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Well put. Thor Ragnarok had elements of Walt Simonson's run as well as Planet Hulk. Captain America and Iron Man had their origin stories ripped straight from the comics (Avengers #4 and Tales of Suspense #39). Daredevil's first season is basically Frank Miller's The Man Without Fear in live action.
Whenever studios start thinking they know better than the source material, that's when disaster strikes. Stick to the source material.
Well put. This is the same reason that Disney is messing up Star Wars.
Disney's whole stock in trade is telling happily-ever-after fairy tales, and that's not what Marvel is.
Marvel is not a happily-ever-after fairy tale. The Coming of Galactus, the Death of Gwen Stacy, Days of Future Past, the Surtur Saga, and Frank Miller's Daredevil are not happily-ever-after fairy tales. That's not what Marvel is. Same thing goes for Star Wars.
Marvel and Star Wars are both mythology-based products with morality based storytelling revolving around good versus evil.
You don't put the company that specializes in happily-ever-after fairy tales in charge of a legacy based product that that draws it's influence from mythology, spirituality, and lore that spans back thousands of years and is able to resonate across all cultures and generations.
Meanwhile, you have Disney totally character assassinating Luke Skywalker while making Anakin's sacrifice and redemption pointless by bringing Palpatine back to life.
This clip here highlights the brilliance of Star Wars. George Lucas was able to take all of this mythology and all of these archetypes and distill it down in a manner that resonates across all cultures so universally that even a dog is able to understand it. A dog is able to understand the draw of a character like Darth Vader, but the people who made the Star Wars sequel trilogy couldn't.
Today's writers want to take thousands of years worth of universally resonant themes and throw it all away because they think they know better.
They think they're too smart to tell a good versus evil story.
... and that lets you know exactly which side of the conflict they're on.
Disney has a track record of not understanding the franchises of what they buy and instead choosing to treat them like home grown properties which leads to a lot of issues. Also, when you have someone like Kathleen Kennedy who didn’t understand Star Wars and was basically checked by George Lucas in an interview about what Star Wars decided to take it in a direction that ultimately killed the brand under the guise of making it modern because it was outdated leading to the character assassination of Luke and the erasure of his legacy it turns off a lot of people attached to the franchise and made it what it was. You also have writers who are actively antagonistic to the fan base which is also the consumer base about their connection to franchise and feel entitled to their money not realizing that is not how this works. Also, you have the full embrace of post-modernism that argues that good and evil are overtly simplistic concepts and that it is all about perspectives which makes it harder for some people to write a straight up good vs evil story