- My first pick is “What If…?”. In a multiverse of infinite possibilities, we ended up getting the same old same old. We could have gotten a nice, episodic, self-contained anthology series that had nothing to do with the rest of the MCU (as it was originally marketed as) but then they had to go and add a huge, connecting storyline. Not to mention the animation style could have been a bit better.
- And then there’s Secret Invasion, which by all accounts was a complete mess. A lot of people say that this should have been the main story arc of Phases 4 to 6 instead of the multiverse. They could have slowly teased the presence of Skrulls invading Earth (perhaps by revealing that some of the Avengers were Skrulls all along?) and maybe used the plot of Secret Invasion as a feature film instead of a series.
I agree with you regarding Dr. Strange 2. I don’t know how you can have a whole series leading into a movie and yet still have such whiplash in character motivations.
Wandavision ends with Wanda seemingly coming to some self realization that she’s done something horrible. Then somehow she’s become a full physcotic killer by the start of DS2. Even with the little ending teaser showing her holding the “evil” book, it was just too jarring and forced.