🔗 Birchtree: A good story doesn’t require homework

I think the [Marvel Cinematic Universe] was novel and fun for a while, but it’s exhausting at this point, and doubly so when everyone seems to want to do it. I just can’t deal with anyone else telling me that I can’t really enjoy or appreciate a movie if I haven’t also watched 100+ episodes of a TV show or several other movies in the same cinematic universe. In my opinion, good stories should stand on their own. They can be enhanced by knowing more about previous stories as well, but a good story stands on its own as well.