Hot take I've been sitting on for a very long time... Falcon and Winter soldier sends a terrible message
Falcon Winter soldier is a terrible show with a terrible message about complexities that no one could truly understand.
1. Literally half the world disappeared, four to five billion people just completely operate and vanish in the blink of an eye. Or in the last 5 years infrastructure, supply chains, housing, government structure, everything had to be readjusted so that society could function and keep going because that's what we have to do. Then 5 years later bam! Everyone comes back. Now all those changes cannot just be undone, it is literally a political and social catastrophe and why we may celebrate our loves when we're targeting of course, he also have to understand that this is way more complicated than any of us understand.
2. Characters make a point saying the bad guys aren't terrorist yet: they bomb buildings with families in them saying " it's the only way they'll understand". Completely killing innocent lives that had nothing to do with their movement. They just had people living an old homes because they were vacant for 5 years after literally half the world disappeared. Saying that the government has to do better is way oversimplifying everything because of the aforementioned infrastructure and supply issues that would definitely take more than a year or so to fix because literally the entire world has to rework how it runs again .
3. John was completely in the right for killing the guy if your best friend, a squad made you served with, and then your eventual partner in the field was killed in Cold blood in front of you... I know most men would react that volatile. Now for the sake of publicity and appearances should he be Captain America, yeah probably not. But friend to face criminal charges.... Yeah that was too far for me.
Yes I know this is a world where there's men flying around at iron suits, aliens, talking raccoons, world ending alien invasions, etc.
The show tried to ground itself in a political realism which I thought I was going to appreciate because maybe they will get into the complexities of all situation... Instead they try to spoon fee morals with no philosophy to back up those morals.
1. Literally half the world disappeared, four to five billion people just completely operate and vanish in the blink of an eye. Or in the last 5 years infrastructure, supply chains, housing, government structure, everything had to be readjusted so that society could function and keep going because that's what we have to do. Then 5 years later bam! Everyone comes back. Now all those changes cannot just be undone, it is literally a political and social catastrophe and why we may celebrate our loves when we're targeting of course, he also have to understand that this is way more complicated than any of us understand.
2. Characters make a point saying the bad guys aren't terrorist yet: they bomb buildings with families in them saying " it's the only way they'll understand". Completely killing innocent lives that had nothing to do with their movement. They just had people living an old homes because they were vacant for 5 years after literally half the world disappeared. Saying that the government has to do better is way oversimplifying everything because of the aforementioned infrastructure and supply issues that would definitely take more than a year or so to fix because literally the entire world has to rework how it runs again .
3. John was completely in the right for killing the guy if your best friend, a squad made you served with, and then your eventual partner in the field was killed in Cold blood in front of you... I know most men would react that volatile. Now for the sake of publicity and appearances should he be Captain America, yeah probably not. But friend to face criminal charges.... Yeah that was too far for me.
Yes I know this is a world where there's men flying around at iron suits, aliens, talking raccoons, world ending alien invasions, etc.
The show tried to ground itself in a political realism which I thought I was going to appreciate because maybe they will get into the complexities of all situation... Instead they try to spoon fee morals with no philosophy to back up those morals.
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10 seconds before he's on the ground he tore an entire concrete trash can out of the ground to throw it at Walker, he could have done that with the slabs he was on and was surrounded by civilians. So Walker killing him doesn't really have the "damn he's lost it now" impact the show wanted it to have.
John isn't wrong for attacking a superhuman. He *is* wrong for doing a public murder for no reason other than petty revenge.
If.you saw your best friend murdered in front of you I think you'd sing a different tune
i also think the 5 years thing was a mistake looking back, i sort of hate it.
2 - Only a few Flag-Smashers were seen, it didn't look like everyone snapped and returned joined up with them.
3 - No comment on this.
2- I never said everyone that returned joined them, I said that the issues were way too complex and that they wanted to oversimplify and just literally terrorize people who did not support them/ agree with him
3- listen if I sold my best friend murdered in Cold blood in front of me, after spending years together in combat with them. I think any reasonable man would snap. I'm sorry but John was completely right at doing what he did. Did he deserve to be Captain America after that? Probably not because it would have been a PR disaster but from a human perspective it makes perfect sense
Otherwise the show had some good statements about institutionalized racism and American imperialism. (With John Walker facing consequences perhaps being the most unrealistic thing in the MCU.)
Do you realize how utterly strange that argument sounds now?
Also, he wasn't "bestowed" this honor by the government. It was his close friend that gave it to him. The government was all too happy to utterly ignore Sam's wishes and get another captain America
So yes at the end of the day it was the government, not Steve that actually had the right to bestow the title and they bestowed the title on Sam in the end the same way they bestowed it on John.
When Steve gave him the shield it was more of a symbolic/ emotional act but within the legal confines of the law and government as Captain America acts as a soldier for the United States it all came down to the government.
And even so how was this systemic racism against Sam? The man was an army veteran who operated a experimental aviation suit. Was literally part of the greatest team of heroes for multiple years, and had a family that owned their own fishing operation.
He was doing pretty damn well.