musicalluna:sevensneakyfoxes:Weirdly, despite all the horrible shit that went down with Natasha, thi
musicalluna:sevensneakyfoxes:Weirdly, despite all the horrible shit that went down with Natasha, this felt like the most out of character line for me in the entire movie.Listen, I don’t doubt for a second that Steve feels disconnected from the world and that all the things he thought he was building his life around are gone, but I think Joss was trying too hard to build Steve as this soldier without a war shit (please see dream sequence).1. I really don’t see Steve as the kind of guy who was like, I WANT A PICKET FENCE AND A FAMILY AND A DOG AND STABILITY. Please remember that this was a dude who actively wanted to go to war, was always getting into fights, was always challenging the status quo. While I am sure that he wanted a life with Peggy, I also see him as the kind of guy who has always seen family as the kind he chooses, rather than the one he’s born to or the kind he marries or gives birth to. The Commandos are his family. Peggy is is family. Bucky is his family. Sam is his family. Nat is his family.2. I don’t really see him as wanting to give up the things that made life important to him before the deep freeze, despite this SOMEONE ELSE CAME OUT nonsense. I’m sure that Joss is playing at the HE FEELS LIKE A MAN OUT OF TIME HE MUST BE SO DISCONNECTED FROM THE WORLD AND NOT KNOW HOW TO BUILD PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE, but I think Cap 2 did a good job of showing how that isn’t true. There are parts of the world that he finds alienating, but you see a man also trying to absorb all these new things. He reaches out and finds the people that are important to him, that while he can’t jump back in and follow orders, he’s trying to find his place. I think there are times where he expresses that SHIELD might not be right for him, but I don’t think it was because he didn’t want to fight, just that he wanted to feel like he was doing something good with his life.To me, that doesn’t speak of someone who isn’t looking for stability or family. I just… I guess I don’t buy this idea that Steve has turned into a soldier that isn’t looking for the human connections he was in CA:TFA. Or even TWS. I think AOU was trying to establish this idea that Steve doesn’t want to settle down…but… WHEN WAS HE FUCKING EVER?!personally, i feel like this is similar to how it’s common for tony’s dickhead playboy persona to take over his actual character and how steve tends to get flattened down to Good Man True Patriot. i think steve probably thinks what he wants is a family and a picket fence and normalcy, but like you said, what actually matters to him is a found family, a sense of belonging and purpose and that he’s contributing to changing the world.i think being in the future has made him question what’s right and that’s making it difficult for him to find his feet. because the one thing steve has always had is his sense of moral purpose and now he’s not really sure what’s Right.i mean, i think he genuinely wants stability, he just has no idea what stability means for himself.but yeah regardless i think the way joss did it was a poor way of handling steve’s sense of disconnect/unhappiness. he loves to use dramatic lines that are pretty meaningless or nonsensical if you look too closely. like, there’s nothing to support his feeling of wanting family or feeling “home” at the end of aou, unlike cap 2, where it’s established that he feels out of place (isolated) without him ever saying anything as absurdly melodramatic as this -- source link