LogFAQs > #972658254

The problem is that they started looking a little bit too much like the comics. Now you'll be confused while watching Doctor strange 2 if all you've seen is Doctor strange 1. Movies are constantly dedicating time for their B and C list characters to show up so they can be paraded in front of the audience in the hopes that maybe people will take a liking to them. Without even having an avengers movie it somehow still ends up feeling more like a big marvel event where to get the whole story you have to read comics across five different lines.

Go back to pre-endgame and I feel like, while the properties were still part of a shared universe, they each still had their own identity and you weren't missing giant chunks of the plot if you didn't watch the other properties in the franchise.

Also, I cannot emphasize enough how important the avengers movies were towards advancing the state of the world and advancing plot lines so that the next batch of movies had fresh material to work with.