I also think they really underestimate how ticked off people are that the Netflix shows got cut off so brutally.
YEAH. And I mean, I think that the actual cancellations were mostly Netflix and the shows could probably have kept going for years longer if Netflix was willing to commit. But Marvel is really twisting the knife by showing no particular signs of wanting to resurrect those shows (they're going to have the rights back in 2021 at the latest! They could already be hinting at a Defenders movie or a streaming deal if they wanted to do it!). They just don't seem to get, or care, how invested people are in individual characters in the franchise. And okay, sure, in the short term, they have no particular reason to care unless it's the parts of the franchise that are making them money. But for the long game, you don't get people to invest in new characters if you don't treat the old ones well, because no one's going to trust you! They took characters like Iron Man and Loki and Bucky, that nobody outside a small circle of comics fans really knew about or cared about, and built them up into household names. But how long is that going to keep working if they start squandering the fan goodwill that got them there?
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YEAH. And I mean, I think that the actual cancellations were mostly Netflix and the shows could probably have kept going for years longer if Netflix was willing to commit. But Marvel is really twisting the knife by showing no particular signs of wanting to resurrect those shows (they're going to have the rights back in 2021 at the latest! They could already be hinting at a Defenders movie or a streaming deal if they wanted to do it!). They just don't seem to get, or care, how invested people are in individual characters in the franchise. And okay, sure, in the short term, they have no particular reason to care unless it's the parts of the franchise that are making them money. But for the long game, you don't get people to invest in new characters if you don't treat the old ones well, because no one's going to trust you! They took characters like Iron Man and Loki and Bucky, that nobody outside a small circle of comics fans really knew about or cared about, and built them up into household names. But how long is that going to keep working if they start squandering the fan goodwill that got them there?