With yesterday’s episode of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, the show came to an end. As the final installment in the season, the show concluded by honoring the legacy of Captain America, finally making Sam Wilson the next to wield the shield.
The episode titled “One World, One People,” equips Wilson in a new Captain America suit built by the Wakandans to fight the Flag-Smashers. However, they meet an unfortunate end with the entire team getting killed one way or the other.
Among all this, Bucky finally makes amends with his past as the Winter Soldier and is able to accept peace. The end-credits also revealed that Sharon Carter was indeed the mysterious Power Broker and could become the MCU’s next villain.
With a dramatic ending like that, leaving many loose ends, fans immediately began to question the show’s future and the characters. But not to fret, as the series will be returning for a season 2 according to the end credits, which also showed Carter finally getting her pardon and accepted back into the CIA. However, given her new evil persona, she is set to sell national secrets to enemies of the state.
Season 2 of the series will be renamed Captain America and The White Wolf for the MCU’s newly replaced heroes.
The show’s relevance which was questioned by many due to Rogers’ exit, was finally set right with a worthy candidate like Wilson ascending to the role of Cap. Nevertheless, a Black man taking the mantle was relatively new to audiences and thus needed to be eased into. Therefore setting the story into a television series rather than a movie was for the best.
Furthermore, the final episode proved that without the show, Sam and Bucky’s narratives could not have been brought to a satisfactory completion. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, both characters were left adrift and lost.
After Steve’s retirement and him passing on the shield to Sam, the latter was left to contemplate the weight of the title. Whereas, on the other hand, Bucky had to navigate his way back to a normal life after his traumatic and violent past as the Winter Soldier.
With no Rogers to moor them, both needed to rely on each other and establish a similar bond with each other as they had with the former. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier not only succeeds in doing that, but it also opens up many other narratives yet to be explored in the MCU, bringing in many new characters as well.
Among them is, of course, John Walker, who was made Captain America at the beginning of the show. However, his unexpected arrival saw him more as a punching bag than a character to be loved, especially given how everyone was skeptical about Steve leaving the role.
Walker turned out to be more of a grey character taking turns both for the good and bad. Irrespective of his intentions being genuine, his character and morality to execute plans were rather callous. His merciless killing of the Flag Smasher proved that, and soon after the incident, he was stripped of the Captain America title.
Meanwhile, Wilson was able to come to terms with his fate and has now been proclaimed the next Captain America. This victorious moment also came at a time when Derek Chauvin’s trial got a ruling in favor of the BLM, and both events were seen as moments of Black celebration.
Now, with a fourth Captain America movie in sight, here’s hoping we get to see more of the dynamic duo in action.
About The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is an American television miniseries created by Malcolm Spellman for Disney+. It is based on the titular Marvel Comics characters Sam Wilson aka. Falcon and Bucky Barnes aka. The Winter Soldier.
Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan reprise their roles as Falcon and Winter Soldier respectively. They are joined by an ensemble cast including Wyatt Russell, Erin Kellyman, Danny Ramirez, Georges St. Pierre, Don Cheadle, Daniel Bruhl, Emily VanCamp, Florence Kasumba and guest star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Following the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” Sam and Bucky team up in a global adventure to fight an anarchist group called Flag-Smashers while setting to protect the legacy of Steve Rogers (Captain America).
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