And like I said, they're clearly pulling back and recalibrating. People pronouncing this 'The death of Marvel' are speaking way too son, I think.
Speaking too late, arguably. As BRTD noted, every project since Endgame has been inextricably linked with the litany of Marvel made streaming shows; especially for the big crossover stuff now you need to follow like 4-5 seasons of televisions per year, plus four films each year. Pre-endgame it was two, sometimes three movies a year and that was it, and you could skip a lot of those. Even to watch this movie (which is not one of the big Avengers crossovers) now requires (probably) having watched the Captain Marvel film five years back, then to have watched the recent TV shows. It’s a fairly heavy prerequisite filing.
Sure, any proclamation of “death” is probably premature given Disney has unlimited money to try to keep it alive, but it’s certainly been set on the path to irrelevance for the past three to four years and the only thing that would change that would be a substantial rethinking of the business model they’ve invested into for the rest of this decade.
