Sam and Bucky finally team up as we break down all the big moments in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Episode 2, “The Star-Spangled Man.” With John Walker officially named the new Captain America, our heroes head off in pursuit of The Flag Smashers, only to get their butts handed to them, even with a team-up with Walker and his own sidekick, Battlestar. Meanwhile, a side trip reveals how the legacy of the shield is more complicated than he originally thought.



Whether you’re wondering who is Isaiah Bradley in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, whether that was really Sara Haines, all about Cle Bennett who plays Lamar Hoskins a.k.a. Battlestar to the identity of The Power Broker, we break down all the Falcon and the Winter Soldier Easter eggs and Marvel Comics origins.



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Full Episode Transcript



Alex:                 Welcome to MarvelVision, a podcast about Marvel the MCU and Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I’m Alex.



Justin:              I’m Justin.



Pete:                I’m Pete.



Alex:                 We’re going to be talking about the second episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Star-Spangled Man. This is a big one.



Pete:                Fake Cap.



Alex:                 Lots of stuff goes down in this episode.



Justin:              Huge episode.



Alex:                 So many things happen. More bank loans. More dates for Bucky. That’s pretty much it.



Pete:                What?



Alex:                 No. I was-



Justin:              I mean, yeah. The show pivoted. I think some criticism of the show is like “What is this? This is like the first act of a movie, not even. It’s like the first 20 minutes where you don’t know much about anything,” and I think this episode took that criticism and just crushed it.



Pete:                Shoved it up their ass.



Alex:                 It’s great that they pivoted so quickly, because as we know, these shows are broadcast live. So they probably took the criticism from the first episode, thought about it over the week.



Justin:              Re-shot the whole thing.



Alex:                 Friday night when they were putting the sketches together, they were like “Okay. We got to do this stuff.” Lorne came out and was like “This is what Bucky should do this week,” and then here we go.



Pete:                Wait. What was that? What are you doing?



Alex:                 That was a very bad Lorne Michaels impression.



Pete:                Well, that was awful. I don’t know what-



Alex:                 It was terrible.



Pete:                Just don’t-



Justin:              I think they said-



Pete:                Maybe don’t-



Justin:              … “Live from Atlanta, this is Falcon and Winter Soldier.”



Pete:                You sounded like Mer-Man from He-Man. It was like you were like …



Alex:                 Is that what he sounds like? “[inaudible 00:01:29] the ocean.”



Justin:              Pete, you know that-



Alex:                 He sounds like Buffalo Bill?



Justin:              You know that Alex did the voice of Mer-Man?



Alex:                 Yeah.



Pete:                Yeah. Yeah.



Justin:              In the original He-Man cartoon.



Alex:                 There you go. I did actually all the voices. Anyway, we’re going to be talking about this episode. If you haven’t watched it, go and watch it, because we’re going to jump right into spoilers and Easter eggs and, as usual on this podcast, go way all over the place jumping with stuff, but so many things happened in this episode, as we were saying, as opposed to the first episode, which was a lot of setup and diving into the psychology of where Sam and Bucky are now.



Pete:                The way you’re saying it made it sound like it’s bad though. It was still very enjoyable.



Alex:                 Yea