Agent Carter - Season 2
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Yeah, that's fine. I'd rather be able to watch it straight through.
Lyndsy Fonseca to appear in one episode this season.
According to EW...
According to EW...
Fonseca will appear as Angie in a dream sequence that is also a big Broadway style song and dance number.
She she looks like Eva Grin in Sin City 2... Love her))
That sounds like it's gonna be good. 
Season two will have a subtle tie-in with AoS S1 and, apparently, Dr. Strange.
Possible spoilers at the link.
Possible spoilers at the link.
It's appeared in my guide, so DVR set!
That's encouraging when it comes to TV and movie synergy. It's really a minor thing - something that the movie would explain to new members just as well, but it's something clearly introduced in Agents of SHIELD before Dr. Strange had a script.
It looks like the season premier might have been two episodes back-to-back.
I enjoyed them both! Well executed and lots of little twists kept it interesting.
I enjoyed them both! Well executed and lots of little twists kept it interesting.
Correct. As with last season, ABC had to bunch up the first two episodes due to being pre-empted by the SotU address.
Zero Matter = Dark Energy.
I think the lapel is deliberate.
I think the lapel is deliberate.
Any lack of similarity between Big Bang Theory and Agent Carter is just fine by me.
Bernadette's dad from BBT plays a Board Room bad guy in Agent Carter.
According to the behind-the-scenes interviews, Zero Matter is the Darkforce, a Marvel Universe phenomenon already seen in Agents of SHIELD (in the episode with Amy Acker as Coulson's ex-girlfriend, IIRC). It's been hinted that the Darkforce may play a role in the Doctor Strange movie as well, so this may be a very indirect setup for that.
This is fun so far, though I wish the preceding Captain America special hadn't spoiled the initial Peggy/Dottie fight scene just minutes ahead of time. Peggy and Jarvis are still great together. They're just so English! And it's good to meet Mrs. Jarvis. She's fun.
It's good to see Peggy being respected in her work now, though Thompson is still being an insecure jerk and Dottie will undoubtedly get away because of his selfish move of sending Peggy to LA. Not crazy to see another shadowy secret society in the MCU... but hold on, isn't their insignia the same one as the group behind the monolith experiments in Agents of SHIELD? I just now realized that.
I'm unsure how anachronistic they're being with Dr. Wilkes. They acknowledged that racism was still very much a thing at the time, but even with his war record and his intelligence allowing him to get somewhere as a scientist, it was pretty brazen for him to make such overt advances to a white woman, something that would've gotten him lynched in a lot of the country back then. Which is probably what Peggy meant when she responded to his flirtations with "You're a brave man." Not that interracial romances wouldn't have happened back then, but I'd think they would've had to be more tentative and careful about it.
An advantage of being set in LA now is the freedom to use location filming. The Griffith Observatory is a great choice -- it looks the same now as it did then, and was as popular a movie location then as it is now. (It was also a featured location in The Rocketeer.) Although in that shot of the frozen lake, with LA City Hall as the only tower visible in the background, I imagine they had to digitally erase a whole lot of skyscrapers. Or else digitally add City Hall to the background of a stand-in location.
Is this the right place to talk about the Captain America special they aired last night? It was a decent overview, I guess, but some inaccuracies bothered me. It was implied that the original wartime comics showed Cap and Bucky fighting in Europe, but that was the '60s retcon. In the original comics, as with most wartime superheroes, Cap and Bucky were stationed stateside and battled spies, saboteurs, and fifth columnists on American soil. Also, they mentioned Peggy Carter in the WWII-era segment, but she wasn't created until 1966, when she was retconned into Cap's wartime past. She wasn't even given a first name until the '70s. And all the comics panels they showed of Peggy seemed to be from the comics adaptation of Captain America: The First Avenger.
It also implied that the Steve Rogers backstory used in the films, of the young man who didn't like bullies, was the same one Joe Simon and Jack Kirby used -- but Steve Rogers had no backstory in the original comics. He was introduced as a nameless "frail young man" just one panel before he was injected with the super-soldier serum, and his name wasn't revealed as Steve Rogers until the end of his debut story, after he was already established as Cap. I don't think his background was really fleshed out until at least the '70s.
Also, they implied that Marvel's special 9/11 tribute issue was a Captain America comic, but it was actually Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #36, by J. Michael Straczynski and John Romita, Jr.
This is fun so far, though I wish the preceding Captain America special hadn't spoiled the initial Peggy/Dottie fight scene just minutes ahead of time. Peggy and Jarvis are still great together. They're just so English! And it's good to meet Mrs. Jarvis. She's fun.
It's good to see Peggy being respected in her work now, though Thompson is still being an insecure jerk and Dottie will undoubtedly get away because of his selfish move of sending Peggy to LA. Not crazy to see another shadowy secret society in the MCU... but hold on, isn't their insignia the same one as the group behind the monolith experiments in Agents of SHIELD? I just now realized that.
I'm unsure how anachronistic they're being with Dr. Wilkes. They acknowledged that racism was still very much a thing at the time, but even with his war record and his intelligence allowing him to get somewhere as a scientist, it was pretty brazen for him to make such overt advances to a white woman, something that would've gotten him lynched in a lot of the country back then. Which is probably what Peggy meant when she responded to his flirtations with "You're a brave man." Not that interracial romances wouldn't have happened back then, but I'd think they would've had to be more tentative and careful about it.
An advantage of being set in LA now is the freedom to use location filming. The Griffith Observatory is a great choice -- it looks the same now as it did then, and was as popular a movie location then as it is now. (It was also a featured location in The Rocketeer.) Although in that shot of the frozen lake, with LA City Hall as the only tower visible in the background, I imagine they had to digitally erase a whole lot of skyscrapers. Or else digitally add City Hall to the background of a stand-in location.
Is this the right place to talk about the Captain America special they aired last night? It was a decent overview, I guess, but some inaccuracies bothered me. It was implied that the original wartime comics showed Cap and Bucky fighting in Europe, but that was the '60s retcon. In the original comics, as with most wartime superheroes, Cap and Bucky were stationed stateside and battled spies, saboteurs, and fifth columnists on American soil. Also, they mentioned Peggy Carter in the WWII-era segment, but she wasn't created until 1966, when she was retconned into Cap's wartime past. She wasn't even given a first name until the '70s. And all the comics panels they showed of Peggy seemed to be from the comics adaptation of Captain America: The First Avenger.
It also implied that the Steve Rogers backstory used in the films, of the young man who didn't like bullies, was the same one Joe Simon and Jack Kirby used -- but Steve Rogers had no backstory in the original comics. He was introduced as a nameless "frail young man" just one panel before he was injected with the super-soldier serum, and his name wasn't revealed as Steve Rogers until the end of his debut story, after he was already established as Cap. I don't think his background was really fleshed out until at least the '70s.
Also, they implied that Marvel's special 9/11 tribute issue was a Captain America comic, but it was actually Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2 #36, by J. Michael Straczynski and John Romita, Jr.
Also the man who killed Laura Palmer was there!
I was trying to figure out if the zero-matter was the same stuff the monolith in SHIELD was.... I have to pay more attention.
I was also wondering about "mixed" couples in 1947 - I even remember it still being a subject of serious prejudice in the 70s ("What about the children??" was always the bigots' whine, meaning those poor "half-breeds" will be shunned by society
)*. Maybe Hollywood was more liberal then the rest of the country? The Brits have always seemed more relaxed about that, so I wasn't surprised that Peggy returned the attraction.
*And I'm deeply grateful for such relationships that gave us such lovely and talented (and un-shunned) people as Mariah Carey and Halle Berry!
I was also wondering about "mixed" couples in 1947 - I even remember it still being a subject of serious prejudice in the 70s ("What about the children??" was always the bigots' whine, meaning those poor "half-breeds" will be shunned by society
)*. Maybe Hollywood was more liberal then the rest of the country? The Brits have always seemed more relaxed about that, so I wasn't surprised that Peggy returned the attraction.*And I'm deeply grateful for such relationships that gave us such lovely and talented (and un-shunned) people as Mariah Carey and Halle Berry!
I was also wondering about "mixed" couples in 1947 - I even remember it still being a subject of serious prejudice in the 70s ("What about the children??" was always the bigots' whine, meaning those poor "half-breeds" will be shunned by society
Also this was in the wake of WWII, when prejudices eroded somewhat in the light of the "We're all in this together" sentiment, so women and minorities had more opportunities. There was a pretty fierce backlash and reassertion of traditional gender and racial roles postwar, and we're seeing that depicted in the show, but I suppose it took a few years for the oppressive traditionalism to settle in fully. If you listen to the Superman radio series in 1946-7, they were constantly speaking out against racial and religious intolerance, featuring hate groups and divisive, anti-immigrant political demagogues as villains. But by 1950, they weren't doing it anymore. The closest the George Reeves TV series ever came to tackling racism was in the pilot movie Superman and the Mole Men, where Superman protected the titular subterranean creatures from a xenophobic mob.
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