Marvel Cinematic Universe general stuff

I think as well, what Everything & the Spider-Verse films have shown is a willingness to take the concept of multiverse as this potentially crazy idea where anything's possible - and running with that idea to various tonal or creative extremes. The Spider-Verse films might have been buttressed by some stellar grounded character work, but around all that have been visuals that arguably pushed animation to a level American Cinema has perhaps never before indulged. The production obviously took an attitude of why not? when it came to just having about a half dozen competing styles in a single movie - it's the multiverse baby so why not try and use that idea. There's a scene in Across the Spider-Verse, with Gwen confronting her Dad and it's rendered in a way that was genuinely jaw-dropping in its beauty, the background abstracted into emotionally-textured splashes of colour as two people aired their laundry.

The problem with the Multiverse in the MCU is that by design the MCU can't have competing tones - not really, not when it counts - so all it can do with the Multiverse is so very tame and limited in comparison. The Multiverse of Madness I enjoyed, mostly cos hooray Sam Raimi's back everyone! - but the actual execution of the multiverse as a concept was so boring. Pizza balls, oh wow MCU you're really trying here.

That's fair forgot about Loki season 1; suppose if you gotta play the same guy a dozen times over the choice is to go subtle through performance, or go "big" through tics and physical differences. Just not that into the stammers and cod-English accent choices so far

Michael Keaton put in a good enough showing but nothing was done with the character; this particular nerd hated the fact Keaton's return was in Generic Concrete World and not the Art Deco fever dream of Burton's original films.

Again looping back to the idea that a better - or at least more interesting - approach taken by Flash's idea of a multiverse would have been to go fúck it, let's do this alternative world as a functional third Burton Batman, Burton aesthetic n all. But that would have required imagination and gumption - something the DC stable chronically lacks. Though weirdly probably less CGI but more physical construction - which in the crazy logic of Hollywood would be a no go.

Was pointed out by others on the internet that this was the weekend Blade was originally meant to come out.

It was both, and not at the same time. All the netflix shows definitely took place in the aftermath of the alien invasion of New York from the 2012 Avengers film. It was referenced a few times, albeit either as background visual items like newspaper headlines - or the increasingly abstract mentions of "the incident" like the productions were paranoid open mentions would ruin the tone.