Screenshot: Marvel Studios Okay, so The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is over now. And it did some things well, and it tried to do some things well, and it did certain things terribly while wholeheartedly believing that it did them well. This is the nature of the Beast—the “beast” in this case being the MCU and pretty much every other franchise owned by a megacorp like Disney. But now that it’s over, I have a bone to pick with James Buchanan Barnes, and everybody’s gonna hear about it. Some spoilers ahead. I was hoping that this particular issue would actually get addressed by the end of the show, but the final episode came and went, and nothing happened, so here I am about to complain to you that Bucky Barnes is a terrible date. And I expect a fair share of eyerolls, and a lot of “who cares?” or “obviously”s issued in response to that, and that’s where you’re wrong. Because this is a thing in television, and it’s pretty dangerous to perpetuate without thinking about how it comes off to your audience.