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It’s a tale of love lost on What If? Episode 4 “What If Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?”. A beautifully told story we discuss all of it’s spoiler filled detail in this week’s podcast.
Marvel’s What If? Episode 4 Synopsis
Executive Produced by: Bryan Andrews, A.C. Bradley, Brad Winderbaum with Kevin Feige
Head Writer: A.C. Bradley
Episode Written by: A.C. Bradley
Episode Directed By: Bryan Andrews
One small choice can change the world or destroy a universe!
Christine Palmer accepts Stephen Strange’s invitation to the medical dinner in his honour. But that fateful night results in the death of Christine and Stephen Strange survives the car crash and his hands are untouched. But Stephen realises how close he and Christine were; racked by grief Stephen searches for meaning and learns the mystic arts at Kamar-Taj under the direction of the Ancient One.
Two years later, still grieving his lost love, Doctor Strange attempts to use the Eye of Agamotto repeatedly to save Christine. In all scenarios she dies. An echo of the Ancient One warns Stephen that Christine’s death is an absolute point in the timeline that can not be undone and using The Eye will destroy the fabric of reality.
But the arrogant Strange refuses to listen so the Ancient One splits Strange into two alternate versions on the same timeline. One accepts Christine’s death and heads for tea with Wong, while the other heads on a journey to the lost library of Cagliostro in his attempt to save Christine.
At the library, with the help of the mystical O’Bengh, The Sorcerer Supreme discovers in the book of Cagliostro how to gain the power to break the absolute point by absorbing the magical energy of other mystical creatures, in particular that of a powerful tentacled creature. The more he absorbs the more his grasp of reality fades, taking on the forms and powers of his prey he becomes Strange Supreme. He must finally confront and absorb the energy of himself contained in the alternate Doctor Strange.
In the final battle, Strange Supreme overpowers Doctor Strange and absorbs his powers, using it to finally resurrect Christine. But his actions tear reality apart, disintegrating the universe around him, including Christine. Strange Supreme begs the Watcher for help, but he refuses to intervene. As Christine fades from Strange’s hold, leaving Strange Supreme to grieve alone as his universe collapses.
Marvel’s What If? Episode 4 Cast
- The Watcher played by Jeffrey Wright
- Doctor Stephen Strange played by Benedict Cumberbatch
- Doctor Christine Palmer played by Rachel McAdams
- Wong played by Benedict Wong
- The Ancient One played by Tilda Swinton
- O’Bengh played by Ike Amadi
- Christine Everhart played by Leslie Bibb
A Return to Defending
As we are returning to the Marvel TV universe we are using the format of our former Marvel podcast, Defenders TV Podcast. We discuss:
– What if we had a Top 3 points about the episode. What have we seen before, What’s the change, what does this mean for this episodes universe
– Whether we each Defend the episode or not
– Notes, Quotes and comic references
What if we had a Pub Quiz?
During each podcast we’ll ask a question about each episode in our What If? Pub Quiz. You can send in your answers each week to feedback@tvpodcastindustries.com At the end of the nine episode series the listeners with the most correct answers will be in with the chance of getting their hands on some What If? goodies. All questions will be updated on: https://www.tvpodcastindustries.com
Question 4 – From what creature or animal did the Misguided Doctor Strange Supreme get his Cloak from?
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Thanks for joining us for our What If? Episode 4 podcast. We’ll return next week with our chat about What If? Episode 5. Make sure you get in all your feedback to us and we’ll discuss it on the next podcast.
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Until then, Keep Watching, Keep Listening and Keep Defending.
Derek, Chris and John
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