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osprey_archer) wrote2015-02-25 08:40 am
osprey_archer) wrote2015-02-25 08:40 am
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Agent Carter Finale
I saw the Agent Carter finale! AND I WANT A SECOND SEASON SO MUCH, clearly it would be about Peggy's rise to power in the SSR: at the end of season 1 she's respected; at the end of season 2 she's poised to become the SSRs BAMF director, and even Agent Thompson has realized (or perhaps just admitted? I think he already knows this is true) that she will do an infinitely better job than he would.
- Howard takes responsibility for the absolute clusterfuck that his awful inventions have caused, THANK GOD. I think he does feel, on some level, genuinely guilty for the destruction, assuming of course that he's sincere when he says he plans to destroy these inventions and not using that as a blind for a plan to build a vault that will, no really! totally be more secure.
Howard being Howard, the likelihood of either outcome is about 50/50. He's incorrigible. Even in the depths of his guilt, he still takes the opportunity to steal Cap's blood.
- Of course, that's a bit different, because he thinks Cap is the one shining good thing he's created in his life (and let me just say, I am totally convinced now that Howard had a huge one-sided crush on Steve. His whole "flying Cap over enemy territory" thing was clearly a bid to get Steve's attention. Unfortunately for him, Steve was too busy making cow eyes at Peggy and worrying about Bucky to even notice the pilot.)
- And ugh, poor Peggy, having to talk Howard down despite her own grief. AND THEN POURING STEVE'S BLOOD IN THE HARBOR, oh my heart. (It's a bit like scattering ashes, I suppose? A final letting go.)
- JARVIS CAN FLY A PLANE! Of course Jarvis can fly a plane. I like how he has a wider skill set than one might expect, but not quite to the extent of being secretly a badass: he can fly a plane, but he's never shot anyone down.
- YAY DOTTIE DIDN'T DIE. Now she and Peggy can spend the rest of the Cold War playing cat and mouse games where Dottie is weirdly obsessed with Peggy and Peggy is like "How did this happen to my life, and why does she always put on the perky Midwestern girl persona whenever we meet and she tries to kill me, it's so disturbing."
- I liked Peggy's exchange with Sousa at the end, after the Senator walks in and is all "Let's thank Jack Thompson for saving the day!" Sousa's mad as hell on her behalf, and Peggy says, basically, don't worry about it. It doesn't bother me; I know what I'm worth.
On the one hand, she's saving face: we know it does bother her when people don't respect her, but there's nothing she can do about it in this moment. But it bothers her in a different way than it bothers Sousa: it makes her angry because she knows she deserves respect, whereas he worries that their lack of respect means he's not worthy.
- Howard takes responsibility for the absolute clusterfuck that his awful inventions have caused, THANK GOD. I think he does feel, on some level, genuinely guilty for the destruction, assuming of course that he's sincere when he says he plans to destroy these inventions and not using that as a blind for a plan to build a vault that will, no really! totally be more secure.
Howard being Howard, the likelihood of either outcome is about 50/50. He's incorrigible. Even in the depths of his guilt, he still takes the opportunity to steal Cap's blood.
- Of course, that's a bit different, because he thinks Cap is the one shining good thing he's created in his life (and let me just say, I am totally convinced now that Howard had a huge one-sided crush on Steve. His whole "flying Cap over enemy territory" thing was clearly a bid to get Steve's attention. Unfortunately for him, Steve was too busy making cow eyes at Peggy and worrying about Bucky to even notice the pilot.)
- And ugh, poor Peggy, having to talk Howard down despite her own grief. AND THEN POURING STEVE'S BLOOD IN THE HARBOR, oh my heart. (It's a bit like scattering ashes, I suppose? A final letting go.)
- JARVIS CAN FLY A PLANE! Of course Jarvis can fly a plane. I like how he has a wider skill set than one might expect, but not quite to the extent of being secretly a badass: he can fly a plane, but he's never shot anyone down.
- YAY DOTTIE DIDN'T DIE. Now she and Peggy can spend the rest of the Cold War playing cat and mouse games where Dottie is weirdly obsessed with Peggy and Peggy is like "How did this happen to my life, and why does she always put on the perky Midwestern girl persona whenever we meet and she tries to kill me, it's so disturbing."
- I liked Peggy's exchange with Sousa at the end, after the Senator walks in and is all "Let's thank Jack Thompson for saving the day!" Sousa's mad as hell on her behalf, and Peggy says, basically, don't worry about it. It doesn't bother me; I know what I'm worth.
On the one hand, she's saving face: we know it does bother her when people don't respect her, but there's nothing she can do about it in this moment. But it bothers her in a different way than it bothers Sousa: it makes her angry because she knows she deserves respect, whereas he worries that their lack of respect means he's not worthy.
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(Oh, Jack Thompson, you were almost growing on me, and then you went and did this.)
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I mean, it is still a personal thing, too--not denying that. And, for instance, if a person didn't *want* acknowledgment, I think their wish trumps other things, etc. etc.
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