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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | Starring Anthony Mackie as Captain America | All episodes on Disney+
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The "blip" is the name given to the whole period between Thanos' snap and Hulk bringing everyone back.
To think there was a time when people argued the Snap would be reverted back with no consequences, now look at us
The MCU is gonna be addressing it for years to come
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The MCU is gonna be addressing it for years to come
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It's funny. I used to role play on several different superhero MUX RPG servers and it was harder to get people to do action scenes then social scenes.
People dig the social lives of superheroes.
I had my doubts when Endgame did the whole "5 years later" thing, but then they didn't wipe it away with time travel, and now they're mining it for drama. Really smart decision.
The Blip is the five year period where half of humanity was gone.
They called it a "blip" because the people who got snapped didn't even realize they were gone for those years. For them, it was just a blip. They came back to the exact spot at the exact moment they were snapped away. Nothing changed for them during the years in between. It was just a "blip" for them.
The 5 year timeskip actually signaled the exact opposite for me haha. The way I saw it, it was too massive of a timeskip to just reverse. After all, if that was the plan, then I'd expect 1 year at most.
The collective gasp in the audience I was with seemed to suggest that a lot of us were on the same wavelength lol
Just seemed a more polite way to say "I don't really care about Falcons sisters boat and catering business". I get it though, that was the only part of the show my wife loved, who only watches rom-coms basically, while she hated all the Bucky/Libya stuff, which was the only thing I liked lol. I do wonder how they are gonna try and straddle those two worlds in the series, WandaVision straddled the sitcom and drama sides I thought fairly well so I'm interested to see where this goes.
What's confusing is that they refer to a pre-blip or post-blip world, and I'm not sure if they mean before Thanos' snap, during the "away" years, or after they come back again.
Like, were they pro-Thanos people that wanted the universal halving of life to remain intact?
Like, were they pro-Thanos people that wanted the universal halving of life to remain intact?
I kind of hope if there's a pro-Thanos faction that they all wear strap on chins
It's all good, honestly I thought you feeling it was meh covered that well enough in terms of politeness. It's just that at some point filler seems to have become synonymous with "I don't like this" and it's become such a pet peeve for me nowadays😔
I actually hate that I'm increasingly getting used to "The Blip" as the official verbiage. It's just such a dumb funny-man word and yet I've still eased into it.
Damn.
Damn.
Watched the first episode and enjoyed it. My son made a very astute observation by saying Bucky is just like Angel on his spin-off show. Super powered old man in a young body who has difficulty fitting into modern times and has to atone for his past evils. Felt bad after realizing he was the cause of his friend's son's death. Looking forward to when he meets up with Sam.
I liked seeing how realistic they made it with them trying to integrate back into normal society where they basically took part in saving the world yet no one really gives a fuck and treats them like anyone and used as celebrity fodder for pictures and whatnot like that banker did.
OP
OP
Man Tony's getting straight shit on when he hasn't even been mentioned. Poor guy sacrificed himself to save the universe, leaving a child and wife behind, after constantly striving to protect the planet and developing ptsd after another sacrifice play. And based on nothing people are assuming off screen he refused money to all the heroes and their families.
Anyway obviously there are always going to be weird quirks like that depending on the stories they want to tell, but I love that they handles the snap like they did.
I was worried during Endgame that we'd hit a hard reset but bringing everyone back without resetting the timeline is *perfect* now that D+ has these shows to delve into the ramifications.
Anyway obviously there are always going to be weird quirks like that depending on the stories they want to tell, but I love that they handles the snap like they did.
I was worried during Endgame that we'd hit a hard reset but bringing everyone back without resetting the timeline is *perfect* now that D+ has these shows to delve into the ramifications.
He's actually...
a successor to Falcon in the comic after Sam become Cap.
When the girl said to Bucky "You're like my dad", I felt that.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that the opening sequence felt like a Bond movie intro, like something from the Moore or Brosnan eras.
Yeah he seemed concerned at the start even poped a dude parachute instead of killing him, and than proceeds to fucking destroy everyone haha.
Same here.
I still feel like it was a dumb choice to go with but given that everything in-universe refers to that period as "The Blip", it just makes it easier to be on the same page and refer to it the same way.
And it's the exact kind of word the media would come up with to describe it.
I'm surprised it wasn't called Disappeared-Gate though.
theres a memorial at the smithsonian talking about 'the vanished', I'm surprised they didn't call it the vanishing
felt like he popped the guy's chute because it happened to be the fastest way to get him out of the fight at the time, more than anything else
also he's a soldier on a military mission, of course he's going to kill people
yeah my wife and I reacted like oh shit they're going there. Here's hoping the show digs more into this kind of thing.
Same with the ending- we were both like can't give the shield to the black guy, huh. Gotta wait for the (white) symbol of America to don the shield.
I really, really dislike when people try to categorize scenes or episodes as "filler". Seems like a depressing way to watch TV. And if I actually believed that about a show, I'd stop watching it immediately.
In other news, I'm happy to see how important the five year blip has been to the MCU since Infinity War.
In other news, I'm happy to see how important the five year blip has been to the MCU since Infinity War.
Oh ok, I can see that, but when he said that line I was thinking more about him referring to black people having it worse while white people had it better, a theme that we're all familiar with, especially in current times of police brutality and protests. Yeah, no way the point was to show sympathy for the group with terrible ideals.
I want a special one-off (one episode) D+ show that features short stories of a bunch of scenes from different points of view (from heroes/villians to regular people) in the last ten years of mcu, kind of like simpson's 22 short films about springfield. Talk about snap, blip, steamed hams etc.
This shit was so good. I thought Sam's new buddy was going to die.
comics people, is Sam's new friend in the comics? Spoiler? Not sure
comics people, is Sam's new friend in the comics? Spoiler? Not sure
I'm honestly surprised so many people are missing the rather blatant racial undertone of that scene.
Quoting this one just because it kinda ties into my post; I'll be honest, the line largely didn't throw me off mainly because I read it as part of the episode's theme on racial discrimination. As in the "other group" that had it worse were minorities like Sam and Torres that were used as stepping stones for the first group's (white people's) betterment.
I may well be reading too much into it, already coming in expecting the themes and with the episode already giving far clearer plays on it, and yours and others' reads seem fair as well.
Thanos and Bruce used their fingers to snap. People were gone for five years as if they had died. But then they came back. Therefore, I am referring to it each event individually as the Fingering, la petite mort, and the coming.
Yes, he's in the comics
He's dons a suit and a codename
He's Falcon in the comics
I'm just in awe of this post lol
People definitely don't like that Peter Parker guy he's not relatable at all
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