Actually, since each season has had a slightly different feel, and with the Michael Carter hints, it makes all kinds of sense for season 3 to have a cold-war-spy vibe, and take place in various glamorous European locations
I WOULD BE ON THAT LIKE WHITE ON RICE
for season three, having her in countries where she has no legal jurisdiction, pursuing her own investigation, would give us a new iteration of the "Peggy vs. The Man" vibe that the previous two seasons have had.
Oh, that would be great -- very Peggy too, she has her own moral compass, and doesn't question knocking down authority she thinks is corrupt. (OMG when she punched Evil Dude -- Vernon? -- in Sousa's office. That was glorious.)
... wait, is that James Tiptree? I had no idea whatsoever she was involved with the CIA! Details?
James Tiptree Jr., yes! She joined the Army in 1942 because she wanted to enlist under women officers, worked in photo intelligence, and second husband was in the CIA and she joined too in 1952, but resigned in 1955. My impression was she was one of the very few women there at that time and basically set up their surveillance branch, but I'd have to reread the bio to make sure. And apparently there was all that actual tussling between the FBI and OSS (which is basically SSR, down to the gadgets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services) and the OSS was split into different services and then kind of absorbed by the CIA, and SHIELD is kind of the superhero AU to the CIA, so it would be great to see Peggy right in the middle of all that turf-grabbing conflict.
still a little startled at how the first season of Agent Carter switched my allegiance entirely from re-imagining Peggy in various 21st century and/or time-travel situations that reunited her with Steve, Bucky, et al, to just wanting more of Peggy in her own time with her own people. Not that I wouldn't theoretically welcome a Peggy fixit that gave her a new lease on life in 2016, but then you'd have to deal with the fact that Jarvis and Angie and Daniel and Jack and EVERYBODY are all long dead and then suddenly it turns tragic.
Yeah, they handled that really beautifully -- Agent Carter S1 was kind of like Peggy's First Avenger, it really situated her in time and place and actually freed her character from Steve, where in TFA it was tragic because she thought he died and lost him, and then in TWS it was even MORE tragic (but thematic) that he came back but he'd lost her. S1 just completely blew all of that out of the water, and it was great.
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I WOULD BE ON THAT LIKE WHITE ON RICE
for season three, having her in countries where she has no legal jurisdiction, pursuing her own investigation, would give us a new iteration of the "Peggy vs. The Man" vibe that the previous two seasons have had.
Oh, that would be great -- very Peggy too, she has her own moral compass, and doesn't question knocking down authority she thinks is corrupt. (OMG when she punched Evil Dude -- Vernon? -- in Sousa's office. That was glorious.)
... wait, is that James Tiptree? I had no idea whatsoever she was involved with the CIA! Details?
James Tiptree Jr., yes! She joined the Army in 1942 because she wanted to enlist under women officers, worked in photo intelligence, and second husband was in the CIA and she joined too in 1952, but resigned in 1955. My impression was she was one of the very few women there at that time and basically set up their surveillance branch, but I'd have to reread the bio to make sure. And apparently there was all that actual tussling between the FBI and OSS (which is basically SSR, down to the gadgets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services) and the OSS was split into different services and then kind of absorbed by the CIA, and SHIELD is kind of the superhero AU to the CIA, so it would be great to see Peggy right in the middle of all that turf-grabbing conflict.
still a little startled at how the first season of Agent Carter switched my allegiance entirely from re-imagining Peggy in various 21st century and/or time-travel situations that reunited her with Steve, Bucky, et al, to just wanting more of Peggy in her own time with her own people. Not that I wouldn't theoretically welcome a Peggy fixit that gave her a new lease on life in 2016, but then you'd have to deal with the fact that Jarvis and Angie and Daniel and Jack and EVERYBODY are all long dead and then suddenly it turns tragic.
Yeah, they handled that really beautifully -- Agent Carter S1 was kind of like Peggy's First Avenger, it really situated her in time and place and actually freed her character from Steve, where in TFA it was tragic because she thought he died and lost him, and then in TWS it was even MORE tragic (but thematic) that he came back but he'd lost her. S1 just completely blew all of that out of the water, and it was great.