Falcon and Winter Soldier Official Thread - How they gonna use that power?

[jingle.boy]

Started ... just because I like to be the one to manage thread titles.

Titles... not titties (though I like those too).

[Adami]

Can't wait till they reveal it was Mephisto.

Also if they don't introduce the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, Agents of ATLAS, Galactus, Silver Surfer, all of the abstracts, and Aunt Petunia, then this will be the biggest failure of ALL TIME!

[lonestar]

You forgot another Howard the Duck teaser.

[Adami]

You forgot another Howard the Duck teaser.

THEY JUST LEFT HIM THERE WITH COSMO THE DOG! WHY ARENT THEY IN EVERYTHING???

[bosk1]

No, he was there in Endgame too.

[Adami]

No, he was there in Endgame too.

But was Cosmo???

[hefdaddy42]

No, he was there in Endgame too.

But was Cosmo???

No.  Only Howard.

But wait -

Howard = Mephisto

[Kotowboy]

Fantastic Four in the MCU will be...Interesting as the previous incarnations have been... Err...Interesting.

Mind you I hate the Sam Raimi Spiderman films and the Marc Webb ones looked God Awful - basically Spiderman Into Darkness - but far far worse. ( I love Into Darkness btw ) so i never bothered.


And yet I love the Tom Holland films.

[Adami]

Wrong thread bud. Oddly.

[Kotowboy]

Can't wait till they reveal it was Mephisto.

Also if they don't introduce the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, Agents of ATLAS, Galactus, Silver Surfer, all of the abstracts, and Aunt Petunia, then this will be the biggest failure of ALL TIME!

Guess this is too.

[Adami]

No?

[Kotowboy]

Ok.

[ariich]

To be clear Kotow, Adami's post was specifically about Falcon and the Winter Solider, and he was jokingly (or perhaps seriously... ) setting unreasonable expectations based on some of the expectations that a small portion of the fanbase set for WandaVision.

Whereas your post was a general MCU one, and should be in the general MCU thread as that's exactly what it's for!

[Adami]

Also my “no?” Was in response to being told to shut the F up. Though it applies to the edited post as well.

[MinistroRaven]

I'll watch this one later with my older son, he is a fan of the Falcon

[faizoff]

Interesting 1st episode. Obviously they're doing two things, showing the post Endgame world and then setting up the series. It feels more Winter Soldier-y in tone and am really curious how it goes. Loved the Winter Soldier's role, his parts were my favorite thing of the episode.

[Adami]

Show lists as like 47 min. Is this like Wanda where that’s a 25 min episode and 22 min of credits?

[faizoff]

Disney has it listed as 50m. The episode itself is around 40 mins of content with 10 mins of credits

[ariich]

Disney has it listed as 50m. The episode itself is around 40 mins of content with 10 mins of credits

Yeah this. Decent length episodes. But then I thought the WandaVision episode lengths worked great anyway.

Very enjoyable first episode.

Wasn't really sold on the idea that Sam's sister would be in financial trouble given he's an Avenger but they justified it pretty well later in the episode I guess, although I still feel like it's weird that he doesn't really have any of his own money to help out.

[Zook]

Disney has it listed as 50m. The episode itself is around 40 mins of content with 10 mins of credits

Yeah this. Decent length episodes. But then I thought the WandaVision episode lengths worked great anyway.

Very enjoyable first episode.

Wasn't really sold on the idea that Sam's sister would be in financial trouble given he's an Avenger but they justified it pretty well later in the episode I guess, although I still feel like it's weird that he doesn't really have any of his own money to help out.

Wasn't it implied that Stark payed for everything? Then after the accords the heroes that didn't sign were cut off or because they went rogue they didn't have a source of income. I don't think they make that much in the military anyway.

[ariich]

Disney has it listed as 50m. The episode itself is around 40 mins of content with 10 mins of credits

Yeah this. Decent length episodes. But then I thought the WandaVision episode lengths worked great anyway.

Very enjoyable first episode.

Wasn't really sold on the idea that Sam's sister would be in financial trouble given he's an Avenger but they justified it pretty well later in the episode I guess, although I still feel like it's weird that he doesn't really have any of his own money to help out.

Wasn't it implied that Stark payed for everything? Then after the accords the heroes that didn't sign were cut off or because they went rogue they didn't have a source of income. I don't think they make that much in the military anyway.

Yeah I don't know if it's just those who didn't sign the accords, or if it's for heroes more generally. I guess maybe heroes being treated a bit like "thanks for your help, off you go now" might be a part of this post-blip society, so those who don't already have their own money/powers will find it harder to get by.

[lonestar]

Solid first episode....not much story building, but some really serious foundation laid.

[DoctorAction]

Solid. The people stuff worked really well, I thought. The money issues and Bucky's date were very good.

[jingle.boy]

Solid first episode....not much story building, but some really serious foundation laid.

Agreed. I’m liking the real ness of them as human beings.

I also like the thought of dual antagonists.

[Skeever]

Kinda meh on the first episode. I guess I like the sci-fi/fantasy side of MCU more, but I start mentally checking out at the "soldiers in the middle east" setting especially when the military jargon starts flying. It just comes across so phony. It did get better as it went though.

[lonestar]

Eh, although pretty predictable, I kind of enjoyed the opening action sequence, been a while since we've seen a good, long drawn out MCU battle.

[jammindude]

I loved it. In fact, it surpassed my expectations.

I keep thinking at some point they will drop the exposition and the spending time getting to know what the characters are going through (you know, the more “human” angle of the MCU that makes it so great) and just go for the cheap and easy “here’s the good guys, here’s the bad guys, now here’s some explosions” approach. But they are still taking the time to slow things down and get to the heart of what the characters are going through.

As long as they keep that part up, I’m all in.

[jingle.boy]

I keep thinking at some point they will drop the exposition and the spending time getting to know what the characters are going through (you know, the more “human” angle of the MCU that makes it so great) and just go for the cheap and easy “here’s the good guys, here’s the bad guys, now here’s some explosions” approach. But they are still taking the time to slow things down and get to the heart of what the characters are going through.

Agreed.  As a small-screen series, I don't mind this at all.  Though, I don't think I realized it was only 6 episodes.  Loved the (short) return of GSP / Baltroc.  Some of that action sequence was just a little TOO over the top for a mere mortal (with a mini-drone) to be conducting.  It's a bit contrived when you try to dive into the 'more human' side of Sam while at the same time having him perform such inhuman moves in the action sequence.

[hefdaddy42]

I thought it was fantastic.

[lonestar]

Another very solid episode, with a good surprise at the end. They're definitely putting some big pieces in play, very curious to see it develop further.

[ariich]

Really enjoying it so far, completely different style to WandaVision but great in a different way.

[faizoff]

That fight scene with the trucks was fantastic. Loved that ending.

[jingle.boy]

That fight scene with the trucks was fantastic. Loved that ending.

Hell yeah... I knew it was coming as soon as Bucky mentioned there was a person that knew all of Hydra's secrets.

I like how things are starting to be setup, and am eagerly anticipating how they'll unfold.

[Stadler]

So this is a TV too? Where does this fit in?  Should I be watching this now, or holding off?

[jammindude]

So this is a TV too? Where does this fit in?  Should I be watching this now, or holding off?

Yes. It’s a TV show. There will be only 6 episodes IIRC, and episode 2 was just released yesterday. And the events take place 6 months after everyone coming back from “the blip”