What the hell are you up to?
Iron Man 3 was the official beginning of your now-famous 'Phase 2' set of films.
You remember Iron Man 3, where you took away Tony's armor...
...his house...
...let's not forget his chest RT...
...and sucker-punched the entire world.
Oh sure. You tried to make up for that with the All Hail the King One-Shot...
...and left us with yet another cliff-hanger.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
And don't for a minute think I didn't notice the "Tony Stark will Return" bit at the end.
Not "Iron Man will Return"...
"Tony Stark will Return".
Then you gave us Thor: The Dark World,
where we discovered another Infinity Stone...
...at the end of the film!
And what else happened?
Oh yeah -
Thor's mother was killed...
...Thor's father was killed?...captured?...what?...
...and Thor's brother, believed (by Thor) to be dead, was in fact pretending to be Thor's father.
Uh HUH!
Now there's Captain America: The Winter Soldier...
...where we learn S.H.I.E.L.D. is a joke...
...S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are a joke...
...bad guys go around Washington D. freakin' C. shooting people, places and things...
...and aren't even stopped never mind caught...
...and things go freakin' MISSING!!!
Now, according to many sites - including your own - there's only one more movie before Avengers 2:
It looks fantastic, and even has humor in it.
But I'm willing to bet the house that this film will end on a downer too.
This makes me angry.
In truth, there's only one thing I can really blame all of this on:
Mrs. Adorkification explained it to me like this:
"The heroes have to face adversity before they can win."
She's right.
I know she's right.
But there's a problem.
Yes. In cinema, the second act is always where the main character(s) face,
and lose to,
the challenge they eventually overcome in Act Three.
I understand this. Don't like it mind you, but I get it.
Here's the thing -
Act Three usually happens in the last 20+ minutes of the film!
Granted, Empire is one long Act Two where bad things happen to good people.
Said bad things don't get resolved until Act Three... three years later.
But let's take a closer look at that most famous of Act Twos.
Threepio gets blown to bits...
...but gets fixed.
Luke loses his hand...
...and gets a new one.
The Rebellion loses the Battle of Hoth...
...but remains strong enough to have several ships full of people traveling together.
Han gets frozen in carbonite and taken by Boba Fett...
...but we know he's still alive!
And Yoda, who isn't able to complete Luke's Jedi training,
lets it slip that Luke isn't the Jedi's only hope.
"There is another..."
All of this - by the way- happen in the damn film!
So even though this Act Two is most certainly a "downer"...
...it shows HOPE!
Okay Marvel Studios...show me the hope.
Is that it?
Really.
After what I've seen so far, you're expecting me to believe that A2 will be uplifting in any way?
I call bulls#!t.
I call bulls#!t on that right now.
And again. I get where you're going.
I understand the thought processes behind your actions and see the direction you're taking.
But it's still wrong.
Not the what.
Not the where.
Not even the why.
It's the how.
From what I'm seeing, I'm going to have to deal with two more films...
...and another fifteen months...
...before I see any chance of heroes kicking villain ass and taking names.
Oh, that?
You mean the show that's been highly anticipated...
...became somewhat dull...
...started hinting at greatness...
...only to put the characters (and us) through week after week of hellish depression...
...until the season finale, where Coulson will (most likely) finally meet up with Fury...
...and nothing else will happen.
Except that all the HYDRA agents will use all their newly acquired tech to chase what few good guys are left all over the world...
...oh, and Coulson will finally learn that Ward is a bastard.
The problem here is cliffhangers.
You've got too many of them.
I don't hate cliffhangers.
In fact I respect them a great deal.
But they are exhausting.
Especially when there's more and more of them everywhere I turn.
Not one resolution, not a single plot tied-up.
Not one damn iota of hope.
Maybe Game of Thrones is partly to blame.
You're looking for a level of audience reaction on a par with Red Wedding.
Okay, but the only ones truly surprised by that...never read the books.
The show isn't reinventing the wheel, it's just telling the same story through a different medium.
You guys are telling stories...
...different from the source material.
And that's fine.
But you have to give your audience more than anger, frustration and hatred if you want them...
...us...
...to continue spending our hard earned cash on your products.
You're alienating me.
Stop it.
Bring back the hope, before it's too late.
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