– The existence of the show might be at odds with Loki. It might not. The Watcher’s position does seem strange in a universe where there is a TVA preventing the multiverse from existing.

– The whole series suffers from having to whip through its plots in its short time slots. This is true of the comic series as well- most stories were finished in a single issue and sometimes a double issue.

– The changes range quite a bit, even when the concept seems dull. I like Peggy as a character but I didn’t like her episode because it felt like a truncated retelling of the first Captain America film with not a whole lot of differences.

– Star Lord T’Challa was interesting for being so much different, though it again suffered from not having the time to do more than allude to the way T’Challa changed everything. It feels more like a glance into an alternate reality than the story of how the realities branched.

There are rumors that they’d have turned it into an ongoing series if Chadwick Bosman had not died.

– I think the episodes do better and better with striking a balance between those two extremes as they go along. The biggest problem remains the truncated time slot. Especially- there are fights that should probably be epic showdowns that are over in a moment so that the show can get on with its story.

– Most episodes finish with “and there’s more.” This often looks like a disaster and it is a little unfortunate when it looks like a more interesting story than the one they told.

– The What If comics varied quite a lot. I feel like most of the best ones were the ones that told the story that the writers were prevented from doing by editorial mandate.

For example, there’s a What If The Phoenix Had Not Died/Rose Again. This two part story was the story arc that Chris Clairemont and John Byrne were planning to do after the Dark Phoenix Saga, but the editor told them that Phoenix had to die because she had committed too much genocide to not pay for it with her life. So we got to see the scrapped story arc in What If.

Marvel has adopted the idea of their “What If ” timelines into longer series as well. The most interesting ones are basically “What if Marvel Comics had kept our writers for certain books?” They called these alt timelines “Forever” instead- basically you can pick up right where Loise Simonson left X-Factor or where Chris Clairemont left New Mutants and the like. In a similar vein, X-Men ’92 is an alt timeline that uses the iconic ’90s X-Men team and gives them more stories.