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I don’t know if this sounds like it’s for me based off the premise, but I’m going to watch all of it. Maybe I’ll be surprised and love it. Such is my commitment to ensuring Cristin Milioti remains a star, one view of one project at a time.

Which begs the question of why they decided to do it in the first place. The entire thing was conjured during Endgame, it wasn’t previously set up. They could have easily arranged a different final scenario. So far, in all the follow-ups, the writers seem to treat it like something they’re forced to deal with rather

I...really disagree.

What was the funniest moment for you?

God, I hate the term “The Blip” so fucking much. Whoever it was at Marvel or Disney that decided to make that the official term should be publicly flogged. Especially since fans had already been using “The Snap” during the year between Infinity War and Endgame, and that’s a much better term.

I guess they only have six episodes

Walker cheekily getting Sam and Bucky’s attention with a police siren, completely oblivious to how triggering that sound might be for them, was a perfect encapsulation of his painfully oblivious worldview. I suppose he could have known exactly how triggering it would be and did it on purpose, but, as the review notes,

My point is more that the plot details of the MCU effectively make it impossible that they spent any time together prior to Tony Stark’s funeral. Lots of other character pairings make room for offscreen adventures (for example, Sam and Wanda spent years together on the active Avengers roster between movies, even

It’s a great example of how this should work. Dude makes a mistake based not out of malice but a knowledge gap, when people inform him he doesn’t get defensive and instead immediately works to change it, and rather than just slipping that change by he uses the mistake to explain to others what he didn’t know to

Yeah, this is the part of the thread I was looking for. I’d flip the grades of eps 1 & 2. Same director I guess, but it didn’t seem like it. Something was off in the show’s timing. Bucky following Sam nonchalantly into the plane and on his mission felt a little too loose for a “special op” or whatever Sam is tasked

One thing that felt off in this episode is that when you think about it, Sam and Bucky really don’t know each other that well. They have minimal interaction during the events of Civil War, which takes place over a few days. At the end of that movie, Bucky is frozen in Wakanda and Sam becomes a fugitive with Cap. Sam

I don’t understand your defensiveness over Walker. Brock Rumlow had similar badass credentials, but that didn’t keep him from turning out to be asshole. Walker puts out goofy vibes and the reviewer is having fun with it, yeesh.

This was excellent. I like that they aren’t making new Cap an outright “bad” guy--I kind of like him, even though he has obvious flaws and isn’t Steve or Sam or Bucky. It’s a good choice not to make him a racist or bad in any particular way.

Sam become Steve’s partner is more than “people changing and relationships evolving” for Bucky, I would guess. Bucky got kidnapped and brainwashed, and lost out on years of friendship and partnership with Steve, which he instead had with Sam. Even after Bucky got better, he hardly got any time to be able to be friends

And I think that’s genuinely why intelligence is in quotes and all the reviewer was asking here. Like, what exactly does “intelligence” mean?

I dunno, seems pretty natural there’d be some (mostly low-key) rivalry between Cap’s old best friend/sidekick and new best friend/sidekick.

I dunno, seems pretty natural there’d be some (mostly low-key) rivalry between Cap’s old best friend/sidekick and new best friend/sidekick. And there’s no particular reason they would be friends - after all, how much time have they actually spent getting to know each other? They were probably together a few

I just read this about two months or so ago. I was SMILING ear to ear when they introduced Isaiah and I’m so hopeful they use him in this story. It’s weird how I feel like MCU fans NEED to know this character as though he was a real person.

My favorite thing from this great episode is the fantastic marching band rendition of the Star Spangled Man With A Plan theme. So good!

As Alan Sepinwall pointed out in his review, Battlestar stopped using the codename “Bucky” after Dwayne McDuffie pointed out to Mark Gruenwald that “buck” was a racial slur, which was then written into the comic: