What If...?

[Older Beholder]

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

So, I wasn’t completely right. Today‘s episode had it’s far share of humour.

 

[Tonguez]

Ep 5 Zombies

I actually liked this story, at least once I chewed it over, mainly for the range of characters used and the overall hopefulness.
Baba Yaga foreshadowing, Hulk gets redeemed - but the end scene!

 

[Stalker0]

Yeah, it's basically the unstoppable force versus the immovable object.

as a funny aside, this commonly cited “paradox” is really no paradox at all. An unstoppable force would simply move through an immovable object without affecting it. Done and done.

 

[embee]

So, I wasn’t completely right. Today‘s episode had it’s far share of humour.

I got real tired real quick of Lang's quipping.

I think it was tonally all over the place and not in a good way. Then again, with only a couple exceptions, I like my zombie apocalypse bleak and depressing. For me, the best ZA stories are 28 Days Later and "The Grove" episode of TWD.

 

[Rune]

I got real tired real quick of Lang's quipping.

I think it was tonally all over the place and not in a good way. Then again, with only a couple exceptions, I like my zombie apocalypse bleak and depressing. For me, the best ZA stories are 28 Days Later and "The Grove" episode of TWD.

I like my zombie stories to be about inter-personal conflict, as per Romero’s films. This episode wasn’t very much of that.

But the zombies were slow and lumbering, as they should be, so that’s good. Fast zombies are boring. Why even bother making them zombies at that point?

Conclusion: this episode was…alright.

 

[MarkB]

The last couple of these do feel like a waste of an episode.

Spoiler

If the answer to the "what if?" is "everything is awful, the whole universe dies", that's not really an interesting scenario.

 

[Rune]

The last couple of these do feel like a waste of an episode. If the answer to the "what if?" is "everything is awful, the whole universe dies", that's not really an interesting scenario.

It isn’t a waste if the purpose is to drive home the idea that there real stakes in the multiversal adventures to come. They probably won’t be able to explore that facet very thoroughly in the movies.

 

[MarkB]

It isn’t a waste if the purpose is to drive home the idea that there real stakes in the multiversal adventures to come. They probably won’t be able to explore that facet very thoroughly in the movies.

It just feels a bit like stating the obvious. We already know that in the really big movies the stakes are very high, and that if things had gone even a little bit differently, it would have ended in disaster. If Doctor Strange spelling out the odds of success at 1 in 14,000,605 isn't enough, I'm not sure what is.

 

[Rune]

It just feels a bit like stating the obvious. We already know that in the really big movies the stakes are very high, and that if things had gone even a little bit differently, it would have ended in disaster. If Doctor Strange spelling out the odds of success at 1 in 14,000,605 isn't enough, I'm not sure what is.

It’s not a statement of the concept. It’s a reinforcement. And a reasonably subtle one, at that, given that they aren’t specifically calling out the implications these failed universes will have on the multiverse at large.

Other than the Watcher’s comments that saving them would somehow mean catastrophe for the rest, of course.

 

[Rabulias]

If the answer to the "what if?" is "everything is awful, the whole universe dies", that's not really an interesting scenario.

Hmmm.... I think this What If? show is really one of the TVA's propaganda tools.