Lord Dominator wrote:Forsher wrote:Yeah, but is Endgame actually the conclusion of a narrative arc? Not even Marvel Studios thinks that (not that FFH is either).
It’s reasonably the end of a narrative arc (calling phases 1-3 the Infinity Saga definitely is telling) and they certainly could have plausibly ended it there, so I certainly think it qualifies as the end of
a narrative arc.
The Infinity Saga is (a) just marketing bullshit and (b) actually includes Far From Home, anyway.
Half the movies have nothing to do with infinity stones, all but four have nothing to do with Thanos (and in one of those he doesn't even care about infinity stones) and there's four in universe years between GOTG Vol. 2 and Infinity War allowing everything that film left unresolved (which was quite a lot) to feel "completed" before the end of IW. Indeed, the first GOTG film flows into IW better than the second.
By what measure is the Infinity Saga a real thing? The only one that makes sense to me is the Tony Stark saga. But obviously they didn't name it that.
And setting that question to the side, what actual storylines does Endgame wrap up? The saga of Cap and Peggy? I guess, yeah. But everything else is either gives whiplash through discontinuity with the prior films (Thor) or is left opened to be followed up in another film (e.g. Tony's story actually continues in FFH, in which he's dead for the whole thing). We don't even know if 2014!Gamora is still alive... that's how un-ending Endgame is.
Actually, of the three* midquels (Vol. 2, Captain Marvel and Black Widow) it's ironically the one that wasn't released as part of the "Infinity Saga" that had its storylines appropriately concluded within the Infinity Saga.
*Yes, I know, IM 2 is meant to take place before TIH but as I said earlier in the thread, that's stupid so I discount it.