Captain America: The Winter Solder
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iariaI enjoyed it.
• Apparently stage 2 of MCU is destroying the cornerstones of stage 1! Which is to say I can't believe they disbanded SHIELD! IM3 had Tony removing his arc reactor and destroying his suits and now this. (I haven't seen Thor 2 yet). Wow. Where are they going to go now?
• I still really like Steve. He's just so nice and a genuinely good guy. I loved his little notebook of stuff to look up.
• This movie did really well with the characters and various relationships.
- I loved Sam and the Sam/Steve friendship. I liked their first meeting a lot and how loyal Sam was throughout.
- I loved Natasha and her friendship with Steve. I loved her multitasking, their talk in the car, and them learning to trust each other completely. I really enjoyed their dynamic.
- What we got with Natasha/Fury was unexpected, I hadn't realised how close they were, but I loved it too.
- Steve/Bucky was also wonderful though it wasn't as big a part of the movie as I was expecting. Their final confrontation was great and I loved Steve refusing to fight him and then Bucky saving his life.
- The Peggy/Steve scene was so sad. Alzheimer's sucks and it was painful when she forgot. His expression! Between that and his expression when he realised the Winter Soldier was Bucky I really wanted some to give him a hug. It's also just really sad because I loved them in the first movie and I love her and it was hard to see her like that. I really hope she gets her TV series (where she co-founds SHIELD with Howard and Philips!)
- I liked Sharon from what we saw of her. Her casual flirtiness at the beginning, her focused professionalism after the reveal of her job, her demanding an explanation for why they were hunting Steve and the control room scene. I also really liked the implied Sharon/Natasha friendship.
• The control room stand off was excellent. I loved everything about how that played out. Though it was a little weird how Sharon just kind of disappeared afterwards when I would have thought she'd go after Rumlow.
• I am so glad Fury wasn't killed. I really thought he had been. I loved the scene where his SUV was attacked and we got to see him being badass.
• It doesn't look like Natasha and Bucky have any connection outside of that one mission which is too bad. I don't read the comics but I liked the idea of Natasha having her own background with Bucky.
• When Natasha walked out of the meeting at the end she was totally thinking 'wow, I can see why Stark enjoys this so much'.
• For the most part I really liked the fight scenes. The Bucky/minions vs Natasha/Steve/Sam showdown was excellent. But the first one on the ship was a bit - confusing/dizzying. I think it was the 3D because watching it on YouTube I didn't have the same issue with it.
• While shooting the carriers down was certainly more dramatic if Maria was in control of them wouldn't it have been a better idea to just land them? I get that they wanted to get rid of them entirely so no one could use them but they were hovering right above the city and things could have gone so much worse than them landing back in the river.
• I loved Maria getting a job at Stark Industries but I'm also a little suspicious of it because if anyone was going to go with Fury it would be her. Fury trusted only two people - Steve and Maria. She is completely loyal to him, his right hand. I very much doubt she would turn her back on him and hunting Hydra. That makes me think that her joining SI was a strategic move on their part.
• Wait, Hydra had Tony's parents murdered? Wow. I wondering if Steve is going to think to mention that to him.
• I don't really care about Clint that much but his absence in the movie felt kind of weird. The movie was pretty full but there should have been some mention of him. He's an Avenger! And from what we saw in The Avengers loyal to both SHIELD and Natasha. Where was he when everything was falling apart?
• I find myself now wishing that Agents of SHIELD was a completely different series set post-Winter Soldier. I was thinking of those thousands of SHIELD agents now out of a job, of them joining various law enforcement agencies and large companies around the world and how a lot of them are probably still pretty loyal to SHIELD still. Then I thought of Fury working as a ghost in the shadows to take down Hydra and Maria Hill working at Stark Industries and went hmmmm.
What could have been an amazing series would have been - Maria Hill and Fury working to take down Hydra and using the former SHIELD agents to do it. Hill works at SI and has their resources with Pepper and Tony's permission and acts as the centre coordinating everything. Every episode would follow a different ex-agent (or more) taking down a Hydra spy/group/base. So basically Fury/Maria taking down Hydra one piece at a time using Hydra's own playbook of infiltration and secrecy. Maria could keep in contact with Fury via text so SLJ wouldn't need to be on the show to be a presence on it except for maybe the occasional cameo. This could have been so good!
• This is actually making me more interested in what's happening with AoS. I wonder how the team is going to deal with this? Probably they stick together and continue to do what they're doing but it could lead to an interesting shake up. It'll be nice, hopefully, to see more of what exactly happens when SHIELD disbands.
• May had better not be a Hydra spy. I would be so pissed. Fury or Maria are the only acceptable options!
• 'The Clairvoyant' has to be Zoya or a person using Zoya.
• It was Sitwell that Simmons panicked and knocked out in 'The Hub', right? Because I'm suddenly enjoying that so much more.
• Apparently stage 2 of MCU is destroying the cornerstones of stage 1! Which is to say I can't believe they disbanded SHIELD! IM3 had Tony removing his arc reactor and destroying his suits and now this. (I haven't seen Thor 2 yet). Wow. Where are they going to go now?
• I still really like Steve. He's just so nice and a genuinely good guy. I loved his little notebook of stuff to look up.
• This movie did really well with the characters and various relationships.
- I loved Sam and the Sam/Steve friendship. I liked their first meeting a lot and how loyal Sam was throughout.
- I loved Natasha and her friendship with Steve. I loved her multitasking, their talk in the car, and them learning to trust each other completely. I really enjoyed their dynamic.
- What we got with Natasha/Fury was unexpected, I hadn't realised how close they were, but I loved it too.
- Steve/Bucky was also wonderful though it wasn't as big a part of the movie as I was expecting. Their final confrontation was great and I loved Steve refusing to fight him and then Bucky saving his life.
- The Peggy/Steve scene was so sad. Alzheimer's sucks and it was painful when she forgot. His expression! Between that and his expression when he realised the Winter Soldier was Bucky I really wanted some to give him a hug. It's also just really sad because I loved them in the first movie and I love her and it was hard to see her like that. I really hope she gets her TV series (where she co-founds SHIELD with Howard and Philips!)
- I liked Sharon from what we saw of her. Her casual flirtiness at the beginning, her focused professionalism after the reveal of her job, her demanding an explanation for why they were hunting Steve and the control room scene. I also really liked the implied Sharon/Natasha friendship.
• The control room stand off was excellent. I loved everything about how that played out. Though it was a little weird how Sharon just kind of disappeared afterwards when I would have thought she'd go after Rumlow.
• I am so glad Fury wasn't killed. I really thought he had been. I loved the scene where his SUV was attacked and we got to see him being badass.
• It doesn't look like Natasha and Bucky have any connection outside of that one mission which is too bad. I don't read the comics but I liked the idea of Natasha having her own background with Bucky.
• When Natasha walked out of the meeting at the end she was totally thinking 'wow, I can see why Stark enjoys this so much'.
• For the most part I really liked the fight scenes. The Bucky/minions vs Natasha/Steve/Sam showdown was excellent. But the first one on the ship was a bit - confusing/dizzying. I think it was the 3D because watching it on YouTube I didn't have the same issue with it.
• While shooting the carriers down was certainly more dramatic if Maria was in control of them wouldn't it have been a better idea to just land them? I get that they wanted to get rid of them entirely so no one could use them but they were hovering right above the city and things could have gone so much worse than them landing back in the river.
• I loved Maria getting a job at Stark Industries but I'm also a little suspicious of it because if anyone was going to go with Fury it would be her. Fury trusted only two people - Steve and Maria. She is completely loyal to him, his right hand. I very much doubt she would turn her back on him and hunting Hydra. That makes me think that her joining SI was a strategic move on their part.
• Wait, Hydra had Tony's parents murdered? Wow. I wondering if Steve is going to think to mention that to him.
• I don't really care about Clint that much but his absence in the movie felt kind of weird. The movie was pretty full but there should have been some mention of him. He's an Avenger! And from what we saw in The Avengers loyal to both SHIELD and Natasha. Where was he when everything was falling apart?
• I find myself now wishing that Agents of SHIELD was a completely different series set post-Winter Soldier. I was thinking of those thousands of SHIELD agents now out of a job, of them joining various law enforcement agencies and large companies around the world and how a lot of them are probably still pretty loyal to SHIELD still. Then I thought of Fury working as a ghost in the shadows to take down Hydra and Maria Hill working at Stark Industries and went hmmmm.
What could have been an amazing series would have been - Maria Hill and Fury working to take down Hydra and using the former SHIELD agents to do it. Hill works at SI and has their resources with Pepper and Tony's permission and acts as the centre coordinating everything. Every episode would follow a different ex-agent (or more) taking down a Hydra spy/group/base. So basically Fury/Maria taking down Hydra one piece at a time using Hydra's own playbook of infiltration and secrecy. Maria could keep in contact with Fury via text so SLJ wouldn't need to be on the show to be a presence on it except for maybe the occasional cameo. This could have been so good!
• This is actually making me more interested in what's happening with AoS. I wonder how the team is going to deal with this? Probably they stick together and continue to do what they're doing but it could lead to an interesting shake up. It'll be nice, hopefully, to see more of what exactly happens when SHIELD disbands.
• May had better not be a Hydra spy. I would be so pissed. Fury or Maria are the only acceptable options!
• 'The Clairvoyant' has to be Zoya or a person using Zoya.
• It was Sitwell that Simmons panicked and knocked out in 'The Hub', right? Because I'm suddenly enjoying that so much more.
