Agent Carter S1 E3

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Things I learned this week:

1) The lesbian commune has very strict 'no men' rules.

2) Peggy needs to wear trousers and ponytail combos in every episode.

3) Every episode needs multiple Peggy fights, and is best viewed with Hayley Atwell's commentary on who she accidentally concussed and when.

4) All the Angie/Peggy scenes are gold.
4a) Hayley Atwell possibly ships them, from her Twitter feed :-D

5) Peggy is the best.

The plot was a follow-up to the stolen weapons story from last week, and in a surprise turn of events, the weapons were found in the course of the episode. I'm going to assume right here that not *all* of them have been found. Or at least, that the thief had the sense to make some copies of the blueprints.

I've got to say, Howard Stark's idea of a massager seems...vigorous. Stark, WTF does your masseuse do to you?

At least we know where Tony's habit of accidentally inventing deadly devices comes from.

Jarvis continues to shine, making me squee in all sorts of unexpected ways. He feels like a character we don't often get to see on shows like this; a quiet, gentle man, with a strong core of decency, who maintains that even when he's been pushed to the point where I'd expect him to stop being so gentle. I was half-convinced that his dishonerable discharge and treason accusations were due to some horribly misunderstood wartime actions where he did something that looked traitorous but actually heroically saved his unit or something.

Nope. He fell in love with a Jewish woman and tried to save her. Through paperwork.

Which might also be why the threats to tell his wife about the traitor/discharge thing didn't work. She must know what he did in an attempt to save her, right? That whole backstory made his character even lovelier, if possible. He's head over heels for his wife and went through hell for her.

It didn't hurt that it totally sunk any hint of a sexual relationship with Peggy. That kind of devotion? Yeah, that's not a man who's going to have an affair. I'm just so happy about that, because it means we get a male-female relationship on TV that's actually all about friendship with no UST thrown in at all. That's not something we get that often.

(Okay, yes, it helps my Angie/Peggy shipping brain, too. But most it makes me happy because men and women being friends and only friends is rare on the telly box.)

And speaking of Peggy and Angie...my little heart broke a little when Peggy shut Angie down in that early scene in her bedroom. I mean, I know that she's got a secret mission to get to, but I really wanted her to drink schnapps and eat pie and be lovely with Angie, too, you know?

That last scene in the diner made it all better, though, because Peggy talked about her day--in vague terms--and it was kind of an apology/olive branch, and Angie seemed to realise that. I'm starting to get the feeling that Peggy is good at using her words in every context except for the ones about her personal feelings.

Really, this is a show that seems to be going out of its way to make me happy. Peggy's fighting style is brutal, scrappy, and exactly what I'd expect from her Cap appearance. Men and women are friends. Ultimately, though, Peggy wins by thinking and reasoning, as well as by using her good right hook. Jarvis is sweet and adorkable. There's a femslash potential pairing with real chemistry.

*happy sigh*

The other nice thing is that they left some open questions, even while shutting down one plotline that could have become ridiculous very fast. Is anything unaccounted for? Who shot the witness and Kzeminsky (sp?)? Is Dotty an evil plant?

Will Peggy and Angie kiss?

Ahem.

The only tiny dampener on my joy is that the State of the Union means there's no episode next week. Guess I'll just have to rewatch what we've had so far :-)


Maybe it's time to upgrade to a paid account again. I need icon spaces for Peggy.