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Friday, February 6th, 2015 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Agent Carter. I am on the third episode right now. You guys can catch it for free on www.hulu.com.
Like...my thoughts are a jumbled red haze.
A jumbled red haze. I will not be able to coalesce them into a proper blog post until later on. I just...I don't...
Can you guys guess how I feel about this show? No, like, seriously, can you guess? I don't even know if I should write a coherent blog post (hint: I am not wasting my time on a goddamn deconstruction for this shit, sorry if that disappoints, but hell to the fuck no) on Agent Carter.
But can you guess?
--Amarie
Like...my thoughts are a jumbled red haze.
A jumbled red haze. I will not be able to coalesce them into a proper blog post until later on. I just...I don't...
Can you guys guess how I feel about this show? No, like, seriously, can you guess? I don't even know if I should write a coherent blog post (hint: I am not wasting my time on a goddamn deconstruction for this shit, sorry if that disappoints, but hell to the fuck no) on Agent Carter.
But can you guess?
--Amarie
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Date: 2015-02-06 09:12 pm (UTC)Boo, the need to establish an obvious love interest right off. Yes, we get it, he's the war hero that respects her, the one and only in the entire agency that hired her in the first place. (Seriously, who would have hired her and then been alright with her becoming a glorified secretary.)
Boo, an Intelligence Agency acting like... well... not a covert intelligence agency. A good spy ring, even of the time, doesn't work by being obvious and choosing only the guys that look like they're G-men. That might be the FBI, but a spy organization should operate a little differently, with an eye towards hidden assets, particularly those that are hidden within cultural expectations.
I'm bingewatching on Third Rock from the Sun right now and... Sally Solomon would kick all their asses, then be comically exasperated at Agent Carter that all of them had lived until that point.
Being that I've only seen two episodes thusfar, I hesitate to imagine where they've gone and what offenses they may have caused.
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Date: 2015-02-07 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-07 11:38 pm (UTC)This becomes somewhat more galling because Agent Carter's character began in the start of the Captain America series, in which Steve Rogers assembled a diverse team for the battle against Hydra/against the Nazis. The Cap. was the most visible member of the team but, were it not for the whole team, Cap. doesn't save America.
They didn't get a lot of screen time and characterization. But, in terms of continuity, this provides Agent Carter with ample opportunity to recruit, either for her agency or as personal assets, those who would be most likely to be left behind by the GI bill and the other aspects of the New Deal that made the economic prosperity of the 50s possible. (Total aside, but, if you long for the 50s, you long for the New Deal, not for deregulation.)
Carter's agency is turned into little more than a slightly-less-public FBI so that the troubles of a woman in what is seen as a man's field can be made more blatant. Why not, while we're at it, show the impact racism is having on the black war hero who's likely to have been commanded to take his hat off for a white person or the Asian fellow who's likely been repeatedly accused of fighting for the enemy. If not those who were expressly on the Cap's team, how about those who were close by?
This would be far too early for Nick Fury even to have been born. But, given his age at the times of the movies, he would have had to fight his way past both blatant and implicit racism. For all that we have so much focus on the Stark Dad (or, more likely, grandfather, considering Tony's age at the time of the movies), why not a Fury ancestor, or at least somebody that would show Fury that it's possible.
Nick Fury would need that. He's a character. He doesn't *know* that he's played by Samuel L. Jackson... though Stan Lee only knows what would happen if he figures that out.
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Date: 2015-02-11 11:13 pm (UTC)And honestly, I'm like my fellow fangirls of color: I don't harbor any hopes at all about the possibility that they'll amp up their diversity game. I don't expect to see Nick Fury, see Peggy get a black friend...nope. Don't expect it at all. : /
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Date: 2015-02-06 11:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-07 05:21 pm (UTC)Noooo, this has SURPASSED that kind of whiteness. Like, I don't even know what the fuck to call it.
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Date: 2015-02-07 05:47 pm (UTC)Impressive. In the bad way.
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Date: 2015-02-07 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-08 09:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-11 11:11 pm (UTC)