One of the things making it hard to suspend disbelief and feel like the Marvel "universe" is real is how they handled The Snap and people coming back after The Snap.
The disappearance of a randomly selected 50% of the population would be a catastrophe on a gigantic scale.
Then having that 50% suddenly reappear, unaware that any time has passed, and presumably believing they own houses and other things that have since been claimed/redistributed, AND there's a sudden need to again feed four billion more people. Like, can you imagine the run on the grocery store when your town's population doubles on size instantaneously?
I'm not actually interested in exploring that as story material, so I'm not saying I would have liked it to be a main focus, but if the producers decided to make that event happen, then the movies and shows that take place after that event need to *feel* like that event has taken place.
If that's not the type of story or tone they wanted, they should have chosen a different plot.
It's frustrating & obnoxious to be asked to believe in and care about a world in which there are clearly no stakes.
@artemis they did try to address it for a while after Endgame.
@Tim_Eagon @artemis it's a primary theme of Falcon for example
@bedirthan @Tim_Eagon
I have to admit to not watching that show, but I think that's really the problem. You can't just make it a theme in a couple places and then basically ignore it otherwise.
It gets mentioned a few times here or there, but for the most part, all of the existing power structures at least in Europe and North America seem not really to have changed at all.
@bedirthan @Tim_Eagon
And to be clear, I don't really *want* all this shit to be covered...I don't necessarily think that Marvel has much that would be interesting to do with it.
It's just frustrating as a viewer if I'm being asked to more or less take this series of events seriously and to believe that this is a cohesive whole where the events that happen in each individual story are supposed to have an impact on the shared world.
@artemis @bedirthan TBF, the Snap/Blip would be the most important event in human history; by rights, it should dominate everything afterwards, which would conflict w/ any other stories that Marvel wanted to tell. I think they should've explored it more, but it's aftermath was examined in TFatWS, WandaVision, No Way Home, Hawkeye, Shang-Chi, The Eternals, and Doctor Strange 2. Who knows when they'll return to it; it looks like Brave New World is finally going to address events from The Eternals.