So, no new episode next week.
"Agent Carter" season one discussion and spoilers
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What the hell is wrong with ABC's audio mixing? Their shows this season keep airing with the sound-effects track so loud that it nearly drowns out the dialogue. It's hard to assess what I thought about the episode itself because I was so annoyed by the presentation.
I don't get how Peggy got Jarvis released by mentioning the stolen car report in his hearing. I guess the idea was that they were somehow making him think they had more on him than they actually did, or something... but the blond guy whose name I haven't registered yet specifically mentioned the stolen car report while interrogating Jarvis. So I don't get that part.
Lynsey Fonseca's '40s accent needs work, I think; she sounds a little too modern. And I was surprised when she asked Peggy about her "crappy" day, since that sounded too modern as well; but Dictionary.com says it's been around since the 1840s. I guess that when your knowledge of period lingo comes mainly from radio and films, it wouldn't give a good sense of what cuss words people used.
I don't get how Peggy got Jarvis released by mentioning the stolen car report in his hearing. I guess the idea was that they were somehow making him think they had more on him than they actually did, or something... but the blond guy whose name I haven't registered yet specifically mentioned the stolen car report while interrogating Jarvis. So I don't get that part.
Lynsey Fonseca's '40s accent needs work, I think; she sounds a little too modern. And I was surprised when she asked Peggy about her "crappy" day, since that sounded too modern as well; but Dictionary.com says it's been around since the 1840s. I guess that when your knowledge of period lingo comes mainly from radio and films, it wouldn't give a good sense of what cuss words people used.
Yup. Pre-empted for the State of the Union address. That's why we got two eps on premiere night.
She sounds like Laverne and/or Shirley.
Which is only maybe 10 years off target?
Which is only maybe 10 years off target?
I don't know if this has been brought up, but the typewriter communication used by the bad guys reminded me of Fringe.
They were saying that they couldn't find the stolen car report to suggest that Jarvis was making it up that he had filed one. Since Peggy "found" the report, it supports Jarvis' alibi that he did report the car stolen.
Promo for 1.04, "The Blitzkrieg Button"...
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Yeah, me too.
I'm also expecting the women's boarding house to provide some drama. If proprietor Miriam Fry knows that one of the girls had a man visitor, then what else does she know? Was Miriam watching, and did she see that Peggy has a gun and let the visitor proceed? Does she know that Peggy's Complete Works of Shakespeare isn't really Shakespeare?
Mirrium Fry = Meagan Fay.
I mean it's not almost exactly the same name, but it is almost exactly the same name.
Sorta?
Why not let her walk around on set answering to her own name on and off camera like she's Tony Danza or almost all the secondary characters from the Office (look it up).
I used to be sweet on Meagan back during her Roseanne days, and I haven't seen a reason to stop yet.
I mean it's not almost exactly the same name, but it is almost exactly the same name.
Sorta?
Why not let her walk around on set answering to her own name on and off camera like she's Tony Danza or almost all the secondary characters from the Office (look it up).
I used to be sweet on Meagan back during her Roseanne days, and I haven't seen a reason to stop yet.
Really liked this episode. Is it just me or have the other SSR guys become a lot more competent since last week? I like it anyway, and the chief seems to be channelling Bob Stack, which is cool. 
I liked that the symbol didn't drag on the whole time.
I wonder if Peggy's going to run into a big goofy brunnet named Buffy and her shorter blond friend Hildy sometime?
That fight was great. I enjoyed that one.
Wow, Kolowowski got murdered. I did not see that one coming.
I also noticed they mentioned the brain guys, so this is an investigative arm rather than the whole organization.
Sucks having to wait 2 weeks.
I liked that the symbol didn't drag on the whole time.
I wonder if Peggy's going to run into a big goofy brunnet named Buffy and her shorter blond friend Hildy sometime?
That fight was great. I enjoyed that one.
Wow, Kolowowski got murdered. I did not see that one coming.
I also noticed they mentioned the brain guys, so this is an investigative arm rather than the whole organization.
Sucks having to wait 2 weeks.
Hey, this episode actually looked good! It's almost like they realised Television is a visual medium. Using light and shadow to convey meaning, that sort of thing.
Snark aside though, I really enjoyed this week probably a bit more than the opening two parter. Even though it was shorted, it felt a little more action packed to me, and it was nice to get some backstory on Jarvis and to move the story forward as fast as they did. I guess with only 6 episodes you need a breakneck pace to get through it all :P
Snark aside though, I really enjoyed this week probably a bit more than the opening two parter. Even though it was shorted, it felt a little more action packed to me, and it was nice to get some backstory on Jarvis and to move the story forward as fast as they did. I guess with only 6 episodes you need a breakneck pace to get through it all :P
How is Spider-Man less goofy than Ant-Man?
Thanks, I was just wondering that, too.
Any "thing" plus "Man" is a goofy name really.
Well, maybe a few aren't bad, like Power Man, ...
no, it's still goofy.
Take away all of the animal names, and then the power names, what's left. I guess just about any name can sound goofy.
And I don't think Absorbing Man sounds bad. He Absorbs the attributes of what he touches.
Well, it all started with Superman. And that came from the Nietzschean idea that was a big thing in the philosophy and culture of the '30s and '40s. It was interesting to listen to the early Superman radio series -- in the pre-WWII years, the radio version of Superman kept his existence secret, not announcing or introducing himself to people, and the people who did glimpse him or hear rumors of him kept referring to him as "some kind of superman." Sure, no doubt that was partly just contrived writing to insert his name into the scripts, but it suggests that the term was seen as generic at the time, something of a household word even before Kal-El appropriated it.
Interesting, though... National/DC's first superheroes included Superman, the Bat-Man (later Batman), Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Starman, and Hourman (along with others like Green Lantern, Flash, Zatara, etc.), but Timely/Marvel's most prominent early heroes were the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Only a couple of Timely's '30s and '40s characters ever had "Man" in their names, and they were obscure ones at that (Dynamic Man and Moon Man). So when Lee later on started coining all these "Noun-Man" names later on, he was following DC's lead -- even though pretty much all of comics history from the Silver Age onward has been defined by DC following Marvel's lead.
Girly Man!
Wasn't the term "Superman" originally associated with eugenics, and at some point Naziism?
Or maybe it's just that the Nazis appropriated the term.
"Originally?" No. Certainly Nietzsche's ubermensch concept, generally translated into English as "superman," was co-opted by eugenics movements like the Nazis, but they didn't coin it. And the way the Nazis interpreted it was a corruption of the idea as Nietzsche intended it.
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