I've decided to review each episode of Marvels What If individually, as they all appear, at least initially to be unrelated, stand-alone episodes. That said, they're all proving to be so good, reviewing them is a little redundant.
In this alternate universe, instead of keeping Peter Quill, Yondu delivers him to his father Ego: The Living Planet (Kurt Russell). Able to combine their power, Ego is able to start his plan to remake the universe in his image, with young Quill (Mace Montgomery) leading the destruction and Ego following up. When Quill arrives on earth, SHIELD operatives Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and Howard Stark (John Slattery) engage a team to meet him, including Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), Bill Foster (Laurence Fishburne) King T'Chaka (Atandwa Kani) and a silent imposing Russian assassin known only as The Winter's Soldier (Sebastian Stan). They engage young Quill only to find they're hopelessly outmatched, until another hero arrives, from an already destroyed realm, to even the odds.
As before, the show has its definite style and looks really good. Vocal performances, from an almost entirely MCU cast are spot on. There's only the story really on which to judge the episode and, whlist I didn't think that this was quite as good as the opening episode from last week, it's still pretty strong stuff. I'm not really sure why he was using Quill as the harbinger of doom, as I'm pretty sure from "GOTG2" he could activate his seeds from way out in space and they would essentially do the work for him, but I liked how the story went from there, and thought it was clever and touching how he resolved it.
Not perhaps one to live long in the memory, but solid enough.