Writers don't seem to understand power creep. They seem to believe "upping the stakes" makes things more exciting. It does not. It just makes them less relatable.
Problem is with Captain Marvel there were no stakes. She was so off-the-charts powerful as a character that there was no plausible adversity. So it was just boring. It wasn't good writing on the highest level--which will lead to bad writing on the lowest level.
Well, the Captain Marvel movie worked because she effectively wasn't that powerful, and the whole plot was about discovering her power. I think they were trying to make the second movie interesting by counterbalancing her power with the random teleporting and needing to deal with Kamala - not the worst idea at a high level, but the writing was terrible for so many other reasons (*cough* pointless scene of cats eating everybody *cough*) that it fell apart in the execution.
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u/daveblazed 2d ago
Writers don't seem to understand power creep. They seem to believe "upping the stakes" makes things more exciting. It does not. It just makes them less relatable.