YES, THIS. I hadn't really realized, I think, how much of my current feelings of Marvel ennui are because of Endgame, because it's not specifically a feeling of being sad, but - yes! That! The feels you get from a big apocalyptic finale movie are NOT "let's rush out and watch a bunch more movies in the franchise" type of feels. It's "well, okay, that's over now, I need to let my emotions settle and grieve and move on" feels.
It kinda makes me think about the way I felt after watching the Firefly movie back in *mumble mumble*. I had been really crushed about the cancellation and was really delighted to get more, and then I turned to my husband as we walked out of the theater and said, "Okay, I enjoyed that a lot, but I'm done with Firefly now." And this is a really similar feeling for me. Endgame gave me a whole lot of feels, none of which were "I want to keep watching more movies with these characters" kind of feels. It was more like "Okay, that was apocalyptic and now I need to deal with it." I don't want anything new right now. I'm going to need YEARS to process that and deal with it.
But at the same time, now I'm looking at the future MCU movies going...okay, are YOU going to go that way too? Whereas I could watch Avengers 1 in 2012 and be basically assured that I'll leave it having had a good time, there's no such guarantee anymore and IDK.
YES. THIS TOO. Especially since EG took a lot of things I'd really loved and made them retroactively sad! (Basically ... all of them, actually. Except maybe BP - at least they're all ALIVE.) I don't want to invest the same way in anything new in the MCU, knowing it's likely to end in a big depressing crossover ~event~.
Re: (We talked about it before, but...)
It kinda makes me think about the way I felt after watching the Firefly movie back in *mumble mumble*. I had been really crushed about the cancellation and was really delighted to get more, and then I turned to my husband as we walked out of the theater and said, "Okay, I enjoyed that a lot, but I'm done with Firefly now." And this is a really similar feeling for me. Endgame gave me a whole lot of feels, none of which were "I want to keep watching more movies with these characters" kind of feels. It was more like "Okay, that was apocalyptic and now I need to deal with it." I don't want anything new right now. I'm going to need YEARS to process that and deal with it.
But at the same time, now I'm looking at the future MCU movies going...okay, are YOU going to go that way too? Whereas I could watch Avengers 1 in 2012 and be basically assured that I'll leave it having had a good time, there's no such guarantee anymore and IDK.
YES. THIS TOO. Especially since EG took a lot of things I'd really loved and made them retroactively sad! (Basically ... all of them, actually. Except maybe BP - at least they're all ALIVE.) I don't want to invest the same way in anything new in the MCU, knowing it's likely to end in a big depressing crossover ~event~.