Agent Carter finale
Feb. 25th, 2015 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightLots of you haven't seen Agent Carter, I know, so all I can say to you is, if you get the chance, do watch it. It's great.
Spoilers for the finale behind cut.
I...liked it.
The slight hesitation comes from...well, I don't really know where it comes from, but I suspect there may be some plot point that didn't work for me and I can't quite figure out what it is yet. Hmm.
Otherwise, I thought it was all good - and only about Agent Carter clearing Howard Stark's name up to a point. Really, it was about them both - especially Carter - laying the ghost of Captain America to rest, part of which involved her being able to talk Howard down from his suicide mission, the way she was unable for so many reasons (not least because it was the right thing to do) to talk Captain America out of his.
Also very important was that she finally won the respect of her colleagues at the SSR, including the irrepressible Thompson (though, unlike when he won his war medal, Thompson did deserve some of the credit this time, and duly took it all).
I also liked that Peggy turned down a date with Sousa (though I'm sure if he asked her again, she would go) to spend time with Angie. Peggy and Angie have a really fun friendship. I do like Sousa, though, and would be happy enough to see something develop between them.
I liked that Jarvis got his heroic moment too. And I liked the final scene of Peggy standing on the Brooklyn Bridge and pouring Steve's blood into the river, and the sudden fade to black, just like the movies of the time.
Actually, maybe that's what's bothering me. The fact that that wasn't the final scene, but instead the one of Dr Zola and Finhoff in the cell. I wish that had come first and then the scene on the bridge.
Anyway, with Dottie escaping and that Zola/Finhoff scene, they left plenty of material for a season 2, if there ever is one. If not, though, I'm happy with how it ended.
I loved this series. It looked great, the characters were engaging, the plot was well thought out. It was never boring.
Way, way better than AoS, which comes back next week. (Yawn!)
Finally, despite the grousing of some fanboys about all the male characters (except Sousa, I suppose) being awful sexist stereotypes there to make Carter look better, I don't think that was the case. Yes, they were sexist. That was pretty much par for the course in those days, surely? But I think the show also made pretty clear that the SSR men themselves were quite damaged by what they'd been through during the war (even Thompson). It wasn't unsympathetic to them, IMO, just showing things as they were.
Where it did fall down, though, was in the facile portrayal of race (well, not facile, more like cowardly). You would hardly believe watching it that large parts of the US were still 'officially' segregated at the time, and the parts that weren't were hardly oases of equality for non-white Americans. However, in this, the show is just following on from the way race was (not) dealt with in the Captain America movie, from which you would never know that the US armed forces were segregated too.
Oh well. Maybe a case of picking your battles?
Spoilers for the finale behind cut.
I...liked it.
The slight hesitation comes from...well, I don't really know where it comes from, but I suspect there may be some plot point that didn't work for me and I can't quite figure out what it is yet. Hmm.
Otherwise, I thought it was all good - and only about Agent Carter clearing Howard Stark's name up to a point. Really, it was about them both - especially Carter - laying the ghost of Captain America to rest, part of which involved her being able to talk Howard down from his suicide mission, the way she was unable for so many reasons (not least because it was the right thing to do) to talk Captain America out of his.
Also very important was that she finally won the respect of her colleagues at the SSR, including the irrepressible Thompson (though, unlike when he won his war medal, Thompson did deserve some of the credit this time, and duly took it all).
I also liked that Peggy turned down a date with Sousa (though I'm sure if he asked her again, she would go) to spend time with Angie. Peggy and Angie have a really fun friendship. I do like Sousa, though, and would be happy enough to see something develop between them.
I liked that Jarvis got his heroic moment too. And I liked the final scene of Peggy standing on the Brooklyn Bridge and pouring Steve's blood into the river, and the sudden fade to black, just like the movies of the time.
Actually, maybe that's what's bothering me. The fact that that wasn't the final scene, but instead the one of Dr Zola and Finhoff in the cell. I wish that had come first and then the scene on the bridge.
Anyway, with Dottie escaping and that Zola/Finhoff scene, they left plenty of material for a season 2, if there ever is one. If not, though, I'm happy with how it ended.
I loved this series. It looked great, the characters were engaging, the plot was well thought out. It was never boring.
Way, way better than AoS, which comes back next week. (Yawn!)
Finally, despite the grousing of some fanboys about all the male characters (except Sousa, I suppose) being awful sexist stereotypes there to make Carter look better, I don't think that was the case. Yes, they were sexist. That was pretty much par for the course in those days, surely? But I think the show also made pretty clear that the SSR men themselves were quite damaged by what they'd been through during the war (even Thompson). It wasn't unsympathetic to them, IMO, just showing things as they were.
Where it did fall down, though, was in the facile portrayal of race (well, not facile, more like cowardly). You would hardly believe watching it that large parts of the US were still 'officially' segregated at the time, and the parts that weren't were hardly oases of equality for non-white Americans. However, in this, the show is just following on from the way race was (not) dealt with in the Captain America movie, from which you would never know that the US armed forces were segregated too.
Oh well. Maybe a case of picking your battles?