last-snowfall:

This is such a wonderful moment of Sam trying really hard to be a voice of (painful) wisdom and warning and caution and running face-first into Steve the Immovable Object who’s Not Hearing It. Welcome to the rest of your friendship, Sam! He’ll do this a lot.

I feel like this is when Sam meets the Steve that is at the heart of all stories. ‘The man who wouldn’t give up’ ‘The guy who rescued his best friend’, etc.  And when Sam gets his hands on the old SSR files, he’s going to see that guy all over again. This is the guy who said ‘I have them on the ropes’ at the start of CA:TFA. While I wouldn’t call this the dark side of Steve, I would say that this is one of those places where we get to see Steve’s flaws, that stubborn is a defining quality.

And then he and Bucky are going to go out for beers and stare morosely at the game because they won’t even need to talk about it. The Stubborn That Dare Not Speak Its Name.