“I have dedicated my life to your mandates! I only ever did what you asked of me. What you told me to be & trained me to do, and I did it. And I did it well.” It’s just everything about the American machine’s specific way of beating any healthy processing out of its men.
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You KNOW that
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And it rides the line so well of giving us all of this without trying to make us come around and like Walker. We don’t. We probably never will, and that’s good. He made his choices, but you can see that he’s not wrong when he says “You built me.”
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The horror on his wife’s face says it all. The way he doubles down on not admitting that he went after the wrong Flag-Smasher. If he allows himself to check out of being the
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Come to think of it, he is, in a lot of ways, the complete inverse of Killmonger. It’s fascinating. Chosen, sanctioned, celebrated, privileged, a powerful oppressor, etc. But with NONE of the purpose or sense of self.pic.twitter.com/hGmpdQsro5
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He is the living embodiment of the false, carefully curated, propaganda-based sense of morality that drives America. The same “Americana” that shatters lives LIKE N’Jobu’s & N’Jadaka’s. Honestly a masterclass villain origin story. Damn. Just damn.
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Amd masterfully performed by Wyatt Russel.
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Wyatt Russell does an amazing job with the character throughout the series.
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Can we all please take a minute to Wyatt Russell
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This show does incredibly well at portraying both sides of the American issue at heart: how the system turns you into a machine then throws you away as chaff once it's done with you
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If you don't end up making something of yourself, that is. The invalidation of the individual only comes if the person doesn't know themselves.
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