My thoughts on Marvel's What if ...?

My thoughts on Marvel's What if ...?

 

The people who worked on this series should be ashamed of themselves for how this series turned out. That's saying a lot considering I wasn't expecting much from this show. The only thing I want is for it to be fun and it's not. For those of you who don't know what this show is it's based on a comic book of the same name. It's about a bunch of what if scenarios about what would happen if things played out differently in the MCU and the domino effect it creates.  

Sadly, we didn't get that, instead, we get characters switching places with each other for the most part. Doing that didn't change much of what happened in the MCU because most of the events played out the same. That's what bugs me about this series it makes no sense that things would still happen as in the original films. On the other hand, that's not always the case. For example, in episode 4 Dr. Strange lost his love interest in the car crash instead of his hands. Despite that, he still learns the mystic arts why!?! 

In episode 2 T'Challa switches places with Star-Lord and he's treated like a GOD. I'm not kidding about that everyone is kissing up to him. If this is the show's way of paying respect to the actor who played this character that's fine. The problem with this is the writers are overdoing it plus T'Challa is not like this. Just because the stories the creators are telling don't take place in the main timeline doesn't mean they should be lazy about it. Also, it opens up a can of worms about what was established in the main timeline. 

Episode 7 is about what would happen if Thor was an only child? All we got is him partying like a frat boy. How does that connect to him not having Loki in his life? Episode 3 was interesting because it was about someone killing the Avengers. When you learn who did it and why you're going to be outraged because this person's motivation makes no sense. The only original thing this show did is the zombie episode and that was awful. What ruined that episode is that it's trying to be funny which hurts the tone and the seriousness of the situation.

Well, to be fair this is a common problem with the MCU. Plus, the zombies are not as threatening as there were in the comics. I also notice some SJW moments in this show. How this series treats Thanos makes me sick! What this show has done with Uatu (The narrator of this show.) makes him look bad. There are two things we know about this character that is he sees and know everything. He can't interfere with what's going on in the universe. He didn't foresee one thing that was going to happen and he broke his rule of not getting involved. Yes! He did this in the comics, but he had no reason to do it here. 

I could have enjoyed that last two episodes if they were written better. The last two episodes are about what would happen if Ultron won? What bothers me about those episodes is that things shouldn't have played out the way they did in those episodes. I like how Steve and Peggy interact with each other in the first episode because this is something that the first Captain America film was missing. How this show slaps Captain Marvel around has me grinning. Overall, this series is a waste of time. You're better off watching the how it should have ended videos because they were better than this. Speak of them in order for season two to work Marvel Studios need to hire them to write season two.