As for the Flag Smashers, I would have honestly preferred if the MCU mostly just didn't go there at all when it comes to the Blip. I don't think it's a good idea exploring it, because it will inevitably be kind of a mess, and it's just too big, and now that they've started to take it seriously, it's going to hang over the whole MCU for years as an issue that's mostly going to endlessly complicate things without really adding much.
The real world already has refugees, and those issues are already pretty frickin' complicated, but in a completely different way than the Blip refugees are, because the root causes of the Blip refugee crisis has essentially nothing at all to do with actual refugee situations.
It's just bizarre and complicated, but I don't really see it adding an element that the MCU needed.
I mean, what exactly were the Flag Smashers fighting for? What is "the way things were" to them? There's so much political nuance and information missing from that storyline that I found it impossible to empathize with them, even though I really liked Karli as a character. The Flag Smashers just didn't look or feel in any way like an actual radical political group. They're a fictional stand in for a real issue... but not a real issue that actually exists in that form. Just like the Blip refugees don't really function as a stand in of the actual real world refugees.
Of course many of these problems go back to one damned line which I thought was a bad idea to begin with: that "five years later"... It worked for that movie, but I remember that the moment I saw that in the theaters I was thinking "oh boy this could cause a lot of problems for future movies"...
Even in Far From Home, it was apparent the blip thing just added weird details that didn't really add anything.
I get why they didn't want to just completely undo the whole Blip in the Endgame, but I think current MCU writers are kind of cursing that decision, and at least for this show, I don't think it worked, at all.
It would have been better to just not go there to begin with. Just pretend the Blip didn't happen, it's fiction, you can do that and I don't think people would really care.
I really hope "exploring the post-Blip world" isn't going to be a big thing in the next phase. Unless they just plan to multiverse that whole problem away.
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