If anything, I thought it was a microcosm of the whole season: it was all about Wes. I get doing that early to establish the new lead, but the rest of cast, for the first time in this show, all felt like ing characters 90% of the time as the show was rebuilt around Wes’s personal life and grudges.

And he wasn’t really THAT interesting of a character imo.

It’s not rival studios, Disney gets this same treatment with all of their major releases.

It’s content farm media. Since their business model is to constantly shovel out content, and this film has been the story of the last couple of weeks, they need content to keep ppl engaged and commenting…so this is what we get.

And no, it’s not something the average movie going public should be thinking about when they see a movie.

There’s a difference between telling stories based on real world circumstances and “ripped from the headlines”.

The former takes inspiration from real life events and re-contextualizes it to fit the fictional narrative you’re crafting, which is what the Stan Lee’s of the world do. For example, in the 1960’s, they didn’t have MLK and Malcolm X reciting speeches or attack on protesters in Selma in the comics, they had characters like Luke Cage, Falcon & the X-Men in somewhat similar situations. They wrote about what they saw and how they understood it, they didn’t do scene for scene break down of actual events.

So no, they’re not “spitting” in Lee’s face, they’re actually following his playbook as obviously, if they’re saying things in the film followed real life events & ppl too closely, they felt it needed to be retooled to remind the audience it’s a work of fiction.

Besides, based on the plot of the film we know of, the President is being manipulated by a powerful, super intelligent agent in the shadows…not like anything that might be happening in the real world, right? RIGHT?

I seriously doubt they’re going to use Gwen when we already know Zendeya will be back playing MJ again. The only version I could see being used as Gwen in the MCU would be Spider Gwen when the Spiderverse movies wrap up.