Yeah, putting on my Serious Hat for a minute, I feel like the MCU in general has this problem where they try to have it both ways and do this "we totally care about the issues!" soft-pedaled version of real-life issues, but this means they have to take a position on things, which runs headlong into Marvel/Disney wanting the MCU to be Happy Escapist Family Entertainment for the maximum number of people, which means they can't really criticize e.g. the military and so forth. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and I guess it's good that they try at least SOME of the time, but I felt that tension pretty strongly in this show.
(I also think the comics got away with having a wider variety of viewpoints and more directly taking on some of these issues because a) they were more niche to begin with, and b) there was so much more variety in creative teams and less top-down control - and Marvel comics were pretty top-down! This is my biggest problem with the entire MCU being all one universe and Feige running it as such a tight ship. With the comics, if something ended up slipping under the radar that TPTB hated, they could just kind of write it out of continuity and/or pretend it didn't exist.)
Getting back to TFATWS, I actually did really like that they were presenting these issues without a clear right answer and with well-intentioned people on both sides. I liked that the characters in general weren't good and evil caricatures. It's just too bad that the show didn't seem to understand some of its own implications sometimes.
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(I also think the comics got away with having a wider variety of viewpoints and more directly taking on some of these issues because a) they were more niche to begin with, and b) there was so much more variety in creative teams and less top-down control - and Marvel comics were pretty top-down! This is my biggest problem with the entire MCU being all one universe and Feige running it as such a tight ship. With the comics, if something ended up slipping under the radar that TPTB hated, they could just kind of write it out of continuity and/or pretend it didn't exist.)
Getting back to TFATWS, I actually did really like that they were presenting these issues without a clear right answer and with well-intentioned people on both sides. I liked that the characters in general weren't good and evil caricatures. It's just too bad that the show didn't seem to understand some of its own implications sometimes.