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Agent Carter 2x04
It's Tuesday and YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.
THIS SHOW
SO GOOD
I started grinning when the episode opened on that dragonslaying little girl who is OBVIOUSLY Peggy, and didn't stop until the end.
SO GOOD!
I love the mirroring of Peggy and Whitney's storylines, and the way they were bounded and pushed by the pressures of being female in the world they each grew up in. Whitney (in a tangled snarl of her actual choices, and the ways she's been poisoned by how she grew up) chooses to play the game by everyone else's rules in order to win. ("I bet you're real pretty when you smile.") Peggy narrowly escapes a marriage that might or might not have been happy, but would've meant hiding her light under a bushel and never being everything we know she could be, and strikes out on her own to write her own rulebook. The bit of mirroring that I loved especially is how both Peggy and Whitney's mothers told them what kind of woman to be, and they each took it and did their own thing with it -- Whitney decided to be her mother's kind of woman and win; Peggy decided not to do it at all.
(Furthermore, on an analytical level ... with daddy issues usually being such a thing in media, I really liked that this show made the I-assume-deliberate choice to focus on each young woman's relationship with her mother. We don't even know about Whitney's father, and Peggy's is only seen briefly in the background of one scene.)
I also really loved the glimpses of coming McCarthyism in this episode, and Peggy and Daniel's willingness to risk everything to do what's right, contrasted with Jack taking the Council's side in the previous episode. AUGH. SO MANY FEELS.
Also, how cute was Daniel in this episode? SO CUTE! All of his many, many faces at Peggy -- the entire body-in-the-trunk scene, and the bit where he makes off with evidence. DANIEL!
(I currently have about 80% of a fic that deals partly with Daniel's experiences in the war, and am delighted that it is not at all jossed by knowing he was in the Battle of Bostogne. It works perfectly, in fact! yay!)
And Jaaaaarvis. "Are you all right?" "Jarvelous!" HELP.
I am really meh on the love triangle (... quadrangle, whatever), but at least there's not TOO much of it in any given episode, and Peggy is mostly being crimefighting buddies with Daniel right now, which is much better than pining.
THIS SHOW
SO GOOD
I started grinning when the episode opened on that dragonslaying little girl who is OBVIOUSLY Peggy, and didn't stop until the end.
SO GOOD!
I love the mirroring of Peggy and Whitney's storylines, and the way they were bounded and pushed by the pressures of being female in the world they each grew up in. Whitney (in a tangled snarl of her actual choices, and the ways she's been poisoned by how she grew up) chooses to play the game by everyone else's rules in order to win. ("I bet you're real pretty when you smile.") Peggy narrowly escapes a marriage that might or might not have been happy, but would've meant hiding her light under a bushel and never being everything we know she could be, and strikes out on her own to write her own rulebook. The bit of mirroring that I loved especially is how both Peggy and Whitney's mothers told them what kind of woman to be, and they each took it and did their own thing with it -- Whitney decided to be her mother's kind of woman and win; Peggy decided not to do it at all.
(Furthermore, on an analytical level ... with daddy issues usually being such a thing in media, I really liked that this show made the I-assume-deliberate choice to focus on each young woman's relationship with her mother. We don't even know about Whitney's father, and Peggy's is only seen briefly in the background of one scene.)
I also really loved the glimpses of coming McCarthyism in this episode, and Peggy and Daniel's willingness to risk everything to do what's right, contrasted with Jack taking the Council's side in the previous episode. AUGH. SO MANY FEELS.
Also, how cute was Daniel in this episode? SO CUTE! All of his many, many faces at Peggy -- the entire body-in-the-trunk scene, and the bit where he makes off with evidence. DANIEL!
(I currently have about 80% of a fic that deals partly with Daniel's experiences in the war, and am delighted that it is not at all jossed by knowing he was in the Battle of Bostogne. It works perfectly, in fact! yay!)
And Jaaaaarvis. "Are you all right?" "Jarvelous!" HELP.
I am really meh on the love triangle (... quadrangle, whatever), but at least there's not TOO much of it in any given episode, and Peggy is mostly being crimefighting buddies with Daniel right now, which is much better than pining.
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Daniel and Peggy working together was great, and I loved Peggy's sheepish confession that it wasn't a possum in the trunk.
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... On a further side note, the work at Bletchley was so incredibly top-secret that even after the war, a lot of people never knew that their spouses/parents/etc. had worked there -- which means it's likely at the time that none of the other people in her life, possibly including her fiance, knew she was working for the war effort. The show doesn't necessarily suggest this high a level of secrecy (she just leaves the SOE recruitment letter lying around) but it adds an extra level to think about the likelihood that, even then, she was working to help the war effort while everyone else, even her parents, probably thought she was a secretary or something.
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And yay for when Whedon's DON'T JOSS YOU! Excited for your Daniel fic!!
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... the fic is, uh. It's such total idfic that it's completely embarrassing. I may or may not actually finish it. But it's nice to know I won't have to completely scrap like 3000 words or so ...
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