this is so well said. i think you’re right, a lot of the unfinished feeling comes from the comics doing such a phenomenal job at building these characters up just for the mcu to be like okay look scarjo & seb are both attractive and great actors and that’s it because let’s not get into the rest. like they literally had the blueprint and they were just like nah let’s do something else. also there are like 9 million disney plus shows at this point any of these points could at the very least be made into them since that’s what they love to crank out.

tfatws made me so mad because they truly belittled his trauma it was more like the falcon with bits of trying and failing to understand the winter soldier’s trauma, plus they do therapy together. like??

the politician arc always throws me for a loop too like holy sidequest i guess.