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By Tom Jorgensen
Updated: Sep 1, 2021 2:20 pm
Posted: Sep 1, 2021 2:06 pm
Spoilers follow for Episode 4 of Marvel’s What If…? For more, see our review of the previous episode of What If.
Doctor Strange, with his limitless magical potential, has always felt like one the MCU’s most dangerous wild cards, and What If’s fourth episode makes clear why. As the guardian of our reality, Strange’s cosmic perspective and access to the Time Stone has mostly been a blessing up to this point - the upcoming events of Spider-Man: No Way Home notwithstanding - but here, the consequences of Strange obsessing over his great power with no thought to the great responsibility that follows it are dire. The Sorcerer Supreme’s descent into grief-stricken madness is an effective cautionary tale about what loss can do to a person and furthers the argument that these more mature stories are What If’s bread and butter. And that ending!
Episode 4 takes the foundation of Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) mystical journey - the car accident that took his hands - and twists fate by putting Dr. Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) in the passenger seat. Strange losing the use of his hands was already an understandable motivator for his journey to Kamar-Taj in his solo film, but Christine’s death puts him in an even more desperate state of mind by the time he gets there. He’s still able to defeat Dormammu and become Sorcerer Supreme, but the Time Stone around his neck hangs heavier and heavier as Strange’s power grows.
The episode does occasionally strain itself explaining the temporal shenanigans going on, overcomplicating the story by revealing that the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) used the power of the Dark Dimension to create two versions of Doctor Strange in the same reality. Strange being “half a man, living half a life” is distracting, an unnecessary develo...
Doctor Strange’s tragic fall from grace proves to be What If’s most haunting episode yet. When focused on the emotional toll that Christine’s death takes on Strange, how grief can make good people do bad things, the story rarely falters. Episode 4 may sometimes miscalculate in its use of established MCU tropes and characters, but there’s a lot to b...
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What If’s fourth episode is an effective cautionary tale about the corrupting power of grief, made all the more haunting by its surprising conclusion.
Tom Jorgensen
Sep 3, 2021 · Culture. Entertainment. What If... ? episode 4 recap: Doctor Strange goes down a dark path to become Supreme. An arrogant alternate-universe Sorcerer Supreme meddles with time and suffers...
Sep 1, 2021 · What If Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: 'What If Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?'. By Jackson Hayes. Published Sep 1, 2021. The latest episode of Disney+'s What If...? explores a reality in which Doctor Strange went down a much darker path.
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Watch What If...? — Season 1, Episode 4 with a subscription on Disney+. A grief-stricken Doctor Strange uses the Eye of Agamotto in a dangerous effort to change the past.
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Sep 2, 2021 · Season 1, Episode 4 Recap. The fourth episode of What If…? kicks off with Dr. Stephen Strange picking up Dr. Christine Palmer for an event, where he will be celebrated for...
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