Life is a contradiction, a series of meetings and partings (as Dickens once put it) that both find conclusions and simultaneously never ends.
For that reason, one of the functions of storytelling is to serve as a salve for humanity’s endless struggle with time; unlike existence, stories can find resolution, allowing for understanding and acceptance to be more easily reached.The Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise experiment that’s been running for the past decade and change boldly presented a kind of resolution in the form of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” a movie that felt properly climactic.
Yet the stories of so many characters that feature in it were never intended to end there, and as the MCU has moved into its fourth “phase” comprised of both feature films and TV shows, the onscreen Marvel world has struggled with finding a new path forward.
Yes, new characters such as Shang-Chi and the Eternals have been introduced,
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