What If...? (Disney+)

[Sky]

Fuck the haters, this was killer.

I figured it would be good based on the nonsense here.

 

The art style worked well and whoever did the storyboarding/set shots composition needs a raise. Lots of frames were straight artwork.

[Teleku]

It was very well produced and by no means bad.  Just also sort of....meh?  Kind of boring.  In the end was hoping for something more wild and original.  Hopefully get that with some of the other episodes.

[schild]

I needed something short to watch while I was eating a torta.

Torta: 10/10
What If: 2/10, would not What If

[Velorath]

2nd episode is out, and I'm not sure why they're going with another "What if character X ended up becoming hero Y?" episode. Also kind of surprised they did the Chadwick episode this early in the series instead of holding on to it for the finale or something.

That said, they really had fun with this one and I enjoyed the heck out of it.

[Sky]

Also kind of surprised the did the Chadwick episode this early in the series instead of holding on to it for the finale or something.

May be related to the Avengers game dropping a Black Panther/Wakanda DLC yesterday?

[Threash]

This was great, RIP Chadwick.

[Setanta]

More Yondu was cool. Thanos being comic relief - cool. Cosmo and Howard references again. Yeah that was fun.

[Trippy]

Also kind of surprised the did the Chadwick episode this early in the series instead of holding on to it for the finale or something.

May be related to the Avengers game dropping a Black Panther/Wakanda DLC yesterday?

It would be the other way around. The DLC was presumably scheduled to be released when this episode was released.

Edit: be

[Threash]

Pretty sure that game bombed anyways.

[Trippy]

It did.

[Sky]

It's no X-Men Legends or Spider-Man, but it's a pretty solid game, maybe closest to Ultimate Alliance?

[eldaec]

Also kind of surprised the did the Chadwick episode this early in the series instead of holding on to it for the finale or something.

May be related to the Avengers game dropping a Black Panther/Wakanda DLC yesterday?

More likely they wanted to include it in the episodes released to reviewers for the Boseman goodwill.

[eldaec]

Pretty sure that game bombed anyways.

Missing my Marvel Heroes hit of clicking on things until they die and leave behind more trousers.

[Threash]

Pretty sure that game bombed anyways.

Missing my Marvel Heroes hit of clicking on things until they die and leave behind more trousers.

Fuck, I miss that shit game.

[Trippy]

Yeah me too, at least up until they fucked up all the movement powers.

[Surlyboi]

Captain Carter was cool. This was epic.

[Khaldun]

Ok, I loved this one. It was fun and really got the premise, I think.

[HaemishM]

"Captain Genocide!"

[Sky]

Pretty sure that game bombed anyways.

Missing my Marvel Heroes hit of clicking on things until they die and leave behind more trousers.

Fuck, I miss that shit game.

I prefer the controller stuff to clicking (diablo sucks lol), but you definitely get trousersish lewtz that is actually interesting to swap in/out (unless you're a minmax type, maybe). You can get gear that adds status effects, enhances abilities, changes some abilities or stack effects to bolster builds. Not +1% type stuff, Thor just got pants (a belt) that has a 50% chance to proc explosion when damaged (knockback/stun) and a hammer grip that adds explosions to certain hammer throws, a willpower (health) proc on his chest piece.

Main downside seems to be recycled assets and level re-use. There's a decent small town level that I've run through at least ten times. The gameplay is fun and I don't mind the repetition too much, but the grind is real and having few options to grind on is ultimately going to kill it for me at some point. That said, I can still run through 3 more DLC of story content at this point, so it's still well worth it in the $20 range (I think I paid $15 and have 40 hours so far, so...).

Anyway, sorry for the digression I never do that! 

[eldaec]

I really didn't like the idea of the second one but turns out it was great.

[Samwise]

"Starlord" was Peter Quill's childhood nickname from before he got picked up by the Ravagers.  How did T'Challa end up with it?

UNSUBSCRIBED!

[Teleku]

Well, unlike Quill, he is an actual Lord.  :p


And this was significantly better than the first episode.  Loved how how they kept ramming home just how much better the entire Galaxy is with T'Challa becoming Starlord rather than Quill.

[Khaldun]

Yeah, that was hilarious.

[Raguel]

Finally saw the second episode. Fantastic episode. May watch the third in  a bit but I'm actually trying to sleep for once.

edit: couldn't sleep so finished ep 3. Really good episode. It borrows more moments from the films than the 2nd episode but IMO doesn't fall into the trap of the 1st.

[eldaec]

Enjoyed number 3. What really stood out was how much better Lake Bell was as Black Widow.

Also, it didn't try to squeeze too much into run time of the show. Which both the previous episodes were guilty of.

[Threash]

Enjoyed number 3. What really stood out was how much better Lake Bell was as Black Widow.

Also, it didn't try to squeeze too much into run time of the show. Which both the previous episodes were guilty of.

I bought Lake Bell as BW more than Renner and Hiddleston as themselves. Whoever did Liv Tyler also did a good job.

[Teleku]

This was good, but firmly between the first and second one.  Kind of fell into the trap of the first one of just trying to remind everybody of all the plot that happened in the past they probably forgot about, instead of doing anything particularly original.  Also, subject was sort of dark and a bit of a downer.  Still, good entertainment.

[Threash]

I didn't see it that way, this one deviated completely from expectations in like the first minute.

[Teleku]

Err, every single plot point went to different movies in the mcu, showed how they started, then suddenly changed them.  There was very little original content separated from them redoing scenes from several movies but then having the avenger die suddenly.  Very little actual new content overal.

I liked the way they took the story with all this, mind you, and it helped flesh out Fury and some side characters better.  But I just feel these things are better when they pick a hero an do something totally different with them, instead of endless callbacks to previous movies.

[Velorath]

I think part of the problem is that they're doing What If? when they've essentially got 22 stories to work with (or possibly less depending on how they're able to handle Spider-man's movies) and also can't introduce characters who haven't already appeared in the MCU.

Episode 3 was fine, although a fairly standard alternate reality trope in that you can get away with killing a bunch of characters off because it doesn't really matter.

[Khaldun]

Yeah, What If in the comics had thousands of storylines to work with. And sometimes they didn't even fucking bother with actual stories and did what DC would call "Imaginary Stories", like the wretched one where the FF became a butterfly, a giant brain, a dude with robot arms and I forget what the other one was.

[Velorath]

Apparently they were going to do What if Spider-man turned into a spider? but they said it was pretty much going to end up too Cronenberg to be on D+ so they axed the idea.

[Khaldun]

Didn't stop Marvel itself from having Spider-Man kill Mary Jane in an alternative future with radioactive cum.

Anyhoo, I liked this one a lot. I don't think it had the problem of the first one--it referenced the movies without getting stuck to them. Also fun to see Ruffalo's likeness overwrite Norton's likeness...

[eldaec]

Enjoyed number 3. What really stood out was how much better Lake Bell was as Black Widow.

Also, it didn't try to squeeze too much into run time of the show. Which both the previous episodes were guilty of.

I bought Lake Bell as BW more than Renner and Hiddleston as themselves. Whoever did Liv Tyler also did a good job.

This show is marking out a bunch of actors who it turns out are not great at voice work.

[Khaldun]

I think that's right, actually--I've been kind of surprised at how "is that actually that guy?" the voice work has been. Turns out you have to be good at it to do it, who would have thunk it?