Movie series: "Deadpool 2," "Solo," "Avengers: Infinity War"
"Hey, does my being in the foreground hint how this movie should have been?" It's not enough to call some movies sequels, or prequels, when they collectively form an enormous narrative thread, a novel in many parts . Now, those parts may be out of sequence (recalling in a way Julio Cortazar's novel "Hopscotch"). They may also revise the previous narrative (as, for example, the "Star Trek" reboots have done in recycling old characters but reframing the story from the previous series and film; or the past-changing events in the "X-Men" films). But they still demand that the audience be aware of everything that has gone before; I was rewatching "Avengers: Age of Ultron" over the weekend and realized I had forgotten how it brought in the Infinity Stones and Thanos, which of course became central to "Avengers: Infinity War." But, as much as DC and Marvel and "Star Wars" and others ask us to keep trac...