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 Okay, let's try this again. This is your friendly neighborhood Ticketmaster, back after a bit of spur-of-the-moment commentary to again wish you a happy National Film Score Day (on the correct date this time). It has only been an hour at the time of this writing since I last posted, but said commentary post hasn't gone over well yet. Perhaps I cursed too much therein, or perhaps social media is feeding me to its SEO-powered cancelling machines for even talking about a certain topic that shall not be named here, or perhaps people just didn't find it as interesting as the rest of my  Streaming Saturday  content. Whatever the case, you're here for some actual Falcon & the Winter Soldier  content, so remember to like and comment below (on this post, too, not just the social media stuff--for those of you on Facebook, you know what my participation traffic for Blogger  really  looks like) because every little click and word helps. Oh, and another SPOILER War...

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...