(repost cause I didn’t realize live chat meant no one could comment)

I think as a comic reader, there are so many gaps and jumps in story telling I expect and allow because comics are told in fragmented stories that are filled in later or sometimes never. Of course, continuity issues are ALWAYS a complaint, but that’s also part of the world building of comics. I think a lot about mythology and how regions can have different stories about Hercules and different versions of the same story, and it’s sometimes about power and popularity which one gets picked up the most.

That all to say, I’ve been wondering since the inception of the MCU proper, whether the storytelling practices of comics can be successfully carried over to film or TV media. It seems folks really want linear. clear-cut, always overexplained plots and those can be boring (early Thor movies, early avengers movies). I think a good, often cited example of this distinction is only movie goers being shocked by the end of infinity war and comic readers being like “yea, shit like that always happens in comics” when reacting.

Sometimes comic narratives, especially in the context of a piece of a larger world, are just shards of a picture and I think you’re supposed to sit with the gaps and think of the larger mechanics of the fantasy universe to come up with explanations for unexplained things.

Or maybe the storytelling practices need to change for film and media. I’m not sure if I’m being crotchety and holding onto something or if comic style movies will really lose something if they take the ambiguous, sometimes messy practice of comic book storytelling out.

What do folks think? Is this resonating?