It would definitely be interesting if this ends up being a story about how the whole idea of Captain America is unnecessary propaganda, but since I doubt it will, I'm just a little confused currently. Between Isaiah Bradley's history and Sharon Carter's disgust with America, it's hard to see The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ending up with Sam or Bucky becoming the new Cap as I believed going in. If the show wants us to be scared of the Flag-Smashers by associating them with real-life groups that bemoan globalization, it's a little harder to dismiss such grievances in a story where there literally is a world government making unilateral decisions about who gets to live where. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is definitely playing with some interesting ideas, but I don't yet have the sense that the show knows exactly what it wants to do or say with them. The logic seems to be that super-soldiers are inherently dangerous, but is that true? The dark parts of Isaiah Bradley's story are not things he did under the influence of the serum, but things that were done to him by the same government that now sponsors not just John Walker but also Sam and Bucky. It's easy to understand why Karli Morgenthau feels so wronged by the world government, and a little harder to understand why Sam and Bucky are freeing one of their known supervillains from prison in order to stop her. WandaVision leaned into this disconnect by having Wanda seal herself off from the outside world to cope, but The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is a little more ambiguous.
The "Blip" was engineered to give the original Avengers a noble last ride by sacrificing themselves to save the new generation, but as a result the characters who got dusted like Sam, Bucky, and even Wanda are totally disconnected from the world around them, which has clearly been through some dark years in the interim. I think it speaks to some of the MCU's confusion about how exactly to handle the five-year timeskip from Endgame. (While all of this was going on, Sharon was busy kicking the butts of every bounty-hunter that followed them to the shipping yard, another great showcase for VanCamp's dance background and mastery of fight choreography).Ĭhristian's Take: I must say, the fake commercial for the Global Repatriation Council that opens this episode is not nearly as fun as the fictional ads that were dispersed throughout WandaVision. Anyway, Zemo, who still believes what he believes, murders Nagel so that his Super Soldier serum dies with him. While all of this exposition felt necessary, something about it left me feeling cold and unsatisfied. After returning in the Blip, Nagel refined and perfected his Super Soldier serum for the Power Broker, but Karli Morgenthau stole every vial. Nagel arrogantly reveals he was able to recreate the Super Soldier serum thanks to a sample of Isaiah Bradley's DNA the CIA gave him, a revelation that shakes Sam to his core given what he just learned about Bradley. So, the foursome heads to a shipping yard, where they find Nagel hanging out in a lab. Despite her better judgement, Sharon agrees to help them find Nagel in exchange for Sam clearing her name once this mess is resolved.
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