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elliott back again breaking down a brand new disney plus mcu show and that is what
if and today we'll be breaking down episode one which was titled what if captain carter
were the first avenger this is a full spoiler episode recap breakdown and i'm so excited to
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and in those comments let's talk about this first episode where you entertained were you
excited to see all the twists and turns and this alternate version of the story that we've seen in
the first captain america movie or were you let down by this first episode and will you be back
to watch the following episodes let's discuss it all in the comments below so going into what
if i was pretty excited to see this alternate version these alternate takes on the stories
that we have seen within the mcu but like i said in my low-key breakdowns i had a feeling
especially after that finale that this would have series were gonna be the ramifications of what
sylvie did to kang and and everything that went down with loki so they i don't think it's been
like confirmed that this show is the result of what happened in that show but i think it's pretty
safe to say that these are the ramifications that we can expect to see not only with this series
but spider-man no way home as well as doctor strange and some of the multiverse and believe
me i think that this multiverse craziness will continue to be a big theme in phase four but
nonetheless we are here to discuss this first episode and i am so excited to break it all down
i'm so excited to be back in the mcu and before we dive into the recap just a friendly reminder that
not only will i be breaking down this series every single week on these individual episode breakdowns
but we also have a live discussion with myself amanda and chris and we are back baby with our
live discussion starting tonight and moving forward every single wednesday at 6 00 p.m central
time we'll be talking about the latest what if series we'll be talking about the latest big
mcu marvel news and so much more so again i hope you all can join us tonight 6 p.m central time
talking about this episode and so much more see you all there but let's get into this recap as we
are introduced to the watcher voice beautifully by jeffrey wright and we already know or i should say
we've already seen the live action version quick little glimpse of the watchers in the guardians of
the galaxy 2 film but essentially he lets us know right off the bat that he can't interfere with any
of these situations he's just there to observe so i love how we kind of set the tone very kind
of twilight zone situation where we're coming into the new intro and introducing this new particular
branch of reality in the multiverse showing captain carter peggy carter who i am such a big
fan of in the marvel cinematic universe whether it be her appearance obviously in the first captain
america movie her brief uh role that she had in winter soldier we get the nice dance and
end game and of course i i didn't watch the entire season but the episodes i saw of agent carter were
fantastic so i am very excited to see her in this role and who knows what the future holds because
the creator of the show did say we will see more of captain carter in future seasons of what if but
there's been some rumors out there that haley atwell may or may not be in a future mcu film
ask captain carter and doctor strange into the multiverse madness we'll see what the future holds
but nonetheless we're introduced to the situation it's essentially just kind of a a retelling of
rehashing with a couple different modifications of the first captain america movie as we are in
june of 1943 and we see that the first thing that switches the course and changes everything
is instead of her peggy carter going up into the booth as she did in the first captain america
movie which by the way let me just say this right now captain america the first avenger
is so underrated and people just completely like discount that film that's like top 10
marvel for me one of the best origin stories the clear runner of the best romance an entire
mcu and i go on and on and on again i'm a captain america fan ladies gentlemen he's the best avenger
uh and civil war cat was right but nonetheless we see that instead for her going in the booth
she decides to go on the floor with steve which obviously sets the chains of events and
we see everything kind of play out with the hydra agent doing his mission shooting uh steve which i
thought wow they're killing steve right off the bat and i will say another thing that i deserve
you know i was a watcher myself watching this episode this episode has some pretty high intense
uh violence which again one of my reasons i love the first captain america uh film is that film is
very violent right there's people dying left and right so nonetheless we see him shoot steve but we
ultimately see that the machine that they built to create the super soldier and have the super serum
is gonna be wasted so peggy decides to do the the hero thing and go into the machine and in comes
captain carter as we see everything kind of shake out at this point you know steve is injured he's
kind of sidelined but he is supportive peggy and we're seeing that romance which by the way peggy
carter has you know she sees the inner soul she sees the inside of steve because let's be honest
peggy carter a very beautiful attractive woman i don't know if she would give skinny steve rogers
the day to you know flirt with him but hey love is love it comes in many different shapes and sizes
but nonetheless it is her goal to stop this war and we see steve again he's temporarily on the
sideline but we get more of steve in this episode as we see instead of for initially the first
mission being to save the uh the 100th and 7th and also saving bucky you know her mission is
to get the tesseract and particularly from the hydra side of everything and we see immediately
she's able to take out the hydra agents she's able to get to tesseract and we see her in her outfit
in the shield and listen man i i really do hope these rumors are true that we can see haley at
will as a live-action version of captain america or captain carter i should say because she looked
badass and awesome and i love the animation style and and everything that the show had to offer in
this first episode i really loved the kind of the texture of everything the colors the only thing
that was a little bit off as far as my critiques and now this is animated and i don't watch a
lot of animated shows but this was very kind of cartoonish in the line delivery department like
this was very kid-friendly now it was a violent episode but the dialogue was very kind of childish
and very kind of a little lackluster for me as far as like i didn't have the umph that i was looking
for in the writing department but nonetheless like i said her outfit her shield was pretty badass but
we see her killing these men again this wasn't just a punch in the face knocking him out she was
some bodies exploding there was some guns being shot i mean this is a pretty violent episode but
again like i said the the uh the dialogue wasn't all that great but nonetheless she's able to
obtain the tesseract now that the tesseract is in their hands we see my man howard stark taking the
tesseract and creating his first ironman suit and gifting it to the one and only steve rogers
so not only has this alternate universe we have captain carter but we have the first mock machine
or first suit in the iron man and it's not tony stark in the suit but it is steve rogers and we
see this kind of scene play out where they're again they're rescuing bucky which by the way
we don't have a winter soldier in this multiverse uh bucky was never experimented on which is very
unique and very different but we see you know captain carter and the c15 stomper the hydra
stomper suit in action they're taking people out and we get their their romance they're falling
in love and we get the montage that we get from the first captain america movie which was again
this episode played so much homage to that first film and obviously had his twists and turns but i
really enjoyed the kind of the modifications that they added into this episode but nonetheless let's
go back to like the meat and potatoes and kind of the conflict of this episode we do have red skull
who was in this episode and the mission at hand is to stop him his plans to bring in what he calls
a champion this intergalactic force that he wants to bring to the world so we cut to captain carter
and the howling commandos making their way to the hydra uh facilities you know they're taking people
out left and right but they're a little bit too late because we see this champion making his way
through the portal and i actually like this twist we see red skull like you know speaking his stuff
and being all high and mighty but he ultimately gets killed by the champion that he brought in
which was a nice little spin but we also learned that on one of their missions which was the
reverse of the first film and there's no winner soldier so bucky wasn't killed he didn't lose his
arm but instead we're under the assumption that on one of their missions on stopping that train
that steve rogers died in that mission but no we see that he's alive the stomper suit is still
intact you know it's indestructible as howard stark says but we see that he wants to go back
in the suit he wants to help you know captain carter and ultimately take out this monster
they ultimately you know we see this fight which by the way if we do get a live action of captain
carter she was op man i mean she was lifting trucks she was pushing this monster back in the
portal i mean this captain carter which i mean i i think it does speak to her again just remember
this isn't out of the realm of possibilities if we were to see how haley atwell in this position
captain carter has just as much determination if not more determination as steve rogers just
go back to watch the first captain america film i urge you all again i haven't watched in his
entirety but that captain uh the agent carter show she has heart she has a determination she has all
the things that you need to be to rock this shield and to be captain america or in this case captain
carter so she has a lot of strength in this episode and i really had a good time with that i
didn't i wasn't just like oh my gosh they're just over doing it she has the power she has the will
and i like which they were able to do in this episode but nonetheless we see her push the
monster back into the portal which unfortunately leads her to going to the portal and we get the
whole one last dance on saturday the reverse of what captain america or steve rogers said to
her in the the film so i like how they kind of added that twist to it but nonetheless we fast
forward to the present day which we see captain carter coming through the portal and she is
meant to nick fury and hawkeye and she learns that the war has been won and that 70 years has passed
again just a reverse of what we saw in the uh end of the first captain america film so really solid
episode again the questions that this particular episode poses is there is no winter soldier
there is no red skull who isn't the gatekeeper of the soul stone so who is watching the soul stone
in this universe uh but more importantly we have a new captain america and captain carter so again
animation was fire the soundtrack was great because it brings back a hearkens to all the
stuff i love about the first captain america and the theme that we get with captain america
i love again the homages that this episode pays to again one of the most underrated mcu films top 10
mcu films to me in the first captain america the first avenger and seeing all the twists and turns
them having the tesseract and their disposal you know bucky being in the mix the howling
commandos i just love how this episode puts all the pieces together like i said my only criticism
with this episode was the dialogue wasn't all that strong to me that was very kind of you know
cartoonish very kind of kiddish friendly dialogue it wasn't really it didn't have that top tier
you know captain america which i think is one of the most as far as like dialogue goes all his
films have some incredible dialogue but i felt like this kind of didn't have that same type of
effect as far as like that off and that that type of you know really intense dialogue that we're
used to in the captain america universe that's just a small gripe again it's already been said
that we're going to get more of captain carter so i'd imagine next time we see her hopefully things
would be more live than up things a little bit more punched up in the in the writing department
but outside of those things this is a really good episode really good way to kick off this series
and i'm really excited to see what the future of this show has up its sleeve and particularly
again i'm really anticipating the challah episode with him being star-lord and obviously we know
that this is the last time that we'll be hearing chadwick bozeman i believe he's going to be
included in three episodes so that's going to be a tear-jerker within himself but also seeing you
know thor getting back in the mix you know tony stark and killmonger and gamora and thanos and
ant-man and captain all the stuff uh that they've kind of alluded to that we're gonna get dr strange
an evil version of him peter parker being a zombie hunter i'm all for it and i can't wait to be back
next week talking episode two but before we talk next week we got to talk about this episode more
tonight again 6 p.m central time myself amanda and chris will be breaking down this episode
talking with you all having a good time talking about some latest marvel news and just having a
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