Agent Carter 1x08

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Mehhhh. Okay, I am usually one to love parallels and you'd think I would have been all over Peggy Carter on the radio with another dude flying a plane. Except, look, the first dude was the title character of his movie and *Peggy* was supposed to be the title character of her show here and instead this episode totally centered Howard's guilt and Howard in the plane. Peggy on the radio telling him he's the only one who believed in her made me sick, when a) we saw the Howling Commandos believing in her just fine, b) Howard doesn't believe in her at all, he thought he could use her as his patsy and c) I don't know, Angie? Jarvis? Sousa and Thompson, at that point? Fucking Dooley, who told *her* to go get his revenge? Also, Peggy, you had the back of Dottie's head in your rifle sights. WTF with this "hands up" business, you should know better. I know from a Doylist perspective we want to see them go hands-on, but I would have loved to see Peggy take the shot and miss for some plausible reason - a sudden noise outside makes Dottie turn at exactly the wrong second - and *then* they could have had their fight. Also, wait, so was Leviathan and the telegraph typewriter and the whole thing just this hypnotist guy out for revenge on Howard Stark? I kind of thought there was something more going on there.