Okay, I was — not surprised, but certainly pleased. The protagonist was reasonably fleshed out, the period bits all feel period, the professional and personal complications for the protagonist were all good, the characters introduced (or re-introduced) were fun, the action was actiony, the threats menacing in manners mundane, exotic, and/or creepy … all good stuff.
I'm a bit sorry that the One-Shot is (somewhat) obsoleted, but I like what we're getting to replace it. I look forward to the remaining episodes.
Well done, #Marvel .
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Very enjoyable. And, of course, I loved the soundtrack. Some of the technology seems wildly beyond 1946; I have to keep making myself think about the comics of that era (super-soldier serums, Prof. Horton's android, etc.) to suspend disbelief. Jarvis isn't very convincing; it feels like they haven't quite decided what to do with him. I loved the radio drama that kept cropping up (Betty Carver, indeed!).
There was a Professor named "Vanko." Crimson Dynamo? Or the movie Whiplash? Or someone else?
Also, they did the binocular view that I hate so much. Boo!
I was surprised that Peggy wasn't running SHIELD. I guess that One-Shot is now deprecated.
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The tech didn't bother me that much, esp. given the comic setting. Only the stun gun seemed significant (besides the McGuffin, that is, and that's a Stark thing).
I sort of like Jarvis — he's not omnicompetent, but has hidden depths.
Vanko is the father of IM2's Whiplash.
While I am not at all fond of the "binocular" view, it is very period (like the radio play).
Yes, I believe the One-Shot is deprecated (or, in comics terms, expanded from a flashback sequence into a full mini-series). That's a shame, but I think it will work.
I was most bothered by the safecracking gizmo. Even for a contemporary show i would have trouble accepting that.
+Scott Randel I think I got distracted at that point, though I had the sense that there was a gizmo involved. Safe cracking gizmos are so standard in any sort of action genre that I really wouldn't give it a thought unless it was particularly odd in operation.
It was. It was a watch-face that she stuck to the front of the safe, and which then somehow turned the dial of the safe.
+Scott Randel Bah. Handwaved proto-SHIELD technology.
Even SHIELD wouldn't have that until 1948. 1947 at the earliest.
I liked details that make Peggy Carter a fully-realized woman of her era. The way she had been relegated to mere “coffee girl” after the war, and was trying to deal with her frustrations while still mourning Steve, seemed very authentic to me.
Also, she’s a healthy, normal size woman who really can sell the action scenes.
The dialogue is snappy and I’m enjoying the interplay with Jarvis, along with his domestic fuss pottery not preventing him from being resourceful.
Clothes, music, sets, detail: LIKE.