Inhumans: Bellweather for the MCU's Decline & Fall

About a month ago, the folks at Midnight's Edge and the After Dark channels got together to talk about the Inhumans series on ABC.

No, things did not get better since. The TV side of the MCU has always been the weaker side, and a lot of us called this series being the first outright failure for the franchise. That prognosis has not changed, and the reason is clear: shit storytelling by incompetent management still smarting over the loss of an internal turf war.

Where I depart from a lot of folks naysaying this series is that I think it, like Agents of SHIELD will enjoy some protection from cancellation as it seeks to carve out a similar niche to the aforementioned series as a TV property intended to be the ongoing franchise engagement between the films' major events and the Netflix shows limited-series melodramas.

The big difference is that this series has ties to Cosmic Marvel that SHIELD lacks, and if this series is intended to survive Infinity War it could replace SHIELD as the primary retention device for the franchise. (Because it sure as hell isn't the comics.) SHIELD approaches the usual end of useful lifespan for a dramatic series, so this may be an option; cast, crew, etc. may want to move on before it's too late (and they should, all of them).

And Cosmic Marvel will take on far more importance in the next few years, with Infinity War being the point where massive talent turnover (and thus narrative turnover) occurs. Films succeeding that film are part of the Cosmic end more often than not, and those post-IW films already show signs of ramping up the poz heretofore kept to deniable levels. (Yes, the shit in the comics is coming to the films; Captain Marvel is the Shtit Test for this, as they are using SJW Cpatain Marvel as the chassis for the film.)

Inhumans is the bellweather. Shit storytelling, bad management, misused talent, and other tells of SJW crapfests are already present here. Expect them to get worse, appearing more and more on screen instead of cringefest PR stunts gone wrong, as time goes by, until cancellation is compelled by higher authories who actually care about profitability and other core duties of corporate management. (Shareholder lawsuits will happen within a decade over this, as we are talking about a legal requirement.)

We're being warned. Time to exit the franchise before its collapse hits in earnest; I recommend staying no later than Infinity War, and withdrawing from the non-film ends sooner. Instead, support clean alternatives such as #AltHero.