Steggy: YES. :D It's the bittersweet/lost/epic quality that makes me love it, and it kind of provides this ... mythic underpinning for the AC show, I guess -- and for TWS, too, from Steve's perspective -- that is completely lost if you "fix" it in some way.
I forgot to say earlier a big thing I also LOVE about Agent Carter is Cooper's Howard -- he's awesome (and a lot like MCU Tony).
AAAAA YES, HOWARD! The thing I love most about AC Howard is how ahead of his time he is in so many ways (not just technological), and how good a person he really is, while also being a charming smart-mouth. You can also kind of see the seeds of how he might turn out to be an alcoholic and a jerk and a terrible dad in his later years (though, leaving non-movie sources aside, I also think it makes a big difference that we see him mainly in the present day through the eyes of a son who resents him and is disinclined to see his good qualities). But he's also the guy who treats Peggy as an equal, interacts with Wilkes as a fellow scientist and nothing else, and derives gleeful delight from completely upending the Arena Club's stuffy good ol' boy atmosphere.
And Cooper really makes the role. He's got the perfect blend of smarmy and genuinely charming to pull it off. I think my favorite thing about it is that when I originally watched TFA (before seeing Avengers) I really wasn't that interested in it, and tuned in and out during the movie, so I first noticed Howard in the middle of the movie during the scene where he's flying Peggy and Steve into enemy territory in his plane. And even without having heard his name at all, it was blindingly obvious that this was Tony's dad; I picked up on that immediately. They found a guy who does a bang-on 1940s Tony Stark, while still managing to be distinctly his own character.
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I forgot to say earlier a big thing I also LOVE about Agent Carter is Cooper's Howard -- he's awesome (and a lot like MCU Tony).
AAAAA YES, HOWARD! The thing I love most about AC Howard is how ahead of his time he is in so many ways (not just technological), and how good a person he really is, while also being a charming smart-mouth. You can also kind of see the seeds of how he might turn out to be an alcoholic and a jerk and a terrible dad in his later years (though, leaving non-movie sources aside, I also think it makes a big difference that we see him mainly in the present day through the eyes of a son who resents him and is disinclined to see his good qualities). But he's also the guy who treats Peggy as an equal, interacts with Wilkes as a fellow scientist and nothing else, and derives gleeful delight from completely upending the Arena Club's stuffy good ol' boy atmosphere.
And Cooper really makes the role. He's got the perfect blend of smarmy and genuinely charming to pull it off. I think my favorite thing about it is that when I originally watched TFA (before seeing Avengers) I really wasn't that interested in it, and tuned in and out during the movie, so I first noticed Howard in the middle of the movie during the scene where he's flying Peggy and Steve into enemy territory in his plane. And even without having heard his name at all, it was blindingly obvious that this was Tony's dad; I picked up on that immediately. They found a guy who does a bang-on 1940s Tony Stark, while still managing to be distinctly his own character.