#292: Lara, Josué, and Link talk about The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’s first few episodes, particularly about Bucky’s therapist. We wonder if HIPAA survived the blip, and if the therapist’s questionable methods are working in context.
Transcript
Josué Cardona 0:07
Welcome to gt radio on the Geek Therapy network here at Geek Therapy. We believe that the best way to understand each other and ourselves through the media we care about, my name is Josué Cardona. And I’m joined by Link Keller,
Link Keller 0:17
what’s up gamers?
Josué Cardona 0:21
And Lara Taylor.
Lara Taylor 0:23
Hi,
Josué Cardona 0:25
it’s fine You don’t need you don’t need a catchphrase. Okay. You don’t need one
Lara Taylor 0:30
Link’s changes every week. It’s okay.
Josué Cardona 0:32
I don’t think so. I think that’s it. That’s the new catchphrase. Yeah,
Link Keller 0:36
I’m gonna zag on you. Keep y’all on your toes.
Josué Cardona 0:39
Oh, okay. All right. So this week, it’s Lara’s turn. So Lara, what are we talking about?
Lara Taylor 0:46
We’re talking about the Falcon and the winter soldier. Cuz that’s what is going on right now. In my life. Wow. That is, yep. It’s interesting. Everyone was so hyped for wandavision. And I do see a lot of chatter about Falcon and Winter Soldier right now. Mostly in our Facebook group. And a little bit on the discord. wandavision was more. I don’t know. There was a lot to unpack. But I’ve seen a lot of conversation, especially about the therapist on falcon and Winter Soldier?
Josué Cardona 1:26
Yeah, yeah.
Lara Taylor 1:28
Yeah. I don’t know how I feel about her. I don’t.
Josué Cardona 1:32
Oh, what does that mean? Like, what are you?
Lara Taylor 1:36
Like? Well, one, I like the actress but two, um, she’s she does some unethical stuff. But apparently it’s working. I don’t know. Is it working though? No, I don’t know.
Josué Cardona 1:48
Why, what is unethical?
Lara Taylor 1:51
Oh, let’s see. Let’s see. I don’t know a lot of people are upset in the first episode, she like uses her notebook as a and her writing things down because Bucky is going to court mandated therapy as part of his release, so she like threatens to write his resistance to treatment down to like, threaten him to comply with treatment. Like, oh, I’m gonna report you and I know, therapists that do that, but not in that flunky of a way, like clicking the pin and all of that. And apparently, that sets him off. And then in the second episode, she just straight up walks into like the waiting room at a jail and announces that she’s bucky’s therapist, and then says, Sam, you’re coming with me. And we’re gonna make this like couples therapy. Link’s face is priceless.
Josué Cardona 2:48
That one I understand. Yeah, that one. That one.
Lara Taylor 2:50
That one is that one really, really got me?
Josué Cardona 2:53
Yeah. What’s it there’s no HIPAA in MCU.
Lara Taylor 2:57
But it doesn’t HIPAA doesn’t matter. Even before HIPAA, we had confidentiality and privacy rules.
Josué Cardona 3:04
Yeah, yeah.
Link Keller 3:07
Also just like general ethical respect for other people’s human lives.
Josué Cardona 3:14
Yeah, yeah. Part of me wants to make a joke about not just normalizing therapy like that’s just normal in the MCU. Like, that’s just what happens like you and your therapist. just have it out in public.
Lara Taylor 3:28
you have it out in Public, but like, you know, you’re sometimes friend current, like, frienemy, right? Like they aren’t getting along. He can just get sucked into therapy without his consent. Like, literally, Sam didn’t want to go and she’s like, no, that’s, that’s not an option. You have to come. And he’s not even like the way they’re working the show. Right now. Bucky and Sam are outside of the military. Like she has no authority over this guy.
Josué Cardona 3:59
I don’t see him like Sam getting dragged in as like, therapy.
Lara Taylor 4:07
They literally sat in a soul gazing exercise, like a couple in the therapy room. Link, you have to watch the clip.
Link Keller 4:15
I guess I got I gotta watch this. Yes, I have no I have not seen these episodes yet. I was honestly I was waiting to hear from you guys. If it was, like wandavision worth giving some of my time to. Sounds like that’s gonna make me really mad. But
Lara Taylor 4:32
it might be but they’re all they’re addressing a lot of things. Yeah. Obviously I am not a person of color in this country right now. But they are also addressing being a veteran being a veteran of color. There’s a racial profiling scene. There’s dealings with the police in the military, it is all kinds of things, all kinds of things.
Josué Cardona 4:57
But this, this show, I if you like the MCU you got to watch it. It’s more MCU it’s not like the one it’s not like wandavision that was weird shit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Link Keller 5:10
i want weird shit.
Josué Cardona 5:11
I know. That’s the thing. So like, it’s hard for me to like, yeah, like, I don’t know, like, like, my mom was like, oh, is wandavision finally done? I want to watch it all, you know at one time like yeah, Mom, it’s done. And she was like I did not. I did not enjoy that. I don’t know if I’m gonna keep watching. I was like, Mom, it’s fine. Go watch falcon and Winter Soldier. It’ll give you your action, then you know, your MCU what you expect from the MCU I gave her the like, you gotta watch four episodes, you know, for the exposition thing in wandavision, and she’s like, Nah, I don’t got time for that. I’m old.
Lara Taylor 5:44
but really? It’s only two episodes when you count like the wandavision episodes are only half an hour. So I still
Josué Cardona 5:51
still still
Link Keller 5:54
but have to watch all eight minutes of credits. Otherwise you might miss something.
Lara Taylor 5:58
Yeah, spoiler alert. You don’t miss anything. Unless you skip the credits in the last couple of episodes.
Josué Cardona 6:05
I am Yeah, I mean, at least my mom watched all 21,000 movies you have to watch before
Lara Taylor 6:12
she’s gonna love Winter Soldier, Falcon and Winter Soldier. It’s gonna be great.
Josué Cardona 6:17
Oh, yeah, this is much more her thing. Yeah, so I don’t know if I would recommend Falcon, Falcon and Winter Soldier Link,
Lara Taylor 6:26
unless you want to watch a sam and Bucky? in there. I’ve seen a lot of talk in the queer community about it being very queer baity.
Link Keller 6:36
Do they smooch?
Lara Taylor 6:37
I haven’t seen smooches yet but they smash each other and in an action thing and then roll in a field and fall on top of each other Ala Attack of the Clones.
Link Keller 6:51
okay. alright.
Josué Cardona 6:52
Look after after. After listening to the queer comics podcast on the Geek Therapy network. I I I see subtext everywhere. I see queer subtext ever. I there’s nothing. Yeah. So is I see it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lara Taylor 7:10
And I’ve heard I have read. I can’t remember the name of the character. But Bucky, the MCU. Bucky. his backstory is based on a character in the in Marvel Comics, who is gay, who is and that’s the childhood best friend. Like the whole thing other than the name for Bucky Barnes is,
Josué Cardona 7:35
is not the bucky barnes from the comics?
Lara Taylor 7:38
not from t...
