Which, according to showrunner A.C. Bradley, was a result of a miscommunication because they did want him but thought he already been asked.
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That was a huge amount of fun. Lovely that Boseman got to play T-Challa again but it was sad to realise this might be one of the last times we get to hear him do 'new' stuff. I thought Rooker, Gillan and Brolin were excellent but as others have stated the real standout was Djimon Hounsou who was hilarious!
I found both Rooker's and Gillan's performances a little flat. Although I guess Gillan was playing such a different version of Nebula's personality that I don't really have a baseline to compare it to.
I think with Karen Gillan in particular it was a struggle for the animation to capture her visual expressiveness.
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I dunno, I think the facial animation in this show is excellent. I think, on reflection, that this version of Nebula is just more cool, reserved, and laid back than her "Sacred Timeline" counterpart, playing things closer to the vest.
I got the impression that they wanted her to play the role as a 1940s femme fatale from a noir film & she was accordingly more laid back than normal
Ok, I enjoyed and liked the first one.
THIS one I absolutely loved. The fun, the excitement. Thanos in this was amazing, Korath equally so. The lovely little nods to so many things from the movies. "Not crazy......mad." I could watch an entire series with this group of Ravagers.
THIS one I absolutely loved. The fun, the excitement. Thanos in this was amazing, Korath equally so. The lovely little nods to so many things from the movies. "Not crazy......mad." I could watch an entire series with this group of Ravagers.
There you go. Right down to the Veronica Lake hairstyle.
I think they have a little more leeway with animated VA work. Part of the reason why there's so much push back against recasting Chadwick Boseman is because he's the only person who's ever played T'Challa in live action (We've seen similar pushback against Spock et al amongst Star Trek fans since 2009), but there have been several other VAs that have voiced T'Challa in animation before who could be brought back, that IMO would be accepted by at least some of the audience (James C. Matthis who voiced him from 2010 to 2020 -- appearing in Avengers: EMH, Avengers Assemble, Marvel Future Avengers, LMS -- Black Panther: Trouble in Wakanda, and six different videogames -- has the best pedigree for future What if? or other animated projects.
YMMV.
That was great! I really enjoyed the first episode, but they really surpassed themselves this week.
Thanos on the side of good was all kinds of funny.
Thanos on the side of good was all kinds of funny.
The scenes where T'Challa gets abducted were 1988 - the next time they jump time it states "20 years later" - which would make everything happening in 2008 - so if gthe Collector had things like Hela's Headdress, etc. - A LOT has transpired very differently than in the MCU we know <--- And 'faster' too.
^^Although that would mean the Collector having Captain America's shield probably isn't that interesting a story. Cap's still frozen in ice, the Collector probably somehow got his hands on the shield Tony Stark had lying around his stuff, as seen in Iron Man 2.
I have mixed feelings on it. It was okay but T'Challa being to perfect seems to fly against the spirit of the movies. I kept waiting for the twist were we find out that he and the others were running a scam or something like that. It does have its funny moments so that still fit but it's a shame T'Challa is stuck being the perfect straight man to it all which is kind the same issue in Black Panther. He gets stuck doing the boring stuff while all the other characters get to do the more fun stuff.
I'm dying to know the plot for the Hulk's storyline for What if...?
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It would seem to go with the spirit of What If?.
Didn't we get that with Angel back on Buffy?
Seriously, totally with everyone this one. I loved hearing Chadwick spouting one-liners, Korath was hysterical, and The Collector was actually scary. Also, Seth Green is *perfect* as Howard!
I know but I sort of thought we might see a more loose and less serious version of T'Challa. I think I would have even changed the suit somewhat as well.
^ I suppose we did see more of how T'Challa changed the story than how it changed T'Challa.
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