chis evans especially managed to sell the idea that steve /actually believed/ all that stuff about decency and courage and empathy he actually was a genuinely, profoundly decent human being from which so much of his moral authority derived
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Replying to @perdricof @jamari_oneal and
so in CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDER, when cap comes to sam's door and asks for help, sam just says "Captain America says my country needs me. I'm in." and the issue, of course, in TFATWS is that none of the prospective captain americas can do that.
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Replying to @perdricof @jamari_oneal and
You can see the anger just building up and building up inside of John Walker that despite how hard he's worked and everything he's achieved, and how on the surface he is an immensely popular beloved celebrity... he's still not Steve
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
And there's nothing he can do to "earn" being Steve or make people treat him the way they did Steve, because he just is not Steve And despite his little speech explicitly denying it, this bothers him *immensely*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
(This is *why* he isn't Steve, of course, because Steve would never give a moment's thought to this stupid ego bullshit while there are lives to be saved)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I do think Walker is one of the stronger parts of the story. I've actually become conviced that making him less of a jingoistic jagoff was the correct way to go.
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @perdricof and
Someone who starts off seriously thinking of himself as a good decent liberal guy who is trying SO HARD is how you give this character an actual arc, yes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
He starts off playing the role of the New Captain America as well as you could reasonably expect someone to But he is playing a role, and if you knew the real Steve you can tell
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
(He pushes it too far when he says that he feels like he knew Steve and that he and Steve are brothers in spirit just from reading about him and shit That was when he permanently moved onto Bucky's shitlist)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
I've only seen to the second episode so far, but it feels also significant that Steve was an emergent hero, and Walker is a *manufactured* one. like, he's not a latently a bad man. But he's been permanently condemned to try to play-act Steve by a government that wants a symbol.
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Well yeah Steve was an enlisted nobody, John is a career officer from West Point The fuck does John know about Steve's life, in what sense is this spoiled suburban golden boy "brothers" with the Irish slum kid who got the shit beat out of him every day
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@Nymphomachy would like this show I think One of the big themes of it is the internecine conflict between the very different sides of "Veteran Twitter"1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes - Show replies
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