Hubby read a story from a Reddit page to me -with the exact explanation (Nick Spencer is a Hydra agent determined to destroy Cap's reputation). The redditor used the idea to reassure his five-year-old nephew, who was in unstoppable tears, that the boy's hero was NOT a Hydra agent, NOT a bad man, NOT a villain.
The... person... who... dragged... that... dross.. into... print... (not to be confused with ANY definition of the word 'writer') should have KNOWN that fans of Captain America range from toddler age up to senior citizens. I honestly wonder whether the originator /enjoys/ traumatizing the defenseless, because otherwise there's no reason to portray Steve Rogers as a true-believer Hydra agent. Note that I have argued elsewhere that the differences between Hydra's and Shield's tactics are the stuff of theoretical hair-splitting; for all practical purposes, the /behavior/ is the same. The ideology, /especially/ in 1930's USA is very, very different. Flaws in our own history were events to be /ashamed of/, not taken as permission to REPEAT the behavior!
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Date: 2016-05-31 05:28 am (UTC)The... person... who... dragged... that... dross.. into... print... (not to be confused with ANY definition of the word 'writer') should have KNOWN that fans of Captain America range from toddler age up to senior citizens. I honestly wonder whether the originator /enjoys/ traumatizing the defenseless, because otherwise there's no reason to portray Steve Rogers as a true-believer Hydra agent. Note that I have argued elsewhere that the differences between Hydra's and Shield's tactics are the stuff of theoretical hair-splitting; for all practical purposes, the /behavior/ is the same. The ideology, /especially/ in 1930's USA is very, very different. Flaws in our own history were events to be /ashamed of/, not taken as permission to REPEAT the behavior!