With Falcon and Winter Soldier, one of my biggest gripes so far has been what appears to most like some shoddy editing in the series, messing pretty greatly with the flow at times, when there has in fact clearly been a completely removed storyline within the series if you look a bit closer. New Rockstars, a youtube channel who puts out some of my favorite Easter Egg videos on each episode, has also picked up on this too and talked about it. They've noted the clues to this in multiple videos of theirs, and they say they are going to eventually put out an entire video dedicated to this missing storyline.
Anyway, what I'm referring to is clearly a missing storyline about some type of pandemic disease, likely removed due to it being too similar to the current COVID-19 crisis we've been going through. Some of the hints have been the vaccines in the trucks all the characters fought on top of a few episodes back, as well as anything related to the weirdly edited Mama Donya stuff. For example, there was the weird scene Karli goes to visit her in the hospital, as well as the weirdly edited off camera description by Nagel of her having Tuberculosis. I mean, do we really buy the fact that she contracted Tuberculosis in an overcrowded refugee camp?? Seems weird, and why would Karli call back to the person she just stole a bunch of serum from to see if he could help with Tuberculosis??? None of that stuff makes even remote sense. I mean, who even is this lady? She clearly is important to these people, but there are major gaping holes in her backstory.
With all that said, I'm just guessing this missing storyline likely has been removed due to being too similar to COVID-19, but it is also possible they ran into issues due to the pandemic with schedules and shooting in order to include it. It could be some of both. Also, while we've known all these MCU series will be fairly short on episodes, I'd be curious to know if this particular series was always intended to be only 6 episodes. Perhaps this missing storyline forced the series to remove an episode or two when it was all completely removed. I'm sure time will turn up more clues, and I'm curious to see what New Rockstars digs up. Regardless, I'm sure I'm not the only one on here who feels like something has clearly been missing so far in this series and clearly messing with the flow, even if you haven't been able to put your finger on it.
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