I thought it was a fine episode. Nothing mind blowing. T'challa's super power must be leadership, lol. Everyone in the universe is falling over themselves to just be around him. The end got me choked up too. I knew it was coming, but it was sad.
Tried watching the Black Panther episode, but I find the animation really off-putting. Makes it difficult to watch for me.
"We steal from the rich and give to the poor. Just like that Earth folk hero of yours, right? Robin Leach."
I watched the first few minutes of the first episode, and it was just too silly. I'm interested in the MCU next phase of storylines, and hope this isn't something they want to be central to following that storyline. To me it comes off as super fans of something like Game of Thrones that have YouTube channels creating alternate endings for the series.
I think this series is mostly slice of life moments with nothing major or earthshattering. Prob a cliffhanger or something in the finale. Which is fine.
Just simply curious but did y'all read the What If...? comics growing up? If not, then your reaction to this series is what I would expect but that's not saying your reaction is incorrect. When this series was first announced I was excited about it because I used to read the What If...? comics all the time and enjoyed it as one-off story telling. But then the comic book fan in me wondered how are they going to make this entertaining and worthy of time for the MCU fan who is more in tuned with the movie storytelling than the comic story telling. I think if I never read the comics I would feel the same way as y'all have.
Yeah I read some comics in my early teens but was never a deep reader. I liked X-Men, X Factor, Superman (around the death and rebirth series) and had some Spider Man stuff. I liked the Spider Man 2000 stuff and wonder if there is any place for that in the MCU. But no never read What if.
I think Spider Man 2099 (if that's the one you're referring to) is definitely coming because it's achieved cult status. I wouldn't be surprised to see him in either the new Spider Man movie given his appearance in the ending credits of "Spider Man Into the Universe"
Ohh cool, and yeah that's what i was referring to. Never saw the Into the Spider Verse movie. I really just now binge watched the MCU during lockdown. Prior I was all high and mighty about not being a "Comic Movie" guy and even refused to watch the first Iron Man. I randomly stumbled on Thor Ragnarock on a flight a couple years ago and I think that was the first thing to peak my interest and pull me in.
I've read some of the comics, and it's the same. There are some gems that became its own limited series or more, but many people want that as the norm rather than the exception. BTW, is anyone getting sick irritated of that Marvel Studios intro? I'm conditioned to only seeing it 2-3 times a year with the expectation of seeing some big budget boom boom. Now it's like I hear it every week with only a gap a month in between
they overdid tchalla. he had none of that diplomacy superpower in the movies. how he turn thanos into a good guy when he can't even turn killmonger. we supposed to believe the ravagers brought him up with those values?
It’s entertaining, action scenes are good but it’s far too happy. What if? Was some of the darkest comics Marvel ever did. It gave the writers the ability to kill characters off left and right and change former happy endings into terrible ones. I’d much rather this be the Marvel version of DC Dark, but Disney won’t do it.
I've read a few. The ones I remember the most and liked were Galactus becoming Elvis, Storm as Jack Black (not the actor), and the Spider-man stories.
what if... T'challa was a better diplomat because he went into space and was never taught the jingoism of his father. The ravagers changed the moment they stole the wrong child. Ravagers were stealing stuff on some Robinhood type ish when we see T'Challa. T'Challa put those values onto the ravagers, lol.
