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Post by Admin on Mar 20, 2021 17:01:57 GMT -6
Can I say right now that I want to just feed that therapist the clipboard notebook in large chunks after soundly bludgeoning her about the head and shoulders with it.
When she throws that "I was a good soldier" line at him, my brain snarked back "And you are a cracking damned lousy therapist."
And I want to drop that obsequious loan offer into Lake Pontchartrain with a three piece cement suit.
And the new Captain America.. the chinless wonder. OMG!!! I hope that look was make up and a too tight chin strap.
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Post by vitugglan on Mar 21, 2021 15:01:52 GMT -6
I barely got a good look at the guy and the husband was in control of the clicker. I didn't like the vibe I got with the announcement and then the reveal.
The therapist bugged the heck out of me. I don't care what kind of soldier she was, she isn't a soldier now and her job is to remain dispassionate. She seems to think/know Bucky has to be there so she casually wields that power. She's... oh, what? An Amanda Waller disciple? I know AW is DC but they do seem to borrow back and forth from one another.
The loan officer had a point. No collateral and no job for the last five years. It would have helped if he'd said the bank refuses loans to anyone who just came back until they can get settled again, but that wouldn't have served the narrative purpose. My first thought was, who can Sam call to expedite a loan? He is/was in the service. He knows the value of networking. He has contacts. He should use them.
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Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2021 13:37:40 GMT -6
Oh, she definitely knows that Bucky has to be there and can't storm out on her. Pretty sure he wouldn't get thirty feet down the sidewalk before being boxed in by black SUVs with very dark windows, tasered unconscious to wake up in a Very Secure cell a hundred feet below the Pentagon and with only one arm. Never to be seen or heard from again.
Part of me is also thinking that, if she was a soldier, she was probably Army Intel.
If Sam Wilson and his sister had been white, Sam being known as an Avenger would have had Mr Bootlicker moving heaven, earth and everything in between to drag the mountain to Mohammad and get them the money to save their business. Sad but so very true (and Disney nailed that with an impact nail gun).
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Post by vitugglan on Mar 23, 2021 5:15:20 GMT -6
I don't know about Louisiana, but most places would bend over backwards for an Avenger, even a green one should Gamora bop in for a quick loan. Their business is to make money for their bank. Having an Avenger, any Avenger, as a satisfied customer would be more than one fancy peacock feather in their cap. Denying an Avenger, any Avenger, makes them look bad. Really bad in the case of Sam in these days of racial tension. They could probably deflect by saying the sister, who the loan is actually for, made some bad business decisions during the Snap, thereby losing a lot of money to the point where she may have to sell important business machinery (the boat). They didn't. It's odd to me that they seem to have only been looking at Sam's credit history and not his sister's as well.
Vaguely related: when I was in the army (in intel, btw, and I could absolutely see DeeAnna, one of the other types in my class, acting as insufferable as that therapist, though I suspect Ms 'I was a soldier' was always a therapist, so medical field) and stationed at Ft. Campbell, I was going through a divorce and looking for furnishings. I went to buy a bedroom suite at a local dealer. The cretin who served me kept saying they didn't sell to just the woman because they had too many returns because 'hubby didn't like the set'. I told Jack Butt that I was getting divorced and stifled that line of talk, but it still rankles. Like women can't think for themselves and need a man to tell them what furniture they should want in their own house.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2021 10:52:37 GMT -6
Yes, Louisiana is very racist. And, New Orleans has the worst reputation for that in the State. And, Avenger or not, Gamora would have been turned down, too But, her public reason would have been because she did not reside there. Because, I think this was a "mom and pop" bank, meaning it wasn't part of some state or nationwide chain.
Because, I think they already had her credit history because she used their family home as collateral for the first loan. Sam was aiming to consolidate the loans to not only give her more time, but to keep the bank from going after her alleging she's behind on payments and taking the house and the business. Theoretically, this would have possibly lowered the monthly payments (maybe even the interest rate) and give her a bit of breathing room.
And that could have been refuted by stating that it was the Snap that so seriously impacted the business as (probably) half of her customer base literally vanished into thin air along with half of her product (sea life).
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Post by vitugglan on Mar 27, 2021 8:14:49 GMT -6
True about her defense. Very true, and I'll bet the bank also suffered the same way - outstanding loans by people who were snapped away, businesses that went under because the owner or many employees disappeared, etc. I still think they're padding things in the show. One of the articles you posted even alluded to that when interviewing the head writing honcho. He stated that he has what amounts to an agenda, and there are times in an otherwise entertaining show where it blatantly comes across. Best thing to do, IMO, after watching plenty of shows and ads and movies, is just to treat things as-is instead of making a spot-lit performance for 'the cause'.
OMG, talking about entertaining! Our new CPT America - we got his brief introduction, dressed up in uniform, in the locker room, doubting himself... The husband's reaction! His hair's too long, it's over his collar. His sideburns are out of regulations. His hair on top is too long. My husband has been in some form of military or mil-adjacent organizations since he was in middle school, and he sees and speaks to military people on a near-daily basis. If you get anything wrong about the military he'll call it out. He was very vocal about the new Cap and his side-kick, whose hair was also out of regs.
I am glad, though, that we're getting some nuance with this new guy and his partner. It adds dimension to their interactions with Our Boys. We also got a back-story, briefly, from the interviewer as he re-visits his old High School. I liked that. I still don't like the guy but at least they didn't pick an actor who 'din do nuffin' other than being a pretty boy. This guy's legitimately a hero.
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2021 0:20:55 GMT -6
I don't think New Cap or Battlestar are actually still in the military. And, its kinda embarrassing pitiful sad (yeah, that'll work!) that the current US government hasn't the wit to do more than have an imitation Cap and Falcon (even though their imitation Falcon has no wings).
Some of what I'm taking from this episode is that Bucky isn't walking around with Swiss Cheese memory. From the looks of it, his treatment in Wakanda integrated the memories of his time under Hydra's control and his own when he was doing his own thinking during those years. Or, he got his hands on all that data Romanov dumped online about Hydra, SHIELD and various other dark underbellies of alphabet soup government groups over the decades from the bowels of the dark corners of the interwebs.
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Post by vitugglan on Mar 30, 2021 13:32:17 GMT -6
What I got from the Isaiah part of the episode is that Bucky was active more than a handful of years. Clearly he was in Korea, I'm taking it this was during the Korean War. That makes Isaiah pretty old. My FiL was in during Korea as a young man and he died at a respectable age, early eighties IIRC. If they weren't in the military, why were they in uniform? Wrong uniform for these days, they have the desert cammo now, and they're transitioning from the blue dress uniforms to the 'brown and pink' of the WWII era for class-As. They were still in uniform with all the bells and whistles - name tags, patches, rank - that at leas when I was in, you didn't leave on to wear once you were out. OF course, few people in H'wood know anything about the military these days, and it really shows.
ETChange Elijah to Isaiah.
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2021 16:24:46 GMT -6
From what I gather, New Cap and Battlestar (because I cannot for the life of me remember the character's name) were in the military. But they aren't at the moment. Granted, I've only watched the two episodes once (we've had our Roku dingle hopper at least two years and it may be reaching its end of functional life on us now) and could have missed something. If they joined right out of high school (or even were part of the ROTC program during high school) they could have easily gotten their 20 years of service in and still be young enough to do this at the "ripe old age" of 38. And, since this is takes place no later then 2024 they would have seen actual combat and gotten sand in their boots no later than 2004.
Actually, more movie and TV shows work with the military than folks realize. But, it might also be to the military advantage for those faux pas to be in there.
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Post by vitugglan on Mar 31, 2021 5:26:24 GMT -6
Watch a few military shows with the husband and you'll see all sorts of glaring (to him) mis-steps. The mil guys are probably off lounging around with the movie stars, not the writers, IMO. Oy! Just had a thought - some of the misplaced insignia or insignia you wouldn't see mixed with other insignia - maybe that's how these actors get away with looking military without breaking protocol or law. I'll have to run that one by the husband next time he says that insignia shouldn't go there or this insignia wouldn't be worn with that medal. The hair, though... you'd think they'd have wigs that are within regs for actors portraying service members. They're Hollywood. They have all the stuff. Even if they had their 20 years in, making them in their late 30s, they still wouldn't by law be able to wear their uniforms with all the patches as civilians, at least not as of the time I was in (got out in '90). Okay, checked with Army regs. Isn't the internet great? A retired person could wear the uniform and insignia when they're instructors or responsible for military discipline at an educational institution conducting classes approved by the military (like, I suppose, a high school ROTC program) but not if the program isn't approved. There's a list of places and events where the uniform may be worn - things like parades where regular army is taking part, military funerals, etc., but on no other occasion. They can travel to or from said events in uniform if that travel takes place on the same day as the event. Link: armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30302-AR_670-1-000-WEB-1.pdf Section 23-3 on page 64 of 76. Former military, that is, vets who weren't in 20+ and so haven't retired: section 23-4. We're more restricted than retirees, we don't get to wear the uniform when instructing or responsible for military discipline see second sentence here. We just get ceremonial occasions in ceremonial places. In no case should someone wearing the uniform bring any sort of discredit to the military institution, in this case, the army. DA Pam = Department of the Army Pamphlet, in case you wondered. All references to regs in that pdf such as "paragraph 3-7c" are clickable so you can read the reference, but the pamphlets aren't. |
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