36. "Yeah. Swing and a miss for me..." In response to In response to 35
They really broke some of the rules which have made the MCU successful with this movie. Sometimes breaking the rules works out, but sometimes it doesn't and it seems obvious in hindsight...
We talked about it a bit up above, but they introduced a bunch of characters we'd never seen before, and didn't care about, and then gave them a huge galaxy scaled sci-fi story that somehow included the creation of their team, the break up of their team, and their reunion.
GOTG introduced characters with galactic scale sci-fi, but what made it work was that it somehow still felt grounded in terms of a team-driven story. Also, the impact of Eternals happening on Earth somehow made it seem overwhelming within the MCU - like we've already seen so much happen on Earth, and now the entire planet is about to be destroyed by the birth of a Celestial? But gets saved by characters we just met? With no connections there to the superheroes we already know on Earth? That's a lot to take in.
I really wish it had been done as a 6-8 episode Disney+ series, to give time to get to know the characters but individually and as a team.