BCVM22
Well-Known Member
So if you bothered reading all this... what is your take on this?
ScreenRant is garbage, it should be noted. Publishing clickbait, paper-thin rumors, and opinion pieces like they're news does not make a trustworthy website. Do yourself a favor and stop reading it.
With that out of the way, if we take canon by its basest meaning, in this case being "it will matter to the MCU going forward," it's not wrong. The ABC and Netflix shows were produced by a division of Marvel that no longer exists, in no small part because it wasn't quite resulting in the interconnected properties Marvel Studios wanted. The Disney+ shows don't have that issue. They didn't matter even when they were current and they don't matter any more so with Marvel Television and its chief architect no longer in those positions. The AoS crew would routinely talk about how low on the totem pole they were in what characters and stories they were and weren't permitted to use, and how their shooting schedule made it difficult to impossible to tie into the ongoing MCU films as the series went on. By the latter two or three seasons, even they had to admit they weren't "really" in the MCU anymore so much as they were in a theoretical offshoot of it.
Love and appreciate the shows for what they were, but they're off in their own little corner, peripherally deriving from the MCU but never filtering back into it, and with the shows over and Marvel Television defunct (largely so that future Marvel TV shows can be produced by Feige and Marvel Studios proper), they're unlikely to ever factor in.