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Old 16-01-2021, 16:41   #24
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Re: Wandavision

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Originally Posted by General Maximus View Post
and it needs to move on toute suite. They have had 1 hour of establishing the foundations of the store which is what you get in a film and they need to move on now. If this didn't have Marvel slapped on it would people still be watching it?
Yes.

It functions perfectly well as a mystery-fantasy drama even if it wasn’t set somewhere in the MCU. The slow burn approach, drip-feeding minor clues from week to week, is well tried and tested not just in full-season network shows like Lost but also in more recent streaming material with an 8-10 week run. In fact it having “Marvel” slapped on it may be making you impatient to get on to the sort of high-kicking superhero action I strongly suspect is not going to be a major feature of this show. They’re clearly trying to use the TV format to do something a bit different. Something they wouldn’t be able to attempt in a single feature-length story (which is why I think you trying to compare the time spent on anything to what would be devoted to it in a film is redundant).
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