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Yep. But its not just Disney, handling reboots/torch-sequels seems almost impossible for Hollywood without fucking it up. Just look at Terminator or any other attempt (and now they're doing fucking Robocop soon). Only one I've seen that hasn't gotten hate from fans is the Karate Kid sequel series afaik.There's a good reason why the drop between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi was so massive and also why The Rise of Skywalker was a billion dollar disappointment. "Passing the torch" only works if you actually show respect to what came before (see the success of the Creed spinoff series). The Disney trilogy did nothing but show contempt for the male characters of the OT and basically erased the accomplishments of Anakin and Luke Skywalker. The latter became a hermit sucking on green tit milk while abandoning his family and friends to die before his "redemption" arc that consisted of an astral projection that killed him. The fans obviously didn't like it and that's what left the eye boggling fall in the box office after the normies had their one weekend viewing.
I bring Star Wars up because Disney showed it can't handle torch passing and soft reboots properly for one of the most influential properties in the history of humanity. Given how obnoxiously woke it has become (poor Walt would hang his head in shame), I shudder to think what it would do to the MCU. It may be cliche capeshit and it certainly caused some horrible problems that the industry can't shake, but what it accomplished in terms of coherent storytelling and character moments, I think, are beyond commendable. Disney would eagerly torch all of that to start over and wouldn't hesitate to desecrate the older characters to make their woke replacements look better, fan opinions be damned. If it could do that to Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, then Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America are nowhere close to safe. Hell, I wouldn't count Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther as off limits.
In the grand scheme of it all, Bobert would, of course, praise to the nine divines because it's Disney and the Lefty trend setters would demand their acolytes praise it. He is one of the greatest sellouts and lapdogs in his field.
Much like with Disney's shitty Nu-Wars trilogy, I fully expect Disney's first shitty Avengers 'pass-the-torch/soft reboot' movie to do well in the box office despite being a pile of uninspired crap simply because it has all the "og actors in it for one last hoorah", only for the following movie to come along and make people realize just how shit the reboot is once the nostalgia factor has worn off while the MSM and good little loyalists like Bobby-o white knight it to death. My only wonder is if stuff like WandaVision will be enough to keep the MCU going for a bit longer before Disney's forced to push the crappy reboot button.