resounding success of in-game fi was handed the Reigns to both the TV and film sides of the MCU this was something that initially seemed like it was for the best we would now get fully integrated TV and film characters the originally announced slate of projects included both a Scarlet Witch TV show and a falcon and Winter Soldier project they also rapidly announced that the shows would take a more extended Movie approach to story creation by building out these shows as many series as opposed to ongoing continuing narratives this seemed like a smart way to stop the scope creep that Kevin feige was originally worried about and debut with a splash bigname actors fan favorite characters and a production model that seemed both shrewd and sustainable so you're saying the universe created a sitcom starring two Avengers it's a working Theory however too much of a good thing is never good it quickly became apparent that Disney needed a constant and steady stream of MCU branded content to keep their newly debuted platform relevant during the early days of the streaming Wars this ultimately resulted in too many shows being green lit and not enough time or energy going into making sure that these projects actually could stand on their own two feet the most recent releases of the mcu's mixed track record of small Screen Adventures is the program secret Invasion which received a wildly negative response and lowkey season 2 which has been more positively received and yet the same critiques that plague many MCU shows are being proferred about both of these projects weird pacing Meandering story and a general feeling that things are either rushing to a climax or wasting time on stuff no one cares about but a waste of time in a recent article released by The Hollywood Reporter we may have gotten a reason for those stylistic inconsistencies and almost universally consistent flaws Marvel's production pipeline is drastically different from everyone else in tensel toown Marvel doesn't shoot Pilots they don't don't write show Bibles and they don't even hire showrunners they basically just left the writer room to construct the shows almost without Supervision in a traditional sense then they spent $150 million creating the shows episode by episode as if they were one extremely long film how did they fix things that weren't working you might ask highly expensive rewrites and re-shoot just like you would on a film not like TV Productions are typically handled I don't understand what's happening why it's all falling apart and why I can't fix it this method came to the for during the production of the high-profile reboot of everyone's favorite superheroic blind lawyer Daredevil born again as you'll remember the writers and the actor strike started in May and July respectively due to this work stoppage Marvel execs reviewed the footage from born again and were not pleased with what they were seeing the proposed 18 episode series was intended to be the return of Charlie Cox's beloved incarnation of the demon of Hell's Kitchen to a new plateau of Glory only according to sources in the know he literally didn't put on his costume until episode 4 supposedly the first four episodes were playing into the exact tropes of what fans were complaining about where did you come up with that original idea was that from every other superhero story this along with the internal discussions has caused Marvel to upend the way that they've been producing TV they're completely overhauling it they're abandoning everything they've shot of Born Again fired head creators Chris or and Matt Corman and are releasing the directors for the the rest of the season from their commitments from here on out they're going to be making Bibles pilots and shooting in a more traditional TV production method they're also going to be refocusing on making traditionally structured shows as opposed to minseries style shows with that in mind they brought in a new head writer and showrunner for Daredevil Dario scardapane a former journalist and former showrunner of NBC's trauma and fx's the bridge on the surface this pivot might seem like a drastic solution to a bizarrely ethereal problem and yet it's one that bodess well for the MCU maybe they can stop trying to reinvent the wheel and focus on making stories that aren't worried about filling in the gaps in between movies and instead have an actual internal narrative engine all their own sometimes it's okay to destroy something if there's a hope that you can replace that thing with something better what this signals over anything else is the fact that the people in charge of the MCU know they're slipping and they're attempting to Pivot back to what could work a audiences are tired of the high volume output the film's all feeling cookie cutter and many of the Beloved and iconic characters having been retired if Marvel were truly listening they'd say we're going to shut it down for a bit Post Secret Wars and eventually come back for more when the time is right but that won't happen there's just too much money on the line ultimately the MCU isn't going anywhere anytime soon so the important aspect of the Revelation that even they know the TV site hasn't been working is that they're committed to trying to fix things let's just hope that in frantically attempting to men things they don't make everything worse like greenlighting more moonnight hi and well that's all we have for this episode what do you think should the MCU shows be slowed down should we petition Kevin feige to include stiltman in the newly retooled born again let us know in the comments below and as always please be sure to like comment and subscribe for more n nostalgic videos just like this

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Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 22 2023