The Watcher's name is already known, its Uatu.
Rod Serling is what tied all the Twilight Zone episodes together, but it was still a successful anthology series without his participation IN the stories (for the most part - I do still love the meta bit in "A World of His Own" because it was such an unusual moment and worked for that story). As I said, I'd've simply preferred these as standalone without the Watcher's growing involvement.
Agree. I liked the idea of standalone episodes. This was the perfect vehicle to contrast against the heavily connected MCU by having stories that don’t have to be in service of each other. But then this episode happened. Not really a fan.
I get that is what you preferred, but the whole premise of the series (which is based on the comics of the same name and premise) was always stories connected via The Watcher. Uatu is always comparing the events of our Marvel Universe (Marvel-616) with that of other universes in the multiverse, hence "What If". So even if you didn't have Uatu getting directly involved you'd still have the connected thread of "Hey this event happened in your universe what happened if it played out slightly differently and how would the dominoes fall". That is why I'm saying it was never meant to be pure standalone stories, it was always meant to be connected.
Not to mention, in the comics, Uatu is constantly getting involved anyway. All the internet comic nerds saw the connection parading up Fifth Avenue.
Thank you. I've no issue with Uatu comparing the events as a framing device just as Serling gave his observations/background/context for each Twilight Zone episode. Simply saying I'm personally less interested in the individual stories suddenly being a single connected arc rather than random separate incidents (anthology).
I know it is a stretch, but Kang variants can have different names. Uatu's character is basically Kang watching the timeline and now making sure it stays in place.
I still think its less likely that will be the case, but I guess we'll see soon enough.
That was "Ultron nuked everybody"-verse Black Widow in the last episode.
