Television Marvel's WHAT IF...? (Chadwick Boseman Wins Posthumous Emmy)

How would you rate Episode 9 - "What If... the Watcher Broke His Oath?"

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For those wondering how Gamora fit into this episode...... (Spoilers in the video don't watch if you haven't finished the series!!)
 
Watcher and Strange should’ve just recruited multiple versions of Captain Marvels and Dr Stranges instead of this ragtag bunch of powerless humans who required Strange to exhaust his powers to save their asses.
 
horc00 said:
Watcher and Strange should’ve just recruited multiple versions of Captain Marvels and Dr Stranges instead of this ragtag bunch of powerless humans who required Strange to exhaust his powers to save their asses.
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They kind of touched on why in that it wasn’t about killing Ultron, just separating the stones. I usually agree with logic that you’ve presented but at least they tried to come up with a reason.
 
Why after fighting Ultron in the episode before did the Watcher just sit back and watch the team he broke his oath to assemble take on Ultron without him?
 
hohner said:
Why after fighting Ultron in the episode before did the Watcher just sit back and watch the team he broke his oath to assemble take on Ultron without him?
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Dr strange might have seen that this was the 1 way out of 14 million possible futures that they could win.
 
hohner said:
Why after fighting Ultron in the episode before did the Watcher just sit back and watch the team he broke his oath to assemble take on Ultron without him?
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I thought the same thing. It was a plot device. Watcher knew that this was the only way to win etc.
 
This episode made me like the previous episode more. Was good.
 
Entertaining but suffers from the same stupid plothole every single "cosmic" catastrophe suffers from: the well known but weak heroes somehow are the reason why the day is saved and the guy who could almost fight on par with Ultron is nowhere to be found.

I absolutely detest this but I do understand it. They can't just spend all that money making entertainment just to have characters who can't interact with their established heroes due to a power difference save the day then leave forever. Superman has to save the day from Mandrakk in a giant superman suit. Captain Am-cough-Carter, Widow, Thor and the rest has to save the day from Ultron and not the nigh omnipotent Watcher and Supreme Strange. Is normal.
 
Mostly all the What If cartoon characters looked like the MCU actors, except for GSP which looked totally diff, and I'm guessing this is due to Dana being petty and having GSP's likeness rights.
 
Rob Battisti said:
The thing that didn’t make sense, was the end of the Party Thor episode. Ultron was shown coming through but then it was just Thor fighting drones.
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Maybe it was Party Thor from a slightly different universe where everything else happened the same except for Ultron coming himself.
Can justify anything with a multiverse.
 
horc00 said:
Watcher and Strange should’ve just recruited multiple versions of Captain Marvels and Dr Stranges instead of this ragtag bunch of powerless humans who required Strange to exhaust his powers to save their asses.
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Because he needed the right balance of intellect, fighting ability and cunning to beat Ultron? Captain marvel has shown the ability to throw smart plans together.

Also maybe the fact that the fact that Thor and strange where the only powerhouses meant that ultron what take them lightly giving them a fighting chance. If Ultron saw and army of captain marvels he’d probably just nuke that universe from the get go, killing them all.
 
I think What If opened up the path for how they could bring Scar Jo back into MCU: transplanting her from a universe where she ain't got no other Avengers to "play" with.
 
So Dr Zola helped save the entire Multiverse?

See - I told you Hydra were the good guys!:D
 
Update: September 3, 2022

Chadwick Boseman Wins Posthumous Emmy for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance on WHAT IF...?

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Chadwick Boseman was honored with a posthumous Emmy win during Saturday’s Creative Arts ceremony for his role in Marvel’s What If…? series.

The late star won the outstanding character voice-over performance category for his role as Star-Lord T’Challa in the “What If… T’Challa Became a Star-Lord?” episode. He was nominated in the category alongside F. Murray Abraham (Moon Knight), Julie Andrews (Bridgerton), Maya Rudolph (Big Mouth), Stanley Tucci (Central Park), Jessica Walter (Archer) and Jeffrey Wright (What If…?). The award marked both Boseman’s first win and first Emmy nomination.

Boseman’s wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, was on hand to accept the award, taking the stage at downtown Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater and telling the crowd, “When I learned that Chad was nominated for this award, I started thinking about everything that was going on when he was recording — everything that was going on in the world and in our world and just being in such awe of his commitment and his dedication.”

“And what a beautifully aligned moment it really is that one of the last things he would work on would not only be revisting a character that was so important to him and his career and to the world, but also that it be an exploration of something new, diving into a new potential future — particularly with everything he spoke about purpose and finding the reason that you are here on the planet on this very time,” she continued. “You can’t understand your purpose unless you’re willing to ask, ‘What if,’ unless you’re willing to say, ‘What if the universe is conspiring in my favor, what if it’s me?'”

“Thank you so much for the honor — Chad would be so honored, and I’m honored on his behalf,” Ledward finished.

Boseman passed away in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer, and was previously nominated for a posthumous Oscar for lead actor for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Boseman’s legacy remains inseparable from mainstream culture — his breakout work in Black Panther helped propel that film to become the first superhero movie ever nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The film’s sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, is scheduled for release later this year, with Ryan Coogler returning to direct.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/emmys-chadwick-boseman-posthumous-honor-1235211145/
 
Just so long as he wins a few Nobel Prizes on top of this.
Least we can do for the greatest, most prolific actor of all time
 
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