Sometimes with media studies it’s better not to know cause it can ruin your enjoyment and make you overly critical, I’ve just accepted to enjoy trash for what it is and not judge people for liking it cause everyone has some trash they enjoy. It’s fun to understand why trash is trash though and make fun of it in a non-elitist way.

But yeah the quick quippy self-referencing dialogue I really don’t enjoy and it’s what’s permeated a lot of stuff in recent years, I much preferred the over-the-top 90s style with a lot of physical stage acting to back it up. Characters just standing there trying to out-quip each other just isn’t enjoyable for me. A lot of the MCU characters are written as narcissists as well, that’s not necessarily bad cause there’s amazing narcissist characters, but it’s not really in line with their roles in the stories. This might be going a bit too far but there’s also some fascist themes in the MCU, but that critique has to get in to a lot more than just MCU. Toure Reed has some interesting writing on that.