Captain America: Civil War

[janne_d]

Saw the latest Marvel offering last night, and I feel a mighty need to ramble about many things. This is not a review so much as me working out various ideas as I think through them but

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[janne_d]

I... don't think Steve had the right perspective, and I absolutely didn't mean to imply that he is impartial. He has a different perspective on the Accords than Tony does, and I think their motivations are both very in character given their recent experiences. The film did do a very good job of making it difficult to be fully on either side of the argument! Annoyingly, since Steve is the Avenger of my heart... Most of my musings about Steve's reaction are me trying to think into his perspective, largely because the Team Tony response is easier for me to understand and agree with.

Though I'd like to make a distinction with this:
in the end his decisions seemed largely based on what is happening to Bucky
I would say his decisions about how he personally was going to act once the frame up occurs are clearly about Bucky and then trying to stop Zemo. But all of that occurs after he has already decided not to sign the Accords, and in my view has nothing to do with the issue of the Accords other than it limiting Steve's options and putting some rather large obstacles in his way. Which is the point you made about the final fight being personal - once Zemo is in the driving seat the plot stopped being about the Accords at all other than them being the reason why the Avengers are at odds instead of working together.