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What If...?
2021 · TV series · 3 seasons
AnimationActionAdventureScience FictionFantasy
Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.
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Haha, I love this. Strong opinions strongly held. Obviously you're not wrong, and I'm not arguing against this (mostly because I agree), but I do also think _some_ of the Marvel work can be quite....inspired (not sure thats too strong a stance, hear me out!), mostly around the animated medium. The What If series has been good, and I've loved the Spiderman animations, very similar to the recent TMNT movies. Just want to add the new Transformers animated movie was very enjoyable, which I wasn't expecting. So yeah, the Michael Bay-esque style gets old quickly in real life movies, but it can work really well when animated.
I'm sure alot of this can be traced back to Manga roots.
A Few Observations :
I initially searched for marvel shows presently in limelight. Loki -> Not available What If -> Not available The Falcon and the Winter Soldier -> Not available Wandavision -> Available
Marvel Shows are more discussed in marvel subreddits like /r/marvelstudios than individual subreddits like /r/wandavision
After sorting out by No of comments only i found out, author of the website has actually grouped them together under Marvel. So Wanda vision Discussions are shown under two places but not linked to each other.
Another one aspect the website fails to capture is the discussions going on in multiple subreddits created for the same TV Show.
For example game of Thrones had individual subreddits for each houses in the show, out of which /r/freefolk was very famous (1M+ Subscribers) and had in depth discussions going on when each episode aired.
Just to clarify, there has been four MCU TV shows this year so far: Wandavision (great), Loki (great), Falcon and the Winter Soldier (terrible), and What If (good and sometimes great).
All four are made by Marvel Studios (not Marvel Television like Daredevil and Agents of Shield) with actual Marvel actors and firmly take place in the MCU.
It's worth checking out What If. If you don't like the show, I still recommend watching the fourth episode (Dr Strange).