Everything is Carter

[sholio]

... in my brain right now.

I posted a bit of meta over on Tumblr comparing two similar-yet-different scenes in 1x05 and 2x03, which I'm not reposting here because there are images and I'm lazy. However, if you have comments, feel free to make them here if you like, since tumblr is ... tumblr.

I also ran across a neat piece of tumblr meta: costuming choices in Agent Carter 2x03 (includes links for earlier posts in the series, which are also well worth reading). It's really thoughtful and interesting! I think a couple of the OP's conclusions might be reaching a bit, but there is also a lot of nuance in the costume color choices that are too consistent not to be significant, that I never noticed. So that's fun.

I'm crossing my fingers so hard that this season doesn't end up doing anything that's going to throw me for a loop in a bad kind of way. Because it might? And I can even think of some really specific, plausible things it might do that would throw me out just that little extra bit. Killing any of the main characters, say. But right now, as weird as it feels to say this so early into the season, I really do feel, as I did last season, that this is my favorite show ever ... and, oddly, without containing a bunch of the narrative tropes that I go for. Like, say, White Collar, or the Winter Soldier movie, are the sort of thing that, while they may have surprised me at the time, are blindingly obvious in retrospect. In various subsets, they've got the Platonic ideals of All My Things. Whereas Agent Carter kind of ... doesn't, in any particularly obvious way, and yet I'm still getting that same "written FOR ME" feeling from it this season as I did last season. It's not really the pieces; it's the package.

(If this were a show that were out in its entirety, rather than a new show, I think there actually are a couple of things I'd spoil myself for. Sadly that is not an option, so I must remain in suspense. :D)

Comments

here from network

[kore]

I'm so surprised and pleased at this show! I loved S1 so much, I was dreading S2, but so far it's been even better, in a lot of ways. I get that same "FOR ME" feeling too, which is pretty awesome. I've been feeling that way about a lot of media lately (Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, Fury Road, the new Star Wars movie, etc.).

Re: here from network

[sholio]

I am crossing my fingers it stays good! There's been a lot of good media coming out lately. I got that feeling off the new Star Wars in particular, too -- it was absolutely the sequel that my inner 12-year-old deserved. :D

Re: here from network

[kore]

I really was not interested in TFA, until a bunch of feminist friends figuratively grabbed me by the lapels and were all like "GO SEE IT. NOW," in the same way they'd talked about Fury Road, so I did and oh, man, when Rey calls the lightsaber into her hand and we get the Force theme....I cried. Right there in the theatre. I was not expecting to do that!

Re: here from network

[sholio]

REYYYY! I'm not a feminist myself, but I had SO much fun with it. :D

Re: here from network

[kore]

REEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYY. I also thought the opening sequence, almost wordless, of her in the desert was just great filmmaking. I could've watched two hours of that, no lie. Daisy Ridley was amazing.

Re: here from network

[sholio]

Oh YES, that opening sequence was amazing! And Daisy Ridley just knocks it out of the park. She's so great, and for me personally, Rey is so ... completely in line, I guess, with some of my personal archetypes (loner badlands scavenger women ftw!).

It's also a lot of fun to watch the fandom going through its current revival, and watching a new generation of fans getting into the new and the old characters. It's been really cool.