I'm not sure if this post would warrant a spoiler warning, seeming as the movie has been out a while but ill put one anyway just in case newcomers haven't seen it yet. So SPOILER WARNING - AVENGERS ENDGAME TALK.
Now thats out the way lets talk Avengers Endgame.
I saw this movie in the cinema when it came out and balled my little 13 year old heart out wearing my spiderman jacket, captain america shirt and marvel cap like many did that same day.
With that little personal fact out of the way - I wanted to talk about the ending. No no Tony Stark fans, not that bit of the film put the tissues away. I want to talk about the Steve going back to Peggy thing.
Now i see where people come from with the whole why would he do that he literally just got bucky back yaddy yadda. But I really wanna rip it apart, give both sides of the story and hopefully hear from some other people their standing on the matter.
So we've got the - He left bucky, the films were literally just him chasing after bucky trying to get him back and then he just dips and goes and marries a woman who already lived an entire life. And then you've got the - He was pinning for her way back in the 40s, he literally made plans to dance with her whilst crashing that plane and he got the ending he deserved.
My overall opinion… I don't really care all that much.
This guy, Mr StarSpangled Man with a plan, spent the past THREE Captain America movies basically fighting for Mr James B Barnes. Now, the films I wouldn't say are based solely around their relationship because they're not. At least not The First Avenger anyway - that's what I feel like anyway. He grew up with Bucky, his best friend who looked after him by the looks of it and made sure he was alright when his mother passed and was basically his only friend who wanted nothing more than to make sure he was safe. Now these roles do reverse when he gets the serum and then saves Bucky and the 107th in that Hydra base but I don't wanna dive too far into that in this post.
So Steve spends years pretty much searching for his best friend, saving him, losing him, finding him again, saving him again, going against the government for him, getting arrested, ruining friendships and then fighting alongside him just to end that with the whole - don't do anything stupid until I get back speech in reverse.
Now I get it. He loved Peggy, the one woman who didn't look at him like he was some freak. Who genuinely seemed to like him before the serum you know in his skinny sickly body. So when he saw Peggy after all that time after defrosting after being thrust into the grasp of the technological era he snatched that up and used it to live the life he wanted. Tell me if you were presented with a way to get back to your original timeline and dance with the woman you love and make a whole life out of that would you?
But then there's the fact that he sat with her and spoke to her about her family and the life she had before she died and when he went back that good life she lived was torn away and she didn't get to live that. Although there is the argument that by him going back he made an alternate timeline but the whole timeline thing in the MCU is confusing as all hell.
I honestly understand both POVs. Again I genuinely don't mind it. I still sobbed at watching the two dance with each other. Hopefully this rambled nonsense made any logical sense at all.
This is just how I’ve interpreted it though, and I’m genuinely interested in hearing other perspectives because I can see valid arguments on both sides.
What's your opinions on this whole thing?