What If... What If?

So you telling me that anyone can become a watcher. Like way overpower characters that can beat anything. Like the fight scenes don't make any sense. The superior watchers suppose to be this ultra powerful gods who are treated like no ones and dumb characters. That they suppose to see everything and couldn't see this? And also the same super serum that captain America took, and some how Peggy is the most powerful character? This is very lazy writing and really dumb downs other characters who really lost everything and had to take DEFEAT to grow as a person and LEARN/TRAIN to better their powers. This is qualities what a good character should have. Not an overpowering character that can beats anything just because, same characters that other strong characters faced defeat and had to learn to get better. Just lazy writing. What if season 3, Peggy character the one above all. Really leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Seeing how other characters with same power actually struggling and learning. Just to come an overpowered character that we have to pretend is a mirror to a beloved character.

Why?? Just why would you do this??

Season 1 was very good. It had charm, creativity, and respect for the source material. Season 2 completely off the rails, but Season 3? What in the name of hell!!!!

Why would you do this? Why???

The essence of what made the original series great was tossed aside like last week's leftovers. The storytelling? A mess. The character development? Nonexistent. It's like the writers took every beloved character and decided to see how far they could push them away from their original, iconic selves.

Why mess with the OGs!!!?? The audacity to take characters we've loved for decades and turn them into unrecognizable caricatures is baffling. The narratives are not just uninspired; they're actively bad, filled with plot holes you could drive a truck through.

This isn't just a disappointment; it's an insult to fans, an insult to the legacy of these characters, and frankly, an insult to storytelling itself. Disney, you've not only lost the plot but also the respect of your audience. Season 3 of "What If...?" should have been a celebration of imagination, but instead, it's a cautionary tale of what happens when a franchise loses its way.

I started my reviews of this season of "What If" bemoaning the fact that this is the last run of what ought to be an infinite show, but I end it thinking that, perhaps, I'm OK with there not being any more.

The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) has broken his oath of non-interference and is now held by his peers ready to be executed. He's joined by Captain Carter (Hayley Atwell) who has also been captured. At the final moment they are saved by Infinity Ultron (Ross Marquand) and escape on Birdie's (Natasha Lyonne) start ship. However, The Watchers are all powerful and the team prove no match for them, until The Watcher makes a desperate choice.

I don't think this was bad, but I can't help but feel "is that it?" about this conclusion. It's so small in scale relative to what we've seen elsewhere. All the basic elements remain strong, it still looks good and the vocal performances are strong - with Jason Isaacs a welcome addition as The Eminence, a leader of the Watchers. Though again, there's nothing to visually match some of the scenes we've seen in the previous seasons.

Perhaps this season has steered to close to the existing variants, a fact only exasperated by desperate glances at crossover characters that could have been stories had the show decided to go another way. Instead, we've returned to versions of characters we've met before. It's perhaps no co-incidence that the two best episodes, the Agatha Harkness song and dance one, and the Russians on tour episode which had the least to do with pre-existing storylines.

What could and perhaps should have been a show of infinite variety and story telling has become bogged down by itself.

... Or a 10 year old kid?

The first season had a wow factor, in addition to being the first new animated Marvel series, exploring the multiverse and infinite possibilities. The episodes were presenting a character story, to eventually assemble them all in a 2 episodes finale, that was epic.

Season 2 explored more original/unknown characters, but got lost in between with poor writting and some lazy story shortcuts, definitely suffering from the short lengh/few episodes of the season. Some episodes still had a sense of creativity and a tone by themselves though.

Now, season 3... was the most uninteresting season. The writting was so lazy, the jokes were lame, and there was mostly no plot at all, with huge shortcuts and plot holes. The "what if" pitch wasn't even obvious in every episode, some were just parallel stories but I couldn't find any "what if" reason for it.

The finale was absolutely NOT interesting, I couldn't care less about those characters and the Watcher.

Honestly, I hope season 3 writers didn't go on the WGA strike cause they have absolutely no reason to, seing how little writing skills they have... I hope there will never ever be a What if 4th season. Such a disapointment.

I like it, it's a solid ending really, I like how they took the oath to become powerful as them. Yes, this show had so much potential that they did not explore enough, we also needed at least one storm epsiode and even one birdy (or what her name is) to have more depth for the character, and I think that a show like this has to be longer, you can't expect to have a show with soo muchh potential just for it to end in 4hrs. Personally, season 1 was amazing, season 2 was interesting and entertaining, season 3 was as well, but lacked depth of characters, and made me feel like if I just watch the finale it would be enough, the agatha epiosde for example had no meaning to set the finale, in my opinion, make them all connect, or don't make them connect at all.

Ill give it a solid 8 just for the battle and ultron was bad as as well. If Kevin listened to fans... this would have been legendary. Still nice overall.