I was very excited about the What If series, on a level similar to LOKI.
The first episode has Agent Carter becoming Captain Carter, and the episode feels as if someone was describing a movie to me in a rushed manner. Obviously there are references to the original MCU for YouTubers to microanalyze, but it almost comes off as a simple kids show with characters fighting and blowing stuff up.
The show could have had a much better story, because after all, we are dealing with the multiverse here. Instead Captain Carter still returns from the inter dimensional void after 70 years, and has not aged much here ( Tesseract was the space stone, not the time stone right?), Bucky and Steve are dead probably, and Nick Fury and Clint Barton still end up in 2012 working on the Tesseract. The writers must have skimped on the brainstorming part here. And how did WW2 era Stark design the Hydra Stomper so fast? Or how did Red Skull have the portal machine for Tesseract ready and waiting, when just a while back they discovered it?
The animation is good, though the characters reach quite close to the uncanny valley, as you keep comparing them to the live actors. The facial features which look quite good in stills and feature art seem unnatural animated. The charm of the respective actors on screen is lost in this.
At this point I am just hoping they do Chadwick Boseman justice here.
The first episode has Agent Carter becoming Captain Carter, and the episode feels as if someone was describing a movie to me in a rushed manner. Obviously there are references to the original MCU for YouTubers to microanalyze, but it almost comes off as a simple kids show with characters fighting and blowing stuff up.
The show could have had a much better story, because after all, we are dealing with the multiverse here. Instead Captain Carter still returns from the inter dimensional void after 70 years, and has not aged much here ( Tesseract was the space stone, not the time stone right?), Bucky and Steve are dead probably, and Nick Fury and Clint Barton still end up in 2012 working on the Tesseract. The writers must have skimped on the brainstorming part here. And how did WW2 era Stark design the Hydra Stomper so fast? Or how did Red Skull have the portal machine for Tesseract ready and waiting, when just a while back they discovered it?
The animation is good, though the characters reach quite close to the uncanny valley, as you keep comparing them to the live actors. The facial features which look quite good in stills and feature art seem unnatural animated. The charm of the respective actors on screen is lost in this.
At this point I am just hoping they do Chadwick Boseman justice here.