#saur disrespectful to buckys memory AND steves

[lesbiradshaw]

why would she say this knowing what her and howard and the other shield founders had done in respects to zola and let steve go on working beside and for the people who he died trying to put down the first time ... it is very clear from how steve reacted at the bunker with zola’s projection/his speech before the helicarrier that he was not aware of his supposed ‘friends’ history working with hydra affiliates willingly and why would he be since no one bothered to tell him otherwise? there’s only so much research you can do with what’s known about shield publicly and since even colonel phillips knew to warn zola that steve would not hold back on his hatred for him because of what happened to bucky, the easiest answer to these questions in my opinion is that they just ... didn’t want to tell him because they KNEW he would opt out the second he learned zola was once among shield’s ranks. he pretty much does that in the winter solider anyways.

my thing is that even if peggy and howard working with zola was something that was done under the guise of ‘the ends justify the means’ (an argument that’s made all the time in real life because Yes operation paperclip was a real thing), their means were a little (a lot) morally dubious, but besides that, they failed to clean up their mess at the end. they completely lacked transparency, which is what it takes to fix a mistake.

cleaning up their mess would have been tracking zola’s movements after they set him free- which would have kept him from doing a lot of shit to bucky, because in the flashback where bucky gets his arm put on, zola is present which means that must happen shortly after shield lets him go. cleaning up their mess would have meant offering full disclosure of what had been done so that maybe more of shield’s agents would have noticed that hydra was piecing back together right under their noses and would have been able to be squashed out before the corruption fully formed. cleaning up their mess would have meant someone actually telling steve exactly who and what he was working for, telling him exactly what had been done by his new favorite organization to win the war. cleaning up their mess would have meant peggy coming clean about her and howard’s past actions and acknowledging what they were accountable for. cleaning up their mess properly the first time around would have spared bucky so much of the pain inflicted on him by being forced to become the winter soldier. she didn’t know about bucky, but she was fully aware of hiring zola. she knew bow much steve hated him. so why would she say this after steve had just displayed so much blind trust ... she’s admitting they fucked up but once again failing to detail how. why would she let such a major detail go unspoken if she’s supposed to care about steve and shield’s safety so much? this isn’t a matter of avoiding hurt feelings ... it’s a matter of lying by omission to ensure steve stayed on with shield.

doing your best means you first have to know what was done wrong before, and steve wasn’t given that information despite being in a position where he possibly deserved it the most. zola, bucky’s death, howard and peggy’s actions after founding shield ... there’s no mind your business option for him when it comes to this. it IS his business. why the fuck would peggy not tell him about this shit as soon as the opportunity opened up.

#idk i read the script and now im just annoyed #i always skip that scene so i don’t remember the lines usually #but ????? #her saying this when we know what steve doesn’t is so ... #WHY WOULD SHE NOT TELL HIM #SHE WAS HAVING A LUCID MOMENT #HER MIND WAS IN THE PRESENT #SHE KNEW WHAT STEVE WAS SAYING AND HOW IRONIC IT WAS #SHE KNEWWWWWWW SHE KNEW SHE KNEW #yk this is why im not sad howard got sniped #im sad bucky was the one forced into doing it but .. #for howard it was deserved idc he and peggy literally helped open the door for the people who tortured him #howard and peggy whine and cry about loving steve but why would they buddy up w zola when they knew that man destroyed steve #and one of the only things steve loved aka bucky #saur disrespectful to buckys memory AND steves #BOOOOOO THESE PEOPLE SUCK #anti peggy carter #suck it margaret #does she not feel guilty enough to disclose #again even if working w zola was .. necessary ... does she not feel bad about it like any good human being would #esp after what zola did to steve and what steve is supposedly supposed to mean to her