Bucky “making amends”


Upon rewatch, I’m finding this the most interesting development

Like WandaVision’s sitcoms trope, it starts as a gag but develops some serious weight

In Wanda’s case, we learn how the sitcom gimmick came out of a fairly painful memory

In Bucky’s case, the gag of “making amends” with the ex-Hydra senator sets up his much tougher task of telling a grieving father that his son was murdered by Bucky himself

It leaves me wondering how they plan to resolve that plot line, but the very notion of “making amends” is something most superhero media overlooks

Or in Wanda’s case, deliberately don’t address because (I believe) it makes more interesting to be son powerful AND morally questionable

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Yeah, I agree.
I like that this new phase is showing some of the characters have a little downtime, and they're suffering and trying to move on- and we get to see that as opposed to just immediately thrown into the next even-bigger-world-ending event.

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You watch this stuff multiple times? Jesus. I mean it's Marvel not a Christopher Nolan film.

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I don't know about this show, VanZan - but I do watch "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" quite often. That one has good rewatchable qualities... like a Nolan film!

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Winter Soldier is a cracking action film and I can completely understand people rewatching that for entertainment reasons. I'm talking about the loons that forensically rewatch episodes of mediocre stuff like WandaVision and this. Reminds me of when Lost was on and I saw people analysing the colours used in an episode and their meaning. And in the end it was all bullshit.

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Oh man... Lost. That show LOST me after the first season. I couldn't tell what the merry motherfuck was going on and it wasn't interesting anymore. As far as The Winter Soldier - something about that took a different turn. If anything could have been an "R-rated" superhero movie, that one was a candidate for it. I know we eventually got Deadpool and Logan in that category....

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