Yes, exactly. Peggy's whole life (aside from the Steve & Howling Commandos portion) has been about working with people who are hostile not-quite-allies - if she can manage a working relationship with Jack Thompson, she could finagle one with Dottie, right? True, Dottie is more potentially deadly, but at the same time Dottie admires Peggy and yearns for her attention (why else rob a bank in Peggy Carter cosplay?). That's more than enough to be getting on with.
You could imagine a scene between Peggy & Dottie that mirrors Jack Thompson's confession scene in season one, for instance. Dottie, shaken by her encounter with Whitney Frost, confesses some moment of weakness to Peggy, and even if Peggy still doesn't like her exactly (the scene of slaughter in that theater is still fresh in her mind)... still, it's a bonding moment, and in that moment she does feel some compassion for her.
Plus, if Peggy and Dottie had achieved an even slightly friendly rapport in their earlier scenes, Peggy's decision to go back for Dottie would have had more impact.
I don't know why the writers thought Daniel's fiancee Violet was a good idea. In a way it's nice that they have this romantic rival character who is a perfectly nice person and actually really likable... but at the same time, that just makes it sad when Sousa breaks up with her, and also there's so much going on in the season already that they didn't really need another subplot. For goodness sake, just have Sousa pine for a year, or date around without getting serious with anyone, or something.
Re: Zola & SHIELD. The fact that SHIELD was always rotten to the core was always a potential albatross around the show's neck, so in a way I'm glad it got canceled before we actually see Peggy found SHIELD: it wouldn't have been enjoyable to watch Peggy found an organization that is not only going to go bad, but is already rotten at it's hard. As it is, Agent Carter exists in its own pocket universe in my mind, and maybe in that universe they never found SHIELD at all.
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You could imagine a scene between Peggy & Dottie that mirrors Jack Thompson's confession scene in season one, for instance. Dottie, shaken by her encounter with Whitney Frost, confesses some moment of weakness to Peggy, and even if Peggy still doesn't like her exactly (the scene of slaughter in that theater is still fresh in her mind)... still, it's a bonding moment, and in that moment she does feel some compassion for her.
Plus, if Peggy and Dottie had achieved an even slightly friendly rapport in their earlier scenes, Peggy's decision to go back for Dottie would have had more impact.
I don't know why the writers thought Daniel's fiancee Violet was a good idea. In a way it's nice that they have this romantic rival character who is a perfectly nice person and actually really likable... but at the same time, that just makes it sad when Sousa breaks up with her, and also there's so much going on in the season already that they didn't really need another subplot. For goodness sake, just have Sousa pine for a year, or date around without getting serious with anyone, or something.
Re: Zola & SHIELD. The fact that SHIELD was always rotten to the core was always a potential albatross around the show's neck, so in a way I'm glad it got canceled before we actually see Peggy found SHIELD: it wouldn't have been enjoyable to watch Peggy found an organization that is not only going to go bad, but is already rotten at it's hard. As it is, Agent Carter exists in its own pocket universe in my mind, and maybe in that universe they never found SHIELD at all.