In this week's episode, titled 'The Star-Spangled Man', John Walker is taking over for Steve Rogers as Captain America and is adjusting to what that role means for America. In the meantime, Sam is continuing to try and take down the Flag Smashers, now with Bucky in tow. But these Smashers are not typical human, but an army of super soldiers, something that Bucky is very familiar with. Walker tries to join in the fight, but Sam and Bucky want nothing to do with him.
Bucky is having a hard time seeing someone else yield the shield. Sam doesn't like it either, but he understand that he made a choice and he has to live with the consequences. Captain America, Walker, seems like he would fit the bill on the surface. He seems like a carbon copy of Steve Rogers, but it's not until we get towards the end of the show that we see a darker side of Walker.
We get to see more of the Flag Smashers in this show and see why they are doing what they are doing. In their opinion, the government forgot all the people that survived the Blip and are too focused on the people that are coming back from the Blip. Not surprising. It's one of those situations where you are stuck between a rock and a hard place and something was going to push back.
Sam and Bucky have their first therapy session (of what I am sure will be many) as Bucky admits to Sam that he is angry about the shield because if 'Steve was wrong about giving Sam the shield, then maybe he was wrong about Bucky'. It doesn't take a psychologist to figure out that Steve's opinion of Bucky is everything to his mental health and the reason why he probably is trying to stay on the right side of the law is because Steve believed in him when no one else did. Even after he learned about what the Winter Soldier did.
It is hard to see someone using the shield that is not Chris Evans's version of Captain America. I feel like we are mix of Sam's and Bucky's feelings towards Walker. At the beginning of the show, you will feel bad for Walker because he was thrown into the situation and is just trying to do his best even though he knows he won't measure up to Steve. But there are some points where I think that his pride is going to take over his decisions (something that Rogers never did) and that is something that made the OG Captain America what he was.
This show has a bit of a 'sophomore slump' in regards to information. The only real interesting piece of information that we get from the show is that there was another super soldier built at the same time as Bucky and no one knew about it (except for Bucky). He didn't tell Steve because he knew Isaiah (the super soldier) didn't want to be in this situation. Sam of course is upset that Bucky is keeping secrets from Steve. I think at some point, they will have to stop defending Steve's honor with these little things and start fighting for their own.
What did you think of the episode?
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