The authors had all the trump cards on their hands: the most popular franchise in the world, famous characters, beautiful actors, interesting plot leads, a lot of money. So it was painful to see it all just go down the chimney, series after series, absolutely flat, without a trace, without emotion.
The only good thing I can say is that the series has taken on the difficult political situation, which was ignored in the movies – half of the population was first exterminated and then suddenly resurrected, and it is obvious that this should have caused very big problems in the world. This is where the subject comes in. Not so much in detail, but within what entertaining Disney could do, the theme came up. Nothing more to praise.
This is primarily a project of weak directing. To get the legacy of such a cinematic universe ... and to make it into a "Civil War" on minimal films, in which no character gets a normal arch, no plot move leads to another, no action seems sufficiently justified. I can’t say that the events are as hot nonsense as the films of the finished DC studio, in which no scene with the other does not fit – this is still a long way off. But the question is, why do they do this and not otherwise? Events seem to be scattered by a random bunch, and not built into a competent melody of the plot. This series is difficult to retell, there are only 6 episodes in it, but they are completely the same in tone, there is no sense of the development of composition, images, everything is instantly weathered from the head.
A lot of strange and indistinct things:
- Bucky's going on a date. After two minutes, the girl reminds him that an old friend's son has died, although Bucky knows it well. And he just gets up and leaves. What's the point of this scene?
- The Falcon gave Cap’s shield to the press, which is now a national treasure. But after a few days, some people in the government just give him to some soldier, appoint a new Cap. Why is this not accompanied by a scandal? He doesn't even have superpowers. So he gets sent to fight terrorists, and he kills one of them, which makes perfect sense. And for this, he is stripped of his status and fired. What did you expect? You sent the military to fight. And after this resignation, he still stays with a suit, a shield and goes about his previous activities. Does anyone understand the whole arch?
- Heroes disliked him from the first meeting. For what? He did not appoint himself to this position, he did nothing wrong to them, he pulled them out of the monkey house.
The villain said that when she took the serum of a super soldier, she almost moved her horse from torture. So Walker takes the same one off-screen, and an hour later, he's super, and he's not in one eye. But at the same time, we did not see his forces in the plot.
- At the end of "Citizen" it was shown that Zemo will be kept in a "lifelong etiché", and then suddenly - sitting in a completely ordinary prison, escape from which - a quest for two minutes.
- And what did Zemo do about the plot? The audience awaited his return. Well, he took the heroes on the plane, took the kids for information for candy. And all this was in order to get to the funeral, where you can meet the villain. But this meeting still ended in nothing, so the whole arch led to nothing. Okay, Zemo escaped after that, which would have promised us a "second Loki," but no, half an hour later he's found and escorted. The question is, would the show have lost anything if Zemo hadn’t been here at all?
- Why did Falcon and Bucky go to the black old man? Well, he's got the strength, but he's old, did they think he'd be a lot of help? Here he kicks them out, but after a couple of days, the Falcon comes back and they communicate normally. And then again and again. Why? When did they become such friends that Falcon went to hear his ideological speeches? It is clear that this character is responsible for the subpoena, but he literally did nothing in the series. Why do they go to him? He sticks out like a log, he is not needed in this story.
- Heroes go to Indonesia to get there on the shooter with a mafia aunt. And for this, they have to change into someone! It's funny, it's the adventures of Mortadelo and Filimon. The Falcon knows in the face – how can he change into someone? Well, they hit this arrow, and which one is the plot? No, no, the bandit gets killed right away. And it was Sharon who was there. How? Why?
- Sharon says she's on the run. Why? Yeah, during the Avengers split, she helped Cap, but after Infinity War, everyone had to be amnestied, all the heroes who were considered fugitives regained their status. No one even remembers the Sokovia Agreement. So why is she disgraced? And so she says that without a pardon, she will not return to America, and in the last series, suddenly, hop returned. He said no one would look for me. How does it work? She turned out to be a serum dealer - where did she get them from? Here she was reinstated, and she is immediately ready to sell state secrets from under the floor - and when did she manage to become such an ass?
- There's no villain in the show. This is the worst Marvel villain in history, in the sense that it is not perceived as a threat and does not cause any emotions. This is a redheaded girl, resentful, doubtful, with partial principles, the partiality of which is completely incomprehensible. She seems to evoke sympathy, and seems to kill people in cold blood, and like the Falcon does not want to fight with her, because she believes in some emotional connection with her, although they do not have anything to do with her and she threatened his family.
- In the initial episodes, the Falcon family wrestles with a boat that is neither repaired nor sold, and in the end it turns out that he could just call friends, and they came and did everything. Why wasn't that possible in the beginning? Man, you're a world hero and you don't have any money?
I’m sure there will be explanations and excuses for all of this for the ardent fans, and I’m even admitting that maybe I didn’t pay attention and missed something. But you know, this happens with uninteresting series.
Again, the series is not some thrash, it does not shame the franchise, which many of you secretly love, there are no significant semantic conflicts. It's not a nauseating abomination like "Deadpool," it's not a rambling madman's raving like "Batman v Superman," or a silly cartoon about killing relatives like "Guardians of the Galaxy 2." This is an ordinary such smooth spy action movie with a sluggish plot and a somewhat twisted drama on the side. It won't be a squark to watch. But he does not cause any emotions and very quickly wears out of his head.
