Well, but a recap video is 1) free, and 2) a lot shorter than watching all of, say,
Hawkeye.
I liked the first episode of
Hawkeye, but was so unimpressed with the second I bailed on the rest of the season then and there, so I didn't see Yelena appear in it. Anyhow,
reading up on Wiki, it sounds like having seen her bits of that show would make
Thunderbolts more confusing, not less. Yelena had a dog? What happened to it? What about her nascent friendship with Kate Bishop? And she wasn't just doing hits for Valentina, a theoretical good guy, but was a contract for Kate's (Fisk-employed) civilian mother, too? So... Yelena was a straight-up villain for a while? But John Walker, the
first person in history to receive the Medal of Honor three times, is positioned as the bad apple of the bunch for killing one adversary (and, yes, bit a bit of a jerk)? And Valentina, despite all her attempted murders-by-hire (successful, in Antonia's case), gets to keep her job instead of being arrested by Walker on the spot? (Seems like a bit of a double standard along gender lines, maybe?)
