I’m rapidly moving into the “AV Club reviews are tedious bloviating” camp. I find it amusing that they give a B rating to an episode with the words “Failed Spectacularly” in the headline. Unless, of course, that’s just click bait. Although, the text of the article would seem to judge the episode more harshly than the…

In Endgame, The Ancient One says Doctor Strange was “meant to be the best of us”, but all I can think is that they keep making him into the most irresponsible man-child fuck-up in the universe. That includes what we’ve seen from the new Spider-Man trailer.

I was expecting Bad Strange’s ultimate trade-off in order to save Christine to be engineering events so that he loses something of near-equal value to him... the use of his hands, leading to the storyline seen in main MCU.

I don’t think that Stephen Strange would care that much if Christine died, not at that point. He was a self centered dick, it wouldn’t make him seek out ways to prevent her from dying. This would have made more sense if it was “What If... Stephen Strange was nicer?”

I gotta say, out of all these What If episodes so far, animated Stephen Strange really, *really* looks like Benedict Cumberbatch more than any character has looked like their movie counterparts. Not that they’re doing a bad job in the other episodes, they just really nailed his look here.

So...just the ending to Butterfly Effect?

What’s even more interesting is that he lost his shit AFTER going through his noble sacrifice/heroes’ journey. So, after he saw the Ancient One fall, and after Mordo went rogue, and after Kaecilius and Dormmamu.

I thought the twist was he undoes everything to the point where we got to the normal MCU timeline. Not this bleak crap.

I also think it’s a thing where once not-Kang (he wasn’t Kang, per se) was killed and the multiverse regrew, in those universes they were always there, if that makes sense.  

To be fair, Dr. Who frequently fails at being Dr. Who.

I was surprised that they brought her back — she was only in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 (and maybe one of the One-Shots?). I wonder if she’ll be more of a regular appearance in What If? or the movies going forward.

Creating “our” timeline/universe is what I was expecting, too.

I thought the accent was better, but one line sounded horribly British. I don’t remember what it was.

My alternate definition for “Mary Sue” is basically “A character the author likes, but the audience doesn’t.” It is this weird attempt to create a storytelling rule where certain kinds of characters are inconsistently deemed bad, instead of addressing how well they were written within their own stories (There are…

This was probably the first What If episode I actually liked. I felt the first two episodes were too rigid, too confined by Disney/Marvel’s PG-13 standards, failing to push beyond the boundaries of conventional storytelling (either gender-swapping or simply role-switching established characters). Considering that…

Bob Zemeckis ever dies and stops preventing the studio from making more sequels.

Isn’t Bob Gale the one who is adamant about there being no more sequels? I’m sure Zemeckis is in agreement, but it seems he speaks up on the topic more often and he has the rights to the series or at least shares them with Zemeckis.

Murder hornets can't melt steel beams

I have not been eating USDA approved organic feed or forage.

The St. Louis County one was already overturned by the St. Louis County council. It was overturned almost immediately. I don’t know about the city, I don’t live or go there.

Oh, no! An inconvenience!