"You know why they keep putting out woke material in franchises?"
You didn't actually answer your question. What is there to gain from it from a business or storytelling perspective? People will continue watching up to a point because they have spent years investing in the characters and will give the benefit of the doubt, up to a point. I stopped watching Game of Thrones mid-way through the last season, and will never be interested in watching anything Game of Thrones related that comes out in the future. I have never watched an episode of Star Trek discovery, past the first 30 minutes of one episode, because it sucked. I haven't seen Attack of the Cones or Revenge of the Sith to this day, because the Phantom Menace sucked and I had no further interest in the story. I also haven't seen The Last Jedi or The Rise of Sikywalker for the same reason.
I did watch both entire seasons of the Mandalorian because it had good reviews, and the first episode hooked me in, and the rest kept my interest.
Your attitude that sequels to good things can never be as good as the original is just a statement about your negative attitude. There is no reason that sequels can't be as good as or surpass their predecessors. Infinity War is a prime example of that. Everyone just takes the past successes of Marvel for granted at this point, but no one expected an Avengers sequel to be able to even match, never mind surpass the original.And it's entirely possible a subsequent MCU movie could surpass it. Difficult? yes. But I wait to actually see what is made, I don't write it off without having seen anything. However if the MCU looks like it is headed consistently in a downward trajectory, I will lose interest. If that happens because the story just burns itself out and there is nowhere left creatively to go, then I can accept that. It happens sooner or later with every franchise. But if it happens because Kevin Feige decided to become an ideological activist before a storyteller....
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alienzen (1931)
4 years ago
...then that will piss me off. Because it will be potential wasted for nothing. Those people have no real love for the stories, and when they have killed the franchise from the inside, they will just move on to the next host.
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4 years ago
And they will all eventually be gone. You're just angry because you love what you love and you have no control over what happens. Let it go. Eventually all the current people will be gone and a new group will come in. Trust me, no one saw Batman becoming good after Batman and Robin. Then came Noland. That's the funniest part about people complaining about woke crap. All you need to do is stop going. Let them ruin the franchises. It will be their undoing, not yours.
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