![]() It doesn’t seem like anyone guessed Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, right? She finds Walker and his wife in the hall, encouraging the former hero’s dark side with lines like, “You did the right thing.” She’s going to be the Steve Bannon for John Walker, bringing him back into the spotlight from behind the scenes. He always is.Ĭameo time! There had been rumors of a major actor appearing in episode five, starting the rumor mill buzzing about who it could be and who they might be playing. He’s stripped of his title and authority, and Walker loses his temper A Few Good Men style: “I only ever did what you asked of me! What you told me to be and trained me to do!” Again, the idea that the government makes this kind of murderous hero is certainly interesting, but kind of only given lip service here, although Wyatt Russell is quite good. Is he finally Captain America? And maybe Torres is the new Falcon? That would follow the source trajectory.Ĭut to D.C., where Walker is being chastised in front of a council, told he will no longer act in any capacity as a hero for his people. After some exposition about Bucky going to take care of Zemo and Karli being on the run, Sam takes the shield as he leaves (and the wings stay with Torres, by the way). Both Sam and Bucky hold the shield in this scene, although Bucky drops it to Sam in the end. After all, especially in the MCU, teamwork makes the dream work. He pulls off Sam’s wing and holds the shield in his “murder position” again, but Sam and Bucky work as a team to get the shield away, something Walker never really did with Hoskins. ![]() It looks as though John is playing for keeps once more, like it would be fine with him if he had more blood on his shield, including that of the closest ally of the man who used to hold it. Sam tries to cool down Walker with “heat of the battle” talk, but it erupts in some strong fight choreography between the three men. His priorities are still misplaced, and always will be. bad guys.” It’s interesting in this first scene how Cap 2.0 is flashing back not to his crime but his “motive,” the death of his BFF. ![]() An authority figure killing an unarmed person in public has added weight given the events of the last year, even if this show often feels a bit surface-level in the handling of its most complex themes - at least it’s trying to deepen a genre that’s too often “good guys vs. Walker is running, flashing back to the murder he just committed in public. Caught in the middle of all of this are Sam Wilson and James “Bucky” Barnes, two men trying to determine what the word “hero” means to them. Somewhere on the fringe is Karli Morgenthau, a woman who considers herself a hero to her people. On the other end of the spectrum is Isaiah Bradley, a hero who the government disowned and abused, a man who was left behind by a country he served and history books that wrote him out. First, there’s John Walker, a man who has been called a hero by his country for most of his life and watches all of that torn away thanks to his own vicious pride. ![]() Let’s start with the show’s representation of flawed heroism, a theme that works its way through the entire episode. However, the writers are clearly defining the themes of the season and setting up how this show is going to impact the MCU, which appears to be getting richer in its dissection of what it truly means to be a hero. While the thematic explorations of history and heroism in “Truth” are admirable, the pace sags a bit in the season’s longest episode ( so much boat work), and some of the episode’s more serious dialogue feels overly scripted. A talky penultimate episode of Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier sets the stage for a showdown in the series finale between Karli Morgenthau and the Flag Smashers and two potential Captain Americas: Sam Wilson and John Walker. ![]()
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