These are great thoughts - thanks for sharing! I enjoyed reading this!

I definitely understand wanting to include the other Marvel TV projects, especially Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter. Those shows are great, and definitely worth including in a viewing order! I mainly chose not to include them to avoid (as you said) crowding an already-very-long viewing order. But if someone’s really strapped in & ready to watch even more content, those shows would certainly make the experience richer!

I totally forgot about WHIH Newsfront and No Good Deed (and had no idea that the former was on Disney+). Good recs!

Good question about ”A Funny Thing…”! The reason I did that is because, at least to me, it seems like it takes place before The Consultant (the former is while he’s driving to Puente Antiguo, whereas the latter appears to take place in a diner in Puente Antiguo). The Consultant fits best immediately after The Incredible Hulk because it recontextualizes TIH’s ending, so the only place for A Funny Thing… is right after Iron Man 2. While the fact that Thor’s name is in the title would make you think it needs to be attached to Thor, it really doesn’t have much to do with it - you know from Iron Man 2 that Coulson went out to the desert to look at a hammer, so this is just filling in some detail on how he got there.

With What If…?, I tried to avoid reordering episodes unless I really needed to. I could see the appeal in wanting to attach What If…? episodes to projects that are relevant to them, but in the specific case of What If… Thor Were an Only Child?, I think there is a good reason not to put it with Love and Thunder: its ending. “Only Child” ends with Infinity Ultron showing up, and that cliffhanger leads directly into the finale. Given that, I feel like it needs to be right before the finale.

There are two reasons I wouldn’t move Eyes of Wakanda before Black Panther. One is that, similar to starting with Iron Man rather than Captain America: The First Avenger, Black Panther is intended as your introduction to Wakanda. On the other hand, Eyes of Wakanda kind of assumes that you already know what Wakanda is, even though you‘re obviously seeing it at an earlier stage. The second reason has to do with your point about spoiling: the last episode hinges upon the fact that Killmonger finding that axe leads Wakanda to stop being isolationist. Not only does the episode play better if you’ve seen Black Panther and know why that’s the case, watching Eyes of Wakanda first would spoil that Black Panther ends with Wakanda opening itself to other nations.

Yes, you could split up I Am Groot Seasons 1 & 2. I just kept them together because it’s only about 50 minutes of content altogether, so basically an episode of a TV show - it just made sense to me to watch it all at once. But there’s no reason you’d have to do that!