Captain Ameria: The Winter Soldier

[bluflamingo]

Because I went to see it after work tonight, and it really upset me - crying for forty-five minutes straight upset, which is way out of the ordinary for me and an action movie.

Cos, I mean, it's a great movie. I love Sam the Falcon, I love Natasha and her sense of humour and desire to set Steve up with someone. I even loved Steve, who I'm not a huge fan of. When the police car hit Fury, I actually jumped - totally didn't see it coming. I'm so thrilled that he lived, and I loved the hints of his relationship with Natasha. I loved Natasha sneaking in as someone else, I loved Hill getting them free, I loved that it was funny, I loved the strike team at the beginning (though less so when they turned out to be bad guys) and I loved the real SHIELD agents standing up at the end.

But... the whole thing with SHIELD being infiltrated by Hydra, and Sitwell being Hydra (where the hell did that come from?! I was so sure it was going to turn out he was a double-agent for SHIELD and not really dead) makes me really sad and I don't quite get why. Maybe because I read a lot of fic where SHIELD was the first safe place for people like Natasha and Clint and now it's all gone - I mean, Natasha basically said that. Maybe because I can't figure out how Agents of SHIELD works in line with what just happened, and what happens to all the SHIELD agents who weren't Hydra.

But yeah - talk to me about it if you've seen it, before I have to explain to my work colleagues why I'm so upset over a movie.

Comments

[blackeyedgirl]

‎Yeah, I'm not sure how I felt about the ending. Like you, loved Falcon, loved Natasha, Steve&Natasha, Fury, Hill. But it made me sad, and not in the way that Cap 1 made me sad (I do also love Steve...) because at least Cap 1 - pre credit tag - ends on that moment of hope, the war ending, Steve's legacy even in 'death'. 
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I think... I'm fine with dystopia in fiction, and I've loved plenty of canon where the authorities were the bad guys, so I don't exactly know why it upset me so much that they basically decided to blow SHIELD up in all ways. I think maybe it felt particularly hopeless, saying that there is no way at all to recover, that the only way to progress was to go it alone. And I come from West Wing, you know, I'd like to believe that it is possible occasionally for groups of people to come together and build something good, or make something good from an organisation with limitations. Howard and Peggy's legacy? ‎But SHIELD - this vast global force - there weren't enough good people there to salvage it? Even outside the Washington HQ, what about all those field offices?  I liked the stand they made, listening to Steve, but the first image of a SHIELD team fighting back against Hydra was of them being mowed down :(
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And, yes, I want to know how SHIELD the show works now (on UK pace, nobody spoil me!) and I wish Sitwell wasn't Hydra, and I wish the resolution had a moment of hope for humanity as a whole. If that makes any sense at all. Anyway, you're not alone.‎

[bluflamingo]

I've been thinking about it, and I've decided that Natasha and Fury and presumably the good SHIELD agents and the AoS people and Hill go off and create SHIELD version 2, which is shiny and wonderful and takes all the good parts of Peggy and the others' legacy and builds something better. But they had to blow up the old version completely first, so they could start again from a good place, and without the possibility of Hydra still lurking within, or the memory of the bad stuff that happened.

That's my head canon, and no-one can tell me different!

Plus, I mean, they must have known they were doing this when they started AoS, and it doesn't seem like they intend it to be one season only, so they must have a plan for what happens next to them, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to put SHIELD right there in the name if it's all going to fall apart in season 2.

Well, that, and in my head, I'm plotting out the story of how Natasha and Clint team up with Steve and Sam post-movie and they go off and rescue Bucky and it's all warm team fuzzies, so that's making me feel better about life (and reminding myself that Sitwell joined in with the senator's creepy remarks about the woman he was going to sleep with, because that makes me feel better about Sitwell being a bad guy).