Oreshura episode 1 season 1
Marquand goes two-for-two on subbing in for MCU villain actors, capturing James Spader’s sneering superiority well, though his Red Skull has a touch more fidelity to the original performance than his Ultron. What If doesn’t spend much time on deepening our understanding of Ultron, with his more nuanced, personal motivations taking a backseat to his broad “peace in our time” directive, but with his father figure dead at this point, finishing the job he started is good enough incentive. This episode feels the most cinematic of any What If installment yet, which goes a long way towards making it feel like a continuation of the events of Age of Ultron. Clint’s wavering will to survive serves as the argument against Ultron’s philosophy in microcosm, well-captured in a stunning shot of a solo Clint going up against hundreds of Ultron drones at once. More attention is given to Clint’s story, who’s struggling to fight on after losing his family, and Renner brings that daunting challenge to life well through his performance. Often joked about for their lack of powers, they’re an obvious choice as a longshot last hope, but in the context of Ultron’s inhuman legion, focusing on them feels appropriate.īell fares far better as Natasha this time out, mainly because the setting keeps the character more grounded and less jokey than she was in Episode 3. It’s always valuable in MCU stories, with gods and Celestials and Eternals and so on, to remind us just why the “normies” like Natasha and Clint belong at the table. Episode 8 does a good job keeping the themes of Age of Ultron at the forefront by centering the story on the lone human survivors of Ultron’s nuclear holocaust: Black Widow (Lake Bell) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). And destroy all mankind he does! The Watcher’s (Jeffrey Wright) retelling of Ultron’s victory is surprisingly bleak and sober, which sets up the stakes for the rest of the story nicely.
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What If has done well at choosing specific, interesting points to diverge from the stories we know, and continues that trend by explaining that this universe saw the Avengers fail to recover the vibranium android body that would become host to Vision, giving Ultron (Ross Marquand) an organic, invincible shell with which to destroy all mankind. Well, that and “is the Watcher finally going to move his melon-on-a-toothpick head and help out?” As we near the end of the season, What If is more forthcoming with answers to questions like these, leaving this week’s alternate sequel to 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron as one of the clearest displays yet of What If’s strengths and potential for extrapolating worthwhile stories out of MCU canon. The murder robot is still dead-set on fulfilling his programming and wiping out sentient life, so the only question is whether humanity has the will to stop him.
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For all the loose plot threads dangling in the many worlds of What If, it was surprising to see this week’s episode immediately pay off last week’s cliffhanger: Ultron arriving on the scene with a full set of Infinity Stones.