Peggy Carter is my Queen
Feb. 26th, 2015 02:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
netgirl_y2kI didn't get to watch the Agent Carter finale until just now. It's not being shown over here (boo, hiss!) and as the UK is turning into Big Brother on the internet censorship front, watching anything suspiciously foreign has become a total pain in the arse.
One upshot of this is that I have been watching a lot more UK telly. This should really be a whole other post, but in short: The Wolf Hall adaptation is wonderful; The The Casual Vacancy one less so; Broadchurch probably didn't need a second series, no, but it beat the hell out of yet another repeat of Midsomer Murders, and Call The Midwife is Sunday evening telly at its very finest.
The other upshot is that it turns out there were a lot of US shows I was only watching out of habit and didn't mind dropping (Once Upon a Time) and the ones I do want to keep up with (Elementary, The Good Wife) do get shown here, albeit weeks or months after their original airings, but they're not shows where I'm in the fandom, so I don't feel like I need to stay current to keep up with the conversation.
But Agent Carter, oh, Agent Carter. It had its flaws, and I'm not blind to them, but to me it was worth every second of swearing at my elderly macbook and wrangling VPNs.
I was actually slightly spoiled for the finale by opening my e-mail this morning to discover, like, six comments on my lone Agent Carter fic going HOW DID YOU KNOW?
I suppose if you predict the same thing 3000 times (the two female leads will a)run off together, or b) move in together) then eventually by the law of large numbers the universe has to throw you a bone.
Speaking of that fic, I'm actually kind of sorry that I can't get it together fannishly with the rest of the MCU, because not that I write fic for validation, and if I did, boy, would I be writing the wrong sort of fic, mostly, but damn, that there was some nice validation.
I hope Agent Carter gets a second series (it'll be interesting, actually, to see whether in this day and age a through the roof social media presence can compensate for lukewarm ratings) but if it doesn't this series worked for me as a whole, both in terms of plot, and in terms of Peggy's emotional arc of finally being able to let go of Steve.
I appreciate that the show didn't frame this by giving Peggy a new love interest. I think that if the show does get a season two it'll give Peggy a boy to kiss, and that'll be fine because it'll have earned it. I would be down with it being Souza, actually; he has a sad face, he looks great in an undershirt, he got his moment of badass awesome with the earplugs, and Peggy was into skinny Steve so she isn't about to be put off by his leg; he took Peggy's rain check on the drink like a man, and the way Peggy was looking at him afterwards, Daniel is a definite maybe. I actually really liked Peggy's lingering look at Souza; she doesn't have a new love interest, but she's open to the possibility now.
I'm glad Peggy/Thompson was a non-starter. Look, I actually came to like Jack as a character, I don't think he's a bad guy, fundamentally; I think he himself likes Peggy, I think he respects her, and what she's capable of; I also think the show showed that he's the kind of guy who'd let Peggy do all the work, congratulate her in private, then take all the credit in public, and still think he was doing Peggy a favour; not out of malice, but because it fits his view of how the world works.
In the meantime Peggy moved into a mansion with Angie, and she has a Black Widow nemesis who's obsessed with her, so whatever...
Peggy on the radio to Howard. Gah, I'm glad I finally got around to watching The First Avenger this week so I could properly angst over the parallels. Btw, Captain America, was fine, didn't love it, if I hadn't already adored Peggy from Agent Carter I probably wouldn't have bothered watching it to the end.
I also like them leaving it open ended as to whether Peggy was going back to the SSR, which I'm guessing was for the continuity reason that if they don't get renewed they can handwave her going straight onto SHIELD.
I loved the last scene between Peggy and Jarvis. If season two doesn't go there then fandom must; the ones where Peggy takes a gap year between the SSR and SHIELD and saves the day on a smaller scale with Jarvis in tow. They'd be a cross between the The Avengers (MCU) and The Avengers (original British flavour). Mr Jarvis, we're needed.
One upshot of this is that I have been watching a lot more UK telly. This should really be a whole other post, but in short: The Wolf Hall adaptation is wonderful; The The Casual Vacancy one less so; Broadchurch probably didn't need a second series, no, but it beat the hell out of yet another repeat of Midsomer Murders, and Call The Midwife is Sunday evening telly at its very finest.
The other upshot is that it turns out there were a lot of US shows I was only watching out of habit and didn't mind dropping (Once Upon a Time) and the ones I do want to keep up with (Elementary, The Good Wife) do get shown here, albeit weeks or months after their original airings, but they're not shows where I'm in the fandom, so I don't feel like I need to stay current to keep up with the conversation.
But Agent Carter, oh, Agent Carter. It had its flaws, and I'm not blind to them, but to me it was worth every second of swearing at my elderly macbook and wrangling VPNs.
I was actually slightly spoiled for the finale by opening my e-mail this morning to discover, like, six comments on my lone Agent Carter fic going HOW DID YOU KNOW?
I suppose if you predict the same thing 3000 times (the two female leads will a)run off together, or b) move in together) then eventually by the law of large numbers the universe has to throw you a bone.
Speaking of that fic, I'm actually kind of sorry that I can't get it together fannishly with the rest of the MCU, because not that I write fic for validation, and if I did, boy, would I be writing the wrong sort of fic, mostly, but damn, that there was some nice validation.
I hope Agent Carter gets a second series (it'll be interesting, actually, to see whether in this day and age a through the roof social media presence can compensate for lukewarm ratings) but if it doesn't this series worked for me as a whole, both in terms of plot, and in terms of Peggy's emotional arc of finally being able to let go of Steve.
I appreciate that the show didn't frame this by giving Peggy a new love interest. I think that if the show does get a season two it'll give Peggy a boy to kiss, and that'll be fine because it'll have earned it. I would be down with it being Souza, actually; he has a sad face, he looks great in an undershirt, he got his moment of badass awesome with the earplugs, and Peggy was into skinny Steve so she isn't about to be put off by his leg; he took Peggy's rain check on the drink like a man, and the way Peggy was looking at him afterwards, Daniel is a definite maybe. I actually really liked Peggy's lingering look at Souza; she doesn't have a new love interest, but she's open to the possibility now.
I'm glad Peggy/Thompson was a non-starter. Look, I actually came to like Jack as a character, I don't think he's a bad guy, fundamentally; I think he himself likes Peggy, I think he respects her, and what she's capable of; I also think the show showed that he's the kind of guy who'd let Peggy do all the work, congratulate her in private, then take all the credit in public, and still think he was doing Peggy a favour; not out of malice, but because it fits his view of how the world works.
In the meantime Peggy moved into a mansion with Angie, and she has a Black Widow nemesis who's obsessed with her, so whatever...
Peggy on the radio to Howard. Gah, I'm glad I finally got around to watching The First Avenger this week so I could properly angst over the parallels. Btw, Captain America, was fine, didn't love it, if I hadn't already adored Peggy from Agent Carter I probably wouldn't have bothered watching it to the end.
I also like them leaving it open ended as to whether Peggy was going back to the SSR, which I'm guessing was for the continuity reason that if they don't get renewed they can handwave her going straight onto SHIELD.
I loved the last scene between Peggy and Jarvis. If season two doesn't go there then fandom must; the ones where Peggy takes a gap year between the SSR and SHIELD and saves the day on a smaller scale with Jarvis in tow. They'd be a cross between the The Avengers (MCU) and The Avengers (original British flavour). Mr Jarvis, we're needed.