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.

Comments

[sildra.livejournal.com]

I agree that Peggy should have taken that shot.

I think there is more to Leviathan, since it's tied to the Black Widow program, and that's Soviet government, isn't it? (Wikipedia's article on Natasha Romanoff says yes.) I think the hypnotist guy was just a relatively high commander in Soviet special ops, so he got to be in charge of the mission for wreaking havoc on NYC, including all the creative planning phases, and decided to use it as an opportunity to get revenge on Howard Stark. There was a flashback about recruiting him to Leviathan, after all. I don't know whether he's the one who recruited other veterans of Finow to Leviathan, or whether the higher ups liked his plan and gave him the Finow vets they already had, figuring they'd be the most motivated for this particular mission. I think it's the latter, though, because I get the sense that Leviathan saved those people missing their vocal cords from Finow, and hypnotist guy was recruited later.

I'd like to think Peggy was just saying what she had to say to snap egomaniacal Howard Stark out of his hypnosis. That's probably not what the writers intended, but oh well.