Spoilers Daredevil: Born Again (Spoilers)

[Ryujin]

The issue isn't "how many people will actually care", it's "why write yourself into a bizarre corner in the first place"? Because some part of the audience does care, and even for the part who care less, you've created an issue that can cause a problem, and we can see it has caused problems. It's not a disaster, it's just basically silly/incompetent.

That comicbooks ignore this sort of thing is a part of why supers comics have basically become a hobby for 35-54-year-old men, rather than a big cultural thing that a huge proportion of kids regularly read.

The Blip is definitely a problem, as literally everyone on Earth was directly affected by it. A massive stillborn godling sticking up out of the Indian Ocean less so because it has no bearing on the day-to-day lives of the majority of people, regardless of what it signified. Humans are rather good at compartmentalization. A massive tidal wave in Indonesia is a news item for people in Europe and The Americas, as sad as that is.

 

[Thomas Shey]

The issue isn't "how many people will actually care", it's "why write yourself into a bizarre corner in the first place"?

Because it was convenient for the main story you were telling, and you know that the knock-on effects will be accepted with a shrug?

I mean, like I said, the comics have been getting away with that for 70 years now, why would they expect movie watchers to be different.

That comicbooks ignore this sort of thing is a part of why supers comics have basically become a hobby for 35-54-year-old men, rather than a big cultural thing that a huge proportion of kids regularly read.

Naw, its because the medium itself has had a negative perception in the West since forever, and its gotten expensive.

 

[chuckdee]

So...you don't think learning that. say, magic is real might change your perspective in a profound way if you are a scientist? Or learning that the gods of Asgard are real, and now live on earth, might be challenging for religious folks?

Considering the world we're seeing. No, I don't think so at all. A famous quote, paraphrased- Sometimes people stumble over the truth. Most times, they pick themselves up and keep on as if nothing happened.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Considering the world we're seeing. No, I don't think so at all. A famous quote, paraphrased- Sometimes people stumble over the truth. Most times, they pick themselves up and keep on as if nothing happened.

Or worse, act like something else happened.

 

[trappedslider]

The only time I have ever seen it brought up has been online, none of the in person discussions about the MCU I've had with others touches on the after effects of the blip or the eternals.
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As for the episode very much a character study as another poster said.

 

[Clint_L]

The Blip is definitely a problem, as literally everyone on Earth was directly affected by it. A massive stillborn godling sticking up out of the Indian Ocean less so because it has no bearing on the day-to-day lives of the majority of people, regardless of what it signified. Humans are rather good at compartmentalization. A massive tidal wave in Indonesia is a news item for people in Europe and The Americas, as sad as that is.

Okay, what we saw in the film was a cataclysm that dwarfed the Indonesian tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands. The scale of that event should have killed millions, or hundreds of millions all over the earth. And the scale of the stillborn god now protruding from Earth would have catastrophic, ongoing environmental impact:

That ain't something that you can just ignore. I am very confused by how folks can just shrug it off as if it would be just another Tuesday. Can we get a geologist to explain what the impact of something that size suddenly erupting from the earth would be? The amount of energy that would be involved is exponentially greater than the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. It's like continental drift sped up to a pace of seconds rather than aeons.

Okay...I gotta drop this. The reality is that all of these cataclysmic events in the MCU can be safely ignored because they aren't the point, anyway. The entire multiverse almost ending has become a semi-regular event.

Daredevil works because the stakes aren't stupid.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Naw, its because the medium itself has had a negative perception in the West since forever, and its gotten expensive.

It absolutely is part of it (not all of it or even most of it, but part), sorry, because it's caused even comic book fans to "drop off", let alone more casual readers. The wildly overcomplicated timelines and reboots/retcons/forgettings of huge events and so on drive people away.

 

[Thomas Shey]

It absolutely is part of it (not all of it or even most of it, but part), sorry, because it's caused even comic book fans to "drop off", let alone more casual readers. The wildly overcomplicated timelines and reboots/retcons/forgettings of huge events and so on drive people away.

I think there's a serious jump to correlation = causality there, even if you consider it a significant factor, and if you don't, its mostly irrelevant to anyone making the decisions.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I think there's a serious jump to correlation = causality there, even if you consider it a significant factor, and if you don't, its mostly irrelevant to anyone making the decisions.

I think there's pretty good evidence of causality but that'd be a very long and detailed discussion about comics, requiring actual research to back up. Re: "irrelevant to", I feel like what you actually mean is "is ignored by", which isn't quite the same thing lol.

 

[TwoSix]

The Blip is definitely a problem, as literally everyone on Earth was directly affected by it. A massive stillborn godling sticking up out of the Indian Ocean less so because it has no bearing on the day-to-day lives of the majority of people, regardless of what it signified. Humans are rather good at compartmentalization. A massive tidal wave in Indonesia is a news item for people in Europe and The Americas, as sad as that is.

Heck, how many people even remember the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami, despite the fact that the death toll was almost a quarter million?