![]() The Flag Smashers are gone, Zemo’s back in jail and John Walker is no longer Captain America. If someone were to skip this series and move straight into the next Cap movie, they wouldn’t have missed a beat the last time they saw Sam Wilson, Steve had given him the shield and all it stands for, with Bucky happily supporting this choice. So what if Sam doubted his choice, passed on the shield, got Bucky super pissed off at him, and there was another dude filling the role for a while? The end of The Falcon and Winter Soldier put almost all of the characters back where they were at the end of Endgame, with a little more character development under the hood. Plot-wise not much has changed (with the exception of Sharon Carter). It has always been a curse of transmedia projects that you could never guarantee your audience has seen all the content. The first X-Files film came out in the gap between seasons five and six, but the new episodes couldn’t really acknowledge much had happened in the intervening time as the film was still in theaters and not on home video, meaning there was a significant chunk of the audience who was still out in the cold. Star Trek films always came out after their respective series had ended even though there were still two shows on the air after the end of The Next Generation, we didn’t see any of the DS9 or Voyager characters in a TNG film until 2002’s Nemesis. (The EMH appearing in First Contact doesn’t count, nerds.) FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER SERIES When the Marvel Cinematic Universe first started to emerge, it felt like we were promised something different. ![]() ![]() ![]() The movies would tie into each other, sure, and it was assumed people were going to see each and every one of them in order. It was only when the MCU made its way to television that it really got interesting as a transmedia project. ![]()
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