• Untraditional Storytelling ~~~~ Not bout what, but how, in the same way that filmmakers praise Jaws or Star Wars, there is praise for

  • Episodic storytelling the mcu in its innovations and/or popularizations of these ways to tell stories

  • Multimedia storytelling

  • Post Credit Scene

• Adaptation ~~ What is the story

  • Conflation

• Abstract Narrative Devices, Deus Ex Machina ~~~ What does this story allow them to do narrative-wise

• Expectation and Demand ~~~ Relationship between audience and creator

• To Not Expect the Expected

• Perpetually delayed gratification

• Audience Want

  • Natural patterns, natural cohesion, continuity

• Nostalgia

• Contractual Hardships

• Recontextualization vs Retroactive Continuity

Criticisms

• Film/Cinema

• Market Stronghold/Disney

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Since the beginning, a core underlying message of the MCU has been "This isn't about you." It's not about the individual, the singular. It's about the bigger picture. Dr Strange/Ancient One. Fury and Iron Man.

This isn't cinema, this is a new media experience. You can't fairly compare the MCU to traditional films just as you can't compare traditional films to theatrical stage productions. The scope of the screen/camera is different. Multiple cameras to get a picture.