Something I hadn’t appreciated as much about the MCU until that mention of the Power Broker is how establishing an actual continuity changes how you tell your story. In comics, storylines can stack on top of each other without much regard for what happened when — multiple would-be extinction-level threats just rise…

He’s doing contract work for the Air Force, but isn’t fully re-enlisted.

Agents of SHIELD was pre-emptively sorry about Inhumans by doing them right the first time.

Sam’s fuckin with Bucky about wizards, he’s fuckin with him on recon, hell he fucked with a little boy about the use of “Black” in his name. Anthony Mackie really brought it with the banter, and I quite like how easily it elevates any and all scenes (Oh, how broody this show would be without all this). 

I don’t know, Bucky’s been in therapy for a decent amount of time, and while he’s a very private person, he’s also fairly practical, so I kind of bought that he would be willing to go ahead and share that detail if he felt like it was necessary.

If I recall correctly, the creation of the Hulk (and all his rage... erm... “issues”) was a direct result of trying to recreate Erskine’s experiment.

I’d go even further and say the banter only works as well as it does because the show is actually tackling some pretty serious issues (I’m sure I’ll get flamed for saying that though).

Thunderbolts and Young Avengers seem to be the 2 big projects that continue to be unannounced but clearly are in the works for the past couple years, and they only get more obvious as more movies and shows come out.  I mean, with Hawkeye and Ant-Man 3 castings, we are literally just Hulkling away from the original…

OK, it would be stupid narratively to make Walker a racist idiot. That would be making a straw man with a shield and he would be boring after two episodes.

Making him somewhere between “Who does this guy think he is?” to “He’s FINE! I suppose” and “OK, maybe he isn’t too bad” makes more sense because it forces Sam,…

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

He’s not stupid, though. He’s shown as being very good with the shield. Likely a heroic and worthy soldier in most respects. But is that enough to carry on Cap’s legacy, especially in the 21st century? That’s the question the show’s asking, it seems, and it’s a good one.

Gotta say I agree. Different strokes for different folks, but nothing about this grabbed me

now i don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, and i’m not some snyder superfan, or an mcu superfan, and i like most of gunn’s work...but i pretty much hated this trailer.

Nah, they’ll just spam #RestoreTheSnyderverse on Twitter in the hopes WB is gullible enough to fall for that shit a second time.

Yep, he literally gains “The Power of Self Respect” at the end. The point of him being an asshole of an unreliable narrator was made in a pretty heavy-handed fashion in the comics.

Exactly! Lisa Miller was robbed. "Maybe we should have! Maybe we should..." is one of my favorite scenes.

That’s a common interpretation, but not one I agree with. It’s a metaphor for the conditions and baggage that come with any relationship. The movie spells out that the exes are “evil,” however, they are the way they are as a consequence for Ramona’s past poor decisions. And not in that misogynistic abuser’s “look at…

I thoroughly enjoy this movie; it is unbridled fun for me.

In a movie full of VERY funny people, those kids hung in and stole the show. 

The biggest tragedy of the partnership between Warner and Zack Snyder is that he might have been the perfect choice for a much more brutal Elseworlds-style DC multiverse story - one that celebrates the kind of violence and slow-motion chaos that Snyder does so well. Something like a cinematic version of the…