I'm guessing Steve and Natasha are wandering around eastern Europe fighting Hydra and looking for Bucky, i.e., Steve gets the worst/best Christmas present ever. Otherwise, he should have been on that plane with the POTUS, right? Unless SHIELD and the US govt are in a pissing match over jurisdiction or something, which is also entirely possible.
But why the people kept at it when they saw it blowing up other soldiers, and how many of them were really on board with Killian and what he told them they were doing, and that the Vice President was really willing to assassinate the President because his young relative was in a wheelchair . . . it does end up sending a "ANYTHING but being disabled!!" message, and that is not cool.
Yeah, I don't really get this? My understanding, on reading reviews after seeing it, was that the soldiers blowing up were mistakes, and Killian was spinning them as terrorist attacks in order to somehow get the govt to buy his (seriously faulty) product to fight it. I'm not sure why the disabled soldiers were going for it, without some explanation as to how they wanted to go back to serving their country or something. I don't think they were being blamed, but I also don't know how much they knew about what was actually happening, so maybe they thought they were just in another version of a supersoldier program? Which would have tied in nicely to the rest of the universe, and then it would just be the people closest to Killian who knew the real deal - the one Happy trails (no pun intended), the scarred lady in Tennessee, the woman in the sweatshop who captures Rhodey. The rest were just dupes.
Otoh, superhero stories are always FULL of endless henchmen for canon fodder and I have never understood that. Who signs up to work for AIM or the Joker or whoever? YOU KNOW THAT NEVER ENDS WELL.
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Date: 2013-05-06 01:55 pm (UTC)But why the people kept at it when they saw it blowing up other soldiers, and how many of them were really on board with Killian and what he told them they were doing, and that the Vice President was really willing to assassinate the President because his young relative was in a wheelchair . . . it does end up sending a "ANYTHING but being disabled!!" message, and that is not cool.
Yeah, I don't really get this? My understanding, on reading reviews after seeing it, was that the soldiers blowing up were mistakes, and Killian was spinning them as terrorist attacks in order to somehow get the govt to buy his (seriously faulty) product to fight it. I'm not sure why the disabled soldiers were going for it, without some explanation as to how they wanted to go back to serving their country or something. I don't think they were being blamed, but I also don't know how much they knew about what was actually happening, so maybe they thought they were just in another version of a supersoldier program? Which would have tied in nicely to the rest of the universe, and then it would just be the people closest to Killian who knew the real deal - the one Happy trails (no pun intended), the scarred lady in Tennessee, the woman in the sweatshop who captures Rhodey. The rest were just dupes.
Otoh, superhero stories are always FULL of endless henchmen for canon fodder and I have never understood that. Who signs up to work for AIM or the Joker or whoever? YOU KNOW THAT NEVER ENDS WELL.