hey what's going on it's all my marvel mcu dr strange fans out there and welcome back to my
channel movie files elliott back again with my weekly recap breakdown and review of the latest
episode of disney plus what if and today we are breaking down episode 4 which was titled what if
doctor strange lost his heart instead of his hands and listen i want to see this be told in a live
action this was a fantastic episode and don't be surprised if some of these elements makes its way
into the live action the mcu we're going to break it all down here in the spoiler review but before
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fourth episode ladies and gentlemen we gotta talk about it let me know your thoughts on the story
the dark evil version dr strange the good version dr strange let's talk about the plot and let's
talk about how important this episode is not only to this what if series because we will be seeing
doctor strange again i i assume we will see him again but let's talk about how this impacts and
lays the foundation for the live-action mcu i'm talking about spider-man no way home and of course
doctor strange into the multiverse let me know your thoughts your theories your predictions of
how this episode can play into those films let's talk about in the comments section so just a
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in the multiverse of madness all those rumors that have come out in the last few weeks we're going
to break it all down i hope you all can join us again that's tonight live on this channel
hope to see you there so let's get into this recap and review and break down of episode four
i i i truly mean this that i think each episode has just gotten better and better it's not and
that's not saying the last episodes were bad it's just saying that these stories have gotten more
more depth more development more intrigue i mean this was dark i mean last episode was dark you see
our avengers being killed off but i mean seeing christine die over and over and seeing doctor
strange be consumed by the dark entities out there and in the dark dimensions and him his ego
overtaking his good side was just such an epic story seeing the doctor strange versus dr strange
the ancient one wong and all the different creatures and elements that we got this episode
this was fantastic i plan on re-watching this episode quite a few times before the day ends
and i just thought this was just fantastic i really don't have any criticisms with this episode
and this is this is so funny i said this because i actually watched doctor strange last night
and i say that because i'm not a big doctor strange fan in regards to the film he kind of
his film kind of lays like 16 17 on my personal mcu rankings i enjoy scott derrickson's direction
the visuals are incredible and all that stuff but i just this is a pacing issue nonetheless
this isn't a review for the film but let's just say i'm not the biggest fan of doctor strange but
after seeing him in infinity war in game and now this individual would have story and gets
me excited for his actual sequel this is exciting man i am so excited to break this down and i want
to know what you all thought of the episode but i thought this was the best episode i would have
so far and i think that that's a big thing to say because i really enjoyed the first three episodes
but let's break it all down starting off with the recap and essentially literally within the
five minutes they give you the breakdown of the first doctor strange film which again i'm not the
biggest fan of that movie but nonetheless we see the events play out where dr strange and christine
go on this speaking engagement which i think again watching the film last night i think this is like
if you guys remember the film dr strange invites christine to this engagement on the night that he
saved that person from the bullet in their head and she says no but i think this is her saying
yes in this universe and we see the events play out she unfortunately which by the way was it
me or when that car hit doctor strange it seemed like that was like purposeful like i was thinking
this whole time that it was going to be revealed that someone was like killing her in order to make
him become the evil version dr strange which hey we we will be seeing this character again
it might be revealed that someone was actually the one that kind of planted the siege for him
to become this evil version but neither here nor there we don't get that reveal but we see
this dark version of groundhog's day where she just continues to die over and over and over again
and we see kind of the even before we get that you know she dies she has the funeral and we see
the events of the film play out where he you know wants to search for answers in the mystic arcs
he meets the ancient one and wong they warn him do not meddle with time and we see him obviously
beat dormammu and all that stuff but then we get this two-year time gap in between that individual
doctor strange film and then we see dr strange on the night of christine's anniversary of her death
he's holding the time stone and just contemplating what if i can go back and change the time right
and that's where dr strange's ego steps in which goes into the big thing about the spiderman no way
home trailer is that dr strange is it mephisto i think this episode really shows you the ego that
this man has on him we talked about it last week on live week's the stream we had dr strange makes
some pretty you know questionable decisions so it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility of
doing what he does and what we assume he's doing and spider-man know me at home but neither
he knows there we see this version dr strange takes that time stone and goes back to the night
that she died and this is where we get that dark kind of groundhog's day situation where
they go to dinner she dies on the way there again she dies in a car accident they don't go to the
dinner they go you know to a diner or she gets shot they go to the dinner in a different route
and she has a heart attack on the dance floor you know she doesn't he doesn't go to pick her up her
apartment explodes which again makes me think like is someone doing this is someone literally going
into his timeline and killing her intentionally to for him to get on that dark path again that might
be the ultimate reveal when we see him again that might be like the ultimate villain that they have
to face where we see captain carter killmonger you know star-lord and now this version dr strange
they have to team up to face whatever this dark entity or this villain may be for future episodes
but nonetheless just seeing all those deaths take place over and over again i'm just like yo
disney animation i thought this was going to be more kid-friendly but they killing people left
and right and i love it because i love me some dark evil stuff and seeing characters kind of
face these decisions and what their path leads them on but nonetheless moving forward we see
that he comes into contact with the ancient one who's coming back to talk to him and this is where
they're having debate that no doctor strange no steven you can't erase death and if you do so you
will distract and you will deviate from the path that you've been set on to defeat your mama to
become the sorcerer supreme and this was she says her death is an absolute point and you can't erase
that but doctor strange and his ego he doesn't take the advice he takes the time stone goes back
we see that the ancient one kind of casts a spell on him but he's able to escape at least we thought
that he escaped but we find out that she had plans set out for doctor strange but we go to this
sequence where he makes his way to lost library of koliostro and this is where he introduces himself
to the librarian obayne and just seeing the visuals and the the look and the design of the
library was absolutely fantastic but we go into this situation where doctor strange goes to the
library with the guidance of old main and he comes across a book of time manipulation and in this
book it tells him that he has in order to get the power he's searching for he has to absorb powers
for from other beings and this is where we see him summon gorith who this is the same creature that
we saw in episode one with captain carter now this isn't the same creature that's obviously
a different universe different timeline but rumor has it that this creature may or may not be in a
dr strange two film that's the rumor out there we'll see what comes with that but nonetheless
he tries to bargain with the creature and doesn't work out for him and we see that he's defeated by
this creature but this is where again i mentioned the dialogue in this episode this dialogue here in
the exchange between obain and dr strange when he mentions if she's worth all this pain he says that
love can break more than your heart it can shatter your mind that line to me was just like first off
i want to see obeying in a live action but also it's just the writing the development the depth in
the conversations which was just so fascinating to me and just really well done but now in comes the
seeds being planted for the evil doctor strange as he starts small by taking his beam he like summons
a small little gnome and sucks the soul and the power from the gnome and we see he takes a cape
from a bug and from there the creatures get bigger more larger more bigger in scale and he takes more
of their power and ultimately he gets the power that he needs but we find out he's locked himself
in a century of time to gather all the power so we go back to this time where we see that o'bane's on
his deathbed and this is where we kind of see that the watcher the watcher was thinking about
stepping in and changing things but he obviously didn't want to intervene but this is where we see
again that there is another doctor strange in this exact same timeline and universes this is
where we go back to we go back to that moment where doctor strange had the conversation with
wong about manipulating time and we see that he didn't manipulate time and this is where we get
our other version of the good doctor strange having a conversation with the ancient one
and she tells him what she did so on the night that they got to the fight she was able to split
doctor strange into two different doctor strange and two different paths and i just thought that
that was so fantastic i think that this actually maybe shows us we're gonna see the ancient one
make her live action return some way and somehow don't don't be surprised if you see her in dr
strange too but nonetheless we get into this whole situation where we get evil doctor strange versus
a good doctor strange and these sorts of supremes go at it ladies and gentlemen and just seeing the
conversation of again the ego of doctor strange and the good version of him telling himself
we can't let our ego get the best of us christine is dead but obviously evil source of supreme
strange does not want to hear that and we see this really amazing epic action set piece and
the sequences of fights which is just the best of the series so far it reminded me so much of thanos
fighting doctor strange and infinity war it was like top-notch action i was like on the edge of my
seat but nonetheless we see good doctor strange gets manipulated by the evil version who takes
him to this kind of fake situation where he sees christine but he knows it's not really christine
it's all a trick but ultimately we see evil doctor strange get the best of good doctor strange and he
absorbs his power which leads to him becoming like this ultimate evil looking monster kind of like a
frankenstein monster but he's able to bring back christine and this is where again the visuals of
her coming back to life she sees him obviously she's terrified because she's like you're not
the doc you know you're not the stephen strange i know he's just monster form and this is where we
see the reality and everything because again you can't manipulate time this was an absolute point
he's disrupting that absolute point so we see the reality in that universe completely destroy
and we see ultimately the whole world destroys and leaves him in this bubble this kind of void
which again it ends the episode but listen that doctor strange will be making his way out of that
void and i hope to see that version of doctor strange maybe make its way into the live action
of the mcu because i thought that was absolutely fantastic i thought that the again the depth the
emotion the other version of doctor strange just kind of you know ego driven doesn't care what he
has to do to get things done which again speaks to doctor strange as a character and this is why
you know going to that whole is it mephisto and spider-man i don't think so i think we
just see that doctor strange sometimes makes bad decisions yes he is a source of supreme he is
you know has all those abilities but he is still human in the day and we make mistakes as humans
and that's really the thing that makes doctor strange so you know unique and so fascinating
in the comments is yes he has all these powers all these abilities all this knowledge but at
the end of the day he's still a human being at heart and we like i said where no one's perfect
you know not to get into this ramp but you know star-lord he's half human he has he's
half celestial we saw what he did in infinity war uh and there's so many different examples of our
superheroes our heroes in mcu making decisions you know rational decisions not rational but
irrational decisions because of emotion so again this episode is fantastic again this is
coming from someone that's not even the biggest doctor strange fan but i thought this was great
i think this sets the foundation for what we can expect to see in the rest of the series but also
spider-man no way home i think doctor strange will play a big part into i don't know if this version
of dr strange will make his way into this film but i think just the idea of peter parker having
a face with the idea of his identity and who he is and what you know what he wants to be revealed and
what he doesn't want revealed and he has to also make the decision who he wants to be as a person
which was you know echoed in this episode but then doctor strange too we're gonna see that
creature again i think there's rumors that captain carter will make her way into that and then don't
be surprised that seeing all this stuff that doctor strange did in regards to taking the
the absorbing the power i think this is exactly what mordor churchill edger force character is
doing right now in the live-action mcu right now he's finding sorcerers and he's taking their you
know their powers which may lead to you know wanda he might step his way into wanda might be able to
manipulate her but listen i can go on and on and on again and we will tonight 6 pm to the time
talk more about the possibilities the theories and predictions on the live stream and talking about
doctor strange too so hope you all can tune in thank you all for watching this review again this
episode is fantastic and i can't wait to see what they have for episode five and beyond because i'm
really enjoying this series and i hope you all enjoyed it as well but i want to thank you all for
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