![]() ![]() The season often felt rushed and lacked some depth in its analysis of race and power in this country, but it served its narrative purpose and provided some solid entertainment along the way. (We clearly haven’t seen the last of him or Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Val, both welcome additions to future films and series.) Wilson never really had much of an origin story as the Falcon in the MCU, but now he’s become a dense study in themes of responsibility, power, and the dark history of the country he’s going to not only defend but repair as the new Captain America. And so the MCU has given the new Captain America an origin story in the form of a six-episode miniseries, while also pushing forward the redemption of the Winter Soldier, setting up a new villain in the Power Broker, and bringing U.S. Just handing off the shield would have felt a little slight for such a legendary character (although the video clips of audiences cheering if the Cap reveal in this episode had happened in a movie theater would have been cool). That’s really been the main purpose of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, hasn’t it? To fill in the arc from the end of Avengers: Endgame to the next time Captain America is seen onscreen, played by Anthony Mackie. But, make no mistake, Sam Wilson IS the new Captain America. ![]() For clarity’s sake, Sam Wilson and John Walker will be referred to here by their aliases instead of Cap, Fake Cap, New Cap, Jerk Cap, etc. ![]()
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