What If...? Season 2 To Premiere During 2023 Holiday Season

[Lord_Scareglow]

Watched the first episode already, was really enjoying it, loved the whole detective element, I like that they are doing an episode a day and not making us wait a week between.

[Outsiders]

[tarot]

Nice holiday special. Marvel meets Die Hard. and of all things I never thought we would see the Freak make his debut. I think we found the BAf of the next D+ wave.

[leokearon]

On 12/24/2023 at 9:07 AM, tarot said:

Nice holiday special. Marvel meets Die Hard. and of all things I never thought we would see the Freak make his debut. I think we found the BAf of the next D+ wave.

Becoming The Freak was Jon Favreau's condition for returning to do What If?

[tarot]

Finally got around to watching yesterdays and today's episode (it is christmas after all) and enjoyed them both. Yes, I do see Carriot Iron Man (that's what I'm calling) being a figure (it was made by Lego after all). I also like that they are giving character that never had their heroic/villainous identity in these universes. Iron Maiden please Hasbro.

[tarot]

The Kahhori episode was great though weird watching an episode where the majority of it was in 2 languages that's not English. Weird they didn't continue that for the Hela episode but at least we know of another easy repaint for Hasbro to do with the MCU hela figure.

[Lord_Scareglow]

On 12/24/2023 at 4:07 AM, tarot said:

Nice holiday special. Marvel meets Die Hard. and of all things I never thought we would see the Freak make his debut. I think we found the BAf of the next D+ wave.

As Soon as I saw that episode I thought, that's gotta be a BAF/or Deluxe, it's too fun not too be, Personally out of the current other options of likely BAF's I.E. Racing Car Iron Man, Happy as The Freak is way cooler.

 

[leokearon]

On 12/28/2023 at 5:03 PM, Lord_Scareglow said:

As Soon as I saw that episode I thought, that's gotta be a BAF/or Deluxe, it's too fun not too be, Personally out of the current other options of likely BAF's I.E. Racing Car Iron Man, Happy as The Freak is way cooler.

 

I would prefer the Freak as the BAF and the Racing Car Iron man as a single (deluxe) release so he can transform

[tarot]

Well if we do get Freak he better come with a swappable head with that amazing goatee. The 1602 episode was brilliant, then again any episode with Captain Carter seems to be great. You could easily make an entire wave of ML with this one episode.

the only complaint I have is that they used Robin Hood as a theme yet left the 2 archers in the Avengers out of the episode?

[tarot]

final episode was good but really rushed though I expect an Infinity Peggy and Grief Strange at some point.

[Lord_Scareglow]

On 12/29/2023 at 4:08 AM, tarot said:

Well if we do get Freak he better come with a swappable head with that amazing goatee. The 1602 episode was brilliant, then again any episode with Captain Carter seems to be great. You could easily make an entire wave of ML with this one episode.

the only complaint I have is that they used Robin Hood as a theme yet left the 2 archers in the Avengers out of the episode?

Yeah Episode was and could be a whole series on it's own, and a whole wave of Legends, but really odd that not one archer ha! I agree.

it is true that Cap Carter seems to always get the better episodes..she's actually kinda the focal point of this show secretly it seems.

I will bet in the nearer future we see Live Action Cap Carter in the MCU (even yes though she was already in it), she'll be back, Hayley wants that.

[Goldbug]

I was really disappointed that we never got to the founding of SHIELD in that Agent Carter series.

[since83]

I felt like this season was stronger, overall, than the last season! Again, I liked the deep cut references like the Freak. I stated I don't want anymore What if figures, but man those 1602 designs were pretty awesome!

The sneak peak for S3 could just be a D+ show. I love the idea of a MCU in the 80s series with Hank, Janet, Foster and some cool references and characters  vs Cold War era Russians like the Oktober Guard. It could be really fun.

[Satam]

On 1/1/2024 at 12:14 PM, since83 said:

I felt like this season was stronger, overall, than the last season! Again, I liked the deep cut references like the Freak. I stated I don't want anymore What if figures, but man those 1602 designs were pretty awesome!

The sneak peak for S3 could just be a D+ show. I love the idea of a MCU in the 80s series with Hank, Janet, Foster and some cool references and characters  vs Cold War era Russians like the Oktober Guard. It could be really fun.

Winter Guard, you mean. Oktober Guard is GI Joe.

[since83]

Duh....yes that is what I meant, lol.

[JayC]

I just finished season 2 and overall I enjoyed it and thought it was better than season 1. From what I have heard though season 3 will be the final season.

[Outsiders]

[Outsiders]

Marvel has unveiled a sneak peek of several images from Season 3 of What If...?

 

[tarot]

I swear to christ those Mechs look like the Mech hasbro has put out previously. Did they hire Yoshiyuki Tomino for this?

[Reno]

On 1/1/2024 at 6:10 PM, JayC said:

I just finished season 2 and overall I enjoyed it and thought it was better than season 1. From what I have heard though season 3 will be the final season.

That seems likely. I've gotten the impression that Disney has decided that it's not profitable to produce content exclusively for Disney+ so once they release everything that's complete (or currently near the end of development), that will probably be it for original content for their streaming channel.... or at the very least it will be released far less often. It will be interesting to see their strategy as they fully integrate D+ and Hulu. This is disappointing to me because I feel like if I'm paying a monthly subscription fee that they should have at least one new episode of either a Marvel or Star Wars show every single week of the year. However they seem to have a problem with maintaining quality as they increase quantity. I don't really care about anything else Disney related outside of those two properties. Now that Echo and What If are over and there seems to be nothing on the immediate horizon, I think it's time for me to dump my subscription for a bit. I've had it every month since it was first introduced, but I just don't see any reason to pay when there's no new content coming soon and I never re-watch anything a 2nd time. I'll probably re-subscribe when X-Men '97 hits.

[SpiderS]

Aside from few amazing episodes like Dark Dr. Strange, Zombie one and Captain Carter one, series is the definition of mediocre.

I think season 2 was far weaker than the first and yes it's good to have some funny episodes here and there but this series skews way too much towards kid friendly and comedic stuff and misses whole point and spirit of What if comics, where majority of stories had a pretty dark and bad endings not "they lived happily ever after" type of endings, that's what made What if comics unique from regular comics, this risk aversion makes this tv series incredibly boring and even less memorable than any what if comic. I read there was some plans for Spider-man meets Children of Men episode and that would have been amazing but it was considered too dark...

1602 Episode was straight up mockery of brilliant Neil Gaiman story that was turned from creative and layered tale into some silly Saturday morning Disney channel special, so I'm not sad that season 3 will be final but I gotta give them huge respect for having Kahhori episode be fully subtitled, this is how it always should be when it comes to scenes where there's no logical sense for characters to speak modern english.