12-04-2023, 08:45 PM
Its looking more and more like they are moving away from Kang. I think that's a mistake, regardless of Major's status. He's a character with variants. You could easily recast him. Aside from that, I think they were in the process of doing things "right" this time around, even if the critical public couldn't see it. Everybody loved how the Thanos stuff turned out, but people forget that it was set up almost completely off screen or in mid/end credit clips. With Kang we were getting a ton of screen time. Even if you didn't like the variants we'd seen so far, you were always going to get many more, perhaps increasingly more interesting, frightening and competent ones. Its almost better that you didn't find yourself loving the first few variants. You have to build up to something. While people thought that the most recent "phases" of the MCU seemed disjointed, I still believe there was a plan and that it was all going to make sense by the end. I suspect that a number of the shows and movies were not even in the main universe at all.