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On a special preview episode of our Marvel podcast, we’re breaking down everything we know about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. With Bucky and Sam both having possible claims of Captain America’s shield, are we heading for a showdown? How do Baron Zemo and Batroc play into this? And will the show attempt to tackle the classic Marvel series “Truth”? All this and much more as we get prepped for Marvel Studios’ follow-up to WandaVision.

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Full Episode Transcript

Alex: What is up, everybody. Welcome to MarvelVision, a podcast about Marvel, the MCU. And coming up, the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, not one but two of them. I’m Alex.

Justin: I’m Justin.

Pete: I’m Pete.

Alex: And we are doing here a preview episode for the Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Now we have been doing this Marvel podcast throughout the run of Wanda Vision. It’s been very fun talking to you all, getting your theories either on our Patreon Slack, patreon.com/comicbookclub, or socially at MarvelVisionPod.

Alex: But we’re moving on to the next series. We’re going right into it. This is a slam bang action spectacular, where the last one was a sitcom puzzle box, I guess we can call it.

Justin: Ooo, okay.

Alex: How does that work?

Justin: I like it, it’s good.

Alex: But I’m excited to chat about this. I’m excited about this, not least of which because this was supposed to be the first series out of the gate. They were supposed to release Falcon and the Winter Soldier, then they switched it up and went for Wanda Vision first. That obviously enormous hit, I think way beyond their expectations.

Justin: Yeah.

Alex: But interestingly, and I’m curious to get your guys’ take on it, I think this has set up very different expectations for Falcon and the Winter Soldier. What’s your guys’ take?

Justin: Well, I do think it made so much sense to put Falcon and the Winter Soldier first, because it was going to be just the most seamless tonally into Marvel movie on television.

Pete: Right. Yeah, exactly.

Justin: And Wanda Vision would have been a great like, oh, you like what we did Falcon Winter Soldier with all these fights and fun stuff.

Pete: This is different.

Justin: But this is a little different. So that got upset, and the order was swapped. But it actually works this way too, because the way Wanda Vision ended was with sort of the big Marvel movie action that you might expect, with just some great emotional moments. So now we’re just picking up on the Marvel movie action beat and just giving you sort of a much more fun, guns, punches, talking shit.

Pete: Are you sure though, Justin?

Justin: Well, pretty sure. I’m pretty sure.

Pete: I don’t know, man, what if people are like I miss the weird, quirky, I don’t know what’s happening. I’m trying to shoe horn in my philosophies from comic books onto the show, and it may or may not pay off.

Justin: Wait, are you saying that maybe grief is just a buddy comedy persevering? Is that what you think?

Pete: That’s right.

Alex: What if each episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier is a pastiche of all the action shows? So like the first episode is Gun Smoke? And then the next episode is A-Team.

Justin: Oh, yeah.

Pete: Come on, dude, yes A-Team, just stop there. That’s where it peaked.

Alex: Oh, that’s it?

Pete: That’s it.

Alex: Can’t get any better than that? Miami Vice, there’s a Miami Vice episode.

Pete: Aw man, that would be crazy.

Justin: Magnum PI.

Alex: Now let’s talk about the actual contents of the show before we get too far into it though.

Justin: Air Wolf.

Alex: I’m sure everybody is familiar, this is picking up on the end of Avengers Endgame. It was actually supposed to come out I believe in August, right after that.

Pete: Yeah, what happened?

Alex: I don’t know. I haven’t heard any news on it.

Justin: Don’t tell him. We’ve lasted a whole year without tellin...