What If? Season 3 discussion with spoilers

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New episodes every day from, erm, yesterday.

First What If… We Did That Avengers Mech Idea That Seems To Pop Up Every Few Years.

Not a concept that’s ever interested me, unfortunately. Don’t know if it’s because of that, but it took me a little while to work out who some of the characters were (Moon Knight, for instance, who I didn’t recognise til I saw his mech). But yeah, it was fine. Nice animation as always, just feels a waste of a spot in this final season.

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Thought it was really boring to be honest. Just did nothing for me.

Episode 2 What If… There Were Some Decent Bits Of The Eternals We Salvaged To Put With A Character That’s Actually Popular was a lot of fun! Really gorgeous animation.

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Todd, Uncle Retrospective

Uncle Retrospective wrote:

Thought it was really boring to be honest. Just did nothing for me.

The official Marvel TV tagline.

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How do you do an episode about Super Robots and not include Leopardon?

Episode 3 was nice dumb fun.

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Martin Smith wrote:

Episode 3 was nice dumb fun.

Yes it was. Loved it.

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Todd

I feel incredibly targeted by episode 3

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Uncle Retrospective, Todd

lorcan_nagle wrote:

I feel incredibly targeted by episode 3

I don’t know what you’re talking about, comrade.

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My heart sank a little bit when I saw the title for this one being Darcy and Howard the Duck, but it was fun. Nice excuse to see villains there isn’t much scope to use much otherwise. I was dreading seeing what was in that egg though. Could have been much more horrorific.

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Uncle Retrospective

Such a fun episode. Loved it.

Episode 5 “What If You Appreciated All The Eternals Actually Did For The World You Ungrateful so-and-sos”: pretty grim. I think the best element was Uatu’s narration which built nicely to his actions and thus the season’s bigger story.

Episode 6 “What If Westerns Y’all.”: kinda disappointing. Bit boring mainly. Weird that it debuted the Hood. I thought that was just going to a generic alias for a villain reveal but no it’s the actual Hood – well, his cloak anyway. Also a bit disappointing they didn’t fit in a cameo from Rawhide Kid or someone. Kid Colt is already canon (he was sort of in Agent Carter), he’d be perfect.

Yeah, episode 5 and 6 sort lay bare the limitations of the show in general – 5 does nothing with the concept of the Emergence, it could have been any earth-shattering kaboom, like even the one from the alternate future in Agents of SHIELD, it’s just an excuse to throw a combination of characters together for some action.  And in 6 it’s the use of all contemporary characters for the western setting.

I liked 7. Natasha Lyonne as the very 80s metal daughter of Howard and Darcy is a bizarre concoction but fun (I thought for a moment she was called Debbie as a nod to Debbie Duck from Starbrand). Surprised to hear the name Exiles used. Slightly bittersweet as I guess it means we’re no more than five months away from Marvel comics launching Captain Carter and the Exiles featuring no trace of Blink let alone Morph.

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Martin Smith wrote:

I liked 7. Natasha Lyonne as the very 80s metal daughter of Howard and Darcy is a bizarre concoction but fun (I thought for a moment she was called Debbie as a nod to Debbie Duck from Starbrand). Surprised to hear the name Exiles used. Slightly bittersweet as I guess it means we’re no more than five months away from Marvel comics launching Captain Carter and the Exiles featuring no trace of Blink let alone Morph.

A version of Captain Carter already showed up in the short-lived Saladin Ahmed/Javier Rodriguez version of the Exiles in 2018.

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lorcan_nagle

Yeah, I know. I did not like that series.

Well that was a decent enough finale, again constrained by the limitations of the show as it existed.  The big fight was visually impressive but also a bit hard to take seriously when four of the combatants were Watchers with their big baby beads.

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Martin Smith, Todd

Yeah, some great animation for a serviceable story.

I get the feeling this is the last season only because Disney never lets anything go beyond three seasons unless it gets rebranded slightly (for contract chicanery reasons) and that that might happen here.

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Todd, lorcan_nagle

I almost threw my crisps at the TV when it went Go Team Watcher! Didn’t enjoy that at all.

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