![]() ![]() "That's why it's yours," Steve said, showing that he was confident that Sam was worthy of taking up the mantle. "It isn't," Steve said, giving his blessing and smiling up at him.Īfter a pause, Sam thanked Steve and said "I'll do my best" before they shook hands. When he returned to the present day as an old man, he took his shield out of a brown case (the same one seen in "TFATWS") and gave Sam his blessing to "try it on." Near the conclusion of 2019's " Avengers: Endgame," Steve Rogers/Captain America returned from time traveling and putting the Infinity Stones exactly where he got them from.īut Steve also took a detour and lived a long and fulfilling life with Peggy Carter. Sam Wilson was given Captain America's blessing to take up the mantle in "Avengers: Endgame."Ĭhuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios Disney/Marvel Both series ended up wasting their potential, coming across as ill-conceived TV shows when they could have been slightly more successful as TV movies.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. That seems to be the point with all of these Marvel shows it’s what ended up ruining WandaVision in the end, too, when its true allegiance to the MCU release calendar and format-basically laying the track for the Scarlet Witch to turn up in the Doctor Strange sequel and the possible return of the still-dead Vision-became blatant. By stuffing it onto Disney Plus, Marvel can just cut to the chase next time it uses Sam on the big screen. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is very clearly a miniseries meant to bridge a gap and shoehorned onto TV because there’s no room (or budget) for it in theaters. And WandaVision was keenly aware that it was a TV show, at least in the pastiches that defined its most interesting episodes. Plus, that show used its time more wisely: WandaVision’s episodes never went past the 40-minute mark, unlike its follow-up’s regularly TV drama-length runtimes. Perhaps the sting of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s wan run is compounded by the existence of WandaVision, the preceding Marvel miniseries that ended on a similarly flat note but at least played around with the TV medium in intriguing ways. The Curse of the Bravo Reality Show Has Come for One of Its Greatest Franchises ![]() Who Is Matt Rife, the “ProbleMATTic” Comedian Who Just Sent Ticketmaster Into a Meltdown? Send me updates about Slate special offers. (There’s even a cameo from the Wakandan soldier Ayo.) The introduction of a comic book character whose history is explicitly tied up in anti-Black racism-Isaiah Bradley, who was once in the running for Captain America himself-also lent credence to the idea that Falcon and the Winter Soldier would be the most overtly Black Marvel project since Black Panther. And these things did appear in the series to some degree, like with a subplot featuring Sam’s sister and her business struggles, compounded by the “Blip” that saw half the population disappear for years after Avengers: Infinity War. ![]() There were Black people on the creative side how Sam’s Blackness complicates his relationship to heroism would be acknowledged so too would economic and social inequalities that all Black people face in this country. Created by Malcolm Spellman, whose previous credits include Black-led series like Empire, the show was framed as one that would be overtly concerned with race. The series was presaged with promises of challenging material unlike any Marvel product before it. The entire show landed with a thud, rudderless and overly long and ultimately, disappointingly, forgettable. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (or Captain America and the Winter Soldier, as it’s renamed at the end) was not the thoughtful treatise on race it positioned itself to be, nor was it a compelling interstitial between big-screen Marvel movies. But Sam assumes the role only after nearly six plodding, aimless hours of Marvel movie-lite action and tepidly explored, sometimes conflicting themes. In a sense, it is-we have a Black Captain America! For a Black man to now embody one of Marvel’s marquee heroes is a significant direction for the slowly diversifying Cinematic Universe to take. I wish I could call this conclusion satisfying. ![]() Ever since Steve handed his famous shield to Sam at the end of Avengers: Endgame, it seemed obvious that only he could carry on the hero’s legacy. His transition from the Falcon, former Captain America Steve Rogers’ right-hand man, into Cap himself was predestined. In the sixth and final episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the expected happens: Sam Wilson becomes Captain America. ![]()
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