POKEMON, HQ TRIVIA, AND THE MARVEL COMIC UNIVERSE - A [drunken] rant

All good things come to an end. That’s a fact people. People die. Love dies. Fads die. When the Pokemon app came out, nerds and non-nerds alike were running out (and off cliffs) to catch these digital augmented reality creatures. But now the only friend I have, lives alone, subscribes to geek box, and talks to himself while twirling his super long beard.

HQ Trivia was all the shit two weeks ago, and now… look, I’m not saying I’m the only barometer for things like this, but I turned off the notifications for this app on my phone today, after having not played for a week. Does it have SOMETHING to do, with the app partnering (read: selling out) with major motion pictures and replacing Scott with movie stars to promote their new titles? Honestly, I don’t think so. It just lost it’s luster a bit. Although, I’m definitely going to go see RAMPAGE while it’s in theaters.

Which brings me to the Marvel Comic Universe (MCU) and it’s imminent demise.

I make no bones saying Kevin Feige is a freaking genius that has done one of the most impressive things in cinema ever. And I’ve been along for the ride, the whole time. It’s just so horrible awesome that he’s been able to bring in all these characters and movies and franchises and directors and fucking storylines, but we all know where it’s supposed to go. And life without death is meaningless.

Hell [SPOILERS] I had to go back and see THE FORCE AWAKENS a second time to relive the death of Han because I had gotten so excited to see the movie when it came out that I got so blasted that I couldn’t remember how it ended the next day, laying in my bed.

And that death made the series mean so much more to me.

INFINITY WARS is out tonight, and I’ll see it, and I’m sure someone will die. Maybe a couple of someones and maybe a few someone’s that we actually give a shit about and not some ancillary character (I’m looking at you Hawkeye)… I love you Jeremy Renner, don’t be mad.

But the MCU doesn’t die. It’s gonna keep going. Bringing in new characters, and new story lines, and growing bigger and bigger, with more research required to understand. And yes, I know that they have the ability to do side pieces like BLACK PANTHER, and ANT MAN, that can seemingly live outside the main narrative, but when you call the damn things “Phases” you’re really tipping your hand that, that’s not really the point of where you’re going.

And as a fan, I’m worried. Not about Kevin and his MCU really, but about my endurance to keep going.

The Simpsons is on it’s 29th season, and even South Park is in it’s 20’s and honestly…? I don’t rush to the tube each new episode like I used to. I can’t even confirm for certain that I saw last season of South Park at all.

Fuck, right?

I mean typing that sentence makes me feel really bad about myself, but it’s just too fucking much, you know?

And if the MCU does this to us, (as it is, with plans through 2022 already), then what will that mean for cinema in general? DISNEY already owns Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar. And if you believe the online boards even the Pixar Universe is actually all connected (although much more loosely). But that’s fucking 3 for 3 in gigantic universes that, like a common model of our universe, will eventually expand so much, it collapses in on itself and has to start all over.

So, yeah, I’m excited as fuck to go see the movie this weekend, and I still play Pokemon while sitting in rush hour from time to time, but I miss Scott, and his stupid jokes, and I just don’t want to miss-but-not superhero movies like this in the future.

They mean too much to me...

And this kid.