There is an episode of twilight zone that I particularly like called “a world that”, where a writer discovers that everything he speaks in his dictaphone is true, and he can cancel him by simply burning the band. In the end, even the Rod Serling barrator is a creation of the imagination of this character, which makes one of the rare episodes tz where the fourth wall is firmly broken. It took a whole season for this classic program to feel comfortable enough to play with its format and principle like this one. However, we are only on the fourth payment of this if …? And he uses similar tactics, although with a less comic tone.
The first two episodes of which […? Turning around a simple switch, negotiating a character from another and seeing how things play accordingly. Last week beat on a minor change – hope to join the shield – which widaned with enormous consequences. This week shows us a simple substitution again, putting Dr. Christine Palmer in the car with Stephen Strange and kill her in the accident only in another chronology, destroyed the hands of the talented surgeon.
His death ends up being the strange catalyst student the mystical arts and the events presented here follow the same lines as in the film. It is a little unlikely, since a reason to repair his injured hands is small peanuts in relation to a death attempt. But we always see a Stephen training in Kamar-Taj, learning about the Eye of Agamotto and the Struggle of Dormammu. As for the chronology, everything is pretty much the same thing.
Except Stephen, who can not leave Christine’s death from his head. He ends up return at the time of the accident and trying to save the life of his girlfriend, only to fail again and again. Since his death was the catalyst for him to learn magic, he can not use his powers to save her. It is a fixed point, an immutable event (something doctor who will know well).
For the viewer, this raises a big question: if Christine’s death is really such a concrete event in time of time, how are we found with “our strange stephen back in the usual MCU chronology? Here, the episode inspired a intriguing possibility: that this strange doctor may be able to change calendar so that Christine is not in the car and that he destroys his hands, actually making this episode a pre-requiring Film 2016. This would have been a touch of folding rather in mind that would certainly have made this series more important, but still not essential, at the MCU.
Alas, it was not a question of strange, strange going down further and further in his obsession with the point of knowing where even our narrator is concerned. And for the first time, a character becomes aware that they are observed and really calls the observer. As in the episode of the Twilight area, the sequence is intended for a demonstration of power, showing that Strange reached the level of consciousness to note the fourth wall. But still his powers are limited; It is not aware of the audience (although the observer is, who addressed us directly earlier into the episode) and his means of assistance eventually disappear.
Compared to the first three episodes, it ends on a dark note. It’s actually more true at the original series of comic the show is based on where, released from the constraints of long-term continuity, writers could take history in the direction they wanted. If they wanted to kill everyone, they could and would do it, since the main timetable was to go unallocated and future problems of what …? It would be enough to press the reset button.
