Marvel has often been taken to the task for poor stimulation on its shows. Netflix programs have always been indicated to go out, with more payments than they really needed per season. The Disney + era gave us shows with fewer episodes, but did not dissuaded complaints about slow stimulation. And if …? “Large this week on the service, has a different problem: it’s frenzied and precipitated, like a podcast episode played at a speed of 1.5 times.
The concept behind what if …? Is simple. Take a moment pivot of the Marvel cinematographic world, change one thing, see what happens. In the first episode, defined during the events of Captain America: the first Avenger, Peggy Carter chooses to stay in the room where Steve receives Serve Serum Serum. Steve gets fired, forcing Peggy to jump into the machine and be bouncing in his place.
You would need to be intimately familiar with the original movie to spot the difference, which is why the omniscient narrator is there to point it. This is probably the only time the episode stops catching his breath.
The problem is that it is half an hour of show that attempts to present an alternative version of a two-hour film. It is not even enough to say that Captain Carter has super powers; They feel the need to show how the events of all the movie play, until the final battle with the red skull. There is not much time for the development of characters because they assume that you already know the characters to see them on the silver screen. (Also, why is she captain Carter and not Captain British?)
You would need to be intimately familiar with the original movie to spot the difference, which is why the omniscient narrator is there to point it. This is probably the only time the episode stops catching his breath.
The problem is that it is half an hour of show that attempts to present an alternative version of a two-hour film. It is not even enough to say that Captain Carter has super powers; They feel the need to show how the events of all the movie play, until the final battle with the red skull. There is not much time for the development of characters because they assume that you already know the characters to see them on the silver screen. (Also, why is she captain Carter and not Captain British?)
But, despite the ownership of one of the world’s most famous animation studios, Marvel Studios went with third party animators. It is a shaded Cel style, which is more often used in video games and it looks a lot like rootoscoping. It is a kind of steep and embarrassing, with more attention to the manufacture of characters to look like their actors instead of being more fluid or expressive. It’s a shame, since Disney’s 2012 Papeman’s short film has used a 2D / 3D hybrid style that looks like that, but with a lot more personality.
Future episodes will explore other divergences of MCU, as you became Star Lord or Tony Stark get saved by Killmonger. It is therefore likely that some episodes will be much more enjoyable than others based on their only vanity, although Captain Carter remains a solid departure. But a good concept can not overcome the problems of animation and stimulation.
