if she can manage a working relationship with Jack Thompson, she could finagle one with Dottie, right? True, Dottie is more potentially deadly
And Dottie is way cuter! They could talk about lipstick....knockout lipstick!
More seriously, it's a little fascinating to me how Peggy is bulletproof femme (altho obviously some of that's Hollywood convention) and that's emphasized in the scene with her fuschia hat, and Dottie uses her codeswitching femininity to hide, not stand out. And it's Peggy's glamour outfit of blonde wig and shoulder-baring gown that betrays her to Daniel (altho that made NO SENSE to me, a SPY would not know how to cover up identifying bullet marks? Ditto Natasha in TWS, altho the laugh line "Bye-bye bikinis" is classic. Anyway).
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.
//whimpers Why do you make me yearn for things I can never have --
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.
YEAH, as it was, it was Peggy going back for Dottie because it was what Peggy would do, not so much her being connected to Dottie. And I love that it's what Peggy would do, and does, but it's also another big missed connection in a season that's full of them. I get impatient with missed connection/noncommunication setups unless there's a really good reason for them (and this season had bad plots galore anyway, what with the literally vanishing black man, Ana becoming INFERTILE because Dottie shoots her, Peggy choosing Between Two Men, sigh....).
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.
Yeah, fandom typically sees Daniel as the Good Guy, but I was intrigued by the elements in S1 where he was less flawless -- he keeps things from Peggy, and gets called out by her in that great monologue where she says, they don't see her -- he doesn't see her any more than the other men do. There could be a really interesting conflict where with the L.A. office, it's an award but also a comedown, and he'll have to work to prove himself with the guys but there's also this other network of people who aren't white guys. IDK. I know it's not that dark a show, but they managed to give Jack a lot of conflict in BOTH seasons. (I know they were stuck on the idea of having every season in a different locale, but there was just no reason for Jack to have that big a role in S2 beyond "he's a great actor and signed a contract.")
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.
Yeah, I think they also had the idea that the show would end with founding SHIELD, which was a little frustrating -- I guess they would have brought in Tommy Lee Jones as a guest star? and maybe we'd even see Peggy rescue Dr Erskine and bring him to the States. I don't particularly want to see MCU's take on Operation Paperclip. D:
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.
I wonder if they're going to do anything with her on Disney+! They had signed up Hayley Atwell for a What If? ep as I recall...well, I guess we can write the fanfic, anyway. ITA we can enjoy Agent Carter in a little bubble, altho I've seen some good fics that explore the ambiguity.
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And Dottie is way cuter! They could talk about lipstick....knockout lipstick!
More seriously, it's a little fascinating to me how Peggy is bulletproof femme (altho obviously some of that's Hollywood convention) and that's emphasized in the scene with her fuschia hat, and Dottie uses her codeswitching femininity to hide, not stand out. And it's Peggy's glamour outfit of blonde wig and shoulder-baring gown that betrays her to Daniel (altho that made NO SENSE to me, a SPY would not know how to cover up identifying bullet marks? Ditto Natasha in TWS, altho the laugh line "Bye-bye bikinis" is classic. Anyway).
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.
//whimpers Why do you make me yearn for things I can never have --
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.
YEAH, as it was, it was Peggy going back for Dottie because it was what Peggy would do, not so much her being connected to Dottie. And I love that it's what Peggy would do, and does, but it's also another big missed connection in a season that's full of them. I get impatient with missed connection/noncommunication setups unless there's a really good reason for them (and this season had bad plots galore anyway, what with the literally vanishing black man, Ana becoming INFERTILE because Dottie shoots her, Peggy choosing Between Two Men, sigh....).
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.
Yeah, fandom typically sees Daniel as the Good Guy, but I was intrigued by the elements in S1 where he was less flawless -- he keeps things from Peggy, and gets called out by her in that great monologue where she says, they don't see her -- he doesn't see her any more than the other men do. There could be a really interesting conflict where with the L.A. office, it's an award but also a comedown, and he'll have to work to prove himself with the guys but there's also this other network of people who aren't white guys. IDK. I know it's not that dark a show, but they managed to give Jack a lot of conflict in BOTH seasons. (I know they were stuck on the idea of having every season in a different locale, but there was just no reason for Jack to have that big a role in S2 beyond "he's a great actor and signed a contract.")
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.
Yeah, I think they also had the idea that the show would end with founding SHIELD, which was a little frustrating -- I guess they would have brought in Tommy Lee Jones as a guest star? and maybe we'd even see Peggy rescue Dr Erskine and bring him to the States. I don't particularly want to see MCU's take on Operation Paperclip. D:
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.
I wonder if they're going to do anything with her on Disney+! They had signed up Hayley Atwell for a What If? ep as I recall...well, I guess we can write the fanfic, anyway. ITA we can enjoy Agent Carter in a little bubble, altho I've seen some good fics that explore the ambiguity.