What If... The Avengers Assembled in 1602?

It is a trip to the Elizabethan period than medieval times. Captain Carter lands in 1602.

Queen Hela is taken away by an entity but Captain carter is blamed by Hela's brother Thor.

He becomes king and wants Carter under arrest. Now Captain Carter has to prove her innocence and locate Hela.

She is joined by Tony Stark, Hulk and a Robin Hoodish Steve Rogers and his merry men of that era. There is even Happy Hogan as a musketeer type.

They all need to band together but it may not be enough. Instead some of them want to have their own mash up.

Captain Carter can also see the Watcher and she needs to persuade him to be more than an observer.

It was sometime hard to fathom why or how some of the people had superpowers such as Hogan.

It was fun with some inspiration from Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602. It is the kind of thing the What If... series should excel at.

We're again back to the main thrusting storyline of this season of "What If", this time a continuation from the previous Captain Carter episode, when she was dragged to the past. Specifically, we now know it's the year 1602 where a range of familiar faces are also around.

In 1602, rifts in time and space are appearing and dragging people presumably to their deaths. Captain Carter (Hayley Atwell) is trying to save people but when Queen Hela is taken, her brother Thor (Chris Hemsworth) becomes king and blames Carter for the loss, ordering her arrest. She escapes and, again talking to The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) she refuses to be taken home, even as he explains that the collapse of a Universe is a natural and inevitable thing. Deciding that the power of the Royal sceptre is key to saving this world, Carter turns to a merry band of men to steal it for her.

It's a strange mix of Marvel history here and vague 1600 information - the inspiration is Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602 series, though it's not a straight adaptation though, like the Marvel Zombie's of last season, it does seem to be the one storyline most suitable to becoming a spin off. I have to say that, in general, this seasons overarching story hasn't grabbed me as much as he first seasons did - though some of the individual episodes have been brilliant.

Again, it looks good, the vocal performances are either the actor themselves or a relatively good soundalike. I just feel like perhaps this episode isn't as fun as it should be, as it's hamstrung by servicing the wider plot.

Been following since season one. I've come to realised al the weak episodes are the ones with peggy in it. The only one that remotely felt unique was episode 6 and 7. The rest just felt like a filler episode. Did not enjoy anything that involved peggy and it has nothing to do with strong female character, note i liked episode 6 &7 which are strong female character. Nonetheless, What if will be cancelled after the completion of season 2. Its been a borefest and the overuse of peggy carter really ruins the experience. Why cant they use Dr. Strange instead to conclude the story arch of from season 1?

Wow, just wow! I loved this episode so much! Best of the season! I just love how this brought tons of marvel characters into one setting, and It was fantastic!

These past episodes of season 2 have been mid to worse. The what if... isn't interesting, and is not well executed. But I love how this episode just tied so many different variations of characters into one setting that we know and love and have them interact with each other in a 1602 setting!

It was really nice seeing super serum Captain Carter and Captain America talk to each other. And especially Loki and Thor! Awesome interactions!

This is somewhere in my top 5 of the series! I want more of this!

This episode was the laziest writing I've ever seen. "Hey, the season is almost over, how do we end it well? Let's stuff all of the old and the new marvel heroes into one episode, add a different setting just so it feels fresh, bring in most of the original cast, and throw in some flat jokes and fighting. People will eat it up!" Not a single character made sense to be in the 1600s. There was absolutely zero effort to connect the characters' backstories and unique powers with the plot of the episode. Nothing happening there made any sense at all. No wonder that universe was dying. The entire plot was just one big hole. I literally felt like I was watching a five-year-old play with a bunch of marvel characters. "This would look exciting, let it be this way!" I guess they spent so much money to get all the big names in this episode that they only had enough funding left to have someone's toddler write the script. The whole season was pretty boring and massively predictable, but this was just a new low.