I appreciate your considered take on Captain Marvel. But I wonder if you still aren’t placing the issues with this film almost squarely all on Larson’s shoulders.

While I liked the film, the issues that I have with it are actually much more a result of the writers and poor directorial choices, which trickles down across the board to the performances of nearly all of the film’s actors.

There almost hasn’t been a role that I’ve seen Jude Law in that I didn’t enjoy, for example. But his performance in Captain Marvel didn’t impress. And that, to me, was very telling. But this extended to many other performances, so there’s no use in creating a tally.

As a lifelong comic book reader, I can also say for certain that this film departs from the characterization of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel on the comics page.

There was also an obviously rushed approach to world-building Carol’s Kree homeword, which is something that’s never been given too much consideration in the comics. At least not in the Danvers iteration of Captain Marvel. And I think this attempt to address that creates some of the weaknesses in the approach taken by the writers and the director.

Unfortunately, many of the film’s shortcomings have been universally transplanted onto Larson. But I think the same thing would have happened no matter who had been placed in the role.

Lastly, one of the biggest differences between the Captain Marvel film and Wonder Woman is that the director of the latter, Patty Jenkins, was deeply connected to the source material. And that ultimately translated to every part of that film.

The lack of connection to Captain Marvel was obvious to me. And it started well before any actors had even been cast.