Marvel fans exactly two weeks after the fantastic finale to the just as equally fantastic show that had us all hooked from episode one all the way up until episode with the show itself of course being called simply Wandavision well now Marvel / Marvel studios is back with another new TV show that is set in the world of the marvel Cinematic Universe. I will admit that I wasn't as hyped for this show as I was hyped for Wandavision but alot of that comes down to the fact that both Disney and Marvel left it until last possible second to really start promoting this show when honestly they should have been promoting this show during Wandavision which would have gotten more people hyped for this show simply due to the fact that alot of people were talking about Wandavision and as such having trailers and posters for this show come out Wandavision would have made sense but anyways the show is here now and so here are my first impressions of the show that is called simply "The Falcon And The Winter Soldier" enjoy and yes there might be some spoilers ahead.
The plot of this particular episode is Sam Wilson is still fighting bad guys as The Falcon when he decides to visit his family and help with the family business of selling fish all the meanwhile Bucky Barnes is in therapy for h8s action as The Winter Solider when he comes across an unexpected face from his past. I will admit that this episode doesn't really tell you what the plot of this show is which is why i've just the plot summery for this episode instead and in terms of what I thought about the plot for this episode in all honesty the plot of this episode was really good since this episode does a good job of catching us up on what both Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes have been up to since Avengers: Endgame and it's done in a way that doesn't grind the episode to halt and is instead done in a way that feels very naturel and organic in my opinion.
Starring in this episode and the rest of the series is of course Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Falcon and as the winter soldier himself we have the great and super talented Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier. Also starring in this episode and in some cases the rest of this series is Wyatt Russell as John Walker / U.S. Agent , Erin Kellyman as Karli Morgenthau / Flag Smasher and Adepero Oduye as Sarah Wilson.
In terms of what I thought about the acting that's presented to us in this debut episode in all honesty I thought that the acting that's presented to us in this debut episode was in all honesty really freaking good and i'm not just saying that because I like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I'm saying it because it's honestly true all of the actors that appear in this episode give us some really good performances in my opinion and that just doesn't apply to the old / returning actors either it applies to the entire cast since every new character that's introduced in this episode at least is so well cast and because of the fact that all of the new characters give some really good performances as well but that's just what I think about the acting that's presented to us in this debuting / premier episode anyways.
Doing the CGI for this episode and I assume the rest of the series / show / season is Crafty Apes , The Third Floor , Trixter and the greats and the legends over at Weta Digital. In terms of what I thought about the CGI in this episode in all honesty the CGI that's in this episode really did blow me away simply because the CGI effects in this episode looked like that they belonged in a feature length film and not on a weekly TV show that's being made for a streaming service I only hope that this high level of CGI effects continues in this show show.
SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now there is one name that I chose not to credit for starring in this episode simply because i wasn't quite sure if it was a spoiler or not and so I thought that I best play it safe credit this person in the spoiler section of this because yes also returning from the Marvel Cinematic Universe films is the great and super talented Don Cheadle as James Rhodes. I'm honestly not quite sure as to why they included Don Cheadle since it really doesn't make any kind of sense in the scene that he appears in but at the same it was still pretty freaking cool to see the character again in my opinion.
Please note I do not consider the images that I used when crediting some of this episodes cast as that images doesn't spoil anything from this episodes plot hence why there is no spoiler section at the start of this post. We do get to see what Sam Wilson's family life is like and that was perhaps the least interesting aspect of this particular episode for me personally just because it doesn't really tell us that much about Sam Wilson nor does it teach us / give us anything new about the character of Sam Wilson either in my opinion which is a shame because Sam Wilsons family does seem pretty interesting like for example his sister Sarah states that in the five years that Sam Wilson disappeared she had to not only raise to kids by her self but also look after the family business and as such she's become almost unable to accept help from others which honestly makes her a really interesting character in my humble and honest opinion.
Now even tho Sam's family life was the least interesting part of this episode for me personally what I found to be the most interesting part of this particular episode was Bucky going to therapy. I found that Bucky going to therapy to be more interesting because to me it showed that even tho Bucky physical injuries have healed up he still suffering mentally from his time as The Winter Solider so much so that he I guess you could say either gets revenge on are get's payback on people that he helped while he was The Winter Soldier and hell we even get a kind if sad ending or possibly even shocking ending to Bucky's scenes in this episode when it turns out that one of his many innocent victims was the grandson of an old man that Bucky has not only been spending alot of time with but has also befriended and that made the Bucky scenes in this episode really interesting for me personally in my humble and honest opinion.
I honestly do hope that we get to see Bucky continue to go to therapy simply because it's a great way for us to connect with the character of Bucky Barnes on a whole different level. Since this is setting that we simply haven't been given the chance to see Bucky in and so it makes it interesting to see how Bucky would go about things in a therapists office much like how seeing Sam Wilson spending time with his family is a setting that we haven't seen the character of Sam Wilson in before now and heck before this show we never even knew that Sam Wilson even had a family but at the same time I would fully understand if after the second or even third episode of this if we never saw the therapist or the therapists office again or if we never saw Sam Wilsons family again since I do believe that this show is meant to be taking the characters to several countries and as such both the show really wouldn't have a way of keeping both the therapist and Sam Wilson's family around but I could very well be wrong but that's just what I think anyways.
SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like I said at the start of this post this show could have used a bit more marketing just because there really was nothing for this show being released when Marvel Studios was all that everyone / anyone could talk about. As such I don't really think that people are that hyped for this show heck I don't even think that alot people even know about this show which is a huge shame because this first episode is in all honesty pretty or even really good in my opinion.
This particular episode has a total running time of forty seven minuets and fifteen seconds which I feel was a bit on the long side for this particular episode. Just because outside of the scenes with Bucky there was not alot that was in my opinion all that interesting but at the same time the episode had or does have more then enough story in this episode to cover that amount of running time in my humble and honest opinion.
Now then boys and girls this is an action show and there is some action in this episode which means that I have to talk about the action that's the actual episode itself and in my opinion the action that's in this particular episode is really good. There's technically two action scenes in this episode and in my opinion both of this episodes action scenes are really well done and both of this episodes action scenes are really fun to watch in my opinion.
Overall I will fully admit to being a little bit let down by this episode just because the first episode of Wandavision was so good but at the same time this episode is also enjoyable to watch as well and I can see myself watching every episode of this particular show. Now then since this is post is only my first impressions of the show but know that I have talked about both the good and the bad things that I found with this particular episode in this post and since this is only my first impressions of the show I won't be giving this show a rating just because it's only the first episode and as such it wouldn't be fair of me to judge an entire show just based of the first episode alone. As for where I got the images that I used in this post well I got all the images that I used in this post from either the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page or Google Images with my preferred website to use for images from this show being the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page just due to the fact that alot of the images on the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page are really high quality as well as really high definition in my opinion.