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usahockey: Almost game time 😁

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i’m begging like someone has to do it and it can’t be me

who wants to write a fic where Bob lashes out and uses his powers without meaning too in order to protect John who wants to take one for the team

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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier S1.E5 "Truth"

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kinda wanna expand on my thoughts on this guy without getting too political (because i think real-life politics don’t really “fit” the mcu):

he’s like the archetype of the “good soldier”, he does everything they tell him to without questioning it — and then they get rid of him when he gets too “violent” and is “no longer of use” for the government.

he doesn’t have your typical tragic backstory but he loses everything because of choices he made which i think is really interesting.

i’m really glad he’s one of the better written characters during this mcu phase/era because it’s really easy to fuck up a concept/character like him, hope they flesh him out more in future projects.

loving the love for thunderbolts* because it's more than deserved but there's also an interesting attitude i'm seeing around john walker. he's started to get silly guy-ified and that feels like a fundamental misunderstanding.

john isn't a silly guy who doesn't know any better. he's an asshole who doesn't know any better - and that's why he's a problem. the man is a cop.

and he's charismatic at times sure!! wyatt russell brings that out and that's a huge part of why he's so problematic (and fascinating as a character).

this is a guy who's been led down the fascist pipeline. conservative worldview, following government orders without hesitation, military pride and righteousness, the whole deal. but this isn't some "look at this doofus who can't figure it out poor guy" situation. he hasn't been able to figure his way out because he's never had a support system (because patriarchy and the hero complex that often comes along with it) and has in fact been rewarded for his terrible and shitty actions so his behaviour and outlook is only re-enforced to him. (and while we're at it, thank fuck he didn't get the chance to do any damage to his kid's life and well-being as that kid was growing up because YIKES)

and, as brennan lee mulligan put it so eloquently, "before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole".

john walker is this maddening reverse sisyphus of a guy who started at the top, rolled the boulder down the hill, which crushed somebody, said "sorry sorry let me drag this back up", and once at the top again said "yeah but this time it'll be fine if i let it roll back down surely", rinse and repeat.

and this isn't a weird "you're problematic for liking this character" moralizing post. he's an INCREDIBLY fascinating character.... who is problematic as a person in that world and those shouldn't get twisted, that's all.

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⭑.ᐟ Isack Hadjar on Quotidien

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esteban ocon went to watch thunderbolts* <3

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On the verge of blacking out but here’s Brady. What a fine ass man.

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"so what are we gonna do? just like.. ride bob into the sky?" yeah you would be the one to suggest that, john...

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the way i ended up liking the three of them… oh mein Gott

The studios keep cooking up deeply traumatized white guys with big doe eyes who are capable of staggering amounts of emotionally driven violence while looking like a sad wet cat

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they had a lot of cute interactions in the press tours but this tidbit is one of my faves. (from this vid)

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📸; LYDIA HARPER

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the John Walker discourse is so annoying tbh.

Yes he is an asshole. Yes he was wrong for his actions in tfatws. No he is NOT some irredeemable monster. He is capable of being a nice guy, as proven by little things like him sharing the cactus berries with the girls, pulling Ava back into the car or protecting Bucky from the bullets with his shield. You ARE in fact, supposed to sympathize with him in Thunderbolts. Like... otherwise he wouldn't be in the movie?

The whole premise of the story is that this team, ALL of them, have done bad things. Ava literally kills Antonia in the first 20 minutes of the movie. But she is not really evil at heart, and neither is John. None of them are. THAT'S THE WHOLE THE POINT?!?!?!? so it baffles me when some people act like you're still meant to hate him after watching this movie, or like it's morally wrong to like him, or like you're meant to believe that his whole team absolutely hates him yet they keep him around just... because?

Also I think it's funny because Loki killed 80 people in two days and Wanda enslaved a whole town and wanted to sacrifice a teenage girl, and yet they are still some of the most beloved characters in the whole franchise. So why is the thought of John Walker becoming a character people can love and root for so outrageous?