What If...?

[Ryujin]

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.

Plenty of roads in North America have signs like "No passing - Next 10 Miles", then use a solid double white/yellow line to indicate it. Of course there are many people who think they know better. You can occasionally see prime examples of this mindset in the galleries at Killboy – The ORIGINAL Dragon Photographer – Tail of the Dragon Photos

 

[MarkB]

To be fair, Strange did narrowly avoid death-by-driver-arrogance in this timeline. He evaded the oncoming car, and the crash was caused by some other speeding maniac who was clearly taking the turns with no regard for minimum stopping distances.

 

[embee]

My biggest gripe is the Cliche-Combo in the climax. Same Fight + Dueling Magic + It All Comes Down To Punching.

Otherwise, I liked it. The Twilight Zone ending kind of redeemed it.

 

[embee]

Not to be picky, but I do believe that road should have had a no passing sign due to the curve ahead.

Welcome to the joys of driving on New York City highways.

Plus, if you're really going to be picky, your gripe should be either the lack of traffic volume or the relative pothole-free nature of the highway.

 

[embee]

I would argue that :

1: That fundamental arrogance was likely instrumental in becoming the brilliant surgeon who successfully performed a procedure so risky no one else would even attempt it.

2: That fundamental arrogance is on display throughout the episode.

Is it possible that both (1) isn’t true and (2) is a personality shift that only happens after the accident? It’s not impossible. But I don’t buy it.

Hemispherectomies are rare, and usually reserved for children with severe untreatable epilepsy, but they are done.

And yes, it is exactly what it sounds like.

 

[Rune]

Hemispherectomies are rare, and usually reserved for children with severe untreatable epilepsy, but they are done.

And yes, it is exactly what it sounds like.

And what makes it a “radical” hemispherectomy? And why is completing it successfully worthy of an award?

I stand by my assessment. The fiction of the show presents the procedure as something so risky that others wouldn’t try. Or, at the very least, can’t pull off.

 

[embee]

Given that a hemispherectomy is where they remove an entire hemisphere of the brain, I'd say any successful one is pretty radical. Possibly even totally tubular. Definitely awesome at the very least.

I think that the award he was receiving was the "Huzzah! There's Not Going To Be A Medical Malpractice Lawsuit!" Award from the Medical Insurance Underwriters' Alliance.

 

[MarkB]

And what makes it a “radical” hemispherectomy? And why is completing it successfully worthy of an award?

Maybe he he invented the "radical" version of the procedure.

 

[Umbran]

Sure, but the Marvel universe doesn't follow that rule. When Thanos used the Time stone to reverse time in order to prevent Wanda from destroying the Mind stone, it didn't result in a paradox where he went back ten seconds over and over again only for some other circumstance to shatter the stone before he could claim it.

I think he didn't actually travel in time there. IIRC, Wanda remembers the incident, and how Vision effectively dies twice. If Thanos traveled back in time and undid the first death, Wanda wouldn't remember it, because it never happened.

With the stones he had in his possession, he could stay in the timestream normally, but walked some of the physical events backwards. So, the world kept turning, but Vision got reassembled.

 

[MarkB]

I think he didn't actually travel in time there. IIRC, Wanda remembers the incident, and how Vision effectively dies twice. If Thanos traveled back in time and undid the first death, Wanda wouldn't remember it, because it never happened.

With the stones he had in his possession, he could stay in the timestream normally, but walked some of the physical events backwards. So, the world kept turning, but Vision got reassembled.

Fair. The other example is, of course, the time heist. By stealing the infinity stones first, the Avengers should have prevented Thanos from getting his hands on them in this timeline and therefore from enacting the Snap that motivated the Avengers to attempt time travel. Instead, each heist splits off a new timeline.

I suppose it's possible that Strange was deliberately trying to prevent the splitting-off of a new timeline, wanting to save his Christine rather than to merely create a variant of her that survived.