#also not fucking john walker getting a redemption arc but not karli. what the fuck

[andtosaturn]

MARVEL. what’s with the anti-climactic series endings. seriously

#villain sharon is very exciting though #and sam!!!!!!!!!!! i love that man w my whole heart #and all the socially distanced fighting was very funny #also not fucking john walker getting a redemption arc but not karli. what the fuck #shut up claire #marvel #tfatws

[remythologise]

Babes . . . . . drop the FATWS propaganda essay 👀

Hey anon, thanks for asking! My Falcon and Winter Soldier Is Propaganda Essay, summarised:

1) The Pentagon Funds Marvel

The thing we have to acknowledge just straight off the bat going in is that the American gov/military provides funding to Marvel and approves the choices made, especially for products such as Captain Marvel and TFATWS. Of course it does; and you see that from EPISODE ONE they are like - “wow look at these cool army people look at our heroes being allies with the military, look at Falcon’s cool sidekick!” (A DRONE.) So saying ‘this is propaganda’ is just a straight up fact to begin with. But HOW does that propaganda operate in the show, and what is it saying?

2) The ‘Flag Smashers’

THE FLAG SMASHERS??? Even with a basis in comics, the name alone kind of embodies the fact they’re blatant propaganda that make no sense in reality (you... can’t ‘smash’ a ‘flag’). Their ‘evil idea’ is ‘one world, one people’ or whatever like... God forbid the enemy of American nationalism: people who want a world without borders. GOOD LORD. This is, in my opinion, a very obvious representation of ‘Antifa’ as America sees it; young people with these ideas that Middle America fears is extremism. The jump from Karli having ideals we can support to killing people is totally just so that they could prove she’s evil! They just invented a guy as they do with Antifa. You can also see a lot of issues represented by this protest/terrorism group like BLM, immigration and ‘Marxist ideas infecting the youth’ and so on.

3) John Walker

In contrast to the Flag Smashers we have John Walker who basically represents the fascist/right-wing side of things. We have a misguided young War Veteran white boy who comes back and ‘fucks up’. He murders a guy. NOTABLY, he gets the good guy redemption arc after this while Karli dies, and we get a ‘oh but his heart is in the right place’ kind of vibe where Sam and Bucky give him the nod of acknowledgement for his heroism. We sort of get empathy from them for Karli too, but she goes too far to be redeemed. Bad optics here with the white boy vs. girl of colour too, but back to John- 

4) Public Image of American Democracy (Idealised)

John Walker, war hero, murders a ‘foreign terrorist’ in the street. He is then brought back to America and nearly COURT MARTIALLED. He is dishonourably discharged. This is SO LAUGHABLE it’s not funny. American police murder their own people in AMERICA and get away with it. It’s really obnoxious and false. In real life, do you think this man would be brought to court for murder when he killed someone considered a terrorist? No. America is not just. It does not work like this. But they want you to think it does, and this is why;

5) ‘Good’ vs ‘Bad’ Minority action

The crux of this WHOLE SERIES is the scene where Falcon shows up in his American Flag outfit and Karli says WHAT are you doing and Falcon says ‘I’m trying something new, you should too.’ It’s very much like, Malcom X vs. MLK. This is a message to the youth of America (particularly youth of colour); you can try to change things from within the system, like Falcon, or you can try and fight the system itself, like Karli. I’ll let you fill in the gaps on what TFATWS says about each option...

6) Insidious propaganda is the worst kind

I know it seems like a win that Falcon gets acknowledgement for Isaiah and so on but it REALLY puts bile in my mouth because as much as this pisses off white supremacists by makiing Captain America black, it’s hiding the real purpose of this franchise which is quite blatantly a) as I said above, trying to say ‘you can change things from within the system, don’t fight it’ and b) recruiting Americans, esp. black Americans, to the military. They are saying ‘we made mistakes in the past, but we acknowledge you now, so come join us.’ As with the trial though, THIS DOES NOT REFLECT REALITY. This is why it’s propaganda; because Falcon speaks to people and changes things like it’s nothing. Because the world and system is inherently ‘just’, it just has a few bad eggs. Because of all the imagery in the show. Because Karli dies, and Walker is sympathetic.

All of this is summarised better than I could by these tweets by @apriki...

#ask #took me a while to get to this sorry #but like. it's bad #anonymous #tfatws #kira for ts #I literally wrote this essay out for a friend the other day and realised I could just use it for this ask oops #but. yeah this is the short version #there's a LOT to unpack there and I'm sure stuff I've missed

[film-enthusiastt]

DO NOT READ UNLESS YOUVE WATCHED THE NEW EPISODE OF TFATWS!!

TFATWS Episode 6 reactions:

“One World, One People” as the title oh okay

god i’m not ready

OH MY GOD THE NEW WINGS

OOP sharon!

yes. 100% screw bucky’s therapist

OH MY GOD HE LOOKS SO GOOD

YESS HE IS CAPTAIN AMERICA

fuck of batroc

i hope karli lives tbh

yikes that won’t end well

i can’t get over the new suit it looks so good

FUCK YEAH MOTORCYCLE BUCKY

pretty slick sharon

yesss that was such a sick move sam

omfg the CATWS jumping out of a window parallel

karli sweetie. ughh i feel like sam could’ve talked her out of it if john didn’t interrupt them the last episode

oh my god that wing and shield combo *chefs kiss*

that’s one way of doing that

ugh this fucker

omfg the janky shield

god it seemed like his arm was going to come off

i hope they break his shield

fuck i forgot he has the serum now too

OH SHIT OH SHIT KH SHIT I HOPE HES OKAY

oh thank god

also love a filipina being in this/helping out

i swear if i have to see john kill karli

thank god x2

OH FUCK OH SHIT

THEY BETTER NOT KILL BUCKY

redemption arc for john would be sick

nice nice good job walker

welp

the suspense i can’t

oh my god i love sam so much

that’s my captain america❤️

YESS IT IS

sharon i swear if this is you. oh it’s batroc

also not a trio that i expected. sam bucky and walker hmm

power broker!sharon?

I KNEW IT

kinda want to see sharon and karli’s relationship and what it was behind the scenes

cmon karli he literally doesn’t want to fight you

thekfjgjvi really hope that wakandan suit is bullet proof

SHARON NO

damn i lowkey liked her

oh my god she’s so little

not appropriate rn but he looked so angelic

i hope karli lives

YESSS stand up to the government

i love sam wilson so much

fuck. he’s so good.

oh god i’m crying

wow. just wow.

cCUTE

oop- they escape and we get a season two??😗😗😗

what? OH SHIT it’s Zemo’s butler. didn’t see that coming

hmmmmm idk how i feel about “US Agent”

oh god i’m going to start crying again

fuck.

he got his therapist a gift?? wtf

damn he crossed it all off

i hope they bring back isaiah bradley if there’s a second season

oh my god i hope bradley has his own section now in the museum

wow. i can’t even imagine how bradley feels

my heart is so happy

YESS this is so cute

ugh they’re both so handsome

i love that bucky is with them

yesss “Captain America and the Winter Soldier”

aw yay she got that pardon

she’s still sketchy though with being the power broker and everything

welp there we go just as i typed that

soooooo that ending... does that mean we get another season😏??

#the falcon and the winter soldier spoilers #the falcon and the winter soldier #tfatws spoilers #tfatws #captain america and the winter soldier #sam wilson #bucky barnes #john walker #karli morgenthau #sharon carter #film enthusiastt reacts