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I watched the new Agent Carter show (of course I did, hello, it's me *waves nerd flag*).
And I really liked it!
Way more than I was expecting, honestly. I was tentatively looking forward to it, but I guess the most I was hoping for is "not terrible and has a lot of Hayley Atwell" and it's actually great! Yay for low expectations! It's funny and exciting, the cast is great, and the ongoing plot is keeping me guessing. :D
Honestly, I think one of the things I liked most about the show (and one of the things that came as a surprise) is that it's not turning out to be "incompetent sexist agents bumble around while Peggy runs rings around them". The background agents are actually really a lot of fun, while also being true to their time period: entirely competent at their jobs, likable in some ways, absolute dicks in others. (The interrogation scene, oh my god. And yet I loved how matter-of-fact it was, and how even Sousa, who I guess is more or less the "sympathetic" one of the group, was just casually doing his job while it was going on, because that's How Things Are Done.)
And it's full of wonderful deadpan humor ("I know I like to strap a chair to my ass and go for a walk") and clever little things like radio!Captain America actually being this nerdy, totally non-hero-looking guy with a Captain America voice. Peggy and Jarvis have a great rapport, too; I am all over the bantering-and-saving-each-other's-lives thing, and I also like that he's married, so there's no sexual tension at all -- actually no romance of any kind so far, which is refreshingly nice. (Sousa may eventually turn out to be the guy she marries, but it's so low-key so far and not at all forced that I wouldn't mind at all if that turns out to be the case. I like him!)
It's really nice to have a new show I'll be looking forward to every week -- at least as long as it lasts since it's just a miniseries. But now I'm really hoping it'll be picked up as a full series; that'd be awesome!
And I really liked it!
Way more than I was expecting, honestly. I was tentatively looking forward to it, but I guess the most I was hoping for is "not terrible and has a lot of Hayley Atwell" and it's actually great! Yay for low expectations! It's funny and exciting, the cast is great, and the ongoing plot is keeping me guessing. :D
Honestly, I think one of the things I liked most about the show (and one of the things that came as a surprise) is that it's not turning out to be "incompetent sexist agents bumble around while Peggy runs rings around them". The background agents are actually really a lot of fun, while also being true to their time period: entirely competent at their jobs, likable in some ways, absolute dicks in others. (The interrogation scene, oh my god. And yet I loved how matter-of-fact it was, and how even Sousa, who I guess is more or less the "sympathetic" one of the group, was just casually doing his job while it was going on, because that's How Things Are Done.)
And it's full of wonderful deadpan humor ("I know I like to strap a chair to my ass and go for a walk") and clever little things like radio!Captain America actually being this nerdy, totally non-hero-looking guy with a Captain America voice. Peggy and Jarvis have a great rapport, too; I am all over the bantering-and-saving-each-other's-lives thing, and I also like that he's married, so there's no sexual tension at all -- actually no romance of any kind so far, which is refreshingly nice. (Sousa may eventually turn out to be the guy she marries, but it's so low-key so far and not at all forced that I wouldn't mind at all if that turns out to be the case. I like him!)
It's really nice to have a new show I'll be looking forward to every week -- at least as long as it lasts since it's just a miniseries. But now I'm really hoping it'll be picked up as a full series; that'd be awesome!