Tag: captain america

pilot-star:

I was reading this fic, where there’s a scene where Sam teaches Bucky to cook, and for some reason I seriously thought he was just forgoing the spatula for his hand.  It makes sense, if you think about it. 

Also, I really like fics where Bucky is kind of weird and robotty, and doesn’t really know how to function like a human being. 

madlori:

exfatalist:

thesassiestcolor:

dontgigglesherlock:

Favourite moment from Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Can we take a moment to realize that out of ALL THINGS TO POSSIBLY WATCH Steve watches Saw?

No. Guys, no. This is not a reference to Saw.

It’s a reference to the 1983 movie WarGames.

The entire joke is that in WarGames, the main character accidentally connects with a government supercomputer that controls all the U.S. military arsenal. The computer asks him “Shall we play a game?” and what the guy thinks is a game is the computer trying to start WWIII between the United States and Russia.

In this scene, Steve and Natasha are accessing a hidden supercomputer with a mysterious flashdrive seemingly controlled by an AI. Natasha references WarGames and the potential of accidentally starting a war by accessing the computer.

That’s it, guys. That’s the joke. It’s a really funny joke. Whereas a Saw reference would literally make zero sense in this scene.

And it actually makes a lot of sense that Steve would have watched WarGames.  It would be a good illustration of an intermediate stage of computer evolution between his time and ours, and a way for him to grasp the steps we’ve gone through to the current smartphone/iPad computer culture.  It is also about the Cold War, and that’s something that Steve would have wanted to know about.