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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[emeraldsword]

Yes, I think that's what I meant. I didn't mean to accuse you of being too much of a Steve fan! I basically feel the same - that the Accords are necessary because everyone needs to be accountable in some way, but in the battle I was really rooting for Steve because OMG they can't take Bucky! Whereas logically I should be hoping that Tony's legal eagles would take down Steve's vigilante posse.

I kind of agree and kind of don't about the manhunt. Several years had passed and although they did seem to be looking for Bucky, they weren't hunting him at the 'SWAT team through the door in 2 minutes, shoot to kill' way until Zemo framed him for them bombing. I think Bucky could and would have been able to keep running for years, and it didn't sound as though he was killing a swathe through Europe or anything like that. So although I think that they would have kept looking, I think that without Zemo turning him into public enemy number 1, they might not have looked too hard, and/or, they might have let Steve look (ok, he's compromised as anything, but...)

I did love that bit! Also the 'in that really old movie, 'The Empire Strikes Back' *dies*

[janne_d]

Oh, I meant if Zemo went with the same plan of framing Bucky the manhunt would have gone down the same way even without the Accords. (I really should start putting all the words I'm thinking into sentences.)

It threw me a bit in the film that the Winter Soldier being Bucky Barnes and Steve's old friend was apparently public knowledge, just being mentioned in passing in the news. I guess I've read so many fics where the reveal of that is a big deal, it was weird to have it not be! It is an interesting question, how much effort the authorities were putting in to finding Bucky before the UN attack - maybe the hunt was more intense just after Hydra was revealed and then as time went on and Bucky didn't cut that swathe it got mostly put on a backburner or left to the Avengers.