Mallory Rubin

Big time.

But yeah.

And so the fact that this thing that he like has come to really resent, you know, he has these powers, but they weren't enough to save his love.

And so he doesn't want to use them at all.

He doesn't want to help people anymore.

It just brings him despair.

That's the thing that's going to maybe spare these other guys from their feet.

Those are really thematically rich strands of the story that I agree.

I wish we had spent like a little bit more time there.

The thing about the flashback that I think is just difficult in 2026, like modern superhero TV movie life to not do when you're watching it.

It's like, I'm like, you can't not think about like Bucky and-

Just the similarities of the, like, you were a POW, we took you, we experimented on you, we turned you into this thing.

And so then, like, I don't know.

I think most of the show felt so completely and utterly unique that the parts on the origin story beat that feel a little bit more reminiscent of another thing.

It's so hard to resist the pull.

But I feel like most of the times when somebody resists the pull, it works out.

You know?

We know with Spider-Man.

I mean, even in Homecoming, we never, you know, we get the illusions to it.

Like when you can do what I can and you don't and the bad things happen, they happen because of you.