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Skipping through the scene where Bucky confesses to the murder of Yuri's son is A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY like WTF building that moment, the raw emotion, and then we just get a little smoke from incense and it's done. LIKE WHAT.

I think your point about Zemo about being an eat the rich guy in Civil War is a bit off. In Civil War he is portrayed as a military man who lost his family due to Avengers collateral damage. I never got the impression that Zemo was a working class citizen who didn't like wealth. I always just viewed Zemo as a man motivated by the loss of his family.

I think the big problem is that they didn’t commit fully to any storyline or theme.

Seeing Clarence clean up his act and give up his dream of being the best rapper to fighting for human kind is so inspiring

It should have been more than six episodes. There wasn't enough time to truly explore the characters

The thing I agree with the most is there’s too much going on in the show, it feels like instead of diving deeper and explaining more of a plotline it just introduces another plot to keep you distracted

I feel like Karli had a terrible script or they shouldve shown her a full flashback than just telling us about her motivations. I think the flag smashers’ plot couldve been better

Since episode 1, I was ready to sob at the moment Bucky would tell yori about his son. And then all we got from Yori’s reaction was “what?”. If Bucky was supposed to be of service to people and make Yori feel better, why didn’t we see his reaction at all? I wanted to know if he would be ok :( I hope there’s a longer scene out there

"Why the hell would Sam feel that way?" Probably the innocent people she burned to death.

My main problem with the show among other ones was that it introduces ideas and doesn't rlly explore it further

The only thing I REALLY dislike is the winter soldier’s arc ending. I would’ve really loved a longer scene w Mr. Nakishma

Having the series spaced out over 6 weeks really allowed me to kind of forget all of the inconsistencies.

I think it needed to World build more. Like they alluded to the struggles of those who stayed behind after the blip but we didn’t see. Maybe flashbacks or showing the hardships more. I just didn’t care about Karli’s death like I feel like I was supposed to

My problem with this show is that there isn't enough Bucky for a show that he's one of the title roles.... this show has like 5 main characters and they never juggle the screen time properly...

I really hate that Wandavision and TFATWS both had a rushed finale

I absolutely love the show personally speaking, but I get ur pov.

I think the show is choosing a side. I think Sam clearly understands Karli and her motives. That's why Sam tells her he agrees with her fight he just doesn't want to bomb buildings to do it. Sam is the perfect man to be Cap because he can see other perspectives and filter them through his morality, and deal with them from a place of understanding.

Things being “better during the blip” refers to everyone’s borders being open, everyone taking care of everyone, etc.

I’m actually glad Sam is a centrist for a few episodes because then he doesn’t have to feel as if he’s loyal or bound to only one side of the argument. Also him becoming Captain America is dope imo as well.

I think you feel into the trap of thinking falcon has to think a specific way as a black man and you completely missed the mark on what captian America represents with your punching nazi's comment

You can disagree with the writers making Karli a villain, but since they wrote her that way I’d say once you blow up a building killing people you are villain no matter how justified the cause. You make a well spoken video but it’s like we watched two different shows. 🤷🏻‍♀️

“Challenge the audience for gods sake” this is Disney you’re talking about

I find it funny that You assume he would handle things differently because his Family's been through some hardship & oppression. Lol. As a Black Women, I can assure you that we "all" don't walk around carrying that type of baggage. It would seem that most of us are Centrist until something personally dramatic happens to change that. Casual racism is not that dramatic to some of us, just something we get through and try to avoid. Sam's stance or lack there of is actually typical for someone raised, living and working in diverse settings. When you've known better people, its harder for the Assholes you come across to infect you with a Feeling of oppression. This Version of Captain America represents black people like HIM.

Wasn’t Zemo just simply stating facts in that scene where he “praised” Steve? Zemo was talking about how super soldiers were bad, then Bucky cut in and said Steve didn’t kill Zemo, and Zemo just responded with, “Touché, but there has never been another Steve Rogers, has there?” It’s true, Steve didn’t kill Zemo, and no, there never was another “Steve Rogers,”.....at least not one the public knew about.

The scene where Walker outright says "You made me! I only did what you told me to do!" felt like the closest the MCU ever came to a direct indictment of the government/system instead of being just "oh we're really good I promise! its just a few bad people!" bullshit. I was also really annoyed that Sam and Bucky never really had any real conversations abt how kinda fucked up it was that Steve just kinda dipped and seemed to reverse on the set up of him actually learning how to move on from his past and carve out a life for himself instead of going back to be with Peggy (who told him on her death bed to go do something for himself??). Like Steve deadass left character growth and the ppl he grew close to behind to go be with Peggy , and Sam and Bucky didn't really have much to say abt it other than Bucky expressing anxiety that Steve was wrong about him

I think when Sam tells Walker that they will consider John's record about him killing the Flag Smasher is more about talking walker down then a character inconsistency. I don't think Sam is fully sympathetic with John as much as he's trying to level John's head and calm him down. So if anything it's actually more consistent with Sam's character because his real strength is his ability to reason with people. He was trying to calmly disarm John and take back the shield before it escalated into the fight. Sam was trying to avoid the fight.

I will say, you had some good points, but next time make your video after the finale is out, instead of the day before. This way you can get a full and just sense of the show in it's entirety.

Show seemed fine for having to cut a whole virus subplot out and still have the story flow.

I'd wait for the finale before giving a full opinion, but I half agree, half disagree. I do think the Flag Smashers aren't written the best and the pacing wasn't the best, especially in the middle two episodes, but I think the show IS good because it starts conversations (as you mentioned, it's a Marvel show, it won't go too deep) and the "haphazardness" is deliberate because it's realistic. Real-life is not cherry perfect where everything is clear and cut. These characters are going through things in real-time, and showing the characters going back and forth is human. Also, Sam is NOT a centrist. He may be a mediator role to try to resolve conflicts, but he is clearly against the methods of the Flag Smashers and John Walker. He just has the unique ability to sympathize (as you mentioned, again) and try to peacefully solve conflicts, but being peaceful doesn't mean he doesn't have conviction. John Walker is a character written well, but the fandom (however wild they may be) is allowed to not like him, either for love of Steve Rogers or a genuine belief that Walker isn't a good cap (and there are MANY instances that show why). Anyway, those are my two pennies. I'll have to watch the episode tonight to see if this changes.

The last episode felt rushed but overall the show was great. The 4th and 5th episodes was pure entertainment and story telling. It was better than most shows on tv so I’m not sure what you were watching

I think the expectations are jaded, these shows weren't made with the goal of telling and finishing a story but introducing the beginning of one. The main story drivers are the movies, not the tv shows and the common theme throughout the MCU is that the story is never finished until the end of a phase.

You wanted them to go in, and they didn't. As a Black Man, I'm glad they went this far. I ready for them to go deeper, but I'm not surprised they didn't, but it's great to see you wanted them to push the issue and make people think.

Well, the weekly releases removes the ability to really see these flaws. I think most people just don’t remember everything from 5 weeks ago. I truly hate weekly releases for this type of series.

It's not bad, it's just forgettable. Many series have stuck with me over the years and I rewatch them along with many mcu movies, but as soon as TFATWS ended, I was like "cool" and never thought about it again, and that's bad cause it finished less than a week ago.

To be honest I would have enjoyed the series to evolve more around Bucky and his character development. He was the victim of a killing machine (the winter soldier) and had so much potential. I understand the concept of him being hesitant of killing people causing him to hold back, but they really overused it to the point that he barely wins a fight now. Sam Wilson’s story just wasn’t as interesting as Bucky’s.

Sam is a soldier though. And he’s not like a soldier that’s just trying to cover college tuition he is an elite solider. He has already dedicated his life to the flag. So the idea of him not feeling comfortable wearing the flag doesn’t make sense. I don’t remember that being part of Remender’s arc in the comics.

“The Flag Smashers aren’t villains” just like Magneto or Ra’s Al Ghul isn’t a villain?

I both loved the falcon and the winter soldier, and at the same time wanted it to be so much more.

People who expected a dumb silly buddy cop action comedy were disappointed

It seems to me that one part of the writing team wanted to do a nuanced political thriller like TWS while the other part wanted to insert political morality. The moment you do that is when the whole thing falls apart.

You hit the nail on the head in my issues with the show, the way they are afraid to commit and how wishy washy and performative it can be. It’s afraid to change the status quo and really challenge things and that’s really unfortunate. And that’s not to mention my personal problems with the way this show handled or rather mishandled issues of trauma for both Bucky and Walker. Tho I would say that I disagree that the show wants more sympathy for Walker than Karli because the way they deliberately frame things actually is almost against Walker from the very beginning but as usual, the hate against Walker by the audience is less about anything he does and more about how he’s just not worthy of replacing Steve because he’s not Steve. But oh well, if nothing else, I can appreciate this show for giving me one of the more complex and interesting characters in the MCU in John Walker, and Wyatt Russell really stole the show at times for me.

I like this show because it describes an aspect of the real world. Not everybody is a good and bad guy. Everyone impacts someone, sacrifices something, regarding someone else. Too many things are complicated, tossed around. Things aren't simple. Gave me some MGS vibes.

I think the problem with Karli was that she wasn’t developed enough. The Government was also not developed enough to show us why we would truly agree with her cause. Also John obviously has a better arc but his ending felt vague. He just became a good guy again after saying that he is captain America in a crazy sounding way and after losing his respect. I didn’t hate the show, it was just disappointing

I agree so much with your takes, I hate how the show frames centrism as the best choice, when the show itself suffers from the problems of centrism: it doesn't know what the hell to say.

Walker was the best character for me, would have watched his story unfolding more

Where in Avengers movie that Zemo was portrayed as a working class? The movie never tell anything about Zemo's background at all. And you think someone from working class are able to manipulate and get in so deep of both Hydra and Avengers just because his country and family where destroyed?

There are rumours that they had originally planned more episodes but had to stop due to the pandemic. Also a rumour that the show had a virus bioweapon story line that was cut out because they thought it would be too insensitive due to the pandemic. Might be a lie but it kinda would explain a lot

I also had a lot to say about how I felt underwhelmed specifically at the finale, which kinda botched a lot of the (otherwise very interesting plotlines) from the show, but you did a great job at summing them up, and find a lot of things I didn't think of. That was a fantastic essay, man ! Well done !

Before I binged watch all 6 episodes yesterday, I was seeing all these memes about Walker and the show, and it really hyped me up because I didn't know what I was getting into in regards to John Walker as Captain America. But when I watched the show, I was confused. Walker nowhere near as focused on as I thought, and there is so much potential for a critique on what Captain America should be, but it just isn't explored. It doesn't want to commit, and it's especially worse when you have other subplots, like the boat subplot, which I just felt chewed up run time. The biggest issue the show has is that it's a show. The writers got excited with the extra run time and just disregarded any in-depth characterization because they went "oh we have extra time so it'll make up for it". This show easily could have been consolidated into a 2h30m run time or so, and I feel the result would have been much better.

I feel like having the Flagsmashers say that things were better when half of all life was gone is essentially them saying that Thanos was right, which is an awkward spot to put the Flagsmashers in and another example of how muddled their message was (and, by extent, Marvel's unwillingness to earnestly understand progressive messaging). I also get the sense that at some point in the Flagsmashers' development, someone realized that they might come off way too sympathetic when they're supposed to be the bad guys, and so threw in things like Karli blowing up a building full of innocent people even if it's out of character.

Thank you! I couldn’t put my finger on what was missing and you explained it perfectly.

They had a pandemic theme but had to change it up because of a real pandemic to not offend people. I wish we got some flashbacks of Sam losing his partner the story he told Steve in winter solider. We couldn’t feel the plot of Carly because they had to remove the virus theme they had.

The whole time i was watching the show, i was waiting for this exact kind of video, to explain why it feels hollow

Sam is not a centrist, period. Again I can’t even fathom how you’d see that. The man is very clearly taking a stance toward progression and change.

Finally a channel with a critical perspective on TV shows like this. Every, and I mean every other channel I've watched on falcon have just unashamedly parroted blind praise and worship about it. You're a breath of fresh air

@FilmSpeak please tell me the name of the font in your thumbnail. You don't realise how much I need it.

I absolutely LOVED it. One of my favorite shows on TV. I know everyone has their own opinion but I really dont understand a lot of the dislike for the show. I thought it was incredibly well done and really had a great message. I know a lot could have been better, but due to pandemic restraints I think they did a phenomenal job.

Good luck dude, very bold to make a controversial video so close after the series’s ending 👍

I'm looking forward to checking this out after I've finished watching the show. I'm not super thrilled with it either, but I'm curious to see if it's for the same reasons as what you mention here.

Marvel has adopted a centrist point of view before with Black Panther, where T'Challa (RIP Chadwick Boseman) rejects the hard nationalist isolationism of his father, but also rejects the revolutionary and (ultimately) imperialist beliefs of Killmonger.

Sam's sister can't get a high risk loan from a bank Video: "...Sam's family has been so mistreated by the government."

One of my biggest problems with the show, while he was entertaining at times, was Zemo. Like he said, all of the sudden Steve Rogers is given the out because he was "different" but, that wasn't his view in CA: The Winter Soldier. They also completely ignore the fact that this was a man completely overcome with grief because his family was killed. I agree this show could have been great, it just felt aimless.

Dude, what font do u use in your thumbnails... Pls tell me

This series was disappointing. I didn’t even have any expectations coming into it, yet I was still disappointed by terrible plot developments and direction.

The main problem you bring up here is no necessarily why I hated the series, I liked it, but it's why I hated Sam's speech in the last episode. While the delivery was awesome and I admired the messages, the actual writing was awful. A bunch of disparately related ideas thrown together in what I can only assume was meant to be a big cathartic speech. Imo it did a really bad job of connecting "being black Captain America" to the complicated geopolitical mess that was relief for a global refugee crisis. Also, I was unimpressed by Sam's unwillingness to call the flag smashers terrorists, which is what they were like objectively. I think it'd made a lot more sense to acknowledge they were terrorists, but point out that that doesn't mean they were wrong.

I disagree with your views of radicalism. If an ideology drives you to see others lives as lesser either by dehumanizing them or painting them as the enemy that needs to be overcome (which is exactly what radicalization does) then it is inherently wrong. Only by being able to understand all sides without bias or judgment can one truly see what is right. Which to me Sam managed to do perfectly, I look forward to seeing what he does as captain america.

It’s so like Marvel to make the Avengers ‘perfect’ to the viewer, despite their obvious villainous actions: Wanda being ‘forgiven’ and not given any consequences at the end of WandaVision, and Zemo saying Steve Rogers is the exception, despite the fact that superiority did get to him as he didn’t tell Tony about his parents death

Seems like they needed more episodes and cut Karli away (to put it bluntly). John Walker was already a good focus. You had a good point about Walker. I think there are a lot of themes that can be connected to how army treats veterans that cannot be assets anymore. 🤔

I don't care what y'all say, Karli was by far one of the most annoying characters ever... Maybe that was the intention, but my God did I want to pull my ears out every time she spoke.

i really love how you said "zemo is great" then goes on to show zemo dancing in the club. you, sir, are a legend 🤣🤣

I didn’t think I’d agree with this video as much as I did. They completely fumbled the bag with the themes by 1. Putting Sam in the middle 2. Making Bucky a sidekick 3. Making Karli the villain and 4. Redeeming Walker

Don't think Walker follows in the mould of Homelander; he's not a tyrannical all-powerful superhero, he's a soldier tasked with carrying on the mantle of Captain America, which is a poisoned chalice. He's not a super soldier, and he's not evil; he just unravels, first because of the pressure, and then because his best friend (who kept him level and grounded) is killed in action. I would go mental too if that happened to me.

karli garbagethaw and flaglosers are downright despicable. And sam doesnt deserve to be cap. Sympathizing with someone r some ideology is okay and understandable. But outright not calling them terrorist is stupid. Steve acknlowledged that bucky was an assasin. Steve did defend bucky but he called him out and fought whenever bucky crossed a line.

Politics is much more than right vs left. The reality is that right vs left doesn’t really even mean anything anymore. In fact the origins of it is just a seating arrangement back in the French Revolution. Sam isn’t a centrist. He is a reformist, while the flag smashers are revolutionists. This is a distinct political ideology that differs between the two groups. Walker isn’t right winger. However, he is the supremacist that Zemo talks about... until the 6th episode when he swallows his ego to team up with Bucky and accept Sam as the new Captain America. Sharon Carter is an extreme version of Captain America. She’s essentially a warlord of an ancap nation. While Captain America essentially turned into a libertarian after seeing Shield compromised and the UN take over super humans, he still maintained his honor and morality. Sharon is essentially what happens if Steve compromised his morality, and actively feels hatred towards the government. It doesn’t contradict her previous incarnations since she pretty much is just a radicalized version of her previous self after being blipped back into existence. Politics is much more than democrats vs Republican. You are missing the point that there is so much more than just binary sides or aligning in the middle. The show tackles many ideologies that are outside of this left right made up spectrum. And to be honest, this is the one thing the show does right. It’s so many different ideologies pitted against each other. I’m so confused to why this is your one big complaint. I can list of so many nitpicks with the show and this is your complaint?

tbh i really dont like how they r trying to seperate bucky and winter soldier into two different identities, instead of just letting him embrace his past, go on w the knowledge and guilt which encourages him to utilize his skills to help others, its such a waste of the winter soldier aesthetic. plus if they really wanted him to feel non-responsible for what he did as the soldier he wouldnt have felt the need to hide or to be redeemed. i think him choosing to amend for his sins shows that he is a good man just like steve but he doesnt owe anyone any apology coz whos gonna apologize for all the shit he went thru? he was used. if someone throw a rock at a person and killed them u dont blame the freaking rock u blame the person who threw it. and i hate how they nerfed him bcoz he doesnt wanna kill anymore, i feel like bucky did a decent fight in civil war without trying to kill anyone so? i just feel like him putting 120% effort to do good for this world bcoz of his past 'sins' makes him more honourable and more interesting compared to giving him a new identity and completely getting over his past, like its a part of him and its what drives him to be a better man. omg idek what im saying whatever. im not gonna complain abt the new look tho he looks great.

I don’t think the points on Karli were exactly valid. The show may have made her violent to downplay her ideas, but it wasn’t exactly against her beliefs. One of her beliefs is that change happens through violence, and she demonstrates it a lot. Her blowing up a building makes her seem bad because she sort of is. Most can agree she has good ideas, but she is the antagonist because of that violent tendency which was exaggerated by taking the super soldier serum, like Zemo said.

Sam said the shield felt like someone else’s, he felt he couldn’t be the next cap for it was his friends legacy not his

I *love* the Winter Soldier/Bucky and was so excited for this series after Wandavision, but I have to admit that I was feeling pretty underwhelmed by the end of Episode 5 so when I saw the title of this video I was glad I wasn't the only one feeling a bit let down with the series - haven't got around to finishing the series yet but I hope the finale was good!

I agree with a lot of your general points such as the show not committing; while a few of your specific points don’t correlate to where I saw the cracks appearing. I think that episode 5 was truly phenomenal, but it’s surrounded by episodes nowhere near as strong. I do desperately need the MCU shows to tighten up their narratives, as both WandaVision and TFATWS reach their high point at the tail end of their season with no room to let it breathe.

Can anyone pls tell me the name of the font in the thumbnail... It's life or death for me.

Dude, I think this is a fairer, more centrist criticism of the show than the (borderline anti-SJW, white-male-fragile) Critical Drinker KZfaq video. He made somewhat valid points, but his video eschewed addressing the very real societal and racial problems the show addressed and he had a more “woke Disney ruined my entertainment” reaction. He might as well have said ‘shut up and dribble.’ Granted, the last episode did have a cringe “stand on a soapbox and moralize to the audience” scene for a few minutes too long at the end 🤦🏽‍♂️

I cannot even fathom how you’d think this doesn’t take a stance. It very much takes a stance both against the flag smashers and against John Walker and frankly I feel that’s not a respectable opinion because it’s objectively disengaged from the reality of what’s given to you in the show. John Walker is portrayed as an absolute lunatic and the Flag Smashers are *straight villains* and I don’t even get how you don’t see that-the show clearly sets out to take that stance. Why would Sam feel that way? Because they’re murdering people? Because he’s a good person? This is frankly a bad criticism.

I totally disagree with at least everything I've heard about up to now, I'm at the John Walker point. It isn't that Karli can't be compassionate for man AND do monstrous things. She's complex, but she IS a supremacist,.not a racial one whatsoever, but rather has an "us" and "them" mentality and is willing to do anything to "them" if it helps "us". It's also giving us a look into, as we see with Walker, how the serum would change different types of people, especially those who seem good. What gets amplified in Karli? Her pragmatism, her drive. If millions worldwide agree with her, though, then her pragmatism seems to have purpose behind it. That kind of weight to be a symbol, an opposite story to Sam, breaks her. Even her followers doubt her at times as she gets more extreme, but out of loyalty slowly agree to hurt more people. Also, I had no idea what some apparently white supremacist people on Twitter thought about someone on the show, and I literally couldn't fucking care less. I didn't come to hear what pieces of shit think, I came to hear what YOU think, but you immediately defined your view on John around some trash Twitter opinions I didn't know about. Don't acknowledge others reaction’s if they're such low slime, tell me yours in a vacuum, please. But, great editing, good sound mixing, very good pacing, awesome video essay overall, I just disagree, but why would anyone only watch things they already agree with, we'd never fucking learn anything lol.

Now looking back it feels like Steve saying "I'm with you to the end of the line" was just BS. Could've at least given Bucky the shield, and symbolically been with him. Instead he just retires and abandons him. Really disrespectful to both characters. Built it up, and no pay off. Doesn't feel like anyone at Marvel truly cares about any of these characters anymore. Superheroes are suppose to be larger than life. Supposed to be better than us, it shouldn't be realistic. There is no centrist way of looking at radicalized people once they've crossed over into being a terrorist. They have become Villains that the heroes need to stop. Zemo was a sympathetic villain, but he wast still a villain nonetheless. He was killing people and blowing things up like the flag smashers. Neither the Flag smashers no Zemo are like a Robin hood type character, because they don't hurt the villains, they are the villains. Their actions don't only hurt the Villains, they hurt the innocent people. You mentioned BLM, they hurt the very communities they claimed to be fighting for by rioting. Burning things, and looting. They weren't helping anyone, but themselves. Even though you agree with them, doesn't make them good. We know someone is good through their actions. Who do they hurt through their actions, the innocent people, or do they hurt the villains?

I always feel like you should never expect greatness from an MCU property, only good enough. Sometimes they end up being great or even outstanding but I never go in expecting greatness. Another thing you should not expect is closure... MCU is giant contious machine where every property is a cog in the machine.

Holy hell, I wish I discovered this video earlier. You perfectly described my frustrations with the show. I am also amazed that you managed to analyse its stance before finale even came out. I honestly had faith that show will really make a strong point in the end, but it really didn't. Captain America is a symbol for ideals America should strive for. Since it's creation, it depicted what America should be, rather than what it is. In his first comics, he fought Nazis at the time when this was a very controversial stance to take. For a man carrying that symbol to stand for absolutely nothing substantial is a very disturbing propaganda. Sam decides that giving speeches to politicians is enough lol. "Just do better" - he says, as if that ever brought any meaningful change, because according to this show, there is no such thing as peaceful revolution. Why challenge status quo man? That is bad. Just give meaningless speeches. I am amazed that people actually call that speech "preachy". Wtf lol? He says absolutely nothing in it. His entire speech is basically - "Things ain't great, but hey, work on it. I don't have any solutions, BYE". He leaves Isaiah a footnote in a Captain America museum, a freaking footnote, and Isaiah is satisfied for some reason. This is so horribly dumb. Isaiah was tortured, experimented on, imprisoned for his skin. Instead of Sam actually working towards holding the system, the government, the people behind it - accountable, he decides that a little statue is good enough and goes to have a barbecue with his family. Flagsmashers have actual reasonable stance unlike our status quo defender, Sam, and show decides to turn them into crazed terrorists for no freaking reason. Let's just have them kill people, because we are afraid that audience will find their beliefs to be actually more comprehensive than our hero. It is really sad, because Steve, in MCU, actually fought for something. He was against our current state of affairs. Sure, movies still played things safe, didn't fully explore his resentment and didn't stray too far away from their usual propaganda, but at least they got that far. Falcon and Winter Soldier had opportunity to go even further, show what Captain America needs to stand against. Instead, it brought up important themes and just handwaved them with enlightened centrism. As Disco Elisium put it - "Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world."

Personally I read carlie and John as representation of the major pressures on Sam's life at this point, coming back from the blip and the pressures of the captain america mantle, he struggles with both but where they fall short, resorting to violence Sam doesn't. Both carlie and John aren't bad people they just struggle with their morality. Isaiah also another embodiment of Sam's struggles but I didn't lump him in with the other two due to how different thoughs contexts are. But all 3 are told they're captain america during the series but all falling short. I love it

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bucky deserved way more character arc 100%. he got put on the backburners and im not surprised. how could they possibly develop everyone in 6 episodes unless theyre sherlock length

Im glad I wasn't the only one who felt let down by FATWS. Just felt very Eh, didn't really feel motivated to come back EVERY week like I did wanda vision.

i also couldn't stand their refusal to allow Sam to have his own iron-clad opinions, it made him feel less individual and more like a foundation for everyone else to branch their own opinions off of-- which is really degrading to his character, the fact that he can't have opinions that we either strongly agree with or strongly disagree with. personally i would have loved him more if he was outwardly opposed to alot of Steve's own ideologies, it would have really made him stick out as his own version of Cap. * also im looking forward to more of ur content now that ive found this one, ur really well spoken :) !

i had to check the upload date because i had to wonder why you didn't mention the finale

I agree it seemed weird they made Sam a centrist but it's Disney. Also sometimes black people act centrist to keep the peace, especially when you have a lot of eyes on you

“The flag smashers aren’t villains” LMAO Yes they are they’re bloody terrorists and Karli is the worst villain in the MCU, having Sam sympathise with someone who burned people alive is a bad look and makes him look stupid telling the GRC to “do better” that scene had me wheezing This is isn’t great it’s terrible

John Walker killed a terrorist who murdered his friend right in front of him, so I really dont see how that should make us see him as a villain. Since we're going to justify violence as long as your political goals align, I would say hes also justified as his friend was killed right in front of him.

This is just a personal opinion but weirdly enough, at first, I seriously thought that TFATWS is a more coherent, cohesive story when we started it in comparison to WandaVision which involved this sitcom genre and other complicated stuff, but as it turns out, I personally thought TFATWS wasn't really much of a satisfyingly cohesive story as WV was perhaps. I mean, WV had its fair share of leaving audiences a bit unsatisfied but it was mostly with the theories. And again, weirdly enough, there's no huge mystery in this show that will spur a lot of crazy and yet intriguing theories that might hurt its overall reception, but personally again, just my own opinion, I just wanted more story threads to connect properly along with its characters in this show. And yes it's no easy task to write and execute these stories. That's just what I thought. Again, I'm not comparing which show was better but I'm sort of just expressing how I've felt about the two shows. If I had to do a ranking between these two MCU shows, I will most probably rank WV higher than TFATWS, which is something I didn't expect going with this show at all. I really highly believed that TFATWS might be a better show going into it and this is coming from someone who's always had a bias for Wanda and Vision or their show basically. I was aware of the inevitable flaws or mistakes of WV and I was really willing to accept that TFATWS is better as its more cohesive and it's closer to the MCU stuff we've seen and we sort of know what to expect, but with closely assessing each, I think I've got a clearer verdict. It also kind of makes sense why it's difficult to fully elaborate and effectively explore on central stories in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier because of political aspects to it but there's just inconsistencies and it could've been so much better. At the end of the day, these are just my opinions and what matters most is that we got to enjoy both shows from the MCU and I'm just excited for more.

I appreciate hearing your viewpoint but I honestly think this show is better than Wandavision

one day I hope to be able to analyse and review a show/movie in this type of fashion with this much depth. Bravo to you, sir

Instead of Zemo saying "Touché, but there never was another Steve Rogers", he should have said something like "its matter of perspective" or something to signify his character's true belief in supersoldiers instead of making Zemo to somehow end up liking Steve Rogers. Zemo's character shouldn't be praising Steve Rogers as he never liked any of the superheroes who caused the death of his family