Bucky turns up and does the same, and the show spends a solid five minutes watching the two Avengers go shrimpin’ together before destiny comes calling.
#BUCKY BARNES FALCON AND WINTER SOLDIER EPISODE 5 MOVIE#
In true ’80s action movie style, the show gives us a hilarious little musical montage while he stares out at the horizon and briefly considers giving it all up to become a shrimp boat captain (it really should have been Phil Collins on the soundtrack). It’s an oversimplification of something much bigger than Marvel wants to deal with here, but it’s great to see them (and Disney) asking some of the right questions, deliberately making things difficult for the audience. And even if they did, no self-respecting Black man would ever want to be”. “They will never let a Black man be Captain America.
“You got that white man’s shield,” Bradley says. Why should he, or Sam, wear a Stars and Stripes uniform for a country that doesn’t care? Specifically, why should a Black American fight for a racist country with a long history (and a longer present) of violent discrimination? Captain America is supposed to be an icon, but what does he actually represent? Spelling out the plot for the (brilliant) comic series, Truth: Red, White & Black, Bradley cuts straight to the real conflict at the heart of the Captain America debate. Back in Baltimore, Sam goes back to visit Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly).Īyo (Florence Kasumba) and Bucky discuss their next moves. Back in Sokovia, Zemo is getting arrested by the Dora Milaje. A shady spy in the comics who plays both sides of the war, we only get a brief introduction in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier before she vanishes back into the rumour mill.Īs tightly wound as this week’s episode is, it still manages to cover a lot of ground.
Worse than that, he has something to prove – and he’s got just the right mix of righteous rage and super-strength to get the attention of Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, making a great appearance here for any Veep and Seinfeld fans). CREDIT: Marvel Studiosīack in Washington, Fake Cap, now just John Walker, is dishonourably discharged – now just another super-powered jock without a costume.
After last week’s closing shot, it’s yet another reminder of just how grown up this show can be when it wants to be – and how far it’s come since 2011’s swashbuckling Captain America: The First Avenger.įake Cap (Wyatt Russell) battles Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan). Ripping off Sam’s wings and knocking Bucky unconscious, Fake Cap screams “I AM Captain America!” before the two Avengers finally get the better of him, leaving Sam to sit alone sobbing in an abandoned warehouse, slowly rubbing all the blood off of Captain America’s shield. To be fair, he very almost wins the fight. Last week’s Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode ended with him beating a man to death with his shield, and this week’s brilliant, almost feature-length episode starts with him trying to take on both Sam and Bucky at the same time. For someone who “consistently makes the right decisions in the heat of battle”, Fake Cap is pretty bad at doing the right thing.
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