Yes? And? Will this lead into Cap 4? Or Thunderbolts? Or FF4FS? Does it progress the multiverse saga? Does it help to bring the X Men into the MCU? Does it explain where Vision has been for the last 2 years? Was Kang supposed to be in this? Was Hercules supposed to pop up at the end? Or Blade? Or Starfox? Or Arishem?

No? Well thank God it did well on rotten tomatoes. You can't buy that kind of success.

Consumers are allowed to criticise the products that are designed to be consumed.

Subscribers are allowed to criticise material that requires a subscription.

Fans are allowed to criticise that which they deem to be of poor quality.

The public are allowed to comment on absolutely anything that is in the public domain.

These are not difficult concepts.

The Acolyte is objectively terrible in every single aspect of its existence.

$180 million is an utterly obscene amount of money to waste on a talentless hack's vanity project.

The mcu needs to exist in its own world. Conflicts need to be between characters. Wakanda Forever tore itself apart by chucking in the CIA, the UN, references to the US, much like Secret Invasion and now Cap 4.

Political fiction is extraordinarily difficult to write in of itself, without linking in superheroes, muscle bound Presidents and cosmos-spanning gods. Life is hard, the world is a mess - I just want to see the good guys beat up the bad guys and save the day. Enough with the geopolitics, please.

Alfred survives. Goes on holiday.

Bruce survives. Retires with his girlfriend. Goes on holiday.

Selina survives. Retires with her boyfriend. Goes on holiday.

City is saved from nuclear destruction.

Gotham PD released from underground captivity. Bane defeated.

Grim.