I've been expecting this, but I don't like it. I'm happy about the new content coming to
Disney+, but nothing beats seeing a SW movie on the big screen.
Yeah... but that only applies if they make good ones...
It's still a break after we've had 5 in the last 3.5 years.
It's interesting to me, in that most people don't get MCU'ed out but they do get Star Wars'ed out.
Something of a different animal. I think people do get MCU'd out, but the storylines have enough variation that you don't have to go to all of them to understand what is happening. Star Wars is different. If you skip a movie in a trilogy, it is hard to understand what is going on. Although, I think that pattern is going to be mostly broken with Episode IX. I think Abrams is going to do a darn good job of pulling the story back the way he envisioned it, and Episode VIII is going to be an awkward outlier with little relevance other than one major character death.
There was absolutely nothing that Episode VIII added that can't be worked around. Rey's parents? Ren lied. No help? It arrived too late. Leia alive? Well... oops. Luke dead... sticking point. The Jedi gone? Eh, lots of them could be floating around in the Unknown Regions. Snoke dead and irrelevant with no backstory? Can be fixed. They brought back Maul. Phasma dead? Maybe not. We just saw her fall. The Resistance down to its last 20 people? Probably not. It's a galaxy of hundreds of trillions.
If Abrams chooses, he can make Rian Johnson's movie completely irrelevant to the arc.
But to your point, if you skip Ant Man, no harm no foul really. Same with Hulk, or Ragnarok. There are some seminal MCU movies that would be hard to miss, but there are plenty you could choose not to see. And they appeal differently. Star Wars is more of the same. Ragnarok and First Avenger are completely different types of movies. That is something MCU has done well. Even the Star Wars stories didn't really create "new". I like them both, yes I've seen Solo 3 times and I think it is quite good, but they are still the same universe, same ideas, same tech, same filmography, etc. MCU doesn't work that way. I love Ragnarok. I love the first GotG. I didn't bother to see Ant Man or Ant Man and Wasp in the theaters. In fact, I don't think I've seen the first one at all. I skipped The Incredible Hulk. Didn't see the first Thor until about 3 years later. Still haven't seen the whole Dark World movie. Totally skipped Iron Man 2. And that's ok. I get MCU fatigue and there are plenty of chances to miss them.
