THE FANDOM ZONE 211: "The Star-Spangled Man" Is Up!

 
"Doctor Strange..."
"Is a sorcerer."
"A sorcerer is a wizard without a hat.  Think about it, right?  I’m right.  I just came up with that. It’s crazy.  But look, that’s not the point.  These guys aren’t magic, alright?  They use brute force, just like you, the incredibly annoying guy in front of me with the staring problem."
-- Sam Wilson and James "Bucky" Barnes, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: "The Star-Spangled Man"

Hello again, everyone!  It's time for another new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast!  This time, my co-host DJ Nik and I discuss "The Star-Spangled Man", the second episode of the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, featuring Anthony Mackie as The Falcon/Sam Wilson, Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier/James "Bucky" Barnes, Wyatt Russell as Captain America/John Walker, and Clé Bennett as Battlestar/Lemar Hoskins!

In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like celebrating Passover and Easter, people not just fighting on the ground anymore, the drumline playing a rendition of "Star Spangled Man" from Captain America: The First Avenger, Americans making showmanship a big deal, some comics background on Battlestar, Dwayne McDuffie pointing out to Captain America comics writer Mark Gruenwald that Bucky is a racist derogatory term for African-American men, some comics background on Isaiah Bradley, the real-life Tuskegee Experiment study that observed untreated syphilis in African-American men after being told they were receiving free health care from the United States government, some comics background on Patriot and more Young Avengers setup for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ABC's Good Morning America appearing in the episode, the Power Broker, finally seeing Sam and Bucky together as a buddy-cop TV show, why Steve Rogers would've probably read The Hobbit in 1937 instead of Bucky, Bucky calling out Sam for betraying Steve's legacy as Captain America while he actually feels like Sam is betraying him instead, Bucky taking Sam to meet Isaiah Bradley, the Baltimore cops profiling Sam for Walking While Black until they realize he's the Falcon, Dr. Raynor forcing Sam and Bucky to sit down for a therapy, Bucky worrying that Steve was wrong about him, wondering why Bucky would go to see Baron Helmut Zemo again considering Zemo previously mind-controlled him, John Walker's debut as Captain America, the decision to make the MCU version of John Walker more likeable, Sam and Bucky having zero time for the new Captain America and Battlestar, my theory that John will hand over the mantle of Captain America to Sam and John will become the USAgent, the greatness of Carl Lumbly as Isaiah Bradley, wondering who was texting Karli Morgenthal, the Flag-Smashers not being your typical evil terrorists, my plea to Sebastian Stan to send Nik an autographed photo, our favorite quotes of the episode, Batwoman recasting Wallis Day as Kate Kane, new Fandom Zone Fanmail from Holly Mac and Dave Proctor, Dave calling out Jesse Jackson for not writing in, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week for Episode 212 as DJ Nik and I discuss the third episode of the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, right here on The Fandom Zone Podcast!