You just don’t understand the genius at work. Everyone knows that the way to make a website more appealing to advertisers is less people who can see it.

Why would the Skrulls make Hydra’s takeover less plausible? They’re not psychic, they just have unusually good disguise abilities. Fury would’ve needed to suspect Hydra’s existence before he tried using Skrulls to infiltrate them.

Also, FFS, we’re only a third of the way through the story. There’s still 3-4 hours of content that might answer whatever questions anyone might currently have.

What could Fury do? For all the resources he’s had at his disposal, he’s earthbound.

I want to trust Gunn, but have little to go on. Superman as a character is totally out of sync with his oddball Troma sensibilities.

Those are largely easter eggs, not set up. I’m not a fan of easter eggs myself, but again, the MCU is light on them and usually keeps them pretty unobtrusive. I cannot think of many examples of it being very “Wink-wink. This guy, eh? You know who he’s gonna turn out to be, right? Wink. Wink. Wiiiiiink.”, the only one…

Frankly, I think one-and-dones should be the way forward, at least for a while. Bring in top filmmakers who would usually be reluctant to work under the demands of a greater franchise, and just let them make totally standalone entries with no semblance of shared continuity, and each getting to cast their own Bond.

Dragon Age 2 is not perfect, but it’s my favourite Dragon Age. I couldn’t even finish Inquisition — it felt like a backwards step after DA2 (and oh so much busywork).

Yeah, there is a little in Age of Ultron. But I specifically didn’t say the MCU totally avoided that sort of thing, just that it’s extremely rare. And in the case of Thor’s sidequest, which is probably the worst exception in the entire series, it’s maybe 2 or 3 minutes of screentime in total, and the central focus of…

I didn’t feel the push to link it with the other movies

“I think you fall into a bit of a trap if you try and set up a first movie whilst also planning for sequels”

Tons of great movies started shooting with an unfinished script. Tons of movies that did have a complete script turned out to be shit. It’s not a particularly good indicator of final quality.

Your attempts at analysis are incredibly shallow, which shouldn’t be a surprise when elsewhere you were comparing Birds of Prey to The Suicide Squad on pure box office performance, as if there hadn’t been a pandemic between their releases (and still a major ongoing concern when the latter came out).

Numbers are also relative. Snyder took Batman, added Superman and Wonder Woman, and somehow made significantly less money than the previous two solo Batman films. And then, just a few months later, Captain America: Civil War came out, telling broadly the same story, and it too significantly outperformed Batman V Superm…

There’s such a thing as being too cute!

Birds of Prey also came out before anyone in the western hemisphere cared about COVID.

One Captain Marvel versus a space empire’s worth of Kree — as powerful as she is, that’s still gonna take time.

She’s not omnipotent and the galaxy is a big place.

Evil should be the primary value proposition. It’s miles better than any of the new Trek I could bare to put myself through. For posterity’s sake, that was two seasons of Discovery (and I can’t explain sticking it out for that long) and just half a season of Picard. I hear Strange New Worlds is better, and given Pike…

It made much less than that, $168.7m to be precise, but there are significant extenuating cicumstances (i.e. it came out before the pandemic had eased and it had a simultanous digital release). Who knows what it would’ve made if it got a normal release in a normal market.