WHAT IF...? - Here Are All The Returning MCU Actors In Today's Episode (And Who Was Recast)

I still think it's kinda weird that some actors, who have been part of this franchise for so long, didn't show up for this. Come on... It's just a voice role. Not that much work. And if it's money related; they really should be ashamed of themselves after cashing so much with the movies.

I thought Josh Keaton did great as Steve… the change didn’t stand out or distract me. And Ross Marquand continues to do an excellent Red Skull.

I recognized Bradley Witford and recalled that he was in the one shot that inspired the Agent Carter series… a pretty clever substitution, though the character could have progressed some.

Peggy in action was a lot of fun, and I liked the new places the story went. I’m eager to see the character break free of the expected story beats in the future.

Definitely an episode that was used to establish concept and show potential, but probably overall the weakest first episode of the first D+ shows. A bit too fast paced and zany in places, even though overall I thought it worked for the most part. I think they played this episode safe from a story standpoint as well, making sure to keep most things familiar, but the run time didn't give them much space to explore different things all that much.

On the positive side though, the animation style REALLY shines here, and with better direction it could be a really great signature style for them. It's definitely got room for improvement and innovation, but as a first time use for Marvel it was great. Nowhere was that clearer than during the action scenes, which are already some of my favorite in the MCU. THIS is the level of comic book style action I was hoping this show would achieve and they didn't disappoint. Almost felt like I was watching an anime at times.

Definitely room for improvement, but they've nailed the concept and it'll be cool to see where they expand it from here.

Only a few issues for me.

I think after getting shot with a bullet, audiences, even kids can handle seeing a bit of blood from a cartoon.

And the tentacle monster felt very out of the narrative but if they needed it, they should have used the creature from the start of GotG2, would have been a cool link

I agree that it's too much of a copy of TFA but other than that I was very impressed by the Red Skull voice actor. FWIW it was enjoyable. YMMV.

I would have enjoyed this regardless, but after the utter awfulness that was the Loebverse (Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble, Hulk and the Agents of SMASH and Guardians of the Galaxy animated series), it feels so great to have a good Marvel animated series again.