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All the news about the upcoming season of Agent Carter coming out of last weekend's Comicon just makes me so happy, you guys. Though I think I'm at the point where I need to stop reading Comicon news before I find out way more than I want to know, since the producers are starting to talk in earnest about the plot of season two now.
Speaking of that, I ran across an interesting little item in a memoir I was reading the other day: in the 1920s and '30s, it was fashionable for the American hoi polloi to hire English servants, because they thought it was classy. Howard Stark, y/n?
Obviously not only that, since there's the whole backstory in the show with Howard having helped save Anna from Nazis.
But it did seem like SUCH a Howard thing -- Howard seems very much like a guy who'd want to do all the proper rich-people things to be accepted by the upper class.
And it made me think that we don't know anything about Jarvis prior to WWII. I'm really intrigued with the idea that being a butler wasn't what he used to do, and not something he ever saw himself doing, but Howard jumped on the chance to add a Genuine English Manservant (TM) to his household. And Jarvis was basically okay with that, so he took to learning the job with his usual thoroughness and efficiency.
I don't know what he would actually have been beforehand, since his skill set that we've seen so far is pretty much all domestic or things he learned in the military (like flying a plane). Definitely not anything in the manual-labor or farming sort of line. Maybe something like a clerk, or some sort of tradesperson, perhaps?
I am SO DELIGHTED we'll see Anna in season two, though! That was one thing I did feel was lacking in the first season. I'm really looking forward to that. :D
Speaking of that, I ran across an interesting little item in a memoir I was reading the other day: in the 1920s and '30s, it was fashionable for the American hoi polloi to hire English servants, because they thought it was classy. Howard Stark, y/n?
Obviously not only that, since there's the whole backstory in the show with Howard having helped save Anna from Nazis.
But it did seem like SUCH a Howard thing -- Howard seems very much like a guy who'd want to do all the proper rich-people things to be accepted by the upper class.
And it made me think that we don't know anything about Jarvis prior to WWII. I'm really intrigued with the idea that being a butler wasn't what he used to do, and not something he ever saw himself doing, but Howard jumped on the chance to add a Genuine English Manservant (TM) to his household. And Jarvis was basically okay with that, so he took to learning the job with his usual thoroughness and efficiency.
I don't know what he would actually have been beforehand, since his skill set that we've seen so far is pretty much all domestic or things he learned in the military (like flying a plane). Definitely not anything in the manual-labor or farming sort of line. Maybe something like a clerk, or some sort of tradesperson, perhaps?
I am SO DELIGHTED we'll see Anna in season two, though! That was one thing I did feel was lacking in the first season. I'm really looking forward to that. :D
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