I wasn’t expecting it to end on that note, damn… Spoiler First time the Watcher actually interacts with someone.
Is this the zombie episode? I’ve been screening these before showing the kids because they made it clear they do not want to watch that one.
It doesnt have zombies but..yeh..pretty dark. Make sure to watch it first before showing it to your kids. They might not like it. Trust me.
Thanks. I will watch first. So far they've been fairly tame, much like most (not all) of the other Marvel Studio projects. But the teasers for this were hinting things got dark.
I'm often telling people that animation is a medium not a genre so I really enjoyed the tonal difference between this week's What If and last weeks compared to the first two. Spoiler: best part THE CAPES WERE FIGHTING
Great episode. It had some plot weaknesses/nitpicks imo, but the strength of the story handily carried it through. Spoiler I liked the fight between Stranges and I was shocked that the good Strange lost. This episode had a good further exploration of the mystic arts via the library and the mystic beings. The dark Strange's regression throughout the episode was a gripping arc, it was perturbing seeing how much horror he put himself through. It was an intriguing development that the Watcher had more of a role in this episode; dark Strange feeling his presence already felt like a big moment, for then the ending to come and Wright's booming voice to condemn him to his fate. Speaking of said fate, damn. That was a bleak ending. It took guts to leave things off like that, and I commend them for it. However, will this be the last we see of dark Strange? I could be seeing connections where there aren't any, but there's been a lot of speculation after the No Way Home trailer about an imposter or villainous variant Strange facing Peter. In the train scene, the garbs Strange is wearing are a lot darker than the blue he normally wears & that and a few other bits can be interpreted as Strange fighting Peter. Could this Strange, now even further broken (if that's even possible) by the collapse of his universe, make the jump to the Sacred Timeline in NWH and be the big bad trying to somehow restore his universe at the cost of the ST? I could be getting 7 out of 2+2 here, but it's where my mind went. This Strange having a big role in an upcoming movie would give a meta-reasoning for why this is the episode where the Watcher interacted.
All I kept thinking in this episode was do the show runners know what type of doors a Lamborghini Huracan has, cause it sure as shit is not scissor doors.
Well, that was a crazy episode. I like that they’re willing to go darker with this series, or at least do downer endings. This is the kind of stuff I hope we do still see in Multiverse of Madness. The ending with the Watcher was also really poignant and a downer.
Well Spoiler There’s a clip in the trailer where Strange is talking to Captain Carter, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he did have more appearances in the future.
Finally took some time to watch at least the first two episodes, the animation is a lot more impressive than I anticipated from the promotion screencaps. "Captain America: The First Avenger" is still my favorite MCU film, so the Captain Carter story became a quick fav, and the T'Challa episode was just good feels all the way through Spoiler I like that there was a better outcome for Collector's ill-fated attendant girl, an aspect that was always uncomfortable to me in the original GoTG, and Laika tagging along was just brownie points to me
