truthbrarian

I am in love with this show and this episode until the very end was no different.

The kinetic energy of the shooting is revolutionizing comedy for me. The metahumor about Hollywood has been sharp as a tack. I am laughing and laughing.

What is bothering me is that Apple should be giving these guys as much time to breathe as they want too. The ending was so abrupt. If I was going to do it, there would be a slow motion camera roll with the Chinatown song enrapturing the viewer, and instead of a vulgar voiceover, there would be text on the screen saying what happened ala a 1970s movie. Instead of the Chinatown thing being an insult, why not just have that be the final line? This could have had that perfect tone that really sticks with a person and haunts you.

In my opinion the previous episode missed a huge opportunity for poignancy too. Imagine if Seth Rogan talked to his younger self to mirror what happened in the Ron Howard film? Looking at the moon and imagining himself giving Young Seth a hug, finally forgiving himself for what he did with Ron. Imagining in my head the perfection this scene could have aspired too, that really tugs at the heartstrings. It makes me disappointed that the writers don't have that sentimentality gene that could turn great to masterpiece. Because for some reason they are capable of bringing us all the way there but not sticking the landing. Maybe if the writers see this on the 0.0001% chance they should think about upping the heart. I think if you do that Emmy's are guaranteed.

At the end I was still very satisfied with what I got, it was fun as heck and really engaging to find out the secret of the mystery in real time. This show doesn't hesitate to show you how fun it must be to work in Hollywood every day does it?

This was an interesting one. Its 1988 and a tween Peter Quill crashlands on Earth. One of the weird things to start, he like kills 20 people crashing in NYC. But the rest of the episode has no deaths, I just found that odd. I loved the idea that his father destroys his walkman thereby symbolically taking away his sons soul and making him spoiled. If you are a comics fan its enjoyable at least to see the new characters that haven't been in a movie before like Dr. Bill Foster and King T'chaka. I loved how they made Hope this very sexy vivacious woman. When a Giant Bill opens his hand and Hope was reclining with her leg up, that got my heart fluttering. The MCU needs a lot more cheesecake/pinup if you will, it would be very refreshing.

I guess I enjoyed this overall because it was fun to see Ego and Peter at the height of their powers and some of the performances such as Bucky's were so cool. When Peter said "this is why I am called STAR LORD" that was freaking awesome. Come on admit it.

I think too many of these shorts aren't even that What-Iffy like nobody ever thought wow what if Hogan became Purple Hulk or what if Nebula was in Blade Runner but actually getting to see what if Peter was raised by Ego is an actual interesting question.

I am not sure if I like the idea that Peter is now joining some kind of vengeance force to kill whatever is left of Ego though, I wish he had a chance to be a wholesome kid. Overall... I can't understand what people want with this show, you gotta be able to turn your brain off, pour yourself the most unhealthy sugar cereal you can find, and watch episodes like this with a silly grin on your face.

A sprawling metropolis... One of the creepiest speeches The Watcher gives begins the action...heavy rain... neon lights, a corpse on the ground, that corpse - Yondu! Is it Blade Runner? Nope its What If.

This story is all about Nebula and her time becoming an elite detective crawling about the city in her flying car. In a alternate world where Ronan the Accuser kills Thanos and becomes the Emperor of the Universe and stuff and Ronan wants to conquer the planet Nebula lives on.

This is amongst the best animation and art design What If has ever had! Colors that are muted but pop whenever they can. Big widescreen shots that look like paintings. I have to say that rock guy by Taika Waititi looks astonishing, much better facial detail than CGI can ever do.

So whats the problem then? Sadly, they make the plot so frustratingly simple and boring by stuffing way too much in 28min leaving not much room for real mystery. This would be a Guardians of the Galaxy movie normally but these guys said yeah we can do this in 20% of the time, sorry writers but you can't. So really every answer to every mystery is just a$$ pull. Problems are just solved because "its time to solve the problems lets just do X Y Z"!!! Yay!

Mainly all the dialogues is like "kids playing with their toys" level like when your son says hahaha I betrayed you but no no your other son says I had the doohickey all along and I reprogrammed it because I am a android and the other son says noooo I will punch you over the cliff" you know what I mean?

So in the end this gets a 6, I had fun with it, it looked beautiful and sounded good. Laura Karpman got a partner and the music was better and less maudlin. I am not one of these jerks who gives stuff 0/10 because of bad plot.

Also is Howard the Duck a joke or a real character now I can't tell?