No, it still seems to be the case. Isaiah isn’t the prototype for Steve, and they’ve done nothing else that would tarnish him as a character.
While I'm pleased that everyone else has quickly forgotten Secret Empire, I never have and I never will.
No, it still seems to be the case. Isaiah isn’t the prototype for Steve, and they’ve done nothing else that would tarnish him as a character.
While I'm pleased that everyone else has quickly forgotten Secret Empire, I never have and I never will.
Personally I’d expect that Ross is a leader of the GRC - it would be interesting if the GRC and the Power Broker are so intimately aligned (of course theyve already done the Hydra infiltrates SHIELD story)
Bingeable formats don’t really drive retention the way a weekly format does. We wouldn’t even be TALKING about WS episodes if we’d all binged it. Gotta keep folks talking.
If they did this, it wouldn't have to be an "infiltrates" story. It can be more a "beware, government can over-reach" as we have seen from Ross previously, and people like Hayward more recently. It is a pretty standard theme.
The problem with making Ross into the Power Broker is that Ross has, to my understanding, always been a patriot (if a misguided, overzealous one). He's not been portrayed as the sort to take his program to create superior military forces out into another country, and then sell those powers. Which is not to say that it cannot be done, but to be cogent, it'd need a lot of explaining. I don't think "the world turned upside down" is in and of itself is sufficient to the task. We shall see.
In the comics, Power Broker is more an icon of corporate malfeasance than government, but they could do something different in the MCU.
There is something about this show that is missing for me. I like it, but I don't love it, and I don't know why.
I mean, it is pretty normal Marvel stuff. WandaVision was a massive departure in style, a great creative effort. Falcon and Winter Soldier is in the style of Civil War. There's plot motion, but not a lot of innovation in the storytelling.
And that's okay. We need some standard material in there too, or else you probably wear out the audience.