Cool, right? She looks determined, fierce, and she will kick anyone's butt if they get in her way. This promo still makes me hope for a high action spy show, similar to Agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D. What we got was less a big bang and more a deflating balloon. Don't get me wrong, I watched all eight episodes the week they came out. However, I din't stay up from 9-10pm to watch the episodes live.
This show had promise, the first S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. But as several different media outlets caught on, their is a woman as the main character. Reason's To Watch Agent Carter. Out of the 5 reason's that link lists for the amazingness that is Agent Carter only two real themes show up. "It's a girl, how interesting" and "it's part of Marvel. Why must we focus on the fact Peggy Carter is female for most of the eight episode series? Every episode, without fail, someone is randomly condescending to Peggy. Got it, the 40's and 50's were full of racists and sexists. Seeing as to how Peggy Carter garnered the respect of the solders in Captain America: The First Avenger, she has to be used to and unfazed by it all at this point?
Nope, the first few episodes focus on how she has to prove herself to her bosses over and over again. And she gets mad about it every time. She's suppose to be the star and the coolest person, but she keeps getting bogged down into drama. This isn't suppose to be a drama drama, this is suppose to be thriller/action television. I understand being upset, but by the same thing every episode from the same person? She is a smart and deadly spy right? She can kill people and be relatively fine, but some guy in her office calls her"dame" and she's really that upset? People say meaner things while she's slapping them around, who cares about the tubby guy in the corners opinion.
I understand the need to get historical accuracy (although in the last episode a black patrol officer arrests two white people, bad guys they may be, in New York City in 1946) and for the most part I can forgive it. What is unforgivable is that the show is boring most of the time. Every time Peggy gets to show her British stoicism and badass spy moves while doing something really cool, it ends abruptly as it started and my quickening heart beat returns to a regular rhythm. Seriously, I started to look forward to the scenes with Jarvis, the butler assistant because at least he was funny consistently.
Look, I did end up liking the show, but for a show called Agent Carter, she was pretty uninteresting until the last two episodes. She was overshadowed by the more interesting villians, and more humourous sidekick. This shouldn't happen. She is the star, she should be cooler. She needs to do more espionage and fighting, and less heart to hearts with characters who get 8 minutes of screen time a season. This show shouldn't focus on that fact that "she's a women in a man's world" for two reasons. Reason one, it's been done to death, message recieved. Everyone who is gonna get it, got the message already and the people who don't get it won't understand even if you spell it out for them. My second reason is that who cares that she's a woman.
Ripley from Alien series doesn't seem to care that she's a woman. She kicks ass regardless.
Samus Aron from metroid kills space monsters without highlighting she's female.
Even in the same universe, Carter is outdone in action by the likes of Agent May, Agent the group badass of the show, Agent Skye, the techie superpowered powerhouse, or Agent Simmons, probably the smartest character on the show.I understand the need for depth of a character, but can't Peggy Carter be a character who isn't defined by her gender and is just a cool character? I'd love that so much. Make Agent Carter the most interesting character in her show at least.
