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I really liked the Captain Carter one, but I also really like crazy WWII super-science and seeing Nazis get punched in the face
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Because they all tie together at the end, you kinda need to watch them all. Even the “meh” ones are still not objectionable to sit through once. But if you only watch one, it’s the Doctor Strange episode. That’s the only one I think I’ll go back and watch again at any point. The rest was (fun but) disposable fluff.
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Oct 10, 2021 07:02
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Parkingtigers posted:Because they all tie together at the end, you kinda need to watch them all. Even the “meh” ones are still not objectionable to sit through once. Doctor Strange Lost His Heart was such a gut punch. It really stands above the rest of the season in terms of impact in my opinion. There's also a real gothic horror vibe going on. Has
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Proteus Jones posted:Favs in order: The problem with the Captain Carter episode was that it's basically just The First Avenger again but with Peggy as Cap. So it's just not as interesting to me. Fury's Bad Week and the Zombies episode were a little too dark for my liking. The Killmonger one seemed a little pointless.
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Oct 10, 2021 07:09
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Proteus Jones posted:Doctor Strange Lost His Heart was such a gut punch. It really stands above the rest of the season in terms of impact in my opinion. There's also a real gothic horror vibe going on. Has It's one of the only stories that isn't just a mashed-up reskin of existing stories. The others are all Thor-is Beuller's Day Off, Captain America The Thicc Avenger, Bleak Panther, uh... Night of the Living Head, and... um ... Ant-Man and the Dead Wasp? (I thought I had more when I started that sentence.)
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Oct 10, 2021 07:37
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Parkingtigers posted:(I thought I had more when I started that sentence.) Xenomrph posted:I really liked the Captain Carter one, but I also really like crazy WWII super-science and seeing Nazis get punched in the face Darth Brooks posted:Everybody's list is going to be different because the episodes were so different in tone.
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Oct 10, 2021 08:49
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It's eight 22-minute episodes, none of which are so bad or even so average you could call them skippable. Just watch them all, they're all good in different ways.
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Oct 10, 2021 09:45
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Just like the What If comic series, the MCU What If isn't the best or most important offering, but I'm very glad it exists. It's fun to play around with the characters and concepts in a setting.
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Oct 10, 2021 11:33
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I just love the way it celebrated Chadwick Boseman, hearing him again was beautiful. I love that T’Challa is essentially always a dashing, charming, handsome good guy no matter who raises him.
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Oct 10, 2021 11:38
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8one6 posted:It's eight 22-minute episodes, none of which are so bad or even so average you could call them skippable. Just watch them all, they're all good in different ways. Just gonna empty quote because this is the way.
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Oct 10, 2021 13:34
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If the last episode didn’t hand-cuffed the previous 7, I would have much preferred to see a Star Wars Vision approach where each story is handled by a different studio and given more liberty in terms of art direction. Or say gently caress it and have the last episode play the same but with very distinct art styles clashing as an indication of how different the universes are.
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Oct 10, 2021 16:35
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:If the last episode didn’t hand-cuffed the previous 7, I would have much preferred to see a Star Wars Vision approach where each story is handled by a different studio and given more liberty in terms of art direction. Or say gently caress it and have the last episode play the same but with very distinct art styles clashing as an indication of how different the universes are. That would be cool, but people would just call it an Into the Spiderverse ripoff.
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Oct 10, 2021 16:39
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Zil posted:Such a great running gag. I also liked that Queen of Fables has the "sassy black woman" voice (Wanda Sykes voices the character with the full power of Wanda Sykes) but is also just a flat-out loving nightmare of a person otherwise.
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Oct 10, 2021 17:42
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:If the last episode didn’t hand-cuffed the previous 7, I would have much preferred to see a Star Wars Vision approach where each story is handled by a different studio and given more liberty in terms of art direction. Or say gently caress it and have the last episode play the same but with very distinct art styles clashing as an indication of how different the universes are. This is my biggest personal what if for What If. I really wish every episode got to have its own completely distinct style.
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Oct 10, 2021 18:03
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I think the only What-If episode that's generally agreed to be a dud is the Killmonger one, because it doesn't really involve any characters behaving any differently to how they did in the normal canon, they just had some different opportunities. The only new thing you learn about Killmonger is, what, that he liked anime as a kid? Everything else is personal taste; some might feel that episodes are too dark or too silly or too zombies. Personally I like silly episodes best so Starlord T'challa and Party Thor are my tops.
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Oct 10, 2021 18:27
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Tenebrais posted:I think the only What-If episode that's generally agreed to be a dud is the Killmonger one, because it doesn't really involve any characters behaving any differently to how they did in the normal canon, they just had some different opportunities. The only new thing you learn about Killmonger is, what, that he liked anime as a kid? The Killmonger ep is the only one I have yet to finish. It was also probably the one most affected by spoilers. I was pretty much spoiled for every episode here. Killmonger was the only episode where I was "Despite knowing the plot points, do I care enough about this episode to watch them fully play out? No. No I do not."
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Oct 10, 2021 19:53
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Starlord is my fav episode because it really makes good on the promise of the show: one turn of fate can change so many people.
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Oct 10, 2021 21:46
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One issue is that too many episodes are 'What If The Villain Won' which makes some of the plots stale.
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Oct 10, 2021 23:14
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I have to admit I didn't like the Starlord episode because all the others feel like a fairly reasonable 'the road not taken' and here it's just 'T'Challa talked Thanos out of his plan by being awesome and also isn't really that different a person despite having a totally different upbringing'. Like once you've established your protagonist removed Thanos as a threat through sheer force of charisma it's hard to feel there's any risk to them. Also I just don't buy The Collector as an uber super-villain.
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Oct 11, 2021 00:05
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Yeah my biggest issue is them making The Collector into a major threat.
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Oct 11, 2021 00:31
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I will never poo-poo more Benicio Del Torro. 
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Oct 11, 2021 00:41
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Chilled out Thanos is cool even if he has that RPG boss problem where he's more of threat fighting against the heroes then he is fighting with the heroes.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Chilled out Thanos is cool even if he has that RPG boss problem where he's more of threat fighting against the heroes then he is fighting with the heroes. In Infinity War he had the various stones and a big-rear end space army. In Endgame he had the space army, that big double-sword things and occasional use of the stones. In the What If? episode he had none of those things, so reasonable power downgrade. Meanwhile, I've been checking the Marvel Rising/Secret Warriors stuff. I Flove Milana Vayntrub as Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel/ Kamala is adorable as well and that series damned well better let her have/keep her embiggening powers, too.
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Oct 11, 2021 04:19
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I watched most of the episodes; I skipped 2, 5, and 6. In hindsight, 3 also felt skippable. I enjoyed the rest, though, and I liked it coming together in the last couple of episodes.
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Oct 11, 2021 05:00
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Thanos bareknuckle boxed The Incredible Hulk and beat his cracker rear end, he doesn’t need poo poo
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Oct 11, 2021 05:59
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surf rock posted:I watched most of the episodes; I skipped 2, 5, and 6. In hindsight, 3 also felt skippable. I enjoyed the rest, though, and I liked it coming together in the last couple of episodes. So you skipped over a third of the episodes but liked it all coming together? It's 8 episodes less than 30 minutes each, I don't know why anything needs to be skipped
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Oct 11, 2021 13:02
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kazil posted:So you skipped over a third of the episodes but liked it all coming together? I didn't need to skip the last half or so of 6. I wanted to because I already knew the plot at that point and just didn't care enough about the episode itself to finish it.
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Oct 11, 2021 13:38
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Of all the must-watch TV out there it's probably fine to skip whatever episodes you want to of the animated marvel spinoff meant entirely as fanservice of no consequence
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Skipping episodes of a show that weaves them all together seems like texting/being absent through a good chunk of a movie, or skipping chapters of a book. Enjoy your entertainment however you please, but to me it's like you didn't really watch it.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:09
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I liked Chadwick as Black Panther. His movie was pretty good and he was just great on screen in general. But I find it absolutely cringe how many people seem to fetishize him. Feels like that kind of terminal Lib poo poo where you don't buy a ticket to see his movie because "you wanted more seats for black people available."
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Oct 11, 2021 19:16
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Everyone posted:I would guess probably not going to be a thing then. She got reasonably buff for the new Mission Impossible. Besides, do some hand-wavey "Works different with women, they get the same benefits, but just look more athletic than buff" technobabble and you're golden. Or just tell people to gently caress off, she's in shape and has super strength.
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Bust Rodd posted:Thanos bareknuckle boxed The Incredible Hulk and beat his cracker rear end, he doesn’t need poo poo He had the stone from Xandar at least at that point.
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Oct 11, 2021 19:56
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I dunno, I just assumed from that scene that Thanos was just from a planet like Venus with like 100x Earth’s gravity and acid diamond hail and everyone from the purple side of the planet was just an ultra-hulk badass. He appeared to be comparably strong, but with finesse and dexterity that caught Hulk off guard.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:11
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Its not like Hulk is unbeatable. He's taken down by the Hulkbuster. And just one movie prior Thor goes toe to toe with him without his hammer.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:23
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twistedmentat posted:He had the stone from Xandar at least at that point. The movie doesn't show him using it though, does it? Thanos also beat the poo poo out of Iron Man, Mjolnir Cap, and Stormbreaker Thor at the same time.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:32
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kazil posted:The movie doesn't show him using it though, does it? He is wearing it in the gauntlet at the time, so he presumably gets a power boost from that alone.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:45
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Everyone posted:Meanwhile, I've been checking the Marvel Rising/Secret Warriors stuff. I Flove Milana Vayntrub as Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel/ Kamala is adorable as well and that series damned well better let her have/keep her embiggening powers, too. The rumor is that they're changing Ms. Marvel's powers to be more like light constructs around her such as Green Lantern rather than her stretching. Maybe in part to keep her different from Reed Richards, maybe because stretching powers usually look pretty terrible and unsettling in live action, and maybe because of budget.
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Oct 11, 2021 21:03
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Didn't they cancel the Squirrel Girl thing?
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There's a bunch of animated movies called Marvel Rising that focuses on the Secret Warriors a team of teen heroes like Ms Marvel, Inferno, Spider-Gwen and others including Chloe Bennet voicing Quake. Milana Vayntrub voices Squirrel Girl in those. There was a New Warriors (a different team of teen heroes) live action pilot for Freeform that was supposed to star Milana Vayntrub as Squirrel Girl. That got passed on and died before any of it came to light.
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