10 Dumb Decisions In The MCU We Can't Forgive
2. Not Making The TV Shows Matter
When Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. launched in 2013, there was a lot of excitement surrounding a TV show billed as a spinoff to The Avengers. It got off to a rocky start, but soon gained a fanbase for some fun stories and very loose tie-ins to what was happening in movies like Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
As time went on, though, it became clear that both this series and the likes of Daredevil, Cloak & Dagger, Runaways, and Inhumans meant nothing. While they were supposedly set in the MCU, it certainly didn't feel that way, and that's a shame because the opportunity to expand this shared world in a meaningful way was there from the start.
Ultimately, this boiled down to Kevin Feige not wanting these TV shows to happen, and Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter appointing Jeph Loeb to take charge of them in his stead. Now, Disney has cancelled all those shows and given Feige full creative control, hence why small screen stories coming to Disney+ will inform what we see in cinemas.
Still, a lot of enjoyable Marvel TV shows are now destined to be footnotes in MCU history.