One of the rare bonding opportunities between me and my daughter is watching the Marvel movies and series together (she's 12 so I take what I can get). But if it hadn't been for her, I'd have stopped watching this after the first two or three episodes.

The socio-political racial inequality browbeating just became unbearable. The writers have carefully crafted into the storyline that the audience is supposed to take the same journey of "realization" as the Falcon character. His original reasons for not wanting to take on the Captain America mantle have nothing to do with injustice; he just feels as though the original Captain America shield belongs with its original bearer and that he is not that character. But as the story progresses, he is being told that the shield embodies social injustice and that he is not meant to have it because he's black.

So now we are expected to apologize for not understanding the "woke" reason Falcon did not want to take the shield, just as Bucky did toward the close of the next to last episode.

Are the writers going to make Falcon a super soldier or are we expected to believe he's just superhuman out of the box?...cue scene from "The Winter Soldier" where Steve Rogers is running laps near the Lincoln Memorial and Falcon can't match him. I had no problem with Falcon taking the Captain's shield but now I do since it's become a soapbox for politics. The Captain and the colors of his uniform embodied our Nation's sense of pride and victory in WWII and Falcon could have done that as well, but that storyline doesn't fit the progressive mold.