Pointed out elsewhere that if the Ancient One can split Strange in two without either of them noticing, she could have easily done the same to Christine. Or faked her death while keeping the real one frozen until it's time to reveal the truth to Strange after he stops Dormammu.
The over-analysis and nit-picking going on in this thread is impressive. P.S. - I'm with you. Loving this series.
I don't know why, but I thought we were getting 10 episodes of What If...? But episode 5 seems to have ended on a cliffhanger. Is it over? I think this is my favorite D+ Marvel show yet. It's between this and WandaVision. Head and shoulders above the others, IMHO.
I assumed, like with the Agent Carter and Star-Lord T'challa ones, there could be revisiting those particular worlds at some point, but that what we see next week will be a new premise.
I don't know... The end of the previous episodes seemed to come to a natural end point, IMHO. Captain Carter thawed out in 2010 NY, Dead Avengers mystery solved and the end of the freakin' universe... This one ended with Zombie Thanos with his incomplete Infinity Gauntlet and Peter Parker with the Mind Stone in Wakanda. If they don't pick back up on this next week, I'm going to be... perplexed.
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I wouldn't be mad if they did end up doing this at all, but that would mean ther's 2 versions of T'Challa. Starlord T'Challa and Peg-Leg amputee T'Challa from the Zombie universe. Seems a little unlikely, IMHO. Just watched the last few minutes again... I guess it can be assumed that T'Challa & Pete are successful in broadcasting the Mind Stone frequency all over the world and curing the Zombie outbreak. However, that will leave them unprepared for Thanos. Probably something better left to the imagination rather than flesh it out further. I really dig this show!! There will be 9 episodes, BTW.
The Captain Carter one had her being brought back from Dimension X by Fury, with the implication that she might engage in some of the adventures that Cap did in the main MCU. The T'Challa Starlord one ended with Ego showing up to Earth to find Peter Quill, with the implication that the two of them teaming up with bad implications for that universe. The Avengers murdered had both Loki taking over the world and Fury possibly starting to put together the seeds of a resistance with Captain Marvel and frozen Cap to stop him. I would say only Doctor Strange seemed to run out of natural runway for story. He got told that if he tried to bring Christine back, it would unravel his universe, he f---ed around, he found out. One could stretch to have him escape his universe and come to another, but where that episode ended didn't state or imply much of an ongoing story.
I think The Watcher plucks one Avenger from each universe to battle a big bad (squid monster perhaps?) at the end. So Starlord T'Challa. My guess would be Captain Carter, Starlord T'Challa (give Chadwick Boseman one last kickass moment), Nick Fury/Captain Marvel (get fans ready for sequel), Our Dr. Strange (promote new movies), Spidey (promote new movies) , ???
the only thing about this that made me want to post a remark is that I kinda like the implicit "Can the Hulk take Wanda?" matchup that was obviously best not resolved
This show does not miss. I think the hypothetical nature lends it more to the episodic comic books from which this series came. It was a lot of fun to see Suri 10 or so years earlier and realize just how young she is in the movie. Quite the prodigy... and kudos to Marvel for their attention to detail. Again with the cliff hanger? So I guess in season 2 we'll follow up on some of these? How are they able to lure this level of talent away for episodic work on what must be a moment's notice? I know a few video game voice actors IRL and they all have voice booths installed in their homes so they can work remotely, but does RDJ, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman etc, have similar set ups? Whatever they're doing, keep doing it!
I imagine that it's not a moment's notice. When they were pitching What If? they probably had mapped out what stories they wanted to tell in the first season and did some preliminary overtures to the people who might be in them. When it came close to time to do the recording, they probably had a large window with which to operate. And since for the most part, nobody needed to be working simultaneously with other actors, they could just have each star do the work at their own convenience, probably at any time over the course of more than a couple months. I'd also imagine on the technology side, it would be pretty easy to convert a small room or a closet into a voice studio. I think someone in the Lower Decks thread talked some about the logistics behind it, but I could be making that up. Obviously all these people have the space to spare. I would imagine the top-notch talent gets paid more for what is probably a couple hours' work than the average person makes in a year, so I'm more surprised that any of the voice talent said no.
When I started doing voice-over for the agency I looked in to setting up a little space at home. Wouldn't have been that hard. But then events overtook things and I could use the studio at the agency again.
A lot of the really "big" actors aren't doing the voicework. RDJ, Paltrow, Evans, etc. never signed up. I mentioned this earlier in the thread. It's like those shitty 1980s Star Wars story records where Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels were the only original voice actors, and everyone else was doing bad imitations.
Michael B. Jordon, yes, RDJ and Gweneth Paltrow, no. I had to pause the credits though because the guy doing Tony sounded pretty close to RDJ.
I haven't seen the latest episode, but the first time Tony Stark showed up in episode three, he definitely didn't sound like RDJ. Same thing with the guy who did Steve Roger's voice in the first episode. YMMV
Its a FIXED POINT in TIMMMMME! LOL Despite that not being at all how time travel works anywhere else in the Marvel universe. And I particularly like how they chose the single guy who has the time stone with the ability to scan all the different timelines to be the one who doesn't foresee his inevitable actions destroy the universe, after being told several times that it would. That was an incredibly badly written episode. The animation is fantastic, it's pretty as hell, the fight scenes are dynamic, but WHAT IF? they had paid some decent writers.
To me, Mick Wingert didn't sound anything like RDJ. It was like someone trying to do an imitation. For this episode, it's easier to name those who didn't voice the character from the Cinematic Marvel universe Tony Stark - Mark Wingert Obadiah Stane - Kiff Vandenheuvel Pepper Potts - Beth Hoyt General Ross - Mike McGilly Shuri - Ozioma Akagha The first four, the actors from the films are fairly high profile, so could be budgetary reasons, or may require new contracts that would cost more than the studio is willing to pay. Letitia Wright is fairly new, so I don't think that the budget would be a factor, but then again I don't work for Marvel Studios.
Yeah, there doesn't seem to be anything inherently that says definitively "cross-over between various What If? universes" as opposed to "continuation of multiple What Ifs?" or even "exploration of one new What If? universe that was similar in ways to established What If? universes but distinct."
There's a company out there that's advertising that they can do deep fakes of celebrity voices (they're the same one who gave Roger Ebert a synthetic voice). What they're pitching it as is a way for celebrities to license their voices for things like commercial voice-overs, without having to actually show up and record the commercial. In reality, I'm sure that it's so that the folks recording the commercials don't have to put up with shit like this: Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a clause in a lot of future contracts for things like Marvel movies that Disney has the right to use deep fake voices of the cast from a Marvel film or TV series in an animated show like What If? Oh, and thanks to modern technology (and high-speed internet access), being able to set up an at-home voice recording station (or even a portable one) isn't terribly difficult or expensive. You can buy a high-quality recording mic for $20 that can connect via USB to a phone or PC. Put about 10 seconds of background noise at the start of your recording and any engineer worth their salt can make it sound almost as good as anything cut in a studio.
Ok... So Marvel really needs to reboot the entire MCU in What if... Thor Were an Only Child? universe.
