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   Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:09:57 JST Artemis

   You know, it would have been nice if a proper setup for Anthony Mackie's Captain America had happened in the Captain America films and not in one of the many extra-homework Marvel shows.

   Tbh, I have no interest (yet) in Falcon/New Cap because the character was a total nothing in the movies... It's so easy to forget he exists.

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     Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:09:53 JST Artemis

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     I guess my real question is...are MCU movies *supposed* to be just for people who watch the shows?

     Do they just not care whether people who don't watch the shows watch the movies? Because it is bizarrely starting to feel that way...which doesn't seem to make sense for them financially.

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     Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:09:55 JST Artemis

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     I'm not being a die-hard "it's Chris Evans or no one!" person over here or anything. Chris Evans' Cap was...fine. I enjoyed the character okay. I'm not about to say that I don't think anyone else could be Cap or something silly like that.

     I'm just curious if I'm supposed to be excited for this movie as the continuation of something I already liked, because it doesn't seem to be that, but I also haven't seen anything that would make me interested in this story as a stand-alone.

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     Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:09:56 JST Artemis

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     I don't really know what their plan is to get people who didn't watch the shows excited to go see a totally new Captain America who, again—if you didn't do extra-curricular work—has been basically a non-character up to this point.

     Are people who didn't watch Falcon and the Winter Soldier excited for this and I'm just being a wet blanket?

     In general I just feel like the MCU is asking me to care about a lot of characters they aren't willing to give me *reasons* to care about.