and i hate this anti intellectual culture where you’re never allowed to admit that you know more about a topic or have more sophisticated taste than anyone else, in case you hurt their feelings. if you want to be a tastemaker in any art form you have to learn the history of it 🤷♀️
no bucky dying in combat or sacrificing himself is #not a good ending for his character. you don’t get to play the self-sacrificial card and call it good writing. not with him. he has literally spent most of his life having no sense of self. for decades he couldn’t make+
if you asked a production company in 2026 to make a 22 episodes per season, 40 minute show starting an ensemble cast of women with season-long overarching mystery plots they'd take you out back and shoot you in the head