sam as captain america 😭😭😭 AND HE STILL HAS THE WINGS, for real, i needed a moment, oh my god
i am... gonna need some background on how sharon lost all her morals. she went from "gonna do what i think is right" to "idgaf about anything", like bish, what tf happened
i like the conversation between bucky and karli, that's a nice touch
bucky and his motorcycle moves 👌👀
LOVE karli just... using people dying to distract bucky because she knows he'll save them. smart move.
john w*lker is back and he has morals now i guess ew
the greatest weakness of this show is the fact that lemar died. a black man died so a white man could get some character development. so he could learn to become a better person. fuck off. and then they give walker the line "you think lemar's life didn't matter" WHO THE FUCK WROTE THIS. it's a joke. it's extremely condescending. it's so completely out of step with everything else this show is trying to do, and i'm so angry that the rest of this show's message has to be tainted because your own narrative undermines anything you want to say. fuck.
if they had addressed this in any other way, made a meta comment on it, shown us that they KNEW they were using a problematic trope and were turning it on its head, they could have salvaged it. but they didn't. it's a disgrace. i hate it.
the ONLY way to save it now is for lemar to not be dead at some point in the future.
and sam and bucky just being cool with him being there? treating him as a pal? he straight up murdered someone, come on. this is such stupid writing.
sharon as the powerbroker, no surprise, but man, they need to do some explaining. personally, i don't like it, because she's now the kind of character i despise most of all, the ones who believe in nothing. but we'll see.
sam refusing to fight karli!!!! THIS IS GOOD SHIT
also holy shit, sam has all the HOTTEST MOVES. the fact that he's not a super soldier or has any magical powers just means he has to be that much better tactically AND HE IS. i love this.
sharon "saving" sam, but in fact only saving her own ass, bc karli would reveal her identity... sharon, i hope you trip down some stairs, i can't believe you'd do peggy dirty like this, damn
SAM DESCENDING FROM HEAVEN LIKE AN ANGEL
god i almost forgive all their other transgressions just for that image alone, who ever designed this, thank you thank you thank you
bucky is so proud 😭😭 (and in love, omg, sebastian, for real, what's with the heart eyes)
fucking get these politicians' ASSES sam
i like how the final fight actually wasn't really a big boss fight at all. they were mostly rescuing hostages, and sam refused to fight karli, and now he's making clear that the politicians are just as much the problem. a better way to end it than i expected, because it keeps the moral ambivalence. it's much more interesting.
it does feel like a few scenes were missing from this? like they had to cut scenes for length and now it feels slightly off in places? kind of odd, none of the other eps had this problem quite like this
walker kills someone and gets stripped of everything. sharon kills someone and gets... a pardon... love this logic.
(i know he was doing it to someone who wasn't a threat and she was "saving" sam, so i guess it's justifiable to them, but even so, could have shot karli in the leg, so... i still hope you fall down some stairs, bye you snake (i really, REALLY hate characters who stand for nothing))
i was in the middle of saying to my brother "it's very stupid to place these super soldiers on the raft with zemo who HATES... oh" and then they got blown up, lmao. honestly a very boring way to get rid of them by the show, they deserved better.
i do like this new lady, valentina. but also... is it just me or does it feel like disney-marvel are doing a "hmmm, how do we become more progressive??? right, make all the villains women" lmao
have you tried adding a single queer person instead you fools
bucky making amends!!! sebastian is truly giving EVERYTHING and this script is giving him... not enough... the same goes for anthony. they are killing it and giving this show and these characters a depth it would not have otherwise had. doing the real work.
HMMMMMMM, not into this isaiah bradley wrap-up they're doing. the museum exhibit is not a bad thing in itself, but like, man, sam, you should've maybe asked first. "just let me live in peace" he says and you go and do THIS. and isaiah is happy, because the script tells him to be, but i'm not totally buying it. because it's not ENOUGH. it's not nothing, but it doesn't make up for what was done to him! it holds no one accountable! and if this franchise uses this as a "oh, now we don't have to speak of it again, it's solved" i'm gonna be so pissed (it's exactly what they'll do, i hate everything)
LET THERE BE CONSEQUENCES, real fucking consequences, but it's disney-marvel so lmao, it will never happen. can't get too political! we have to keep it vague and palatable! we're beyond that, come on, you need to do better
this FINAL SCENE. sam and sarah being happy ❤️ bucky playing with the kids! in his sunglasses with his silly cake!!! bucky being part of the family! AND THEN THEY FUCKING LOOK AT THE SUNSET AND WALK OFF TOGETHER???
SAM'S HAND LINGERING ON BUCKY'S SHOULDER??? THE FINGER ON THE NAPE OF HIS NECK????
they're in love and that's that, goodbye
