Welcome to Season 9, where we are apparently committed to spending the better part of a year dissecting a movie about a man who missed the invention of Thai food and considers "the internet's great" to be a complete emotional journey.
This week, Matthew, Pete, Kyle, and Rob crack open Captain America: The Winter Soldier at the very beginning — the MCU comics logo, the sunrise jog around the National Mall reflecting pool, and the world's most wholesome meet-cute between two soldiers who both definitely have their lives together and are absolutely fine. Steve Rogers is running laps, lapping a stranger, and dropping "on your left" — a throwaway joke that will eventually do more emotional heavy lifting than most full films are capable of. No pressure, little line. No pressure at all.
Steve's catch-up list gets its full autopsy here, and Kyle — bless him — shows up armed with international variants. Turns out Marvel quietly customized the list for UK, Australian, Russian, and South Korean audiences, swapping in Sean Connery, AC/DC, Soviet Union dissolution, and Oldboy respectively, because nothing says "you missed a lot" quite like recommending a Park Chan-wook psychological horror film to a traumatized 1940s supersoldier. Thai food, meanwhile, appears on every single list worldwide, which either says something profound about the universality of pad thai or means that someone in Marvel's localization department really, really needed lunch that day. The guys also dive into the Trouble Man soundtrack, Natasha's suspiciously well-timed matchmaking, the Corvette's DC license plate (possibly a Russian ham radio code, possibly a rental, definitely Black Widow), and the introduction of Batroc the Leaper — a man whose entire superpower is that he never skips leg day.
By minute five we've got a mission briefing, a mobile satellite launch platform, the first rumblings of Cap's distrust of Nick Fury's information diet, the MCU debuts of both Brock Rumlow and Jasper Sitwell, and a running scorecard for every time Natasha tries to set Steve up with someone — which Matthew correctly identifies as potentially a spy tactic and not just casual wingman energy. It's a lot of movie in five minutes, is what we're saying. Season 9 is going to be just fine.
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