Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

MCU, more like MCU later, because I don't want to watch anymore because it stinks now that's terrible

welcome to the council Trent podcast I'm your host Kathy Gansers

apologist and speaker Trent Horn Monday Wednesday we talk apologetics and theology. Friday we talk

about whatever I want to talk about. It's free for all Friday. And today I want to

talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe or the colossal wreck the shattered

facade if you can count the poetry reference there of what something great this

this obelisk this mon, what it used to be, and now it's in shattered,

woke remains of poor writing and poor planning and bad CGI.

And what happened here, what needs to happen I think we got

we got to just do control alt delete we got to do a hard reset we got to take

the MCU pla unplug it from the wall, and plug it back in and do that a few

times if we have to fix what is going on with it. So that's just what I want to talk about today. Maybe you're not a big

MCU person, but you're probably familiar with it. It's a cultural touchstone. And I think it really

became that way in 2012. Like the MCU became this cultural

juggernaut in 2012 with the release of Avengers and that was monumental. Nobody had really been able to come up with a

framework like that before where they had four relatively well-received films before that point to put forward major

characters. Iron Man was a sleeper hit that came out of nowhere. People love that.

Robert Downey Jr. was just perfect for the role. The

Incredible Hulk was not as good. It's very hard to make a good Hulk movie. Hulk, not good

protagonist. So that could be difficult, but it still put out there and it was really saved by having Robert

Daniel Jr. in the post-credits scene because that blue people are like, wait, are these connected?

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