Did you watch the show while streaming or otherwise not paying attention? Because things like “why did the white guy get the shield” have been CENTRAL to the show. It’s just employing some subtext.

Sam also pretty much tells Bucky flat out in that scene that people don’t always need to only listen to what Steve said and thought.

But they did have a scene. They had the scene where they visit Isaiah and are arguing in the street and the cops pull up and start harassing Sam for arguing with a white man. So first he hears what the government did to Isaiah, then that right after. And it’s Bucky who says to the cop, “Do you know who he is?” I think…

I totally buy this, and for sure they’re more interesting than 75% of the villians in the MCU. But Karli just feels disjointed to me; part of it is that she has zero backstory, and her descent into moral relativism kind of comes from nowhere because of it. They sort of try and get at that so many of her friends have…

The Flag-smashers have had to be made out to be bad guys, because they’re otherwise pretty spot on.

I’m probably grading this show on a curve because it’s the MCU but between Bucky’s apology and Isiah telling Sam no self-respecting black man would ever want to take up the shield, this show is raising quite a few ideas I didn’t expect from Disney.

“I just can’t disagree more with the idea that Rogers is easy to write and easy to play. Evans was just brilliant at it.”

I disagree fundamentally with the premise of this. One, part of the point of the show is that what Captain America is and what it means varies widely from person to person; how John Walker and Karli Morgenthau define Captain America are very different (whether the shield, the serum, etc), but each could point to real…

“The Falcon And The Winter Soldier stumbled under the weight of Captain America’s legacy” is also a weird story to write the day before the final episode. I mean, maybe give it a day before looking back on what the series did or didn’t accomplish?

I think the show is actually doing a pretty good job of examining Sam and why he ultimately is a worthy successor as Captain America, primarily by showing different versions of what Sam could be and why being like that would make him unworthy.

Stanley Tucci’s Dr. Erskine is curious why a shrimpy little kid is so desperate to join the war effort, and he tests Steve by asking if he’s just really eager to kill Nazis. Steve says no, he doesn’t want to hurt anybody. “I just don’t like bullies,” he says. “I don’t care where they’re from.”

Yeah, that line really had me scratching my head because Walker is so clearly shown to be on the path to being a bad Captain America long before he kills the one Flagsmasher. His inability to listen to Sam and Bucky when they first meet is the indicator. Then his actions toward the Dora Milaje and his inability let…

“The show’s argument, on the other hand, is that John didn’t really become a bad Captain America until he killed a man with the shield in broad daylight.”

The show’s argument, on the other hand, is that John didn’t really become a bad Captain America until he killed a man with the shield in broad daylight.

I think they did stop to consider that Steve was wrong. Bucky apologized to Sam because neither he nor Steve understood how much harder it was for a Black man to wield the shield and be accepted as Captain America. It was one of my favorite scenes of the entire series.

In one of the Superman & Batman comics (I think maybe the one that brings in Supergirl?) at the end all the Justice League team up to rebuild the Kent farm. The Flash seems to do a large portion of the work himself, and it just made me think “Oh, of course The Flash would be a great contractor. He’s excellent at the…

I have no idea why, but the moment it seemed like Sam and Bucky were teaming up to fix a boat I just jumped and yelped in joy.
Kind of like that scene in RDR2 where you build a house, there’s this fondness I have for seeing heroes just doing blue collar labor.
It’s comforting and funny, and the most realistic aspect…

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 Bucky is my favorite character in the entire MCU. Give him his own movie as the starring hero.

Alright, a new season of Batwoman means we have new reasons to love Mary. We all need a Mary when times get rough; look at how good she is at calming Luke and Jacob down! However, who is there for Mary when times get tough??? *insert crying face.*