What is the MCU even doing right now?
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
If you have yet to see the movie, continue at your own risk.
There is no evidence that these two things have anything to do with each other.
The MCU took over the pop culture landscape bynotdoing it this way.
Oddly, this is the same approach that DC has taken with its movieverse since the Justice League debacle.
And perhaps most bizarre of all is the way this film pretends to connect with What If…?.
Instead of an obsession with restoring his hands, he wanted nothing more than to bring Christine back.
This Stranges Christine was still alive, but shed gotten together with somebody else.
Thats as good as it gets for MCU references in this movie.
We dont get anything that matters, or anything that would move the story forward.
Its just dead-end half-references like that Captain Carter being another possible-but-not-really What If…?
cameoand smoke-and-mirrors appearances by big names.
But theres really nothing here except for that in the moment aspect.
And now theyre both dead.
So instead of character development or story movement, we just get these meaningless joke cameos.
Since no lessons were learned from WandaVision, Wanda clearly doesnt have one.
You just get the dubious satisfaction of having watched more mediocre TV shows than you probably would have otherwise.
The big question here is why.
Is it a shift in policy?
An attempt to keep things cheap by keeping the crossovers to a minimum in this phase?
A result of COVID scrambling their schedule?
Whatever it is, its extremely bizarre.
Honestly though, no excuses.
There has to be a better way than whatever this is.
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