#it was disjointed and uninteresting and barely any of what happened seemed relevant

[timeandspacelord]

I'm just gonna say it, cos someone has to:

The first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was... bad. It was just bad. The writing was bad, the cinematography was godawful, and I was way too distracted by those things to even focus on the acting (although I'm willing to bet it was actually very good bc Marvel does hire incredible actors)

#it felt like the star wars sequel trilogy and the first chapter of a book that the author uses to just exposition-dump all over everything #it was disjointed and uninteresting and barely any of what happened seemed relevant #I think they were trying to introduce every single plot thread in the same episode and they did it so poorly #also they did a shit job introducing new characters #the entire first scene was pointless and also totally bullshit because that's not even a little bit how skydiving works?? it was so bad????? #Bucky's therapy session felt too drawn out although that might have more to do with the truly stupid camera angles they used for it #and sweet jesus the camera work holy shit #Marvel learn to film a fucking fight scene challenge #but also no one wants closeups on someone's cheek while they're talking and for fuck's sake you're allowed to use a goddamn tripod to film #I cannot believe this is what made it to the final cut of the very first episode of this highly anticipated presumably high budget show #like what the actual hell