If they’re setting her up to be a recurring villain than I think we will. I think we didn’t here because (1) time constraints and (2) they were really delaying that reveal for some reason (again, time constraints? idk).

Yeah, at the beginning of the show I called the final title card change as : “Captain America and the White Wolf,” so I was half right. Initially a little disappointed at the missed opportunity, but when I stopped to think about it, this was really Sam’s show and Sam’s journey. You’re right that Bucky still is aways…

It’s so weird to hear complaints about “telling, not showing” from people who then turn around and complain about something not being explicit enough. 

That murder would have not have been as affecting if it hadn’t been the culmination of all the warning signs (so effectively played by Wyatt Russell) we had been seeing up until then.

Bucky even apologizes for the fact that he and Steve never considered what it would mean for Sam to pick up the shield!

Yeah, they kind of don’t need to justify who Steve was because we already had ::counts fingers:: seven movies that did that. And I do not agree with the author that First Avenger was the only movie that bothered to do it, explicitly or no. Personally, I do not understand when people gripe about something not being…

I don’t know when the ability to infer died. 

I have exactly zero idea why, but “... don’t give your wife the clap, please,” really made me giggle. 

When I heard that Lewis Tan auditioned to play Danny Rand but they refused to not go with a white guy, I went from skeptical about IF to a straight-up “ugh.”

I think it was, and what a way to do it. 

I appreciated the parallel between Isaiah’s story of rescuing his comrades behind enemy lines and Cap’s in First Avenger. When Cap defies orders to rescue the 101st, he is lauded, and it launches his turn as an actual soldier. Isaiah did practically the same thing (and not just to rescue generally, but to prevent…

I think the first time I had an edible it took about a full hour to kick in. Luckily, I had an experienced person around me going, “nope, just wait.”

Marvel is almost always at its best when it spends time developing its villains, which often comes down to writers’ priorities. The running gag that Marvel’s villains are most often kind of sad trombone is extra baffling since they’re almost universally portrayed by more than capable actors. The difference between…

I’m also glad then didn’t show him taking it. The slow realization - seeing the shield embedded in concrete, kicking that dude way too far, and then finally bending metal - was great. 

I think I’m confused as to what point you’re making? I was just agreeing with the commenter that the MCU has spent a lot of time focusing on the post-Blip fallout, and deservedly so, but I also that I saw their point that by focusing so much on the fallout, it almost makes the Avengers seem like villains for bringing…

It read to me more that he was briefly having the means-ends debate with himself. Never doubted his distaste for super soldiers.

When I heard about that truly heinous harassment of Wyatt Russell my reactions were, in order:

Zemo stomping on all the vials was great. There was that brief moment where it seemed like he was considering taking it himself but then nope. Smash.

It does seem like they’ve spent a lot more time emphasizing things aren’t happy-shiny post-Blip (still hate that name) that it’s almost tilted too far that way. It needed to be said/shown, but you’re right that the opposite is also true.

Yeah, even when you can guess beat-for-beat what’s going to happen (Walker busting in when Sam was getting through to Karli, Walker taking the serum, Lemar dying, Walker losing it) it doesn’t matter if it is well-executed, and, here, it absolutely was.