Agent Carter 1x05 "The Iron Ceiling"

[psocoptera]

I have nothing to say except that was AWESOME, what an excellent episode of television.

Well, okay, one thing: Peggy stops Dugan from throwing a grenade down the hole after the Widowling, saying "she's just a little girl" despite that she had already stabbed Dugan and shot a dude; Widowling goes on to shoot more. I'm really interested in this moment - is Peggy being ethical in a way Cap might have been, viewing a child soldier as a victim rather than an enemy combatant rather than retaliating in anger, or is she in fact being soft-hearted? ("Womanly", to go there explicitly.) Dugan doesn't call her on it later and we don't see Peggy dwelling on it (in this episode at least; I can't wait for things to develop with Dotty) but I would love to know whether Peggy thinks she was being weak or being strong, there.

Comments

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

Yes, all of this! I was kind of amused that Ben and I saw the episode title and went "oh, hey, that would be an awesome title for a book on women's experience of power/employment/business in the Soviet Union or something like that". And, filtered through superhero-action-lens, that was apparently exactly what they wanted us to think from the title!

I definitely read the "she's just a little girl" as being about her being a brainwashed child soldier and thus not really responsible for her actions and/or potentially rescuable, but that's a really good point. I hope they do follow up on it.

[q10.livejournal.com]

best. title. ever.