Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25938300-20160530130915/@comment-28652915-20160630023929

I really like Civil War but it does have a couple weak spots in the writing. Sharon is one of them. This started in The Winter Soldier, they immediately introduced her as a potential love interest which seemed sort of contrived, they should have just made her an agent, we see her good sense and leadership when she supports Cap during the Hydra takeover and if an attraction developed between Steve and her over the course of future films as they got to know each other slowly as she continued to be helpful, fine and believable, also I think they should have realized that making her Peggy's niece makes the whole thing seem kind of weird for most modern audiences, like some sort of displacement, maybe just made her non-connected for the films.

The other I agree with is somehow Tony not knowing Hydra killed his parents. Tony as we know him would have had Jarvis(after all Jarvis was around for a year after the release of the files before he became Vision) or some other computer program pouring over the Hydra and Shield files when they were released, decrypting them, catagorizing them, flags for information he'd find interesting and while he'd have no reason to look for anything related to his parents' deaths, he would have had plenty reason to look for information related to his father, given his father's role as a founder of SHIELD and that should have brought up the same encrypted file Zemo found, actually a lot quicker than Zemo found it given Tony's resources.

Plus I feel like they were reaching "blaming" Steve for this, just so that way they could somehow put him somehow on Tony's level in the mistake making department, because fairely or not somehow Steve having an "error in judgment" over this personal issue will be held up as worse than all Tony's selfish egotistical screw ups.

But all Steve knew was what he and Natasha saw on Zola's newsreel, which strongly implied HYRDA was at fault for Howard's death. He wasn't lying when he said he didn't know it was Bucky, because in terms of hard facts he didn't. In terms of his instincts, he likely "knew" they used Bucky to do the job but again, there is no evidence he had any hard facts about this. So the decision on whether or not to bring it up to Tony was in no way a black and white/only one right thing decision - Tony's issues with his father had nothing to do with the manner of his death and the manner of his death doesn't actually affect those issues either. It was their relationship in life that was the problem. When it comes to Steve's possible reasons - Would it really be better to dredge all that up when it happened 25 years ago and it was ONE area of Tony's relationship with his father that he didn't question, the manner of his death? Plus Tony has unlimited resources and technology, if Tony went after Bucky while Steve didn't know where he was, Steve would have no way to protect him.

Tony showed no evidence of blaming himself for the manner of their deaths so it's not like there should be some weight lifted off his shoulders in finding out they were assassinated. In fact realistically this would make his post mortem relationship with his father even worse - because now rather than just a freak accident, Howard's continued involved in the military industrial complex, at 73 years old, messing around with super soldier serums and carrying them around with his mother in car is what put her in harms way. And Howard would know how dangerous super soldier serums were to be around, he knew people kill for them. Heck he was there when Erskine was murdered.