What If...?

[MarkB]

Dark and depressing, and done better elsewhere.

 

[Rabulias]

I half-expected Captain Carter to show up when Dark Strange summoned the tentacled thing, fulfilling the preview image shared by @RangerWickett earlier in this thread (What If...?). Looking at that image again it does look like Dark Strange and his different cloak.

Hmm... and this is the second time our tentacled friend has shown up. Maybe it's a binding element for this series? Perhaps it is also able to perceive the multiverse (being exposed to them by the Red Skull and Dark Strange)? Will it show up again as a threat to all realities? Or is that image just a deleted scene?

 

[Older Beholder]

This was my favourite episode so far in terms of the art and visuals.
I'm keen to watch it again, my first viewing was less What if...? and more What tf...?

 

[billd91]

Well, that got dark.

Lots of What If stories in the comics got dark.

 

[Older Beholder]

Lots of What If stories in the comics got dark.

I imagine the zombie episode isn't going to be too cheery either

 

[Tonguez]

eating an angry garden gnome was wholly inappropriate!

and what if this doctor has no way home?

 

[Janx]

As noted, a dark episode

What caught my ear was Strange's talk with The Watcher.

the way he talked about time, and how you can't change time, etc runs counter to what the TVA had been doing for a very long time.

 

[Ryujin]

As noted, a dark episode

What caught my ear was Strange's talk with The Watcher.

the way he talked about time, and how you can't change time, etc runs counter to what the TVA had been doing for a very long time.

Well this time issue is a bit different. the TVA were pruning alternate timelines, creating just the one. The Watcher was talking about once an alternate timeline has been set and The Ancient was talking about key events, that can't be changed. In this case that key event is what created the alternate.

 

[Rune]

Well this time issue is a bit different. the TVA were pruning alternate timelines, creating just the one. The Watcher was talking about once an alternate timeline has been set and The Ancient was talking about key events, that can't be changed. In this case that key event is what created the alternate.

The TVA doesn’t create the (so-called) “sacred timeline.” They just don’t prune it.

Spoiler: Spoiler for Season 1 of Loki

(Also, presumably the “sacred timeline” of the “new” Kang-led TVA we get at the end of Season 1 is a different “sacred timeline.” One that would have produced that particular variant of Kang.)

 

[trappedslider]

Not to be picky, but I do believe that road should have had a no passing sign due to the curve ahead. Absolute point is also done in the remake of the Time Machine. Save the girl, no point in building the time machine.