Thanks for the correction.
I don’t think Marvel would be likely to go down that road again, either. These productions are years in the making and I’m sure they were feeling invulnerable after End Game.
It’s also telling they haven’t tried to use any of those characters elsewhere, God knows there‘s a ton of them.
I thought Love and Thunder was too discordant (Waititi lost the balance) and as a result the comedy didn’t mesh with the pathos. I thought it was satisfactory if too cute and appreciated, too, just the attempt to do something a little more personal to the filmmaker’s vision even if it didn’t wholly work. That said, I can’t bring myself to rewatch it.
I am very interested to see where they go from here because I don’t think the most common complaints (“they keep making the same movie” and “you have to have watched 30 movies and 5 TV shows to know what’s going on”) are valid. What I see is a production company intentionally trying to diversify and expand the kind of stories they want to tell and the market is punishing them for it.*
*also, they have been fucked by Disney+