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Originally Posted by Coach
Season 2 of What If...? Is pretty good. Some are excellent. My alternate titles/scores/reviews:
1. Nebula: Blade Runner - 9/10 - Felt like a an episode of GOTG with an alternate team.
2. Avengers '88 - 8/10 - Could have been part of the main timeline. Cool to see some vintage Avengers in action.
3. Hulk Hogan With Avengeance - 6/10 - Meh. Christmas. Die Hard references.
4. Pod Racer: Sakar - 7/10 - Some cool scenes and good humour.
5. Captain Carter: Hydra Stomper - 7/10 - Pretty formulaic. Again Captain Carter and Captain America basically mirror each other.
6. Kahhori - 10/10 - Very cool new character. Apparently the episode is in the Mohawk language, also very cool.
7. Hela and the 10 Rings - 8/10 - A fun smashing of the cosmic/mystical stuff. Voice cast stood out in this one IMO.
8. Marvel 1602 - 7/10 - None of this makes any sense. A lot of it was very fun. Some of it was very dumb (Rodgers Hood). Favreau is amazing, obviously having a blast.
9. Avengers: Strange World - 8/10 - Pretty much completely outrageous. Laughably so at points. But it's a lot of fun and I'm glad when let off the leash, things get pretty crazy in Marvel-land.
Overall this was a fun series. I'd say I probably enjoyed it more overall than season 1, but season 1 was a bit more "connected" and sort of made a bit of sense? The ending of this one got way out of control but I liked it. Lots of returning cast members to voice their parts. Recommend if you liked the first and enjoy Marvel in general.
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I liked it a lot more than season 1,
I think partially prior expectations, because they went in with a similar format, in my head cannon, the Hela at the start of 8 was the same character as the 10 rings Hela, and the universe with Happy Freak is the one where Cap hit's the time stone. I'm thinking it all comes together a little bit better than we saw.
I've for a while wondered if they could do a story where in the 70s, Howard Stark, Ant Man, Wasp, Goliath, Captain Bradley, not sure who else was active at the time could team up on a small scale. I guess we got a little bit of that.
One thing I just don't know if Marvel can do / has the will power to do, is stop introducing characters for a while and stop leaning on their old characters. Let Tony Stark and Steve Rogers rest, give us some follow up on Tiamuts head or Shan Chi or Blade and the Black night, or one of the threads you've left lingering. Kahhori was undoubtedly the best Marvel content this year, but I also think in the long run if they can't gain a little bit of focus on the pieces they already have on the table they'll continue to struggle.