10 Problems With The MCU On TV (And How To Solve Them)
9. Poor Decisions And Bad Planning
The vague, cackhanded decision-making isn’t limited to long term strategy.
In the past, it made sense to have the family-oriented shows like Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter on ABC, and the more adult-oriented shows on Netflix.
So why have Runaways developed with Hulu, a rival subscription-based streaming platform to Netflix? Why place Cloak & Dagger and New Warriors on basic cable with Freeform, the re-branded ABC Family channel?
Meanwhile, the word is that The Inhumans was directed to be “fast and cheap”. Why then release it on IMAX, where the low budget production would be exposed on a giant screen in front of a paying audience a month before the show debuted on ABC?
Then there’s The Defenders, which was announced in November 2013, but relied heavily on plot and characters from Daredevil season two - which was not part of the original Netflix release schedule, and was only announced in April 2015.
You have to wonder what on earth the original idea for The Defenders was, since it appears to have been redesigned from scratch eighteen months later. Unless... does this actually mean that there was no original idea at all? For a year and a half?
The left hand doesn’t seem to know what the right hand is doing... and the right hand is drunk. There needs to be a tighter rein on key development and production decisions.