#y'all give me 50 bucks and i'll do a rewrite of it how bout that

[akajustmerry]

everything you’ve said, anon! 10/10!

though its not so much that the narritive comes down on Bucky’s side, it’s more that when it comes to those racially tense moments between Bucky and Sam, the show takes a centerist angle. It portrays both sides as equally valid. The producers want us to think that Bucky’s refusal to see the racism factor in Sam’s decision to give the shield up is an equally valid perspective alongside Sam’s conflict on being a mascot to a country that hates him as a Black man. spoiler alert: it isn’t equal. mcu!bucky is just a dick. i was prepared to let it slide in the first ep because yeah okay i can understand in the moment bucky would be upset, but we’re four eps in and this dickhead is still bullying sam over giving up the shield.

comic!bucky would not even recognise mcu!bucky for behaving like an absolute nitwit with zero self-awareness because you’re 100% right. comic!bucky is painfully self-aware of how much he has and can hurt people and does everything he can to prevent that and help people instead.

the inconsistencies in this recent ep alone with bucky as a character are so frustrating. you have Bucky in Wakanda at the begining of the episode asking Ayo to not let him hurt anyone, but then he’s shocked to learn Shuri put a fail safe in his arm??? seriously?? a whole reason he went into hiding in Civil War was so he couldn’t hurt anyone by being a weapon anymore. but suddenly, he’s shocked the Wakandans did [checks notes] exactly what he wanted them to?

Sam and Bucky needed their own limited series to properly establish them as characters independant of Steve and then tfatws should have served as a complimentary series to their induvidual ones. ideally, in the same way that Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, etc all got at least one season of a show on their own to establish the characters and THEN we got the defenders.

But here’s the really fucked up part, anon. If Sam and Bucky got their own shows induvidually before getting one together. You know what would have happened? No one would have watched Sam’s show. You know how Disney knows that? Look at what happened with Luke Cage. Disney/Marvel’s experiment with Netflix taught Disney that if you make shows about Superheroes, the one about the Black hero will rate the lowest.

Sam does deserve his own show. This arc of him reckoning with what the Symbol of Captain America covers up vs what he can make it is stunning and its too complex and rich for it to be sandwhiched between Bucky’s rehab, Wakanda Sharon’s return and whatever the fuck Zemo is here for. Seriously, why did Bucky have to be the one to show Sam Isaiah? Why couldn’t we have a show where Sam discovered this for himself as a Black man, rather than being chaperoned this entire narritive by white men who are CONSTANTLY positioned as people who know more than him about his reality. 

And a huge reason this show SUCKS is because of the Disney Military Industrial Complex. The military is paying for this show so we can’t have any decent exploration or criticism of the systems these characters operate in which is INSANE BECAUSE THESE ARE THE SYSTEMS THEY’RE SHAPED BY.

I’m not gonna talk more on Bucky’s rehab being built on Black emotional labour, but I am beyond angry that the comic!bucky’s very well established mutual character development arc with natasha romanoff was completely disgarded for this racist disney miltary bullshit. 

Anyways, thats a long rant for a long series of asks. hope that’s what you were after! x