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Post by takewithfood on May 9, 2014 6:30:07 GMT -5
So, apparently this is a thing now! ABC has picked up " Marvel's Agent Carter", a series starring Hayley Atwell reprising her role as Agent Peggy Carter. It sounds like it will also star Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark, and possibly the Howling Commandos from The First Avenger as they found S.H.I.E.L.D. and do missions and stuff. It's based on the "Marvel One Shot: Agent Carter" short film (apologies for the Thai subtitles). I'm not clear on how long the season will be; sounds like it might be a shortened 13-episode series. Agents of Shield has also been picked up for a second season. ~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on May 9, 2014 7:44:04 GMT -5
Agents of SHIELD really picked up at the end there.
... I'm cautiously optimistic about this Agent Carter show, though I'm not sure we need ANOTHER Marvel espionage show. With the success of Arrow, I would think that Marvel would be more interested in trying to get a super hero show out there.
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Post by kito on May 10, 2014 3:15:30 GMT -5
there prob watign to see gotham and if lightning strikes twice
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Post by takewithfood on Mar 6, 2015 21:09:37 GMT -5
So, now that the series is over, what did you guys think?
~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Mar 6, 2015 23:45:28 GMT -5
Massively disappointed. The show spent far too much time pounding on the "Peggy can't get treated fairly because she's a woman!" thing and far too little time showing me Peggy being a badass spy. Its not that I deny that women weren't exactly respected in the workplace at that time, especially not in light of everything they'd done to keep the nation going while the men were off at war... its just that I thought the show had so much more potential than simply being an extended political rant, no matter how accurate it might have been.
Howard Stark was pretty awesome though. I actually found him much more believable and engaging than his son.
... for the record though, is Tony supposed to be REALLY old, or was Howard just really old when he had Tony? Because, like... I mean, Howard is supposed to be in his late 20's in 1947...
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Post by Dhark on Mar 7, 2015 1:01:22 GMT -5
Just watched the Pilot finally tonight myself- Been saving the DVR's until it was done.
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Post by Gris on Mar 7, 2015 4:05:02 GMT -5
The short duration made the pacing feel fine, no "monster of the week" episodes for the most part. The show has a nice feeling to it, and it works quite well, but I think that as WK says they were too focused on that theme. It works at first, and even with the theme around I think that Peggy gets to be quite the badass in every episode (in some more than others), but it gets tiresome when it starts to make no sense with what happens in the series (I won't talk about that, because spoilers).
So yeah, better paced and more focused than Agents of SHIELD (that made a quite good return this week), but still with a lot of room to improve.
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Post by takewithfood on Mar 7, 2015 7:10:05 GMT -5
I also rolled my eyes a lot at the way they handled the feminist aspects of the show. Too heavy-handed, but I guess it's written for a pretty low common denominator audience. Still, they could have spent less time on it. These details need to be more ambient, and not underlined so heavily - part of the setting, and not so much a part of the plot.
I was a bit disappointed that the show wasn't about her founding SHIELD. That's how the show was originally pitched, or at least so I thought, and I imagined it would involve the Howling Commandos a little more (although I actually preferred the agents they cast instead).
I actually hated Howard. lol I think his sensitive, caring side was more realistic than RDJ's Tony Stark's, too, but the womanizing was so cartoonish and silly, and didn't fit the show tonally. It's also frustrating to have the show spend so much time on the "Look at us, we care about women!" vibe, only to have Howard be portrayed as a lovable scamp who sleeps with a different woman every hour, and the women he sleeps with are all dumb bimbos who will beam a big ditsy smile while believing a flimsy excuse about being Peggy's cousin, or how he just looks a lot like Howard Stark. Ugh.
That said, I mildly enjoyed it. Or, at least, it was a really welcome break from Agents of SHIELD. The day SHIELD started up again, I realized what it was I prefer: Hoooooly crap is SHIELD ever melodramatic these days. About 75% of last week's episode was agents crying and talking about being traumatized and shouting and arguing and people needing hugs. It's rapidly turning into a daytime soap opera.
Anyway, I'm interested to see if Agent Carter gets picked up for another season. Maybe even just another mini-series during the break next year. I wouldn't say no. I'd like to see her in more of a leadership role, building something rather than scurrying around behind everyone's back quite so much.
~TWF
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Post by WildKnight on Mar 7, 2015 9:57:40 GMT -5
Here's the thing. In my time as a bachelor living with another bachelor, my roommate was every bit as much of a manwhore as Howard Stark, and every bit as insensitive an ass about it. The only real difference was that he wasn't nearly as successful, which could theoretically be attributed to his not having been nearly as good looking, nor nearly as wealthy. I'm probably on the opposite end of the "feminism" spectrum from most people here, but even I think that kind of behavior is just asinine... but I'm not under the impression that it doesn't exist. Some people are just... controlled by a base instinct.
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Post by takewithfood on Jan 22, 2016 17:26:19 GMT -5
So the first episode of the new season has aired; I liked it. I certainly enjoy the show more than Agents of Shield, anyway. Anyone else tuning in?
~TWF
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Post by Gris on Jan 23, 2016 6:23:14 GMT -5
I am since I like the lighthearted nature of it. I don't know how they are going to set up the season with weird things going on, more named characters, two different offices... seems a bit too noisy, but it could be fun.
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