What If...?

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Loki starts after the first Avengers movie, but ends after Endgame, so if someone were to foolishly watch Loki before all the other movies, they would be spoiling all sorts of stuff from the other Avengers movies. Plus, we need the emotional investment in Loki from watching all his movie appearances, and especially his death, first, or the story of the variant Loki in the series is greatly diminished.

 

[Morrus]

Loki starts after the first Avengers movie, but ends after Endgame,

We know it starts right after the first Avengers movie, goes back to the time of Pompeii and one point, jumps to the end of time, and then ends ... somewhen (not sure)? It definitely spans the entire MCU timeline though.

 

[MarkB]

One would think that being trapped in an extradimensional space with an eldritch horror would have returned Captain Carter insane. Kind of a "lose all sanity points" event.

I had the impression that essentially no time passed for her - she went in swinging, and came back out moments later from her perspective in a spray of chopped tentacles.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

We know it starts right after the first Avengers movie, goes back to the time of Pompeii and one point, jumps to the end of time, and then ends ... somewhen (not sure)? It definitely spans the entire MCU timeline though.

That "somewhen" is definitely the start of the multiverse, which when plugged into the linear timeline, is after Endgame and should be at the same time as the end of WandaVision, because I am sure those voices of her children that Wanda hears in the end credits scene are them calling from an alternate timeline, which did not exist when she fled the town, before she went off to that cabin to study. But since Loki is all over the place, it does not have a real spot in the timeline like everything else. We have to place it based on any spoilers it contains from the movies, which again, is why I would never tell anyone to watch it until they had at least watched all the movies that include Loki.

Now, as for episode 2 about Star Lord T'Challa, according to interviews with Kevin Keige, Chadwick was so into the whole voice work stuff that his episode is going to influence Black Panther 2 and it sounds like there are extra voice work clips that may get used in the movie. So we might actually have an explanation in his voice in the movie for why T'Challa does not physically appear.

 

[trappedslider]

well, that one had a very big impact on the verse.

 

[Davies]

Having just watched that episode, I can confirm that his work here is excellent, demonstrating wonderful comedic talent. Of course, that just makes me that much sadder that he's gone.

 

[Ryujin]

"What if..." made me remember the comic. It's not just "What if 'x' happened instead", but rather like going to the Chinese drive-through in "Dude, Where's My Car?" "And then... And then... And then..." I did enjoy it very much though.

 

[Tonguez]

Episode 2 What if T'challa became Starlord
Hmmm not sure I enjoyed this episode as much as the first one, nice range of characters but less overall action and a bit of implausible perfection. No spoilers yet....

 

[MarkB]

Hmm. An interesting take, I guess, but I'm not sure it does either T'Challa or the Guardians any favours.

EDIT:

Spoiler

And why is this character even called Starlord? Peter took that name because it's what his mother used to call him. T'Challa, if he went for anything along those lines, would've been Star Prince.

 

[embee]

I had the impression that essentially no time passed for her - she went in swinging, and came back out moments later from her perspective in a spray of chopped tentacles.

I got that too. But...

She followed some incomprehensible being of limitless malevolence into its dimension where time and space mean nothing. In those scenarios, there is no happy ending for the hero. Even if they save the world, it comes at the cost of their sanity. When the captain of the Alert stopped Cthulhu, he wound up insane afterward.

I'm sorry but there isn't enough superserum in the multiverse to keep someone from going insane after tangling with one of the many unfathomable horrors that lurk outside of the bounds of our reality in timeless undeath, waiting for the time when the stars are right again and rents in the fabric of our delicate exist tear open, freeing them from their prison beyond the stars.