What If...?

Whoever writes these seems to have a comprehension of how literally anything works that can easily rival any 9 year old. It's like fanfiction written by someone who only read the plot summaries on Wikipedia. It does have its moments every once in a while, but it really is impressively bad the rest of the time...

Episode 2 was better than Episode 1.

Episode 3 on the other hand was imho an absolute insult to the original storyline.

There seems to be a pattern to the episodes of Season 3.
One bad (EP01), one good (EP02), one bad (EP03), etc.

Episode 5 accurately falls on the bad side of the pattern... which is particulary disappointing because in terms of "What if...?" the situation of "The Emergence Destroyed the Earth" had the biggest potential of all the alternative storylines so far.

Great finale!

Yup... annnnd this whole season was a Save The Cat tutorial, no doubt. But this is the MCU, a cinematic universe where the only movie that actually makes sense is the Hulk, which is arguably the least liked of the entire franchise... So-yeah, when you say 'this is nonsense', I say 'it must be the MCU'... As a result, for what it was, it was a pretty-great time.

If I want something that makes sense, I won't watch a franchise movie or series. Unfortunately though this is how it is, I'm not saying this should be but one can only work-around what we are given.

That's my perspective, I'm not implying any-of-y'all have to concur.

Yup, we have different opinions... for me Endgame was the biggest bunch of nonsense I've ever seen, and I've seen The Quest. Almost nothing in really most of the Marvel flicks makes sense, least of all that mess of the time travel movie.

I mean, just watch about any MCU 'pitch meeting' video on YouTube, to get details on some of their ridiculous plot holes. That being said, it's clear from the MCU's success I'm the one in the minority here, but it bothers me when Zemo's plans rely on like 15 coincidences... or when Steve Rogers goes back in time to just watched every terrible event in history play out even though he can save folks, which goes against his characterization, it's all just more facepalming Marvel nonsense to me.

That doesn't stop me from watching, I just adjust my expectations to fit the nonsense they're pumping out over at Disney/Marvel. So-yeah, different opinions or perspective, mine doesn't invalidate yours and vice-versa.

Would you mind giving me an example for a movie / tv-series that, in your opinion, made perfect sense?
Watched every Pitch Meeting btw

Interesting. Travelers would be my personal number 1 here, one of the best shows I've ever watched.
(as for Marvel shows Luke Cage, WandaVision, Moon Knight and Falcon & The Winter Soldier would be dead last imho )

Thanks for that.

Coming back to my original point, you said it perfectly with "compromising for the dramatic fiction of it all".
In consideration of that, with all things Marvel (up to Endgame) I knew
- who was the good guy
- who was the bad guy
- what each and every character's goal were
- how they plan to reach their goal
- how the fictional world worked

For a Superhero movie, that is enough for me to have it "make sense".

That was totally missing with the final of season 2. There was no compromise, just a decision by the writers for who the bad guy had to be, without any reason behind it.

Stan Lee was kind of a trash human being who basically stole sole credit and financial remunerations from creatives far more competent and innovative than himself... to that point, I think the whole MCU is an appropriate legacy.