cashew | FFS, I have to watch the new The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Reply)

Given COVID and the end of Avengers: Endgame, I thought I'd have more time to slowly meander my way through a fix-it fanfic of A4's bullshit ending.

But then I found out there's a mini-series doing exactly that. So now I have to go watch it and try to write around the new canon. Well, I mean, I don't have to, but I feel obligated to do so.

(Yes, I'm still working on Nowhere Past Morning; I've just been distracted, but the draft is still sitting there.)

All I can say is I'm so, so glad to see Bucky shaved with his hair cut. Thank fuck. I really hated the hobo!Bucky look. Like, I get that in Winter Soldier and Civil War, the look is supposed to reflect his lack of self-care and relatively still fucked up mind, but why keep that look all the way into A3 and A4? Isn't Bucky technically fixed at this point? (At least deprogrammed if not completely recovered on an emotional level.) Why doesn't he get a shave and a haircut? WTF?

Episode 1 spoiler free thoughts:

Why isn't Anthony Mackie top billing when Sam is obviously the main character?
Why are the therapists always bad? At least the writing lamp-shaded how they wrote a terrible therapist.
The music made an effort to incorporate previous Captain America themes!
So I see the MCU is trying to tackle race-issues. I guess trying is better than pretending it doesn't exist.
Acknowledgement of sovereignty of foreign nations? Really? In a superhero show? Oh man, please don't let this only be dressing. 🤞

So far I'm pretty satisfied with the first episode. Let's hope this stays good.