Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Now onto ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ instead.
What can be said about the series premiere, ‘New World Order’?
It does its’ job – it depicted the Falcon/Sam Wilson as the struggling member
of the U.S. proletariat, risking his life in missions overseas, while back home
he and his family are belittled – by WASPs, of course. It depicted the Winter
Soldier/Bucky Barnes as a recovering… well, let us call him a villain, (especially
after the events of ‘Captain America: Civil War’ movie), struggling to fit into
normal life. (Spoilers: At the end of the episode, he begins to do so, at least
for the moment). It also featured the man who might be Wilson’s successor as
the next Falcon, the Flag-Smashers, who seem to be the main big bads of the
TFATWS’ 1st season, and John Walker, the next Captain America/U.S.
Agent, who might be good at his new job, or he might be horrible. Considering
that ‘NWO’ has depicted a WASP bank worker as a grade-A douche canoe, who refused
to loan money to Sam and his sister, I wouldn’t bet on the former, and besides…
…And besides, what do you expect? This is phase 4. This is
the phase where the bad guys get to win by default, simply because the good
guys are in disarray, and the Avengers are disassembled: we already saw Vision
getting rebooted by S.W.O.R.D. (and not in a good way), while Wanda…got issues.
Like a lot of them, including a potential personality split – into Wanda
proper, and the Scarlet Witch…and the rest of the Avengers are being blissfully
unaware of either of these developments, and now we’re beginning to understand
as to why: at least the Falcon and the Winter Soldier have their own problems:
the latter because he is a recovering killing machine, and the former because
he is a POC in USA. Yes, he defeated Batroc, but-
-But so did the original Captain America, Steve Rogers. So far,
Batroc was either used a living symbol to show that Sam Wilson is the true new
Captain America now, or he is MCU’s answer to Danny Phantom’s Box Ghost, aka a
minor villain that is used by the show’s scriptwriters when one is needed. Yes,
TFATWS has only six episodes, (as opposed to WV’s nine), but still. It is
already a good, straightforward plot and design, and will be actually enjoyable
to watch. It is not like WV, which was supposed to be a mystery – but COVID-19
has ruined that – but is a ‘what you see is what you get’ situation. Fair
enough. Good luck to Sam and Bucky too, BTW.
…Well, this is it for now. See you all soon!
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