I love headlines like these. Most watched Marvel finale in 3 years? First Marvel finale in 3 years.
It says it in the article:
It marks the most watched Marvel finale in over three years since “Loki” Season 2, which nabbed 11.2 million viewers in its first three days.
Loki season 2 ended November 9, 2023, just over 3 years before the VisionQuest finale. And Wonder Man had a finale this year, although the whole season was dumped on one day.
Marvel series that also ran in that time period include:
- Echo
- Agatha All Along
- Daredevil: Born Again (might not count if we’re only talking series finales, but otherwise it counts twice)
- Ironheart
And there’s a few more if we include Marvel Animation shows.
Are people talking about this?
What other finales have they had? Seems like most of the shows don’t really enter the zeitgeist any more. They are pretty generic and boring. That’s despite their efforts to play with themes, formats etc, which really started with wandavision. It’s the stakes and characters which are the problem. It’s all too reliant on a deus ex machina.
Wandavision was the actual final nail in the coffin of the MCU for my wife and I. Of the two of us, I’m way more into comics and I’m not very into comics, so we were pretty done after endgame. But the buzz around the show was so good and what litttle I saw when it was releasing looked like Disney was really letting something creative happen, so we finally jumped in about halfway through the season. Then the stuff exterior to the hex started happening. The the finale was just another CGI fuckfest and we lost all hope anything actually interesting would ever happen. And that’s without even considering the implications of the actual events and character “development” of the show.
Loki is still worth watching, with an actually good ending.
And this is coming from somebody who is bored to death with Marvel and agrees that Wandavision, while interesting at first, had a lot of baggage and implications that they really really hand-waved over.
I think the need for movie tie-ins kinda sunk them.
I loved Loki for a while because it felt like it was written by Douglas Adams, but then they had to have a Multiverse Destroyng Threat to tie into movies and it just got tiresome.
