I’m 100% going off Wiki articles, but I *think* the MCU version is Bucky being born in Indiana as an Army brat, moving with his family as service families are wont to do, then meeting the future Cap’n at 13.

I blame wikipedia.

That’s something he’s SENSITIVE about, okay?!

Same here. I actually had COVID early last year; the memory of struggling to maintain my breath will stay with me forever. (I’ve technically recovered, but I’m still leery of potential after-effects.)

You don’t think Sharon’s still working for Fury? Undercover like? I’ve been assuming either that Fury’s the Power Broker, or that he’s targeting the Power Broker and working via Sharon. After all, working in the shadows with super soldier serum for mysterious purposes sounds like Fury, or Fury-adjacent.

Totally agree, especially since we’re living in a country where the bullied, frail, and outcasts have shown to do some horrific things, even with the slightest bit of power like a gun.
I think Walker could’ve gotten those Medals well before the snap. After all, the first Iron Man came out during our real world’s…

Well with peak-Covid happening during production, it’s not surprising that scenes may have been cut.

“In fact, the way that the characters deify Steve as the only person to respond well to the serum feels remarkably unfounded.”

I know we are supposed to sympathize with her motives, at least, but I find Karli and her *terrible* moral reasoning infuriating. On the other hand, I really appreciate what they’ve done with Walker — his realization that he’s in over his head, that those medals he got weren’t about honor; making it clear that he…

Have you never met a “rap dad” who believes that good music stopped being made some time around 1997? Some people are stuck on the music they grew up with, and refuse to listen to new stuff. It’s not really that odd. 

She supposedly on the run but also has a supporting driver?

Oh, that’s a good point. This show is hitting home in some weird ways...

The flow of the ‘caper’ narrative and all the stuff that seems off or retread might be attributable to alterations late in the game to excise an infection/vaccine storyline.

Is it a coincidence that it’s called ‘swing’ music?

“Only an American would think a well-dressed Black man looks like a pimp.”

Yeah I mean being open minded/comfortable with your sexuality (at least when it comes to online dating/hook up apps which isn’t always the same thing) but being closed minded to types of music you don’t like are not mutually exclusive.

I’m not surprised at all that Bucky’s a little more old-timey. Personally I want to see an episode open with him complaining to Sam about the Designated Hitter rule. 

Sure, but that tracks.  Apparently, you can’t be bisexual AND into Glenn Miller.

I think that Bucky clings to that period of music because it reminds him of when he was last truly himself. When Steve changed, he changed for the better, as it were. Bucky, however, was changed for the worse, into a killing machine for the enemy. And even though he’s no longer that, he’s still tortured by what was…

he can go on dates (and dating apps apparently set to “both men and women”) but he can’t enjoy the music of the modern era?