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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 312989" data-attributes="member: 23"><p><span style="color: #000000"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">The Falcon and the Winter Soldier</span></strong></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"></p></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><em><span style="font-size: 18px">The Whole World Is Watching / Truth</span></em></p><p></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">OK - with these two episodes I’m invested in this series.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">It feels nicely structured, and I like the way there are so many characters’ arcs happening at the same time. Unlike <em>WandaVision</em>, where everything felt very tightly connected, this feels more disparate, but not necessarily in a bad way. It feels like a good soap opera, where there are several different storylines to keep track of, some of which don’t feel related at times. It’s impressive if the writers manage to bring them together, and that seems to be happening here. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">With each arc coming to a natural head, some are converging and all are playing their part in the greater whole, and it feels as though actions come with a very severe consequence. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">With <em>The Whole World Is Watching,</em> the “Dark Cap” arc got grim and bloody. While some of the fighting in this series has felt at times a tad too busy, it hits the mark more often than not and manages to feel genuinely brutal. There’s a sense of reality to the violence that has allowed me to stay far more invested compared with the more showy CGI stuff from some earlier projects. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">Poor Lemar, he was fated to die by virtue of the fact that he was important to John Walker, but (because he was given barely any screen time) not overly important to us or the writers. Despite its inevitability, John Walker losing it and killing Sulky British Girl’s sidekick felt genuinely shocking, reinforced by the silence of the moments after the crowd had witnessed it all, and the final upshot of Walker holding his bloody shield. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">Sam’s journey towards taking the shield himself has really held my interest. It’s also felt important that it’s done this way. If it was as simple as Steve handing him the shield and Sam becoming Cap it would have felt less meaningful. The way it’s played out it really does feel as though it’s Sam’s destiny, no matter how hard he fights it. I loved the moment where, after a violent battle with Walker, Bucky retrieved the shield and threw it down at Sam’s side. I couldn’t help thinking of the little nod of approval he gave Sam when Steve originally gave him the shield. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">Bucky has clicked with me through the course of this series. It’s taken a long time, but I get him, and I’ve changed my opinion on Sebastian Stan’s performance as well. Whether it’s him clicking with me, or him begin given more suitable material, he’s coming across well. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">Post-fight, I absolutely loved the tone of <em>Truth</em>. There’s very little superhero action and costumed stuff. It’s simply a series of human dramas that shows the calibre of performance and writing. There are some bigger moments with Walker being stripped of his title and Bucky confronting Zemo before the Dora Milaje take Zemo away. But even these felt very intimate and character-driven. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">Even more intimate was Sam’s visit to Isaiah where he spoke about being experimented on for decades while his wife sent letters he never received, and he never saw her again before she died. His understandable aversion towards the super-soldier serum and Captain America, the blonde-haired, blue eyed poster boy. When he declared that no self-respecting black man would ever take the Captain America mantle, I believed him, so I can understand the internal wrestling going on for Sam.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">I enjoyed the bonding with Sam and Bucky as they helped restore Sarah’s boat. And Sam’s discomfort at Bucky flirting with Sarah was a nice touch. It all felt very much like the kind of conversations Mack would have with Ben or Frank as they discussed an investigation on <em>Knots Landing</em>. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">With Sam’s decision to take the shield and John Walker creating his own shield from medals and malice I’m looking forward to seeing how it all ends. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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