"Agent Carter" season one discussion and spoilers

[Tom Hendricks]

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

Someone several years ago reopened an Automat in Manhattan. I went and ate at it for fun. It was awesome, wish it was still around. Didn't last too long.

 

[Turtletrekker]

BTS pics from ep. 4 with Stan Lee.

 

[CorporalClegg]

So hard to believe that guy is 92.

 

[Guy Gardener]

They say it's hard to bathe in the blood of virgins because virgins are so hard to find.

 

[Reverend]

So hard to believe that guy is 92.

Yeah, I think it's worth pointing out that he's old enough to remember the time in which this period piece is set. Indeed, I'm pretty sure he was already working in comics in '46. Has to be a little eerie for him to be on a set like that.

 

[Nerys Myk]

So hard to believe that guy is 92.

Yeah, I think it's worth pointing out that he's old enough to remember the time in which this period piece is set. Indeed, I'm pretty sure he was already working in comics in '46. Has to be a little eerie for him to be on a set like that.

Stan started working for Timely Comics in 1939 as a gofer. His first comic book story was published in 1941. By the end of 1941 he was editor in chief!

 

[Turtletrekker]

So hard to believe that guy is 92.

Yeah, I think it's worth pointing out that he's old enough to remember the time in which this period piece is set. Indeed, I'm pretty sure he was already working in comics in '46. Has to be a little eerie for him to be on a set like that.

Yeah, I was actually wondering what he thought of the sets and costumes and such.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Reprints just don't capture the essence of holding the original scrolls in your hands and being able to smell the decaying parchment.

ETA: This post makes no sense after the references to 191 in the previous posts were edited out.

 

[Forbin]

That's not a costume, he just pulled some clothes out of the back of his closet.

 

[Turtletrekker]

New clip from tomorrow's episode...

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT_mwi8gyHQ[/yt]

 

[Turtletrekker]

Reprints just don't capture the essence of holding the original scrolls in your hands and being able to smell the decaying parchment.

ETA: This post makes no sense after the references to 191 in the previous posts were edited out.

Ha! Sorry. I deleted my post when I realized that it wasn't very funny.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Less intelligent people will find humour in jokes you believe that you are better than to a point. Excessively stupid people however don't understand any humour and will attack anyone telling a joke because they assume that they are the but of something they can't quite connect the dots of.

Humour is not universal.

 

[Mr Light]

Humor is, though. (it's more obvious)

 

[Turtletrekker]

The line "It's my choice" was a call-back to earlier when Peggy was consoling Steve over the loss of Bucky.

"Did you believe in your friend? Did you respect him? Then stop blaming yourself. Allow Barnes the dignity of his choice. He damn well must have thought you were worth it."

Okay, it makes a bit more sense in that context, but the whole thing still has a 21st-century ambiance about it.

Show-runner Michele Fazekas claims that they do research on which terms and phrases were around back then.

Real fast, do you think you can list off all the 1946 slang terms you now know?

Michele Fazekas: You know it's funny, we actually try to not go all caricaturey with that. We sort of banned words like "dame and "broad" because we didn't want to go in that direction. However, what I have learned it there are certain turns of phrases that when you're writing you think, "Wait did that turn of phrase exist in 1946?" For instance, you know what didn't exist in 1946? Smart ass. I looked up the etymology on that, didn't exist in 1946. Turns out it was a term that came around in the 60s. But for instance, I wrote a line that said, "Oh I think someone's yanking your chain." And I had to look it up, did that exist in 1946? And actually it did; it's a mining term that exists from a long time ago. That's our research that we do. Did this word or turn of phrase exist back then? Somethings didn't come around until the 50s or 60s. So we try hard to be authentic in that way.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ The scene was actually a flashback to the Captain America movie, so they would have no control over it. Besides, just because they do research doesn't mean they catch everything. Some phrases and memes are so ubiquitous that they become almost unnoticeable.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Reprints just don't capture the essence of holding the original scrolls in your hands and being able to smell the decaying parchment.

ETA: This post makes no sense after the references to 191 in the previous posts were edited out.

Sorry.

 

[Christopher]

But a lot of the phrases and usages we think of as modern are actually a lot older than we think. For instance, you often hear people complain about the "modern" trend of using "literally" to mean "figuratively," but I heard it in the '40s Superman radio show, and I've read that it's actually been around for centuries -- it's one of those things that was done routinely for a long time before people started claiming it was wrong. I also noticed one or two uses in Superman of saying something that seemed to be a positive statement, pausing, then adding a sarcastic "Not!" at the end. (E.g. "What a great guy he is... not.") Not with the same emphatic delivery as in the '90s/'00s vernacular usage, but close enough that you'd think it was an anachronism if you heard it in a modern period production. But they said it in the actual 1940s.

 

[Forbin]

Just don't use "The whole nine yards" before world war II.

My mom uses it all the time - she was a teenager when it started.

(It refers, supposedly, to the length of a .50 caliber machine gun's ammo belt as installed in a WWII fighter plane - 27 feet.)

 

[Christopher]

^Wow, that's a grim origin for that saying. I always figured it was something sports-related, I guess.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just don't use "The whole nine yards" before world war II.

My mom uses it all the time - she was a teenager when it started.

(It refers, supposedly, to the length of a .50 caliber machine gun's ammo belt as installed in a WWII fighter plane - 27 feet.)

Me, too!

Shows you how little I know about sports!