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Yeah, slept on it, I just didn't really feel anything for this show at all aside from Bucky and Isaiah Bradley who I really liked. Karli Morgenthau was a character who I WANTED to like, I actually liked her acting, but the script had absolutely no idea what to do with her. John Walker is kind of an interesting character, I guess, but I didn't really feel anything for him in the end (and what was with the scenes with him and his wife and that one random character whose name I don't remember?). I honestly just don't like Zemo like everyone else seems to.

Sam's speech at the end, honest to god, you could supercut it with one of the rants from the end of a Neil Breen film and I don't know if I'd be able to tell the difference. I found it honestly kind of laughable. I feel like the feel-good optimism of the superhero narrative falls apart when it gets too close to real-world politics - the whole thing just felt so laughably neoliberal to me in its breathless naivete (although, arguably, the moral of the story is that the threat of violence against politicians actually works in achieving goals, but I DON'T think that's what they intended). I feel like this whole story got off too easy by just having Sam make a nice speech that mostly fixed everything - it set up a really complicated problem and offered a simple solution and I just don't feel satisfied with it.

So I dunno. Didn't really like most of the characters or the writing. The best episodes were the first two and the fifth and its slower, character driven stuff. I DO really like the central tension of Sam's reluctance to take up the mantle of Captain America and how his race ties into that, and I think the show makes some astute observations and handles the issue with some degree of subtlety even if it has to get less subtle towards the end to make sure you got the message. But even in the first episode alone I was picking up on the idea of Sam's internal conflict of being a black Captain America and I think they handled it pretty well up through and including that first Isaiah Bradley scene.

But yeah, I don't know, I feel like the whole thing built up to a boring anticlimax where they didn't really know how to fix any of the problems and they didn't even know what they were TRYING to do with the Flag Smashers and they just kind of ended up with mealy-mouthed platitudes at the end.

Wandavision ranks as my #2 favorite MCU thing behind Endgame - this is probably a bottom 5 MCU thing for me. So, the Disney+ miniseries have been an interesting mixed bag so far! I look forward to Loki being right smack dab in the middle. That said, I didn't think Falcon and the Winter Soldier was a complete waste of my time or anything, it was a worthwhile watch.