Just watched it......was ok and a typical set up until the last scene, now I'm ready for next Friday! Preface I am NOT a comic aficionado so I don't know if that last scene is drawn from previous storylines.
Since it's just the pilot episode no one knows the details of the show but there is a precedent in the comics, when Cap laid down the title (and Shield) of Captain America in protest of the government, which didn't behave according to his moral code and what he understood to be american values.
For a while he changed his name to Nomad ( and i also believe The Patriot), got a replacement shield and uniformand continued the fight until he went back to being Captain America.
I liked it.
It was a good setup episode taking its time to explore where the characters are and what motivates them (or not in Bucky’s case) to get through the day.
It’s also the first time existential consequences from being blipped for five years are being explored.
Of course with that many people being gone for years the remainers needed to adapt somehow and dropping the lost ones back into existence is bound to cause resource problems.
It created the situation Thanos was claiming to fix.
Bucky’s story was indeed heartbreaking to the point where I was kinda angry about how the writers can be so cruel to him.
Kill the son of one of your best friends under mind control as collateral damage?
It was completely believable how he couldn’t face those demons (at least not yet).
I was under impression that Bucky sought out the dad of his victim and befriended him out of guilt, it would be too much of a coincidence that one collateral murder should be the son of a friend ( not that the Winter Soldier would have had any active friends while he was controlled by Hydra or the Soviets).
We saw the name of the dad of his victim in his little notebook at the top indicating he was part of his rehabilitation program and that sooner or later he would have to come clean with him ( that should be one hell of a scene).
I really like the MCU approach and idea behind the TV/Streaming shows - it gives them time to explore characters more fully, for which the movies simply don't have the time.
It's good that they are starting to flesh out the secondary characters and giving them more backstory on top of some nice action and humor.
Very good start to the show and i'm curious how capable the new guy actually is or if he's just a propaganda tool with no real skills ( unlike Steve who had the skills but was initially sidelined as a propaganda tool).
