She was too old for him to be interested.

Yeah, this smacks of starting with an argument and reverse engineering evidence. “Well, I’m sick of this multiverse stuff and, uh, the underperformance of The Eternals proves that everyone else is sick of it too!”

“If you ignore everything about it that is good, then it becomes obvious that it sucks."

I didn’t even knew this show existed. 

How bout Young 30 Rock?

Great name though. Like Obama, but “bomb ya(you)”. Really sharp, current stuff.

THANK YOU. Was thinking this myself for the longest time. Back in the day, the only perma-death in comics that I recall was Gwen Stacy, and, well, even that was un-done, sorta.

A lot of bad faith arguments in this article, for sure. But the most egregious is the classic: “death not being permanent makes storytelling weightless and impossible.” That’s just comics, full stop. And they’ve been doing it for literally several decades.

Even the blip “deaths” had a lot of emotional weight for me, because I saw them through the eyes of the characters witnessing them. Obviously we know that they’re coming back, but they don’t know that, so I can feel their horror at the proceedings. This even carried through past Endgame, for flashbacks like Yelena’s…

You have to admit, there is a certain tingle that fans feel when they see a crossover happen. I can remember it back when the Six Million Dollar Man showed up on the Bionic Woman and vice versa, or when Scooby Doo met Speed Buggy (yeah, I’m old). Nowadays, after you-know-MCwho made it a desired standard, it’s…

Exactly. The biggest movie currently in theaters is a movie about the multiverse that is a sequel to another wildly successful movie about the multiverse that, by the way, won the Oscar for Best Animated Picture. Oh, and last year’s Oscar-winner for Best Picture was yet another wildly successful picture about a…

Not to sound pedantic, but this article conflates causation and correlation.

Eternals’ audience score was 77 percent. Ant-Man 3's was 83 percent. Dr. Strange 2 - the one this guy says most viewers hate, is 85 percent.

This really boils down to critics lashing out to find relevance when franchises no longer need or want their input.

Also, just ONCE, I wish people would remember the fucking…

Man is this ever some disingenuous trash. Cherry picking examples and all. I think my favorite part is this:

Funny how they don’t mention Loki, which many regard as the best Marvel TV show, and embraced the multiverse more than anything else they’ve done. It seems like the Doctor Strange and Ant-Man movies just weren’t very good regardless of their multiverse content.

This article seems to be bending over backwards to explain why its premise isn’t totally undermined by the massive success of Spiderverse. But then the MCU examples given don’t make much sense either. Ant Man 3 has very little multiverse shenanigans, and Eternals had none. On the other hand, Spider-Man No Way Home and…

You’re lucky I’m old enough to get that reference! :)

I’m still hoping for the little known, but legendary in some circles, sequel script Doctor Detroit and the Multiverse of Mom to be dusted off and finally produced.

Doctor Doom And The Multiverse Of Madness (Marvel)