[CaptainCrunch]

I somehow get the sense that at the end of this year, the big bad is going to be Captain America. The opening scene after the friendly commercial, we see Captain (Jack) smashing in and taking a very what seemed to be brutal approach in dealing with and rounding up the people in the shop. He's taking on a whatever it takes no matter how many lines it crosses and working hard to follow orders unlike the Original Captain.


As well the day and age of the 14 year old friendly fight scenes is over as the fight scenes and especially Sharon Carter were on the side of brutal, with callous head shots, knifings and execution, they haven't quite crossed the line to spurting arteries, but there was a brutal simplicity to it that I like.


I love the Zemo portrayal in this episode, originally he was like a slightly more dangerous Leo Getz from Lethal weapon that was a foil to Sam and Bucky, but they flipped a switch on him later in the episode and you realize that there's a nasty edge to him.


Overall, its interesting as you watch this episode because they're almost working hard on the idea of government bad and evil, our main characters are working outside of that sphere. But in the end we got symbolism of almost like ICE door smashing with New Cap leading the way.



Its an interesting story, but the whole super solider serum and the rebels are a smoke screen, the big bad is going to come out of left field at some point as Sam and Bucky become too dangerous to the powers that be to be left alive.