Agent Carter 1.06
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selenakIn which things are starting to gear up for the miniseries finale.
I was very glad indeed to see Peggy working with Jarvis again. Peggy's deduction that female Russian agents = way intel on the whereabouts of Howard's McGuffins got out in the first place provides a logical reason. Mind you, their discovery that Howard's ex Ida (who presumably is also Dottie) was a Black Widow pretty much destroys my Anna theory (Ida makes another mole chez Stark superfluous) which leaves me bereft of an explanation re: why we haven't seen Anna yet, but ah well.
Elsewhere, I like that Sousa didn't simply rely on the physical marks on Peggy's skin as a means of identification but recalled the sole eye witness to have seen the mystery woman, and that once he did get that second confirmation, he acted on it, as was his job. I like competent people. Of course I also liked Angie siding with Peggy and helping her, but Angie isn't an agent, she can put her friendship first. (BTW, I've seen the suggestion Peggy should hire Angie for the new SHIELD post show, which I'm against. Angie's dream isn't working for a secret agency, it's being an actress, and I want her to get said dream!)
Peggy taking out an entire squad of agents was a crowd pleaser which worked. Conversely, so did Dottie using her own weapons against her. The show has quite a lot to say of how women are chronically underestimated because people see only what they want to see, and Angie uses the "female tears" cliché against Thompson and Sousa to help Peggy earlier, but Peggy herself isn't immune from buying into facades. She'd have never let a man hug her and kiss her out of the blue, but wide-eyed gosh-darn Dottie from Iowa? You can see Peggy subconsciously dismissing her.
(Incidentally, I'm glad the show provided an on screen reason why the Red Room trained solely girls.)
As I suspected, Dr. Ichenko was a plant - which gives Leviathan a reason to lure Peggy & Co. to the facility last episode in the first place, they wanted to get Ichenko into SRR headquarters to retrieve the Stark McGuffins, and it worked - , and I'm assuming he will be how Peggy gets out of her current situation, he'll get the McGuffins and in the chaos of his departure Peggy will escape. Though there will be clearly a tense interrogation scene first, which in retrospect may give a point to the brutal one in the pilot, i.e. to heigten the suspense of what could wait for Peggy. Leaving that aside, they're also laying the grounds on why at the end of the story Peggy will no longer work for the SRR and there's the need for a new agency. Yes, she obviously will be vindicated in the sense that she'll clear up and expose everyone really behind the weapon thing, but she did go behind her superior's backs and acted for an outside party.
I was very glad indeed to see Peggy working with Jarvis again. Peggy's deduction that female Russian agents = way intel on the whereabouts of Howard's McGuffins got out in the first place provides a logical reason. Mind you, their discovery that Howard's ex Ida (who presumably is also Dottie) was a Black Widow pretty much destroys my Anna theory (Ida makes another mole chez Stark superfluous) which leaves me bereft of an explanation re: why we haven't seen Anna yet, but ah well.
Elsewhere, I like that Sousa didn't simply rely on the physical marks on Peggy's skin as a means of identification but recalled the sole eye witness to have seen the mystery woman, and that once he did get that second confirmation, he acted on it, as was his job. I like competent people. Of course I also liked Angie siding with Peggy and helping her, but Angie isn't an agent, she can put her friendship first. (BTW, I've seen the suggestion Peggy should hire Angie for the new SHIELD post show, which I'm against. Angie's dream isn't working for a secret agency, it's being an actress, and I want her to get said dream!)
Peggy taking out an entire squad of agents was a crowd pleaser which worked. Conversely, so did Dottie using her own weapons against her. The show has quite a lot to say of how women are chronically underestimated because people see only what they want to see, and Angie uses the "female tears" cliché against Thompson and Sousa to help Peggy earlier, but Peggy herself isn't immune from buying into facades. She'd have never let a man hug her and kiss her out of the blue, but wide-eyed gosh-darn Dottie from Iowa? You can see Peggy subconsciously dismissing her.
(Incidentally, I'm glad the show provided an on screen reason why the Red Room trained solely girls.)
As I suspected, Dr. Ichenko was a plant - which gives Leviathan a reason to lure Peggy & Co. to the facility last episode in the first place, they wanted to get Ichenko into SRR headquarters to retrieve the Stark McGuffins, and it worked - , and I'm assuming he will be how Peggy gets out of her current situation, he'll get the McGuffins and in the chaos of his departure Peggy will escape. Though there will be clearly a tense interrogation scene first, which in retrospect may give a point to the brutal one in the pilot, i.e. to heigten the suspense of what could wait for Peggy. Leaving that aside, they're also laying the grounds on why at the end of the story Peggy will no longer work for the SRR and there's the need for a new agency. Yes, she obviously will be vindicated in the sense that she'll clear up and expose everyone really behind the weapon thing, but she did go behind her superior's backs and acted for an outside party.
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Date: 2015-02-11 10:50 am (UTC)I should probably feel sorry for Agent Middle Child, but that's what happens when you get a name and spend your three seconds of screentime being even more annoying than Agent Thompson. Who finally got his well-deserved punch in the face. There's still justice.
I'm with you, Angie should definitely fulfill her dream and become an actress. She could be Peggy's fabulous actor friend. And she can start dating Souza, they would make a cute couple. (Unless she'd rather date Peggy, which would be fine with me, too.)
Where Anna is concerned, I was wondering if her only existing as a voice is just supposed to be some sort of Running Gag, you know, because Jarvis in the Iron Man movies is a computer voice? But I could be wrong: maybe there will be one of these last minute reveals, which sets her up as a mysterious opponent for the second series. *for which I still keep all available fingers crossed*
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Date: 2015-02-11 12:35 pm (UTC)Anna: by now I can believe both the running gag and the last Minute reveal possibility.
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Date: 2015-02-11 05:55 pm (UTC)Yeah, I've seen people suggest that he should have taken it to Peggy first, which... yes, let's tip off the suspected criminal beforehand, that makes so much sense.
Of course, doing photo identification with one photo isn't very smart policework. "If you can identify the woman we'll give you a shorter sentence. Is this her?"
BTW, I've seen the suggestion Peggy should hire Angie for the new SHIELD post show, which I'm against. Angie's dream isn't working for a secret agency, it's being an actress, and I want her to get said dream!
Depends on which part of acting she likes, though. If it's being up on stage with an audience, then yeah, Broadway's where it's at, but if she just wants to pretend to be a bunch of different people she could do that through spy work.
IDK, I hadn't thought of it before, but it could go either way for me.
She'd have never let a man hug her and kiss her out of the blue, but wide-eyed gosh-darn Dottie from Iowa? You can see Peggy subconsciously dismissing her.
Yeah, it's nice that Peggy isn't immune.
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Date: 2015-02-11 07:26 pm (UTC)"Sousa should have asked Peggy first" is ridiculous. I've also seen the nice guy accusation again, which is even more so. The term really has joined "Mary Sue", "man pain" and "Queerbaiting" as a phrase that once upon a time was useful but no more because so many people use it devoid of meaning and signifying dislike, not content.
Angie bringing up floodlights makes me think she wants the stage and the applause, which she wouldn't get as a spy.
re: Peggy not being immune to overlooking people and falling for harmless acts - I think making her able of mistakes like that is also important, continuity wise, because in the future as established by Winter Soldier she will be SHIELD director when Hydra first gets their people in.
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