Case in point.īy the last few episodes, John Walker becomes totally unhinged. This show has a lot to say about how white men and Black men are treated differently by the American government. To be clear, John Walker is essentially a cop who murdered a guy and got let off the hook. So, yeah, the government probably should have thought twice before decorating John Walker in stars and stripes. Then when Lamar was killed, he used the shield to decapitate someone who was not responsible for his friend’s death and begged for mercy. John Walker was a privileged white man who whined about getting his butt handed to him by a Black woman in a fight with the Dora Milajae. Before he took the serum, Steve Rogers was a brave man who hated bullies and dove onto a grenade to save his fellow soldiers. Lamar Haskins said that the supersoldier serum enhances who the person already was. The guy is clearly not cut out to be Captain America. It’s hard to say what Marvel wants us to think since Walker flip-flops throughout the episode (and, frankly, the whole series). Who is Contessa Valentina and why is she significant? Seems like someone that either Bucky or Sam will have to pull back from the brink of battle. Now she seems poised to sell whatever state secrets she encounters to the highest bidder. Sam, totally unaware of Sharon’s treachery, gets Sharon her pardon and her old job back. Now she gets to live in a house surrounded by real, stolen Monets and Matisses. Mostly she just seems to really like her new lifestyle, and who can blame her? She used to have to pretend to be a nurse with never-ending loads of piles of dirty clothes in order to spy on Steve Rogers in the laundry room. She also kills sympathetic villain Carly, but Carly was about to shoot Sam. She did seem to acquire some Jason Bourne-esque moves in her time living in Madripoor-she easily kills several assassins while Bucky and Sam interrogate the scientist who created the supersoldier serum. Whether Sharon Carter is a bad person is up for debate. Nevertheless, Sharon was forced to go underground and operate as the Power Broker, a black market art dealer, funder of supersoldier serum projects and general shady person. It seems crazy that Bucky, whose killed hundreds (thousands?) of people, including Tony Stark’s parents, got a pardon and Sharon Carter-good friend of Nick Fury, niece of Peggy Carter, onetime love interest of Captain America (which, she winds up being his niece by marriage, so ew)-didn’t get a pardon. Meanwhile, Bucky Barnes was trying to make amends for the evil he did as the Winter Soldier Sharon Carter had become a black market art dealer in Madripoor Baron Zemo was hunting down and killing supersoldiers John Walker, the new Captain America, was letting his newfound power go to his head a mysterious new villain played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus made a cameo and Sam’s sister worked to fix up their family’s boat. He also had to contend with a so-called terrorist organization, the Flag Smashers, who used questionable means to reach noble ends of helping refugees. He discovered that the government had created, and then jailed, a Black Captain America before him, Isaiah Bradley. Sam Wilson struggled with whether to take on the mantle of Captain America-and whether the country was ready for a Black Cap. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier managed to jam a lot of plot into just six episodes of television. This post contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
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