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tori_reviewsThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier 1x05
I…am not sure there was a single thing about that episode that I liked.
Well, maybe I think Bucky and Sarah flirting is a little cute, but it’s probably going to be pointless so I’m not going to call it something I liked. Plus it’s throwing out the difficulties he had with that in the first episode, so it’s a bit off of any arc they had set up.
How are the fight scenes on this show so boring and they drag on so long? Why does its politics seem 20 years out of date pretending to be current; failing and definitely not being adapted to fit the in universe situation? Why are all the ‘character scenes’ made to feel so out of character? Why is this show so focused on what the damn shield symbolizes when the message should be that it’s not the shield that makes Captain America? Does the show realize that it keeps making fuck you Steve Rogers look worse for abandoning his friends?
This just was not a good episode and it’s boring as shit.
My more think-y thought in this one came during the opening super boring fight scene, and it was about the abject hypocrisy of Team Cap that the show is surely never going to acknowledge. Because the way they felt watching John kill that guy, that’s how the rest of the world felt after the events in Lagos in Civil War. That horror, that fear, that revulsion that someone would do such a thing, not understanding how and why, this is why the fucking Sovokvia Accords exist. The show clearly holds John responsible, and it should, the thing is that literally the people holding John responsible are enacting what the Accords were meant to do; so which is it Marvel? Is accountability good or bad?
(This hypocrisy is only increased when it’s revealed that the Raft is still an active prison. And that the Wakandans take people there. Again, the protagonist centered morality is kind of horrific to me. It’s not bad when *we* do it, only when people at large get a say in the laws about what we should do. How does Marvel keep making me hate Cap and Team Cap even more all the time and yet I’m 90% sure they don’t intend that to be the take away?)
Funny thing is, I think subconsciously I knew I was losing patience with this show. I’ve been thinking for a couple weeks that it probably says something that I’m never in a hurry to watch it each week, and probably would forget even longer if I wasn’t doing the reviews. Last week I blamed my post-show frustration on Steve’s shadow, because it wasn’t terrible; but this episode the problem is clearly the show. I don’t think I like this very much, and I wanted to when it started.
But that does give me an opportunity to announce some shake up in this blog:
Shaking up the schedule
Alright everybody, here’s the situation. Behind the scenes I am done watching through season 4 of The Clone Wars (I got my watching quite a way ahead of my posting) and I am in need of a break from Star Wars. As you’ll see when I post the s4 reviews, I found s4 more frustrating than any of the previous seasons (some it is good, but a lot of it isn’t working for me), hence the need to step away for a bit.
So for the next few weeks I’m shaking up the schedule again. I’m sticking with M/W/F, Monday will still be Star Wars, Wednesday will still be Marvel (for as long as it lasts, we’ll reconsider if there’s going to be a big break), but I’m slotting something new onto Friday. I must be feeling confident that I’m not going to start forgetting days again, I’ve never been able to talk myself into this kind of structure before.
I thought about jumping ahead and doing The Mandalorian; but that would have gone against my need for a break. I thought about doing one of the shows I didn’t get around to during 2020 hindsight, but most of the stuff I considered was stuff I’d seen before and I’m kind on in a zone of doing new (to me) stuff for this blog for the moment (it’s keeping me from trying to do AoS again). I thought about doing Robin Hood, it’s going on five years since my last big rewatch and I’m sure I could think of yet more things to say about that ridiculous show, I reference it often enough.
But I think I want to do something from our modern major TV productions list that I haven’t gotten to yet. This would give me a reason to finally do so instead of putting it off. Not wanting to turn this time of taking a step away from Star Wars into a whole separate series, I’ll take something fairly short. I gave thought to The Boys, but eventually had to admit I didn’t want to very much and anyway that would be two superhero things I reviewing so I’ll continue to sit on that one.
Instead, I think I’m going to do His Dark Materials. I only ever read the first book and that was years ago (I actually think I listened to the audio book; and technically I might have gotten a few chapters into the second book, but I remember that even less), and sometimes I’ve thought I should finish the series before watching the show, but I haven’t done anything with that so we’ll see what this sparks.
I…am not sure there was a single thing about that episode that I liked.
Well, maybe I think Bucky and Sarah flirting is a little cute, but it’s probably going to be pointless so I’m not going to call it something I liked. Plus it’s throwing out the difficulties he had with that in the first episode, so it’s a bit off of any arc they had set up.
How are the fight scenes on this show so boring and they drag on so long? Why does its politics seem 20 years out of date pretending to be current; failing and definitely not being adapted to fit the in universe situation? Why are all the ‘character scenes’ made to feel so out of character? Why is this show so focused on what the damn shield symbolizes when the message should be that it’s not the shield that makes Captain America? Does the show realize that it keeps making fuck you Steve Rogers look worse for abandoning his friends?
This just was not a good episode and it’s boring as shit.
My more think-y thought in this one came during the opening super boring fight scene, and it was about the abject hypocrisy of Team Cap that the show is surely never going to acknowledge. Because the way they felt watching John kill that guy, that’s how the rest of the world felt after the events in Lagos in Civil War. That horror, that fear, that revulsion that someone would do such a thing, not understanding how and why, this is why the fucking Sovokvia Accords exist. The show clearly holds John responsible, and it should, the thing is that literally the people holding John responsible are enacting what the Accords were meant to do; so which is it Marvel? Is accountability good or bad?
(This hypocrisy is only increased when it’s revealed that the Raft is still an active prison. And that the Wakandans take people there. Again, the protagonist centered morality is kind of horrific to me. It’s not bad when *we* do it, only when people at large get a say in the laws about what we should do. How does Marvel keep making me hate Cap and Team Cap even more all the time and yet I’m 90% sure they don’t intend that to be the take away?)
Funny thing is, I think subconsciously I knew I was losing patience with this show. I’ve been thinking for a couple weeks that it probably says something that I’m never in a hurry to watch it each week, and probably would forget even longer if I wasn’t doing the reviews. Last week I blamed my post-show frustration on Steve’s shadow, because it wasn’t terrible; but this episode the problem is clearly the show. I don’t think I like this very much, and I wanted to when it started.
But that does give me an opportunity to announce some shake up in this blog:
Shaking up the schedule
Alright everybody, here’s the situation. Behind the scenes I am done watching through season 4 of The Clone Wars (I got my watching quite a way ahead of my posting) and I am in need of a break from Star Wars. As you’ll see when I post the s4 reviews, I found s4 more frustrating than any of the previous seasons (some it is good, but a lot of it isn’t working for me), hence the need to step away for a bit.
So for the next few weeks I’m shaking up the schedule again. I’m sticking with M/W/F, Monday will still be Star Wars, Wednesday will still be Marvel (for as long as it lasts, we’ll reconsider if there’s going to be a big break), but I’m slotting something new onto Friday. I must be feeling confident that I’m not going to start forgetting days again, I’ve never been able to talk myself into this kind of structure before.
I thought about jumping ahead and doing The Mandalorian; but that would have gone against my need for a break. I thought about doing one of the shows I didn’t get around to during 2020 hindsight, but most of the stuff I considered was stuff I’d seen before and I’m kind on in a zone of doing new (to me) stuff for this blog for the moment (it’s keeping me from trying to do AoS again). I thought about doing Robin Hood, it’s going on five years since my last big rewatch and I’m sure I could think of yet more things to say about that ridiculous show, I reference it often enough.
But I think I want to do something from our modern major TV productions list that I haven’t gotten to yet. This would give me a reason to finally do so instead of putting it off. Not wanting to turn this time of taking a step away from Star Wars into a whole separate series, I’ll take something fairly short. I gave thought to The Boys, but eventually had to admit I didn’t want to very much and anyway that would be two superhero things I reviewing so I’ll continue to sit on that one.
Instead, I think I’m going to do His Dark Materials. I only ever read the first book and that was years ago (I actually think I listened to the audio book; and technically I might have gotten a few chapters into the second book, but I remember that even less), and sometimes I’ve thought I should finish the series before watching the show, but I haven’t done anything with that so we’ll see what this sparks.
