My SPOILER FILLED First Impressions Of The Falcon And The Winter Soldier

 

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.

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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.

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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.

Wandavision SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review

 

Ladies and gentlemen it's been a really long time since i've sat down and reviewed a full series of a TV show so long infact that I cannot tell you what the last TV show I reviewed. However with a certain TV show that took the internet and the Disney+ servers by storm you just know that I had produce a review of this certain show and yes there will be spoilers so you have been warned and so join me as I review the 2021 Marvel and Disney that is airing / streaming on Disney+ with the show itself being called simply "Wandavision" enjoy.

Now I really do wish that I could tell you what the plot of this show is but the show is so strange and so bizarre that it makes it hard to tell what the plot of the show even is. Which I guess adds to the re-watch ability and I guess that's of the many reasons as to why people kept on tuning in to watch this show just so they could figure what the plot of the show even is and while it's great to keep your audience guessing as to what's going you also need to have a story which from what I can tell is the one thing that this show doesn't have which is a shame because this show is so good and this show is well written in my opinion but it would have helped the show quite alot if the show was telling a story instead of having a bunch random things happen for no reason for the majority of the show and then have the final three episodes packed full of story but that's just what I think tho.

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Starring in this show / series is Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany as Vision / Spectral Vision. Also starring in this show / series is Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau / Geraldine , Randall Park as Jimmy Woo , Evan Peters as Ralph Bohner/ Pietro Maximoff , Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon Davis/ Mrs. Hart , Fred Melamed as Todd Davis/ Arthur Hart , Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis , Julian Hilliard as Billy Maximoff , Jett Klyne as Tommy Maximoff Josh Stamberg as Director Tyler Hayward and Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness / Agnes.

The acting in the show is one of the many things that this show got praise and it's not hard to see why at all. Since the acting in this show is so freaking good with all of the actors in this show delivering good performances and heck I wouldn't be surprised if alot of the actors that appear in this show get nominated for Emmy awards because that's how good the acting in this show truly freaking is in my opinion and yes I might be talking about the acting of Elizabeth Olsen and possibly Paul Bettany and Kathryn Hahn again later on in this review but we'll see tho we'll see.

The CGI in this show was provided / done by Capital T , Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies , RISE Visual Effects Studios and Rodeo FX. There's rather shockingly not that much CGI in this episode in fact there's only a small handful of episodes in which there is some sort of CGI present which is a shame because the CGI effects that are in this show are honestly really good and while the CGI effects in this show aren't movie quality for a TV show that's on a TV show budget the CGI effects in this show turned out alot better then they really should have done in my opinion. 

There was really no way in hell that I could talk about this show and not talk about the big reveal of Agatha Harkness / Agnes being the closest thing to a main villain in this show because in my opinion the reveal itself was so well done. It helps that the makers of this show of this show also gave Agatha Harkness / Agnes the best and most catchy song in this entire show it helps that Agatha's song was written by the writers of Let It Go those writers being Kristen Anderson-Lopez and her husband and her writing partner Robert Lopez and I have to say with the song "Agatha All Along" Kristen Anderson-Lopez and her husband and her writing partner Robert Lopez have created another ear worm of a song and I should know because i've had "Agatha All Along" stuck in my head for weeks and everytime I think it's gone for good it comes right back and even stronger then before.

I'm  not going to lie I really loved Agatha Harkness / Agnes in this show since the character goes from being super sweet and pretty funny to being cold , calculated and pretty scary all in the space of one single episode. I honestly feel that the character of Agatha Harkness / Agnes was so well written in this series and that makes her reveal even more shocking because up until the end of episode seven Agatha / Agnes is written as this kind and caring character but from the end of episode onwards you see that she's actually a pretty and calculating person who is willing to kill her own mother just to get whatever it is that she wants and I feel that actress Kathryn Hahn pulls of playing both Agatha Harkness and Agnes really well since she makes both characters completely different from each other so much so that I wouldn't blame anyone if they re-watched the show and they still believed that Agnes was innocent because that's how good Kathryn Hahn is at playing both of these characters in my humble and honest opinion.

One of the negative things about this series apart from the fact that there's no plot to the show whatsoever is the fact that Vision rebelling against Wanda and her control over him is forgotten about a few episodes later. I don't know why the makers of this show chose to include this subplot since it goes nowhere which is a shame because it would have added an extra dimension to this character since we've seen Vision getting angry before and so to see that he did angry in this series is both a good and a bad it's a good thing because like I said it adds an extra dimension to this character but it's a bad thing because the makers of this show do nothing with it hell we don't even see Vision and Wanda resolve there difference and as such seeing Vision suddenly arrive to help Wanda out in episode 9 doesn't really work since up until that point we the audience have been led to believe that both Wanda and Vision are about to fight and as such there should have been a scene in either episode eight or episode nine where both Wanda and Vision resolve there differences , doing this would then make Vision coming to Wanda's aid make alot more sense since both Wanda and Vision would have resolved there differences and thus would have become alleys / friends / lovers once again but that's just what I personally think about that subplot tho.

I have to talk about Wanda's suit because hot damn does that suit look good and hot damn does actress Elizabeth Olsen look good and fine as all heck in that suit. I have to admit that during the final battle with Agatha during episode nine and when the suit was starting appear on Wanda I was just say there yelling "Show the suit , show the suit" several times and my god does that suit look yes it's not Wanda / Scarlet Witch's traditional suit but it's as close to that more traditional suit that we're ever going to get under Disney and like I said this Wanda /. Scarlet Witch suit looks really freaking good in my opinion.

All of the early to mid episodes of this show all serve as homages to various different sitcoms / TV show comedies. Which I personally really liked since i'm a fan of sitcoms and of TV show show comedies and heck I even got what the fact that they were spoofing The Munsters theme song and intro when "Agatha All Along" started playing but with that being said I understand where people are coming from when they write this show of as being nothing more then a comedy since based of the shows early episodes that's how it would very much seem to be however at the same time if those same people stuck with the show they'd find that it's more of a  action tragedy instead of a straight up comedy but that's just what I think anyways.

Now then boys and girls since this is a superhero show that means that there's action to be found in this superhero TV show and that means that I have discuss the action that's in the actual show itself and if i'm being honest even tho there really isn't that much action in the show. The action that we do get is really good with perhaps my personal favourite action scene in this entire show is the one between Vision and Spectral Vision just because it just doesn't boil to for can hit for the hardest or who can make the other one stay down it also comes down to can outwit who as well which to me makes the fight between Vision and Spectral Vision really interesting just because it's not somethin that I don't I don't think that we've seen in any of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films or shows before now and that makes the fight between Vision and Spectral Vision stand out just because like I said it's something that we might not have seen before but that's just what I think anyways.

To me this is show is more of an action tragedy then a straight forward comedy since alot of the episodes includes the episodes unique adverts / commercials deal with something to do with Wanda's. Heck even episode eight is entirely dedicated to telling Wanda's past and seeing her past play out is utterly heartbreaking even seeing how she reacts when we find out that Vision had bought Wanda some land in Westview with the sole purpose for them both to build a home and a life together is utterly heartbreaking and this is where Elizabeth Olsen's acting really shines in my opinion since we can see everything that Wanda is feeling and i'm going to be honest I was very close to crying during both episode eight as well as in episode nine just due to how good Elizabeth Olsen was in those emotional moments.

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Overall this was a great first show for Marvel Studios and I think giving side characters TV shows is a great way to tell those characters stories. That being said this isn't a perfect show since i've listed both the good and the bad things that I found while watching all nine episodes of this show and as such this show gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got the images that I used in this review from either Google Images or the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page with my preferred website to get images from this show being the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page just due to how high definition as well as how how quality the images on the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page are.