DAMN THOUGH can we have a moment of appreciation for how different Bucky’s fighting style is compared to WS??
Credit for this absolutely goes to Sebastian Stan’s character work. In Civil War when Bucky is in a fight/in danger he’s literally so expressive, compared to the Dead Eyed Murder Glare™ we’re accustomed to from the Winter Soldier.
Like REALLY:
And it’s such a neat thing because Civil War Bucky is still super competent, he’s got the WS’s skills, but he’s also FREAKING THE HELL OUT HE DIDN’T ASK FOR ANY OF THIS
HE JUST WANTED TO BUY SOME PLUMS FFS
these wide-eyed OH FUCK facial expressions are like half the reason why the GET REKT jokes are so freaking funny, because it’s so different from how the Winter Soldier would’ve acted [[*analyzes a meme*]]
But this is IMPORTANT because one of the things I was so relieved about from this movie was that it emphasized the separation between the Winter Soldier persona and Bucky’s ACTUAL PERSONALITY when he’s not being mind-controlled and forced to kill people.
Yeah, I have my gripes/nitpicks about the movie, lots of us do – but on this particular point I’m SO pleased with the respect that was shown for Bucky’s character. Most of the fans take it for granted that ~Bucky Barnes Is Not A Villian 2k14~, but he could have been written off that way!!! Even just by making less of a distinction between the Bucky that was controlled by Hydra and one who has his own internal life & personality.
I think we should appreciate the fact that the characterization we got could not have happened without collaboration from the creatives in charge: clear direction from the Russos, the writers using a strong narrative device like Bucky being programmed by trigger words, and of course Sebastian Stan acting his face off and totally changing his body language depending on which version he was portraying.
Sebastian Stan proved his acting mettle when he stole CA: Winter Soldier with only a handful of spoken lines and only his eyes visible for like half the damn movie. In CA: CW, though, he takes it to a whole new level. The whole time, he’s viscerally aware of what Bucky’s state of mind would be. He showed us, with his face and eyes and body, whether he was Bucky or the Winter Soldier.
“The 15 craziest star trek fan theories” my fucking arse these are mostly canon and/or in the EU oooo wooow the klingons experimented with genetic mutation and that’s why the TOS ones don’t have cranial ridges? Have you ever fucking well seen Enterprise you idiots they dedicated half a damned season to this.
If you’re gonna play with the big boys, bring your fucking big boy panties, you twats.
It’s pissing me off because they’re outright ignoring some genuine killer theories. Like Seven being groomed to be a queen (or even the queen being what was left of her biological mother), or everything after Demon being set on the Demon Duplicate ship and not the original Voyager or Garak being Section 31, or that Bashir’s genetic enhancements were entirely unnecessary since his Mirror-verse counterpart never had them and was perfectly functional so his parents essentially destroyed their own child due to paranoia and fear, or the fact that the numerical sequence Data utters in Brothers to release his control on the bridge is different to the one that he used to lock it so the rest of the season is a hallucination brought on by his positronic brain breaking down under the guilt of essentially murdering Willie Potts or the Federation inadvertedly starting the Temporal Cold War, or even the goddamn translation and usage of t’hy’la FFS
My fave Star Trek theory will always be that Star Wars exists in the Trek universe as a Cardassian repetitive epic
OMG that is so perfect I think I just peed a little. The Never Ending Fuckup.
“In the end, Vader has lost his wife, his family, his happiness, his very body and soul in servitude of the state. To the Cardassians, this is a happy ending.”
which starts getting really interesting when you consider the events of A New Hope through to RotJ and into Force Awakens, and then compare these to the actions of the Cardassian Liberation Front after Dukat took power as a Dominion puppet. If you distilled the story lines, I can see it being a HUGE hit after the Dominion war
There was a part in the video about how the Empire was built on magic sand because of the Emperor and Vader’s Force use, and that they should have killed themselves like proper Cardassians to allow the true Cardassian hero Tarkin to rule, but alas they were no better than Bajorans in the end…
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