Episode 2 of What If. I enjoyed it. Its good clean fun.
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Not sure if they were taking the piss with the Space Jesus Tchalla though. Or maybe they specifically were going for Space Jesus Michael Burnham MKII.
Not sure I buy Thanos in a cuck role either, getting his ass handed to him by a couple of the black legion or whatever they were called. No complaints though, liking the show so far.
Just watched the first two What if…? episodes. Very good. Great animation style, good stories. Amazing they get most of the original actors doing the voices. Episode 2 was very cool.
That was awkward and unsettling, never post anything like it again.
Caught up with What If...? Generally feel a bit tepid about the animation style/budget but we'll have to see how it goes. Often these things improve when animations turn out to be a success.
Was a bit disappointed with episode 1. Suffers a lot from being a direct reinterpretation of Captain America 1. The animation came across as a bit stiff (more so than episode 2 for some reason) and it just felt an expensive slide show presentation of an alternate version of CA1, the plot was so truncated. I think if they want to do any further direct movie reinterpretations they need to make them a two-parter or an hour or do a special or something - the half-hour thing just didn't work for this. Something about the characters just didn't gel with this one either - I don't know if it's just that the secondary characters from CA1 weren't as memorable or they didn't have as many actual returning actors as episode 2 but they just felt a bit off, like I was failing to understand a reference or something.
Episode 2 was a lot better - I think someone described it as fan-wank earlier in the thread and it is but in the best way - found it really entertaining and enjoyable. This one feels like a much more successful realisation of what this series is supposed to be - fun, relatively low-budget hardcore content for die-hard MCU fans. As mentioned by others above, the plot worked within the timeslot too due to branching in a totally different direction from the movies.
"ERE's like Mr. Muscle, he loves the things he hates"
The cel-shaded 3D as 2D thing can look really stiff and janky in the wrong hands. Episodes were split across three teams so probably a load of different people working on the second one.
Considering the direction the MCU is heading this could easily fit into the main storylines too. I wouldn't mind seeing a Hayley Atwell Cap done for real
They’re definitely making Doc Strange a big part of things aren’t they? This and then his own movie too. I guess he’s a good character to use if they’re doing the whole ‘multiverse’ thing.
I thought when all these multiverse things were announced they might have a cohesive thing behind why they’re all happening. But nope. Just a series of entirely separate misfortunes each creating an alternate realities.
I harbour a fundamental dislike of alternate realities in storytelling. They’re worse than time travel for removing jeopardy and tension. When there’s no real risk to your characters, there’s no drama. No high stakes.
“Everybody’s going to die!”
… but in that reality over there, they survive.
“My brother has been murdered!”
… but in that reality over there, he’s fine.
I think it’s a thing that totally makes sense in comics. The need for dramatic endings to runs (Superman is dead!) needing to coexist with the need for episodes to keep on coming (He’s alive again!)
I just don’t think it translates to any other medium without exposing the naked greed behind it all. Must. Keep. Content. Coming.