"Agent Carter" season one discussion and spoilers

[RJDiogenes]

Only if they were made out of carbon fibers, I suppose. I think it was the same kind of deal where the Flash kept his costume compressed in his ring.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The Flash costume was especially made.

Did Clark buy off the rack, or was even his civilian wardrobe highly specialized?

 

[urbandefault]

So, Agent Carter ...

Yeah, we enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next episode.

I did wonder about the automat inside the diner, but there'll be plenty of time to dissect every nitpicky thing in every scene later on. Maybe when I retire.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The Flash costume was especially made.

Did Clark buy off the rack, or was even his civilian wardrobe highly specialized?

Beats me. I think it was just one of those magical things that Superman could do.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If Superman's civilian wardobe was "built" in the 30th century to withstand the forces his body exerts, it's possible that Clark rather than going back to the future every time he needed a new shirt and slacks, was able to buy in bulk with a staggered sense of fashion that he can consistently stay 1 year behind everyone else (because he's supposed to be a nerd) despite that everything he will ever be wearing for the next 30 years is sealed away in storage locker waiting for him.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The Flash costume was especially made.

Did Clark buy off the rack, or was even his civilian wardrobe highly specialized?

[Puts on geek hat.]

OK...Silver/Bronze-Age Superman treated his Clark Kent clothes with a special chemical that made them friction-proof (so he could use super-speed), but not invulnerable. I believe this chemical also contributed to his ability to compress them into a small, flat rectangular bundle that he hid in his pouch. Apparently there was a pigmentation issue involved which necessitated that any treated clothes had to be red, white, or blue, which was used to explain why Clark Kent in those days always wore a blue suit with a red tie.

Supergirl opted to go without the ability to use super-speed while in her civilian attire, because she didn't want her wardrobe to look like it was made by Betsy Ross (her words, in one story I read).

I did wonder about the automat inside the diner, but there'll be plenty of time to dissect every nitpicky thing in every scene later on. Maybe when I retire.

I assumed that had to be a period-authentic thing, that they'd put something so conspicuous onscreen. It may have been an earlier fast food option.

 

[urbandefault]

I did wonder about the automat inside the diner, but there'll be plenty of time to dissect every nitpicky thing in every scene later on. Maybe when I retire.

I assumed that had to be a period-authentic thing, that they'd put something so conspicuous onscreen. It may have been an earlier fast food option.

I just didn't realize that automats weren't necessarily standalone. Look what I found: http://www.theautomat.net/index.htm

 

[Dac]

So you made it look 'better' according to you? Big freakin' woopsie-doopsie; it still defeats the purpose already stated (and explained) to you.

I don't appreciate the "better" quote when I didn't actually use the word.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

You did use the word "nicer," though.

 

[Dac]

I think colours are nice. :/

 

[The Master of Tarquin Hill]

So you made it look 'better' according to you? Big freakin' woopsie-doopsie; it still defeats the purpose already stated (and explained) to you.

I don't appreciate the "better" quote when I didn't actually use the word.

I think it looks better.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I think colours are nice. :/

It can sometimes, not always. Do you think it's better or did you mean something else by "nice"?

 

[Dac]

I prefer it. The show looks like raw cinestyle ungraded footage. And I just want some kind of colour grading on it. Thats my only qualm with it.

The show itself was pretty good.

 

[Samurai8472]

The filming techniques remind me of "The Young Indiana Jones"

If I didn't know better I would have thought this series was filmed in 1991 and "Doogie Howser" was on after it.

It has a retro ABC look to it.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Fun fact-- Agent Carter co-show runner Tara Butters is married to Arrow EP Mark Guggenheim.

Here Guggenheim conducts what's supposed to be an interview for The Hollywood Repoerter of Butters and her co-show runner, Michele Fazekas, but actually comes across as an honest conversation between three friends running super-hero shows on opposite sides of the fence. Interesting stuff.

An excerpt--

Butters: We have connections to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Fazekas: Peggy Carter was obviously in Cap 1 and Cap 2, Howard Stark [Dominic Cooper], who's in Cap 1, is in this series. Jarvis [James D'Arcy], whom people have seen in the Iron Man movies, is the voice of Howard Stark, sorry, Tony Stark — that's going in the "Stark Jar" Tara has for if you mess up somebody's name, your name goes in the jar and at the end of the season, whoever gets picked out of the Stark Jar has to buy lunch for everybody.

Guggenheim: On Arrow, we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper and if you call Roy "Ray" and Ray "Roy," you have to put money into the jar. But because we have a different budget than you guys, the money in that jar actually goes to produce the episode — usually in its entirety. (Laughs.) So are there other characters from the Marvel cinematic universe that we might expect to see on your show?

Fazekas: Yes.

Guggenheim: Do you want to say who they are?

Fazekas: I cannot. This is actually an interesting question I would ask you: You've worked in the Marvel comic universe and I've never had such a high level of security. I understand why they do it in this day and age — even when Tara and I worked as assistants on The X Files where, when they did the first X Files movie, they were printing script pages out on red paper so you couldn't photocopy it and they were stamping everyone's name on the script. The level of security here is really high — because they don't want any spoilers out there — and as little as you can say, the better it is. They don't want anyone to know anything about it other than what they have to disclose. You're always literally looking to someone saying, "Can I say this or not?"

Butters: What is DC Entertainment like?

Guggenheim: DC is actually pretty chill. I will say [Arrow and Flash showrunner] Andrew Kreisberg and I tend to be the gatekeepers in terms of what's a secret or trying to keep spoilers from leaking out. DC never really dictates stuff to us. We're self-policing, and we always apply a story that I had heard about Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Spoiler alert: In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the Enterprise was blown up, and when Paramount cut the trailer, that scene was in the trailer. [Producer] Harve Bennett and [director-star] Leonard Nimoy went to Sherry Lansing — the head of Paramount at the time — saying, "That's a huge moment for us, we don't want that in the trailer." And Lansing replied, "Well, do you want people to be surprised or do you want them to go to the movie?" We use that as a barometer [on Arrow and Flash]. We're not militant but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.

Also of note was Guggenheim announcing his desire to write the Black Panther movie.

 

[Dr. Funkenstein]

^What of it, indeed, and (in the context of this show's setting) who really cares?

Because the answer to those questions are exactly the same as the ones previously asked.

 

[kitik]

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...ampaign=Feed:+Tvbythenumbers+(TVbytheNumbers)

Live + 3 Day Data for Tuesday, 1/6/15
· ABC's series debut of Marvel's Agent Carter grew to a 2.7 rating among Adults 18-49 (from a 1.9 in L+SD) in the L+3 numbers, spiking by +42% (+0.8 rating points) over its L+SD rating.

· The L+3 Adult 18-49 gain for Agent Carter (+42%) was higher than the L+3 lift of the debut telecast of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (+38%).

· Agent Carter added another +2.3 million Total Viewers after just 3 days of TV playback, building to 9.2 million viewers (from 6.9 million in L+SD).

Seems pretty good to me.

 

[Guy Gardener]

L+SD?

Oh that is adorable.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Nice.

I think the cinematography on the show is fine, particularly in an age when it's the norm to use washed-out or muddy palettes.

 

[Captain Craig]

I re-watched the two debut episodes again last night to see if I noticed anything new and see if I felt any different about it with nearly a week gone by. Nope on both accounts.
I didn't catch anything new and I still found the show to be lots of fun and am eager for this weeks episode!!

Someone made a Young Indy comparison and I could agree with that. I find the visuals and colors used to be quite enjoyable.

If I had one thing of note it's that for some reason I think Stark likely has more than one vault where he keeps his "best and deadliest" designs. Howard doesn't strike me as the type to keep all his eggs in one basket. Plus, if we are to believe from CA:TFA, the Hammond android from the Worlds Fair aka Original Human Torch should be in play and is something I'd like to see and I doubt the bad guys have that/him. Be nice to see Torch make an appearance!!