Agent Carter 2x03

[sholio]

THIS SHOW IS SO GREAT AND I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS SEND HEEEEELLLLLPPPPP

Seriously, I do have an OT3 for this show, and I had NO IDEA Jack was going to even be in this episode at all, and I got so many scenes with my OT3 and various subsets of them (.... frequently being awful to each other, but what else is new). AAAAAA FEEEEEEELINGS, SO MANY FEELINGS. ... also, my longtime headcanon that Jack really likes Sousa and wants to be friends with him? SUCH CANON OMG. And he can't quite figure out why Sousa won't reciprocate. It's because you're essentially a dick and are constantly being a jerk to someone Sousa really likes, Jack, CATCH A CLUE. (There was something so terribly final about their goodbye, though. Please do the right thing, Jack! You're SO CLOSE! also try not to die, plz)

(What is it with this show and characters turning down drink invitations? Can the last scene of this season just be EVERYONE -- Jason and Rose included, and the Jarvises too -- going out for drinks? *headcanons happily*)

Okay, confession time: I actually spoiled myself for what was going on with Jason by (very unwisely) reading the Marvel wiki's entry on the comics version of Jason Wilkes. In the comics, he's a minor character who accidentally makes himself invisible/intangible because SCIENCE!, so having read that this weekend -- and then thoroughly kicked myself for it -- I was very glad that they didn't drag it out more than another episode. No idea where this is actually going right now! Though I love Jason attempting to SCIENCE! his way out of the situation he's in while unable to touch anything. I have a feeling Jarvis's life is going to be something of a trial for the next few days. More of a trial than usual, I mean ...

AND, HOWARD! You utterly ridiculous darling, you. Howard and Peggy, Howard and Jarvis ... awwww, he's afraid Peggy will awesome his butler right out from under him. (Also, Jarvis lampshading his own fate in the scene with the security system -- AAAUGH.)

I liked seeing Peggy with the punching bag. One of my small points of nonsuspension of disbelief in this show is that we see Peggy doing all this athletic stuff but never actually working out or practicing. I'd like to think that she practices a lot. At least we've seen her doing it once now!

Also Whitney Frost is so terrible and excellent! A+ villain, here's hoping she survives the season so she can come back to wreak more havoc. Her power is amazing and awful, and I love that she's actually the genius behind Isodyne, but people underestimate her because all they see is the starlet. Okay, granted, she's also an awful person, but she's slowly turning out to be quite the Magnificent Bastard, between her casual manipulation of Chadwick and her science!brains and being the real mastermind in the relationship.

SEVEN MORE WEEKS OF THIS, I'M GOING TO DIEEEEEEEE

Comments

[lilacsigil]

I enjoyed Season 1, but they're really knocking it out of the park in this season. It's so great! Villains, heroes, the ambiguous Thompson, everyone! I love all the little wider Marvel Universe touches too, like Jarvis's voice and the mention of Broxton and the proto arc reactor sketch on the back wall of Howard's lab!

[sholio]

Yessss, I think this season is even better than the last, and I hope it continues to be good! I loved the Broxton mention, but I didn't catch the arc reactor one! Will have to look for that. It's also kind of funny that last week I was wondering if we'd get any cool spy gadgets and this week was pretty much ALL cool spy gadgets and wacky Stark science.

[madripoor_rose]

I laughed so hard at Peggy's reaction to Howard making a movie based on a comic book!

I was hoping for a Captain America movie filming, since I thought Peg grinding her teeth through every Betty Carver scene in the radio show was the best bit in season one, but I really like what they're doing with Hollywoodland in this.

[sholio]

haha, yes, all the meta stuff in this episode was a delight! Apparently the comic Howard's movie is based on is also an actual, though obscure, old comic that Marvel has the rights to.

[madripoor_rose]

Oh, that just adds another whole level of cool!

[gwyn]

I'm sure this is not why they had Jack asking Daniel for a drink, but I suddenly thought, wow, what if he's gay? That could explain so much. I mean, men back then didn't have to be gay to ask a work pal out for drinks, but he seemed so disappointed and now I'm wondering if that could be what they're talking about when they talk about having more diversity in the show. That could make him so complicated--struggling to hide that in his position could just be the most amazing story. I know they won't, but…a part of me wondered.

[sholio]

Oh ... hmmm, that is an interesting thought! I agree that it wasn't the subtext of the scene, but it would actually fit very well with everything we've seen of him so far. It's also interesting that we've never seen him with a girlfriend on the show, or even expressing interest, aside from things like the "girl at the phone company who'd like to owe me a favor" bit in the first episode, which goes along with the boys' club atmosphere of his workplace and the persona he cultivates.

In any case, while I guess I don't really expect it, I don't think it would be at all out of place with what we've seen so far.

[sheron]

Haha, that would explain why he acts like he doesn't like Peggy... he must be jealous of the attention Daniel pays to her. XD Well, I don't actually see it happening, but it's an interesting angle!