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Reply To: "What if …" – the Disney+ series … is kind of 'meh' ?

December 16, 2021 at 9:26 pm #1703193

limburger

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I think the compressed timeslot is really killed the series.

And the finale … was kind of stupid (it kind of resolves more than a few ‘endings’ of the stories).

What’s the point of telling a ‘what if’ … if you’re going to create yet another universe that magically combines them ?
Isn’t the point of “what if” to let the story speak for itself ?
Why this need to turn them into happy hollywood endings ?

The Watcher can exist in a universe that has the TVA.
Just because the TVA think they can manipulate the multiverse that doesn’t mean they are aware of ‘the watcher’ (or an entity like him) that exists outside of the entire multiverse.

The entire concept of a multi-verse was created purely to be able to sell an infinite number of reboots of existing heroes and to allow them to change aspects of them while keeping the original alive. It allows them to combine characters that can’t possibly co-exist and by tweaking what makes them tick just enough to make it work.

The TVA merely exist as a vehicle to tell stories about Loki using the same actor from the movies. And as an added benefit they have a built-in escape clause should the actor need replacing.

Cynical ?
Hell yeah, but this is an industry … they’re not in it to tell stories, they want your money (preferably all of it).