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deadbeatmaker

mjwatson

bucky has a disability??

he doesn’t have an arm.

saltnburned

I’ve seen that book. It was Steve’s when he came out of the ice.

themandarin

THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER | 1.03

aliciavikander

Sam and Bucky checking in on each other in Episode 3: Power Broker

namtan

davidsfincher

Look, you know the whole hero thing is a joke, right?

elwintersoldado

keep on dancing, king.

ivy-goldrush

This scene absolutely killed me, I lost it at his little fist pump dance.

fahbee

Marvel definitely owes us a very long outtake video.

infinitecrime

“Highly embarrassing for my friends” is just so painfully relatable

sunfortune

bucky: i’m yours <3

sam: first of all you’re on parole. you belong to the state

tallahasseemp3

bucky in fatws struggling with his residual feelings for steve is like. i think a lot of that is the sunk cost fallacy of it all. like you and steve did die for each other and you were tragic lovers for seventy years and then he betrayed you but you still feel indebted to him because he was all you knew but then there’s sam. and sam is caring and nice and checks in on you and defends you but doesn’t treat you like you’re made of marble either and calls you on your shit and it’s just easy. and you want sam to take the shield as a passing of the torch where the torch is both the role of captain america and your heart.

#AAAAAAH

whatnonsense

Sam and Bucky checking up on each other is making me emotional. I love their friendship😭😭💜

alliesway

Sam asked Bucky if he was okay more times in 3 episodes than Steve did in 5 movies.

Just saying <3

#🤭

superohclair

I really admire how anthony plays sam's weighing burdens and tender gentleness and wry humor and fearsome vulnerability and quiet rage all at once

I'm staring at him every chance I get because I'm afraid to miss the slightest sigh, or glance, or movement in his face, or how he holds his posture, or turns his body, or moves in a scene, because each action anthony makes, and even each non-action--when he doesn't move, or doesn't blink, or doesn't change his face, but just looks and breathes and stands in silence--still carries the plot of the episode and of his own character development crucially forward, so that not a single shot is wasted

he's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of stage actor's actor, the sort who brings everyone else's work up to his level when he shares a scene with them, sharpening the focus on everyone else, which is why all the subtleties to sam's story works as painfully as it does because he plays him like he knows what it would feel like to be sam wilson, and we know he does without even needing to believe him

anthony is outclassing every single mcu actor, and barely lifts a finger to do it. that julliard training, man

infinitecrime

I say this every week but I kind of feel like I’m watching a different show to you all with the way you cherrypick through the dialogue in order to demonise either Sam or Bucky and pit them against each other re: the shield. Malcolm Spellman is writing these characters as complex, emotional, grieving men coming at the same issue from different, understandable perspectives. Their actions and thought processes are not always perfect because they’re human - but he’s not writing either Sam or Bucky as a saint or a villain. Why are so many people so determined to make them one or the other?

Sam’s reasons for giving up the shield are completely legitimate, understandable and valid. The shield has a weight and complexity and burden for Sam as a black man that it never had for Steve - something it’s clear Steve didn’t think of when he handed Sam the shield and expected him to just drop everything to become Captain America, just because Steve said so. It’s absolutely Sam’s right to decide not to take on the symbol of a country that has oppressed African-Americans for centuries. That’s his choice to make and his alone, because it’s his life - I’m struggling to see how anyone could condemn him for that.

His reasons are completely valid and his intentions good, but it’s also factual that he ignored Steve’s last wishes, gave away the last remnant of his legacy, and inadvertently let the shield fall into the hands of someone who doesn’t deserve it and may use it for evil. None of that is Sam’s fault, but it’s only human that Bucky wouldn’t be happy with the way things have played out. By episode 3 he understands Sam’s reasons slightly better (just as Sam understands Bucky a little better), but you can’t just stop feeling how you feel over night, especially when it’s fuelled by mental health issues and tied so closely to the grieving process. It’s already been explicitly stated that Bucky isn’t doing well mentally, and is reacting emotionally and illogically to matters of the shield and super soldiers (as Sam said this very episode: “I know why this matters to you, but it’s pushing you off the deep end”). He’s never going to accept John Walker as Cap (nor should he), and he’s not going to let the last fragment of Steve that he has be destroyed, so all he can do is either continue trying to convince Sam that he made a mistake and he should take the shield, or take it for himself if Sam continues to reject it, to keep it out of the wrong hands. I’m struggling to see how anyone could condemn him for that, either.

Neither Sam nor Bucky’s positions on the shield debate are evil or even necessarily wrong, and the narrative isn’t presenting them as such. Only the fandom is. Fandom took a nuanced discussion of legacy, loss and representation, and of race and mental health, and turned it into a black and white, contextless “Sam is a selfish asshole who doesn’t give a fuck about Steve and his legacy” vs “Bucky is a racist who doesn’t give a shit about Sam and his struggles” issue, instead of what it actual is: “two men ultimately want to respect their best friend’s legacy but have different ways of approaching it because of their respective traumas. Through conflict and growing trust they will eventually come to see the other’s perspective and reach a mutual conclusion.” Despite how clear it is on screen, the point is being so badly missed that the fandom is becoming a pretty unbearably toxic place to be for the first few days after an episode drops.