Agent Carter 2.03
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selenakWhich was fabulous, complete with meta digs.
I mean:
Peggy: I'd rather be the cowboy.
Howard: I like it. I don't think the audience is ready yet.
Peggy: But they're ready for a movie based on a comic book? Sounds like a dreadful idea.
Someone's clearly reading a lot of online discussion about "realism" in genre cinema and tv. :) And of course there were the larger Marvelverse allusions, like Jarvis' "I don't want to spend all time as a disembodied voice". (Aw, Jarvis. And JARVIS.)
As expected, Dr. Jason Wilkes isn't really dead, but I'm glad they didn't drag the discovery out longer, and when it did come, it caught me by surprise, despite my expectation of him being alive. And if you think about it, it's a pretty classic comics style superhero origin story - lab accident! Also loved that after Howard turned him visible (and audible), he can now contribute to saving himself & the world as opposed to just being the damsel for Peggy to save. And of course Isodyne frames him as a Soviet spy. Go figure. Incidentally, I think Peggy's outrage about the injustice helps as an emotional bypass to showing him she cares now, instead of keeping a cautious distance. And he continues to be very sympathetic.
Whitney Frost: the show continues to make points re: sexism (her husband's assumption - and as opposed to most others, he's aware she's the scientific genius his company is built on - that the only reason she'd want to quit being an actress would be to have babies; the studio wanting to get rid of her to replace her with a younger model) without making this an excuse for her own crimes - she's presented as ruthless both in her framing Wilkes and wanting Peggy assassinated. (BTW, I think it's important that while the absorption of Ken the director by the Zero Matter inside her was an accident, sending an assassin after Peggy was entirely calculated and deliberate - she doesn't start to kill because of the new power inside her, she is already capable of it in an entirely non-superpower way.) So far, a good villain, and necessarily so because the Old Boys' Club of Evil are by just one dimensional stooges (and don't need to be more for their plot function, as long as there IS a more dimensional villain around as well).
Howard Stark showing up in person in this episode (while also being given a plot excuse not to do so in the next) was great fun, complete with Starkian mixture of hedonism and work absorption (complete with coffee addiction while working through the night, ignoring everything else and instant bonding with fellow scientist he works with - obvious irony of just how much Tony is like his father is obvious; the Jason Wilkes & Peggy dialogue about Howard being a menace to himself and others AND a great friend to have (and a genius) could sum them up both). Was amused and touched by his short scene with Jarvis re: Peggy, because you could tell Howard meant it.
Argument scene between Peggy, Jack Thompson and Daniel Sousa: was the kind of visceral emotional fighting that's thrilling to watch. And Thompson asking Sousa out (in vain) afterwards certainly supports that pairing. :) (Prediction re: Jack Thompson: will do the right thing at the last minute, because the show wants to keep him ambiguous instead of letting him go into outright villainy.) (But he might not survive that.)
I mean:
Peggy: I'd rather be the cowboy.
Howard: I like it. I don't think the audience is ready yet.
Peggy: But they're ready for a movie based on a comic book? Sounds like a dreadful idea.
Someone's clearly reading a lot of online discussion about "realism" in genre cinema and tv. :) And of course there were the larger Marvelverse allusions, like Jarvis' "I don't want to spend all time as a disembodied voice". (Aw, Jarvis. And JARVIS.)
As expected, Dr. Jason Wilkes isn't really dead, but I'm glad they didn't drag the discovery out longer, and when it did come, it caught me by surprise, despite my expectation of him being alive. And if you think about it, it's a pretty classic comics style superhero origin story - lab accident! Also loved that after Howard turned him visible (and audible), he can now contribute to saving himself & the world as opposed to just being the damsel for Peggy to save. And of course Isodyne frames him as a Soviet spy. Go figure. Incidentally, I think Peggy's outrage about the injustice helps as an emotional bypass to showing him she cares now, instead of keeping a cautious distance. And he continues to be very sympathetic.
Whitney Frost: the show continues to make points re: sexism (her husband's assumption - and as opposed to most others, he's aware she's the scientific genius his company is built on - that the only reason she'd want to quit being an actress would be to have babies; the studio wanting to get rid of her to replace her with a younger model) without making this an excuse for her own crimes - she's presented as ruthless both in her framing Wilkes and wanting Peggy assassinated. (BTW, I think it's important that while the absorption of Ken the director by the Zero Matter inside her was an accident, sending an assassin after Peggy was entirely calculated and deliberate - she doesn't start to kill because of the new power inside her, she is already capable of it in an entirely non-superpower way.) So far, a good villain, and necessarily so because the Old Boys' Club of Evil are by just one dimensional stooges (and don't need to be more for their plot function, as long as there IS a more dimensional villain around as well).
Howard Stark showing up in person in this episode (while also being given a plot excuse not to do so in the next) was great fun, complete with Starkian mixture of hedonism and work absorption (complete with coffee addiction while working through the night, ignoring everything else and instant bonding with fellow scientist he works with - obvious irony of just how much Tony is like his father is obvious; the Jason Wilkes & Peggy dialogue about Howard being a menace to himself and others AND a great friend to have (and a genius) could sum them up both). Was amused and touched by his short scene with Jarvis re: Peggy, because you could tell Howard meant it.
Argument scene between Peggy, Jack Thompson and Daniel Sousa: was the kind of visceral emotional fighting that's thrilling to watch. And Thompson asking Sousa out (in vain) afterwards certainly supports that pairing. :) (Prediction re: Jack Thompson: will do the right thing at the last minute, because the show wants to keep him ambiguous instead of letting him go into outright villainy.) (But he might not survive that.)
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Date: 2016-01-28 07:40 am (UTC)