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Sam is proud to say he doesn’t flinch when he comes home to find the Winter Soldier on his couch.
The lights are off, the sun’s gone down, and Sam probably would’ve missed him if he hadn’t noticed his barbecue sauce missing from the top of the fridge of all things.
He should probably ask why the world’s deadliest assassin is sitting cross-legged on his couch, his hair tied back in a low bun and wearing one of Sam’s henleys and a pair of his old army sweats in a way that tells him he’s probably been staying here for a few days while Sam had been out searching the world for him with Steve. Instead he asks, “Did you use all my barbecue sauce? It’s polite to replace things you use if you’re gonna stay at someone’s house, you know?”
The Soldier looks up at him and shakes his head, wrinkles his nose, and Sam thinks maybe he should start calling him Bucky in his own head. “I put it in the fridge. It goes bad when you leave it out like that once it’s open.”
Sam blows a puff of air out of his nose, amused but not willing to laugh just yet. “Are you my roommate now? Any other habits you don’t care for?”
Bucky shakes his head again, just slightly enough for Sam to barely catch it in the dark. “You have a comfortable couch.”
Sam sighs and goes to the hall closet to get him a blanket. He wonders if being the retired fist of HYDRA makes enough to split rent 50/50.
What the fuck is wrong with the executives behind streaming services and why do they hate cartoons. Do they have some bull shit excuse for the garbage they pull? Did cartoons kill their grandma!? WHAT IS THEIR PROBLEM???
A lot of the concerning stuff Luz says throughout the series comes back in the final three episodes. She’s so scared of being a burden, saying “mom/Eda won’t have to worry about me anymore”, talking about how she hurts people and how she makes everything worse. She thinks she doesn’t deserve to be with the people she loves and she wishes that she could “disappear”. But at the same time, Luz shows an interest in learning and a love for the world around her. She learns to see past her fantasy to the real people around her and their real problems. She grows into seeing herself as a person.
I always go back to that Steve quote “what if he’s just some guy?” I think that applies to Luz also. Luz idealized the idea of being a hero, she idealized Philip and the people around her, and then she felt awful when she wasn’t perfect. Luz can’t see herself as a hero because she’s not one, she’s just some kid who wanted to protect her family, and that’s why she’s fighting.
Luz almost disappears, but she’s pulled out of that by someone who grounds her and reminds her of why she was fighting, why she stayed. Luz stayed because she loved her family, because she had something worth fighting for and she’s just “some guy”. She’s allowed to be flawed and make mistakes but she’s also still growing up. And she’s going to be okay.
I think something about HOTD and it's framing is that it had the chance to do something beautiful, or more accurately, it did something beautiful and fascinating either on accident or with intentions that make it practically meaningless, and fucked themselves over with it cause now they can't use it.
the way the shows pacing, framing, and story writing is set, it is insanely easy to get caught up in the pro TB anti team green narrative, cause there is just so much information getting launched at you, you barely have enough time to understand what your seeing surface level, let alone processing it critically on your first watch.
but the more you watch it, the more you process it all, the more logically and critically you think about it, that pro TB narrative starts to lose standing. you see how flawed Rhaenyra is, you see the true situation the greens are in (between a rock [death] and a hard place [usurpation], to put i tot simply), you see the web of politics binding.
if the writers saw what they had done, they totally could have used it to their advantage, they could have used it to really beef up both sides in terms of characterization. or maybe they did realize it, maybe they did it intentionally (I can't tell if I think they're competent enough to do that, whether I like it or not, or incompetent enough to do it by accident and then fumble the bag with it...), maybe that was the intent overall, to destroy TG, not by making them actually awful (outside of what they did to Aegon), but to instead go so overboard you can't see anything else but their TB bullshit.
either way, it had so much potential and they just squashed it.