Just the Ticket

You know, androids, aliens, and wizards? It also helps to have a plan, partnership, and patriotism; just don't tell that to our two leads.... Hello, Ticketholders, and welcome back to Streaming Saturday ! The second episode of Falcon & the Winter Soldier (titled "The Star-Spangled Man"--appropriately without a plan) dropped yesterday on Disney+ , so if you care about SPOILERS!, go and watch it before you continue reading, and remember to like and comment below. There wasn't much in terms of real story beats in this one, as the majority of the runtime focused on witty banter and impressive-looking action scenes, so I'll take a more critical view this time around. The main point of contention with characters and viewers alike continues to be Wyatt Russell as John Walker (a.k.a. U.S. Agent, a.k.a. "your new Captain America"). Part of this comes from pre-existing fan knowledge of the comic book version of the character, and part comes

Welcome, back! (He said as much to himself as to his audience) Another Streaming Saturday is upon us, as is a new MCU/Disney+ series in The Falcon & the Winter Soldier.  As with WandaVision before it, FWS will be dropping new episodes every Friday at midnight, so if you haven't seen it yet, go see it before you start reading what follows, because a SPOILER Warning! is now in effect. The pilot (shame and props to Marvel Studios for not making an Air Force pun here) is instead titled "New World Order," and follows the events of Endgame , with Sam Wilson (the titular Falcon, played by Anthony Mackie) packing up his idol's star-spangled vibranium pizza tray to return it to the government so they can retire it to the Smithsonian. We then cut to a...subsequent? Previous? Future?...mission of his in a fictional county next door to Libya. I forget the name of it, but it's one of those countries that Marvel came up with so they wouldn't have to explain to the cens

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Ticketholders! If you read my last issue of Anime-BAWklog , you know about how I ruined all of my own plans by being a scholastically responsible, emotionally fragile, and mostly unnecessary crybaby about the non-existent feelings of modern computers and the non-existent attention spans of modern humans, so let's not revisit that or pay any attention to the fact that I just revisited that. Okay? Okay. Instead, I'd appreciate it if you all liked and commented on this post, the previous post I linked to above, and these two previous entries in my coverage of WandaVision: Stay Tuned #11: Juan Division   (Disney+ First Impressions and In Defense of  WandaVision ) Streaming Saturday #12: WandaVision Episode 4 (Re-branding, 3-Episode Recap, and Episode 4) Before I cover the final five episodes of WandaVision , a SPOILER Warning! is in effect for those of you who haven't seen them yet or been bombarded by speculators and media coverage. "On A Ve

 So, I screwed up the whole "300th Post Celebration" thing by scheduling some of my posts for future dates. I announced on Facebook  that the occasion was coming up, and received a non-reception for it that brought memories of a certain post of mine  to bear on my soul. After giving my Facebook community a piece of my mind, I stopped blogging in mostly unnoticed protest and shifted focus back to college and WattPad , letting the Anime-BAWklog  pile up and not keeping up with Streaming Saturday as I had planned to do before Search Engine Optimization and human attention spans did me dirty. Meanwhile, my future-scheduled posts brought the issue count to 300 without me realizing it, rendering my childish self-boycotting moot. Wonderful, isn't it? But like a landscaper spray-painting the visiting team's logo onto a football field, I digress. I also apologize because that was the stretchiest, most groan-worthy grass-dying pun in history (and probably the only such pun in