D.C. really put the cart before the horse with J.L. They were limping into their big team-up film on the back of one positively received movie featuring the third highest billed character and a couple of critical flops. [snip] (T)he whole exercise seemed forced from the jump and cynical even for a franchise film.

Any sources yet? I ask because I found several (and posted them here) indicating the opposite, and since you kind of implied I was a dipshit for believing the opposite of your claim, and because I cannot find evidence supporting yours, I am still genuinely interested if you could post one of the COUNTLESS examples of…

I guess Sony was somehow supposed to keep it hush-hush that they’ve been filming a spider-man movie with Tom Holland?

You are right, of course. I just wish they had shown us in-story rather than just revealed it via a trailer.

This is nothing personal, i’m sure you are a nice person, but this is a bad take.

Also relevant from that article (emphasis added):

Just doing my homework and found this more recent article that implies Spider-Man: Far From Home takes place after Infinity War and Endgame.

What I’ve read implies it happens immediately after Avengers: Endgame.Not that this is the end-all be-all or anything but the below is in line with what I’ve read previously (although this could have changed):

Too many people are involved, and too much of the industry’s machinery needs to be able to know what’s planned so that they can gear up at the appropriate time for things.

Sure, maybe it would have preserved our potential belief in the very slim possibility that, whoa, maybe they really DID kill off all those characters for good! Except we’re not naive children and we know better.

Did anybody walking out of the theater after IW really believe the snap wasn’t going to be reversed?

And that’s fine, as long as you acknowledge there are a ton of fans (who are probably fairly young) that aren’t plugged into the MCU’s release slate news.

As far as whether or not it kills any stakes, I think I disagree. [snap] What sells it is the emotion of the characters left behind; we’re devastated because Tony’sdevastated, scared because Peter’s scared. Marvel used the empathy we’ve grown for these characters over twenty movies to their advantage there more than…

The problem I have is that, assuming Black Panther and the others are alive and well, wouldn’t the Avengers be called in any time there is an issue like this?

(I seriously doubt they plan a mashup of the MCU and The Leftovers).

Movie production takes years too! Writing, script doctoring, pre-production, production, filming, editing, re-shoots, re-editing.

So you are just going to ignore how waaaaaay back in June 2017, Amy Pascal revealed that Far From Home would start just immediately after the finale of Avengers: Endgame? Where she literally said

You act as if it isn’t somewhat of a spoiler for fans to read the next GRRM books after they already know what will happen in the show, or that people aren’t incredibly annoyed it took him years longer than promised and that the books will already likely have their major arcs and outcomes revealed.

But, that’s both diff…

They’ve confirmed this literally COUNTLESS times.

Did you honestly expect characters like Black Panter and Spider-Man to stay dead?