People look at the success of Brandon Sanderson and the Marvel Cinematic Universe and think "I want to create a massive universe of interrelated books/movies with intersecting storylines that eventually builds up to a massive ensemble crossover event, too!"
Without stopping to examine WHY the Cosmere and the MCU work so well, which is that each installment is compelling, self-contained, and focused on telling its own story in an enjoyable and engaging way.
More importantly, they didn't advertise the existence of an interconnected universe until the franchise had already proven popular and viable. Iron Man didnt start with "The first installment of the new Marvel Cinematic Universe" and then spend half the movie setting up Thor, it just advertised as Ironman, and then told a story about Ironman.
On the other hand the DC Justice League series made a Justice League movie, hastily skirting over character origin stories, awkwardly contriving to get the ensemble cast into one room, and foreshadowing the big bad for the sequel, instead of telling an interesting movie. They tried to skip the dozen or so movies of set-up that Marvel went through, and went straight to the ensemble.
Similarly, Sanderson spent decades writing an interconnected series of books sll existing within the same invented universe, but didn't actually confess to it until fans asked him "hey, do these all exist in the same universe"? Paolini, trying to mimic this, skipped straight to the end without doing the work required to lead up to it.
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People look at the success of Brandon Sanderson and the Marvel Cinematic Universe and think "I want to create a massive universe of interrelated books/movies with intersecting storylines that eventually builds up to a massive ensemble crossover event, too!"
Without stopping to examine WHY the Cosmere and the MCU work so well, which is that each installment is compelling, self-contained, and focused on telling its own story in an enjoyable and engaging way.
More importantly, they didn't advertise the existence of an interconnected universe until the franchise had already proven popular and viable. Iron Man didnt start with "The first installment of the new Marvel Cinematic Universe" and then spend half the movie setting up Thor, it just advertised as Ironman, and then told a story about Ironman.
On the other hand the DC Justice League series made a Justice League movie, hastily skirting over character origin stories, awkwardly contriving to get the ensemble cast into one room, and foreshadowing the big bad for the sequel, instead of telling an interesting movie. They tried to skip the dozen or so movies of set-up that Marvel went through, and went straight to the ensemble.
Similarly, Sanderson spent decades writing an interconnected series of books sll existing within the same invented universe, but didn't actually confess to it until fans asked him "hey, do these all exist in the same universe"? Paolini, trying to mimic this, skipped straight to the end without doing the work required to lead up to it.