What If...?

It all started from first season when they really made us realized what if... ? In every vast imaginable possibilities for marvel comics. Mainly, it was a great effort through animations to make us understand the interconnections of every marvel movies and shows totally independent of each other and they did succeed by connecting X-Men, SpiderMan, Elektra, Blade, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, etc. Under one Brand and Studio.

But, they ultimately made this particular show's story totally oriented towards "The Captain Who Never Was" i.e. Peggy Carter, making it all about her along with extra irrelevant short What Ifs stories of other characters totally made for Fill Ups.

Talk about potential wasted. In a world where literally anything is available for them to do... They ran out of cool stories after the first season. The first season had fun, exciting, interesting stories - with our favourite marvel characters doing awesome things. Then the second season came along and they chose to focus on lame characters, and "what if's" that were no longer meaningful or interesting to watch. For a 30 min show things felt slow for much of each episode. Many of the episodes felt skippable and I had to resist zoning out. Where's more of the "zombie" level of What Ifs? That was crazy and wild. That's the kind of What If scenarios I wanted to see.

This is fun. I am enjoying every story.

Not all episodes are as good but overall it's worth it.

(The doctor strange episode for example was exceptional).

If you are a Marvel fan, you will probably like it, for these -and many more- following reasons:

1-Happy to hear all the voices from the MCU actors. Makes the starting titles interesting; you d wanna see who's in it.

2-The stories are captivating. There's some comedy, action, drama; a good range.

3-There's some great one-liners. New ones and also memorable ones.

4-The pace of each of the episodes is excellent. It really gets you into the story.

5-It does great tribute to MCU's pivotal points.

Give it a go, you will enjoy it.

8/10.

As much as I love the animation style and using the original actors for voice-overs, much of 'What If' fizzles and falls short. Many of the storylines have never really dwelt on what many Marvel and comic book fans would think of when asked 'What if?" To me, this series would be super successful if it actually gave an alternate perspective to known story lines. Episodes like: if Carter became the First Avenger, or Ultron Won, and even 1602 were great. Others just were weirdly, acid-trip induced crap.

As a longtime Marvel fan I never wondered if T'Challa became Star Lord, Nebulla joining the Nova Corps, or in the latest Season 3- Avengers made their own Voltron?!?!

What if the series took the original movies and did the opposite? What if Tony died or New York wasn't saved in Avengers? What if Killmonger succeeded in defeating T'Challa? What if the Guardians couldn't stop Ronan in a dance off?

These are possibilities that would have been fun to explore. Honestly Season 2 should've been the last one, because as evident in Season 3 Episode 1, there's not much imagination left. It's Voltron or Pacific Rim meets the Avengers. Dull and already been done.

Now that the first season is over, I can confidently say that this series has exceeded my expectations. It uses witty scripts and detailed animation to bring the fans the service they've been wanting and more. Each episode is quite varied so there are many different scenarios and you never know how it will turn out or which characters will show up. The series wastes no time explaining any of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and just gets to the point of the scenarios, and also starts to merge the scenarios without warning. This is for the fans, not casual viewers! However, the variety of episodes also means that the quality and tone also vary quite drastically. The short runtime means that many events and battles are cut short. There was a good amount of care to make everything canon and consistent, but there are still some shortcomings and the power/ability of each character seemed to be contrived based on the needs of the plot.