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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 8238522" data-attributes="member: 40176">We had two somewhat re-imagined versions of characters in this episode, first Zemo and then Sharon.I felt like Baron Zemo was slightly the more realistic. His portrayal in Civil War never hinted at any significant degree of wealth, nor any particularly strong expertise on Hydra aside from his general espionage background having given him sufficient context to better understand the information on them that Black Widow had dumped to the internet. But this version of him doesn't straight-up contradict anything in the movie, and it does make him a more enjoyable character in the antihero role.Sharon, on the other hand, I find harder to believe ending up as a cynical criminal, for one reason. While I can buy that Sam didn't get around to calling her at any time since Civil War, no way do I buy that Steve Rogers left her to take the fall. He respected her as a colleague, cared for her as a relative of Peggy Carter, and there was the beginning of a romance between them. There's just no way he'd have gotten all his superpowered allies from those events back to safety and freedom without doing his utmost to do the same for her.That said, if we assume that those efforts all failed, this is an interesting development for the character. And yes, I'd bet that either she is the Power Broker, or she's on track to take over that role by the end of the series.</blockquote>