Bayne
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WandaVision and FatWS are about Wanda and Sam becoming Scarlet Witch and Captain America. These are pretty important stories for the future and I'm happy they took time with the D+ shows to develop them.
But some of their projects do make me question. I mean, sorry for my ignorant comicbook ass but I've never heard of Echo. And while I'm not opposed to her appearing in the MCU, is it really necessary for every character to have their own show/movie? Wouldn't been better to give Daredevil a show instead?
I loved Hahn as Agatha Harkness. She stole the show. But does she need her own show?
When it comes to the movies, Black Widow feels like too little too late. And it's set in the past. Shang Chi and Eternals are brand new characters with no connections with previously established MCU characters so far. So because they are brand new franchise with no connections it might give a feeling of not being part of the main narrative... maybe? I mean, when you look at NWH, MoM and WandaVision, they are connected. Love and Thunder is connected to Guardians and continuing what we saw previously. The Marvels has connections with WandaVision and Miss Marvel. So those are movies that give, to me a least, a bigger sense of that serialized narrative that is part of the MCU.
Anyway... there are some projects that make me question them.
I don't think doing only what 'needs' to be done for the sake of the wider narrative is at all the point of the D+ series. For some of them, that is the way D+ will be useful. For others, it's just the opportunity to tell fun little stories in the MCU (and for Disney to tempt Marvel fans into keeping their D+ subscription). I don't think there's anything wrong with that per se. But you can't go into it expecting every D+ project to be super important to the MCU as a whole, because you will be disappointed.
As for connections, that complaint just doesn't make any sense. Look at almost everything in phase 1, then at Guardians 1 and Ant-man in phase 2, then at Dr. Strange, Captain Marvel and Black Panther in phase 3. Marvel origin stories are always far less connected than the other Marvel movies. The only real exception to that is Spider-man Homecoming, which happened for licensing reasons. Shang-Chi and the Eternals will grow into more and more connections over time, just like every other MCU character has.