Honest Trailers Commentary | The Falcon And The Winter Soldier

[@RainaEmms]

My reading on the Isiah Bradley "outing" was that Sam wanted him to reveal himself because he is believed to be dead and Isiah didn't want to "return from the dead". Sam having the exhibit and statue created doesn't reveal that he's still alive so doesn't betray Isiah's wishes.

[@DroopyBDawg]

Wasn’t it more that Isaiah Bradley just didn’t want people to know he’s alive? People would then come to search him out for more blood. The statue and everything in the museum was just to immortalize his legacy since all that he did in the past for good was erased.

[@Cobralalalala]

Exactly.

[@laramineville]

I know it was aaages ago, but I'm pretty sure the animosity towards Bucky stems all the way back to The Winter Soldier, when he nearly killed Cap. And, like, Bucky pretty much caused the Civil War. And before that there was the bombing that killed T'Chaka. Every time Sam trusted Bucky was by Steve's proxy, he was never really given a chance to choose to trust him by his own accord.

[@MahalaniM]

That is exactly why Sam didn't trust/like Bucky. I'm not sure how they missed that. Bucky also tried to kill Sam, you're not going to just get over someone trying to kill you and your friends that easily. Sam was being cordial with Bucky because of Steve, but still didn't really trust him for a while.

[@DikaWolf]

Falcon's suit has missiles, guns and lasers. Did y'all miss all the Redwing scenes where he's clearly shooting people and blowing up helicopters?

[@eileen_a_b]

Not to mention he has shown that he has guns all the way back in Ant-Man.

[@DikaWolf]

@@eileen_a_b Now his Wakanda suit is even more dangerous. If Falcon really wanted he could just treat all fights like a video game, and put his wings and shield around him (like he did when he deflected a crashing helicopter) while controlling the two Redwings to kill or blowup everyone fighting him, but that wouldn't be very fun to watch. 😅

[@KeithFraser82]

"If you can't monetize being an Avenger, do better! Sad!" -Spencer J. Gilbert

[@Animaniac0451]

Bucky didn't throw a pipe through anyone's heart in this series, he threw one through someone's shoulder. Very survivable, if he got immediate medical attention.

[@The_Infamous_Boogyman]

Sam is wearing a gambit headpiece, and a helmet is absolutely needed

[@rockylikm]

Sometimes I feel like y'all miss a LOT of details that answer your own questions. Falcon went to the loan officer with a BUNCH of Gov contracts for upcoming work AND Shield (in this MCU) has been defunct since Winter Soldier.

[@marshsundeen]

Sam gets a Vibranium suit. You know that is high-powered. Sam was able to lift the van with the power jets.

[@veggiewillymass]

Just the wings are vibranium

[@danielhammack8044]

@@veggiewillymass k up

[@matthewhwang9399]

My head canon for the relationship between Bucky and Sam begins with Steve telling them to get along and/or look after each other. After Endgame, they worked together a little and Sam tries out the shield. Then the government contacted Sam and pressured him "a little" to give them the shield. Sam doesn't tell Bucky, but the stress frays their relationship. They split off and then the show happens.

[@EricGarber]

Schrodinger's Cap. He's dead, on the moon, and retired in a cabin at the same time.

[@StarsAndAngels]

so much of the MCU is about Bucky all 3 cap movies were saving Bucky, fighting Bucky, saving Bucky he was a centerpiece

[@BobLHedd]

Isaiah's concern was that he faked his death, so he couldn't afford to be outted as alive. I assumed the museum exhibit was a memorial, and therefore serves both objectives. Although, it wasn't stated as such. That's the world I choose to live in 😁

[@Expropriator91]

I feel Danielle clearly didn’t think much of this show, would have loved to hear more from her

[@jomarch1085]

Sam is out of the AF/off active duty when we meet the character in CA:TWS. He was working full time for the VA. He mentions “the number of people telling him what to do is down to zero.” Also I kinda feel like you guys didn’t care as much to research this one maybe because you didn’t like it? But Sam & Bucky can’t be Riggs/Murtaugh right away because Sam has more experience seeing TWS who ripped off his wings and tried to kill him. Sam’s friendship and loyalty to Steve maybe influenced him to try to see the man Steve knew. But Sam had to realize that on his own terms.

[@cheekyboomboom8973]

41:07 - Asking first is nice but yes, the point was Isaiah didn't want people to know he's alive. At no point was he saying he wanted his life's history to stay hidden or ignored. And no, they couldn't call him up about his exhibit -- he's still presumed dead.

[@georgemckay7795]

The snap messed up SNAP made me laugh way too hard

[@StrayBee]

I didn't care for Sam much before this. But Bucky is easy to care about. A good person who's lived through such trauma just makes you root for his happiness.

[@Nothing_Israel]

It always feels like the fandom people, except for Daniel, are just BARELY fans of the things they talk about. Their reaction to anything that isn’t something they actively hate watch (nick cage movies) is always “meh.”

[@danieloneal7137]

I do think it’s kind of dumb that Sam’s bird costume doesn’t include a helmet. Flying around in his new vibranium suit but all a bad guy would have to do is bop him on the head and he’s done.

[@stephenh.8336]

But he is wearing that neck condom piece, so...

[@ltlbuddha]

It is from the comics.

[@danieloneal7137]

@@ltlbuddha I know. That doesn’t mean it makes sense.

[@jingizu149]

@@danieloneal7137 You are watching a show about a guy who flies around in a bird costume and his self hating bromance and you are worried about it making sense? All jokes aside, you are of course right. Sam is a retired Airforce PJ, they know to wear helmets.

[@BushidoBrownSama]

I agree they should have taken some creative license to make it a helmet

[@LaurenTheorist]

We never got enough Steve and Bucky stuff, especially stuff about Bucky as an individual person, but I always felt for their friendship that lasted through wars and time and horrible events. Comics and fanfiction just added to that.

[@eileen_a_b]

I always attributed the tension in their relationship to the fact that Bucky ripped off one of Falcon's wings and threw him over the edge of a helipad to fall to his death. Can't say that can be easy to move on from and then they keep giving each other a hard time after that. They just haven't spent time together since Bucky goes to Wakanda to recover instead of going on the run with the group. They don't get to really know each other till the show starts and we get to be a fly on the wall as they do.

[@christianrapper]

They have talked since endgame. One of them mentions trying to call the other one. They have each other’s personal contact information and Bucky knows where sam lives. They just aren’t close friends.

[@eileen_a_b]

@@christianrapper well, the doctor/psychiatrist mentioned that Bucky has ignores Sam's attempts to contact him. So that's why I don't think they have really hung out or talked.

[@christianrapper]

@@eileen_a_b I didn’t mean like they were best friends. I meant that they talked occasionally. They know stuff about each other’s personal lives so they had to talk sometimes.

[@devildham]

Why people invested into Bucky when he has had so little screen time? *looks at Boba Fett Gee Spencer........I don't know. It's not like that's EVER happened to a character before 🙄.

[@emilyniedbala]

He definitely did not throw the pipe through that persons heart it was in their shoulder and the difference between Sam and Bucky’s potential kills is that a they always do so in self-defense where is Walker killed someone that was down and surrendering and therefore not a threat

[@benabramowitz18]

Happy 395th Honest Trailer! Can't wait for the 400th episode on June 8th!

[@RyanFilmMaker]

"It's full of missiles" bless you Lon

[@cap.auh3b777]

"Your next Constanza...." I cried laughing

[@wakos2509]

Snap messed up snap was the funniest line from you guys in years. Respect, Danielle!

[@cakefart5]

I like how I watch an law and order clip once and it's forever in my feed. But watch this almost on a weekly basis and always have to search for it after watching the honest trailer.

[@qwertyferix]

TEST YOUR MIGHT! Looking forward to next week. 🐉

[@DanielSolis]

THANK YOU for acknowledging MANTIS.

[@beateasy]

Okay but let's also not forget that part of the reason they can't bring up real-world solutions is that the military has to sign off on their scripts!

[@Doug_Hannon]

What I want Disney+ to do is give us a final season of Agent Carter

[@insertnamehere1867]

I don't think Isaiah didn't want his story out there at all, I think if i remember correctly he didn't want his story shared bc he was worried that that would make people come after him. But it's basically a memorial exhibit and Sam didn't tell anyone he was alive, so that way it's ok. That's how i saw it anyway!

[@CWargh63]

Tony Stark is a normal guy...in a suit of armor...right...oh, to be normal.

[@PhoenixEncore]

He was being paid for his freelance work with the government... He said it during the bank scene... It just wasn't enough.

[@Bad_Wolf_Media]

This series had the same issue in the ending that "Captain America: Civil War" had - they had a great (or a few great) ending beat(s), but they had too much to wrap up and couldn't stop. In "Civil War," the film opened with Sam running and an off-screen voice saying "On your left" and revealed to be Steve. The perfect ending moment was Sam sitting in the hospital, and an off-screen voice saying "On your left" and it's Steve in the hospital bed. Beautiful cinematic symmetry. But then they had to wrap up Nick Fury's story, wrap up the collapse of SHIELD, send Sam and Steve after Bucky, etc. This series had a few good ending moments: Sam landing with Karli's body, or Zemo's butler wasting the last Flag Smashers, but they still had have the big speech, they had to wrap up the Bradley story, they had to (sort of, I guess?) wrap up the family stuff for Sam... There was just a lot of stuff that needed to be done to use a good credit-roll moment.

[@hasibrahman5235]

They had 2 Cap movies dedicated to the Bucky character, but you guys didn’t care. So now what every character in every film needs to be front and centre for you to care.

[@talahar123]

The STARES music is called "great ambitions"

[@jenniferwatkins2663]

I didn't mind the speech because I thought it underscored the point that Sam was the new Captain America not because he had any super-strength (which was what Karla and the Power Broker and false New Cap had been fighting over) but because he had the same kind of moral vision about how the world should be that Cap did and this was his moment to demonstrate that and call everyone higher. Which was at the center of Steve Rogers' arc - how to maintain a moral compass, first through getting super strength (Dr. Erskine telling him to remain a good man because the serum exaggerates people's characters) and then from Winter Soldier on through a much more morally complex world. So the speech fit for me.

[@sneggleblech]

Since you mentioned Jason Alexander: he and Anthony Mackie have the same birthday

[@contyol]

A little tidbits, Barton the first Hawkeye did pass down the name to his daughter, the one you see on thw beginning of Endgame. So people predict the show is about introduction to new Hawkeye and the 'passing of the baton' kind of thing. And I agree about how Marvel just covered up on what's happening with Steve Rogers now, but they did left a little clue in last episode. Someone on GRC member said that he thought Steve is on the moon when Sam said he's the Captain America.

[@KherMoon]

I feel like people feel like Bucky and Sam have a great relationship because of the actors relationship, and the series kind of depends on what the audience build around them, considering they didn't do the job in the movies.

[@ericemanwu]

Regarding Isaiah, he did fake his death, remember? They couldn't contact him for permissions.

[@mzqamarul]

Spencer felt the calling of the dark side and pulled himself out immediately

[@BushidoBrownSama]

One is stern & melancholic the other is a wisecracking fly boy

[@Dolirn]

Somebody is, like, banging on the desk throughout this whole video? Aaaahhhh!

[@spencerhjalseth7288]

Danielle's hair looks pretty damn cool

[@tygressblade]

I loved this series. And AO3 is definitely where all of the good slash is.

[@thomasbennett0]

Team Mysterio in Spiderman Far From Home should have been called 'DC fans talking about or to the people who develops the DCEU'.

[@DarkHarlequin]

Interesting how the Fandom perspective (those growing up with thes comics) differs so much from other people joining the marvel thing with the MCU. Spencer saying "I just wanna see them punch each other and shoot lasers at each other" "It's a power fantasy so I don't want real world issues in there. While me as a fan joining later I love that they try to build a cohesive world with 'real world issues' just based on tehse new fantastic rules. Have tehy figgured it out yet? Nope but I feel they are trying. I personally find the Cptn. Marvel 'he/she is the strongest coolest invincible badass who beats everybody and then we clap' outings to be the most boring by far! 🤔

[@viqneuman.5111]

George Constanza: What if. What if the Character of George Costanza was Baron Zemo. He's rich but he's still cheap. He's going after the people who killed his Fiance.

[@Lyzianthus]

Lon saying: Maybe he's like.. You don't know his rent... Me hearing Lon saying: YOU DON'T KNOW HIS LIFE!!

[@anthonyrygalski6424]

Bringing back Great Ambition for the stares bit *chefs kiss*

[@Spyweb88]

That first question was so TIGHT I'm gonna go service something

[@kingofthesharks]

Funny thing is I was JUST watching Lonely Island videos from the past since I just saw Palm Springs....then this honest trailer parodies the Boat song and was wondering if you guys went thru the same process haha

[@BirthquakeRecords]

Every time you mention M.A.N.T.I.S. is another time I ask for a M.A.N.T.I.S. Honest Trailer

[@mattyt1961]

The reason we don't have a power broker story is that she is a Skrull. The 'real' her is on the ship with Nick Fury and power broker will lead into the secret wars

[@MawileMage]

Oooh. I never considered THAT interpretation, but it sure makes a lot of sense.

[@gregresnik1830]

38:50 Guess Spencer missed the scene of the guy stating that it wasn't him BEFORE Walker slams the shield down on his neck? Walker killed a RANDOM person who he THOUGHT was the person that killed his buddy. Walker didn't have any proof the guy was involved and killed a random person who definitely wasn't the person who killed his buddy since his buddy was killed by Karli, WHICH HE SAW. 41:07 Totally missed how Isaiah's display was a memorial and didn't say he was ALIVE, which is what Isaiah didn't want known. He was proud of the fact that his history was no longer hidden, but nothing in it stated he was still ALIVE.

[@christianrapper]

That guy was partially responsible for his friend’s death. He was holding him while Kari was about to punch him. That’s when his friend jumped in front of him and took the punch that would have killed walker.

[@422katieleigh]

I love the haircut (or man bun?), Lon! You look great.

[@CWargh63]

Sharon Carter and Carol Danvers, the names have the same cadence, they are both blonde love interests of Captain characters from the 1960s, seemingly cloned from Sue Storm. They made Gwen Stacy, with her (ash) blonde (straight) hair stand out like some sort of iconoclast...

[@RealCoolGuy]

Wow...this is the worst review I've seen for this show. I thought everybody loved it. Also, people are fans of these characters from the comics not just the movies. Falcon has been my favourite Marvel character since 1993. Also also, does no one at Screen Junkies understand how the military or government contracting works..? Yous guys should call in a consultant or something before speaking so ignorantly

[@DianaGohan]

Okay the whole "oh both Sam and Bucky are already too similiar" and "there wasn't a buddy copy dynamic so they sort of had to make one up" and the trailer saying "now that sam is the funny one" is stupid and even if you go by honest trailers, the one for Captain America Civil War did call Sam "Cap's black quippy best friend" so yeah Falcon BEFORE this series was like that and you guys are just ignoring or forgetting that for the sake of honestly a bad joke. Not to mention that though there are some groaners (they didn't need to redo the "move the seat up" gag in this show that was perfect already in Civil War) a lot of the quips especially in episode 2 work and are funny.

[@Frir10]

I feel like Bucky had more than 20 minutes of screen time in the MCU so far. I mean, not together with Sam, obviously. But I don't care about Bucky exclusively because of his relationship with Sam Wilson.

[@unvoicedapollo3318]

I myself couldn't help but Isaiah Bradley's wing was tucked away in a dark corner no one would ever visit 🤣

[@Haleyessie]

I mean the narrative also amounts to “this man was abused and has his life ruined by the American government/military and has a very valid opinion about the implications of a Black man being Captain America BUT at least he has a statue in a museum so everything’s ok now!!” Like I’m pleased with the way they dealt with Sam grappling with the legacy of the shield and rejecting Isaiah’s stance in favor of something more optimistic, but they also just completely invalidated Isaiahs experience and it just feels insincere and wayyy too easy.

[@marshsundeen]

@@Haleyessie disagree. It meant that Sam was able to help Isaiah be out in the world without worrying about being arrested again. Teaching people what happened is a part of the Captain America legacy too

[@Haleyessie]

@@marshsundeen I think that’s a valid interpretation... just not how I saw it! :)

[@eileen_a_b]

I don't think the statue fixed everything but I think it touches on something very important which is that educating people on our real history, and not the cherry picked version that has been pushed for decades, is a part of the necessary first steps to begin rectifying and healing. Can't fix a problem if you won't acknowledge and accept there is one to begin with.

[@KeithFraser82]

Next Marvel Disney+ series: French Guy Who Can Kick Real Good: The Series

[@jacobbaranowski]

Happy Star ⭐️ Wars day, May the 4th Be With You

[@nickspanoudakis6776]

he had a new laser on the wings

[@ltlbuddha]

OK, so the Sam's suit comments bug me. Steve Rodgers spent at least part of the first film hiding his non-bullet proof two metre body behind a one metre shield from machine guns and energy weapons. But that was somehow fine? Sam's Falcon costume was less protective, but that was OK why? The Batroc fights also bother me. This is a man who held his own against a super-soldier, so why is it a joke that a non-powered man has his hands full with him?

[@Winterbay]

Getting dadfriended is the worst 😂

[@stephenh.8336]

One of the reasons why I asked the question. It's a real minefield out there

[@Lucky_360]

Sam had guns in previous movies, idk why they took them away

[@KeithFraser82]

Sitcom Goo Battle Robots sounds like the new hit Saturday morning cartoon whose target audience is unclear.

[@hkaayaakuu]

I only came to this commentary after hearing their views on the show on the flash commentary

[@wowrada]

The shield being thrown by a random dude instead of a super soldier makes it totally pointless... Everybody can just catch it.

[@jackdubz4247]

Pointless... That's this show in a nutshell.

[@mikeschummm5814]

I refer to myself in birdperson

[@gregresnik1830]

25:12 It's pretty obvious that none of you have ever discussed salaries with anyone in the military. As an enlisted sailor, I still qualified for food stamps based on my income. Only high ranking officers have salaries in the mid to high 5 digits. The military generally gives you a salary and then room and board or a per-diem for housing (usually near base). Sam would probably have been getting a low salary as part of the military but mostly would have been room and board. If he is working extra-military (as the show implies), he would be responsible for everything and wouldn't be getting a dime from Uncle Sam (as he doesn't seem to be old enough to have retired from the military, and even then he would be getting

[@nomarsenrab]

This is a bit unnecessarily harsh

[@marshsundeen]

The Isaiah Bradley story was very timely being it came out during the Chauvin trial. It resonated quite a bit.

[@marshsundeen]

The suit is straightfrim the comics.

[@KeithFraser82]

Captain America 2.1: He Gets By With A Little Help From His Friends

[@JamesBrophy]

This is so weird. It's kinda like no one was watching the show. Sam works his way through the paradox of the fair use of excessive power, Karli and his conversation aligns really well with his own fears around taking on the mantle. The only thing that doesn't really work for me is that the Power Broker Plot is busted between episodes. If it was in a movie it might have worked as a twist but it took much time and No alternatives to think about made it too easy to figure out and therefore robbed Karli's story of an end point.

[@nickchronis962]

they remembered Barron isnt his first name 😂 all time quote

[@ramblinman07]

Mortal Kombat next week. Also, wish the deleted M.A.N.T.I.S starring made it into the Honest Trailer.

[@rsrocha1984]

The Russos said that Steve lived his life with Peggy in an alternative reality and went back to the main one just to give The shield. Stand to reason that after he went back to the reality where he lived his life.

[@jackdubz4247]

Branching timeline? Yup. It's the ONLY explanation that makes sense.

[@BushidoBrownSama]

It comes down to said terrorist surrendering once cornered & it was on video

[@422katieleigh]

The suit feels very bulky. Like this is a very fit muscular man but it feels like he’s wearing a muscle suit. Like the suit is wearing him rather than him wearing the suit.

[@brithas]

You should do a Honest trailer for the Halloween town movies.

[@abrilryandacanay2816]

The series pretty much is an MCU movie with all the deleted scenes still in it. It could have used some editing by removing some scenes.

[@producerTJeski]

In terms of Sam's finances, he said something about government contracts to the banker and for whatever that wasn't enough. Guess because it's not a steady income. So he's getting at least lump sum payments in some fashion.

[@christianrapper]

The said that he didn’t have income for 5 years because of the blip.

[@heidiwills4259]

Yes, the good fanfiction is on AO3.

[@user-kt4cg2fn7l]

Did y'all see how hard it was to get the COVID checks approved? Y'all really think the government would cut the Avengers a check?

[@lightscamerakami927]

I’m not saying that people were really invested in Bucky even before TFATWS because he’s hot but it’s definitely not not because he’s hot

[@shabrinaz9877]

Screen Junkies team are so old. They didnt know the hype of Sebastian Stan within college girls. Not to mention the hype of STACKIE over the years!

[@caitlinelric]

Yay! Work friends! My only friends now that I’m in my 30s!

[@thomasbennett0]

Is the rename inspired by Sky High and Legends of Tomorrow.

[@AbjectPermanence]

Sam's new costume should have had a cowl more like the Captain America costumes we've seen in the movies. It should have been blue. I know the Falcon has a costume with a lot of white in the comics, and that's why Sam's Captain America costume has so much white, but it's so weird here. Ironically, it's *too* white. The Falcon in the MCU doesn't even dress much like the comics version, so the design of that white cowl mask kind of comes out of nowhere.

[@hkaayaakuu]

32:05 he had guns remember

[@ambriaashley3383]

Danielle!!! 😍

[@tankgunner9860]

Mortal kombat next week!

[@kameronrichardson4339]

This is so overly cynical, it's becoming hard to watch. Also they try so hard to over analyze that they miss things the show clearly answers.