I’ll be interested to see if the movie can make a more convincing case with the non-interference, because it seems like “We were told not to!” is kind weaksauce given the events of the MCU and so on.

He’s ultimately defeated when Skeletor forces him to jog at a brisk pace for two minutes.

I’m just going to throw this out there, but it seems likely to me that Mackie has an agent that is negotiating these things for him, and it’s also likely that said agent hadn’t told Mackie yet. Or possibly negotiations weren’t complete even though the movie was a done deal.

Also, I like sauteeed mushrooms on my steak and steakhouses charge $4-6 for a piddly 3 or 4 sauteed mushrooms. When I make a steak at home, I can just bury it in a pile of sauteed mushrooms.

“This guy’s Cap?! HIS REAL NAME’S CLARENCE!”

There’s no word on the director for this film yet, or if Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier will be in it

I think this may be the key:

I wasn’t a fan of Sam Wilson in the comics, and I’m definitely in the G. Willow Wilson camp of why the “kill off/disgrace heroes to shoehorn another character in” is less than optimal, but the MCU really profited off of Anthony Mackie’s charisma, and I’m excited to see a film starring him.

But technically both plans are flawed? Without intervention, populations will eventually grow to use the resources available, you can’t permanently fix lack of resources either by cutting the population in half once or by increasing the total number of resources once. Really Thanos should be running intergalactic…

Hell, Cosmo is free! That makes this whole thing worth it alone.

As pointed out in the AV Club review (by Sam Barsanti), I think Nebula being blonde was to emphasize the femme fatale nature of her character in this timeline. Loved her calling him “Cha-Cha”!

This iteration of Thanos “the gardener” made me think of Moses Hightower (Bubba Smith) briefly becoming a florist in Police Academy.

Except for the implication that the Peter of this timeline is probably going to sign on for Ego’s plan and the universe will suffer.

Thank you Steve, Thor, Korg, even Hela, for your sacrifice... because this universe is ABSOLUTELY better than the Sacred Timeline. Thanos isn’t a bad guy (which is more important than him being a good guy)! Nebula isn’t horribly abused and is mentally healthy (though... blonde, Marvel? Her comic book self has dark hair…

Normally I think I would agree with you, however since the idea of What If is to turn the original stories upside down, it makes sense to take a screw-up like Quill and replace him with someone naturally competent and capable like T’Challa.

Very good episode, and all the actors are clearly having a ton of fun (especially Hounsou who is really going for it).

I don’t know about you, but for me it’s been somewhat cathartic seeing universes in this show where good wins in a fucking rout. 

I think him having to fight the Collector, who was clearly too strong to be defeated alone, wasn’t part of the original plan, and therefore a “misstep”? It was also a setup for Yondu to come back and help, so narratively it had to happen, but in-universe it was things going wrong.

She clearly recognizes that he was a horrifically abusive monster of a parental figure, if you could even call him that. That’s the main tension in their relationship. And... it just felt kinda disgusting that they gave him an arc where she basically forgives him.

I loved just about everything about this episode. Good humor, great embrace of the “What If” concept, utterly fantastic realization of this alternate-but-still-familiar T’Challa that’s just all wholesome heart, good acknowledgement that not all these what-if versions will end well even if it was tacked on at the end,…