Amph Marvel's Agent Carter

My only complaint on the entire season so far is that it hasn't had enough Howard Stark.

 

for me the musical sequence seemed sudden and out of place. and i can't figure what's going on with thompson

 

I'm really enjoying Agent Carter this season, possibly even more than last season, which I loved. I'm disappointed that next week is the finale, as I really wouldn't mind more episodes.

Early on I was hoping that the flamingo would be more of a recurring joke than it has been, though I kinda think it might have been represented in the musical sequence, heh. The outfit colors of the dancers appearing with Jarvis in it reminded me of the flamingo. I enjoyed the choreography and the entire "spectacle," if that's the right word, of the musical sequence.

 

I enjoyed the musical sequence at the beginning of the last episode. It was reminiscent of Golden Era Broadway. I even made a "New York, New York!" ref when I saw the guy in the sailor suit.

 

Gamma rays! It's all connected!

I thought the musical number was quite a stretch. Some producer or director really wanted that to be part of the episode. It would have been cool if they were able to get Steve Rogers in that dream sequence, as after all, Steve had Peggy in his Age of Ultron dream sequence.

I'm liking this Thompson fella. He's actually becoming a player rather than just another 2D foil. He's like becoming the Grant Ward of the bunch.

Howard Stark probably costs too much to make him a regular on the show, thus the socially awkward doctor dude that build the gamma ray gun with Howard's plans.

Dottie has been a real highlight for me.

 

Spoiler

Wait, WHAT. Whatever happened to Sousa/Violet and Carter/Wilkes? I really thought that was going to happen

Also, is Thompson dead?

Also, the way they resolved the whole thing with Whitney Frost seemed rather anti-climatic.

 

Spoiler

"Jarvis! You just hit a woman with my car!"
"I know sir."
"She's a two time Oscar nominee"
"Ms. Frost is quite resilient. She's fine. Trust me."

 

Spoiler

Mmm well still, I thought Sousa and Violet were perfect, whereas Sousa and Carter seemed much more like just friends.

 

I loves me some Agent Carter and I think it's a more enjoyable watch than the increasingly dour Agents of SHIELD. But I think the main plotline wasn't quite as propulsive as it was in S1 but it totally makes up for it in style and the humour and actor chemistry this year was even better than before (You can see they were kinda stretching because we'd get very awesome but completely superfluous asides like Peggy's dream dance sequence). Whitney Frost was played by really cool actress and was a nifty antagonist but not sure if she needed 10 whole episodes, let's say they did her arc in 5 eps and, for the love of God, give us 5 eps of Dottie / Zola / Doctor Faustus / Winter Solider, I think it would have given the season more of a kick.

I guess the "Agent Carter" One Shot is still canon, it would have to take place at the end of her SSI tenure since Howard calls her up and establishes SHIELD. So instead of it happening before S1 of AC (even though it's shown in some clips, but it's a montage to whatever) you'd set it after S2.

Barring a miracle renewal and/or The Mouse / Marvel forcing ABC to air Season 3 (or maybe putting it on Netflix... where it would not mesh with the other Marvel shows at all) this was quite possibly the final Agent Carter due to ratings being quite bad (Unless they move it to the summer or Most Wanted isn't a "bridge" show in between AoS seasons. Or maybe they'll dump it on Friday nights?). So if it is, I guess we can view the Jack Thompson murder as some sort of "Hail HYDRA!" scheme because they wanted the info on Carter. If there is a renewal, probably Carter will spend the season hunting down who killed Jack

 

I thought it fit tonally with the show and was really fun, it was just crowbarred in with a little less delicacy than it could have been. I would have preferred if they did some sort of blah blah blah mind control sci-fi dream hoju reason for it to happen as opposed to "Peggy got knocked out, dream sequence!"

 

I would agree that the season finale was a bit underwhelming. Although, there was that part that reminded me of Arkham Asylum. That would be funny if Peggy turned into Batman and started locking all these people in some insane asylum. I mean, Dottie might not be playing with a full deck herself.

I thought Peggy was pretty randy with Sousa too. Like get a room already. I liked it! It's probably been awhile with her, I'm sure.

An right when I start to like the Thompson character that thing had to happen. Not cool. But it does provide a cliffhanger and a hope for season 3. Season 2 really did well in building a team and supporting characters for Peggy and I'd like to see that continue. I really want to see who Peggy ends up marrying.

 

I didn't like

Spoiler

how easily Whitney Frost went down in the final battle. That was just anti-climactic. Like Phillip Pullman wrote it or something

But, overall, not as strong as the rest of the season, but still damn good. Howard Stark and Jarvis ... fantastic.

 

that was a surprising ending.
i like that they have a continuing storyline for a short season, and yet it kind of gets of old too. like they need more than one thing going on to keep it interesting.
i have my doubts they'll bring it back.

 

Great news, a decision that comes from above ABC, you would think, with Disney willing to take a loss leader. If it isn't going to go beyond a third, though, I hope they get enough notice to wrap it up in a bow.

 

So, we haven't heard anything directly from ABC -- so I'm skeptical until then -- but good news for now.

Also, there's some speculation that one of the main Marvel guys (can't remember if Loeb or Feige) was directly involved and championing Agent Carter in a way that was different than SHIELD, Most Wanted, etc... which gave AC a leg up.

 

Re the finale,

Spoiler

I looked carefully at the killer and didn't spot clues. Wore gloves, brown trousers and shoes, could be man or woman, right handed *I think?* so when, or if, the s.3 picks up, it'll be grand to see an investigation or even simply a mention, if writers decide to pick up another storyline. Let's hope there is a s.3, because the period detail alone was delightful. If there's no continuation, the romantic angle was neatly tied up, at least to my viewing, and the plot concluded well enough. I grieve for Ana's loss, though.