Read the THR article. Bottom line seems to be, they should have treated their writers with a lot more respect. Maybe in a two-hour, three-act movie, one can get away with outlining a story, planning the action sequences, and then writing a script to get from beat to beat, but when dealing with even a six-episode series, and five hours of screen time, the writing has to be on point.
I don't necessarily mind Marvel Studios making limited/miniseries as opposed to multi-season shows. In theory, as long as the quality is there, the audience should be happy with whatever. But it does seem that if they decide to do a miniseries, there should be a strong reason to make it close-ended, and there should be a clear, dramatic conclusion. Covid difficulties aside, WandaVision should have ended with Wanda as a clear villain, to properly set up Multiverse of Madness. Falcon/Winter Soldier should have ended with Sam either battling and defeating Walker, or Walker ending up a major villain to be faced again in Brave New World. The show should also have given audiences a clear update on Old Steve: he's either passed away since Endgame, or Sam and Bucky are still secretly in touch with him. (A Old Steve appearance, maybe even featuring a meeting with Isiah, would have been even better, but there should at least have been a clear update.)
And Secret Invasion should have been a movie, because doing such a story without the main actors was always doomed to fail:
It was fine for Hawkeye to have a lower-stakes story, but it probably should have come out the Christmas before Kate's big-screen debut to maximize hype, and Ms. Marvel should also have come out closer to The Marvels. Otherwise, movie-only audiences may feel annoyed that they either have to do "homework" or miss crucial info re: the characters they're paying to go see, and audiences who watch the shows may figure that they might as well wait for the movies to come to streaming, since they already associate the characters with the small screen, and the long gaps between movie/show appearances mean they don't feel a sense of urgency to catch the next chapter.
As Screen Crush recently pointed out, the gold standard for movie/TV synergy remains The Winter Soldier and Agents of SHIELD S1, where, in a matter of days, Agent Sitwell walked off a TV scene, appeared (and died!) on the big screen, and the events of the movie permanently changed the very premise of the series. While the production scheduling excuse given for featuring so little movie/series interaction from then on was mostly credible, it should be far easier to coordinate said interaction now that Disney+ can premiere content whenever they like. (Granted, the need for content on the fledgling service at height of the pandemic was a big exception to this.)
Not that every D+ series needs to directly impact/interact with the movies. Agatha and Daredevil can do their own thing. (She-Hulk... is a bit more debatable.) But when they do share major characters, it should be both timely and important.
I don't necessarily mind Marvel Studios making limited/miniseries as opposed to multi-season shows. In theory, as long as the quality is there, the audience should be happy with whatever. But it does seem that if they decide to do a miniseries, there should be a strong reason to make it close-ended, and there should be a clear, dramatic conclusion. Covid difficulties aside, WandaVision should have ended with Wanda as a clear villain, to properly set up Multiverse of Madness. Falcon/Winter Soldier should have ended with Sam either battling and defeating Walker, or Walker ending up a major villain to be faced again in Brave New World. The show should also have given audiences a clear update on Old Steve: he's either passed away since Endgame, or Sam and Bucky are still secretly in touch with him. (A Old Steve appearance, maybe even featuring a meeting with Isiah, would have been even better, but there should at least have been a clear update.)
And Secret Invasion should have been a movie, because doing such a story without the main actors was always doomed to fail:
It was fine for Hawkeye to have a lower-stakes story, but it probably should have come out the Christmas before Kate's big-screen debut to maximize hype, and Ms. Marvel should also have come out closer to The Marvels. Otherwise, movie-only audiences may feel annoyed that they either have to do "homework" or miss crucial info re: the characters they're paying to go see, and audiences who watch the shows may figure that they might as well wait for the movies to come to streaming, since they already associate the characters with the small screen, and the long gaps between movie/show appearances mean they don't feel a sense of urgency to catch the next chapter.
As Screen Crush recently pointed out, the gold standard for movie/TV synergy remains The Winter Soldier and Agents of SHIELD S1, where, in a matter of days, Agent Sitwell walked off a TV scene, appeared (and died!) on the big screen, and the events of the movie permanently changed the very premise of the series. While the production scheduling excuse given for featuring so little movie/series interaction from then on was mostly credible, it should be far easier to coordinate said interaction now that Disney+ can premiere content whenever they like. (Granted, the need for content on the fledgling service at height of the pandemic was a big exception to this.)
Not that every D+ series needs to directly impact/interact with the movies. Agatha and Daredevil can do their own thing. (She-Hulk... is a bit more debatable.) But when they do share major characters, it should be both timely and important.
