My problem with the Agent Carter pilot
Nothing terribly spoiler-rific (i.e. unexpected plot twists etc. etc.), but if you haven't seen the pilot for Agent Carter (aired 01-05-15), I wouldn't want to ruin it for you. I do recount certain scenes in a bit of detail.
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So I’m watching The 'Agent Carter' pilot a few days ago. I'm kinda bummed. Agents of Shield was getting pretty interesting.
Also prequel-business gets old. If nothing else there's less urgency when you know how the story will end. I don’t think they can kill off Howard Stark. I think good will probably prevail, and the SSR-whatever that is will become Shield. Granted good prevailing is usually guaranteed, but 99.9% gives people something, and is important to me.
The color scheme is brown and muted.
Their view of history is pretty caricatured and drive-by.
etc. etc.
Part of that caricature is the 2 dimensional "women were mistreated" -thing. It's pretty preachy, to the point of 'eye-roll'.
"Women are superior to men, despite being mistreated" blahblahbalh
Of course we kill, maim, and assault countless men-no great issue there, it's called an 'action movie'. They were all generally bad or ambiguous and likely deserve it? (… and one innocent women)
The innocent women being the tragic aspect of the thing.
Also women are of equal if not superior strength to men.
So cool cool, not my favorite show, but nothing unusual or surprising just Marvel being dopey like it often is.
Anyway we're nearing the end of the pilot. Agent Carter finishes having a covert meeting in the café, and then she sees an angry patron being rude to his waitress. So Agent Carter feels he should be put in his place, and rightly so. She goes over grabs his fork and jabs it somewhere near his gut and says something to the effect of :
"Unless you do what I say, I'm going to jab this into some-such place, which will kill you very quickly. You will never come in here again. You should be nice to waitress and tip generously."
Maybe I'm just being critical of the usual action-movie-schick, but it was just a dude, albeit a rude one, but just a dude, not a super villain, a henchmen, etc.
This wasn’t an ambiguous or morally problematic thing either. Our heroine dawns her stylish sun-glasses and hat, then triumphantly saunters out into a bright new day (¿with the rising music?)
To be clear they wouldn’t do that if roles were reversed, not unambiguously. But they way they did it was so brazenly disturbing.
Girl Power!
Guys who are rude to women deserve to die or at least have their lives seriously threatened.
ugh.
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So I’m watching The 'Agent Carter' pilot a few days ago. I'm kinda bummed. Agents of Shield was getting pretty interesting.
Also prequel-business gets old. If nothing else there's less urgency when you know how the story will end. I don’t think they can kill off Howard Stark. I think good will probably prevail, and the SSR-whatever that is will become Shield. Granted good prevailing is usually guaranteed, but 99.9% gives people something, and is important to me.
The color scheme is brown and muted.
Their view of history is pretty caricatured and drive-by.
etc. etc.
Part of that caricature is the 2 dimensional "women were mistreated" -thing. It's pretty preachy, to the point of 'eye-roll'.
"Women are superior to men, despite being mistreated" blahblahbalh
Of course we kill, maim, and assault countless men-no great issue there, it's called an 'action movie'. They were all generally bad or ambiguous and likely deserve it? (… and one innocent women)
The innocent women being the tragic aspect of the thing.
Also women are of equal if not superior strength to men.
So cool cool, not my favorite show, but nothing unusual or surprising just Marvel being dopey like it often is.
Anyway we're nearing the end of the pilot. Agent Carter finishes having a covert meeting in the café, and then she sees an angry patron being rude to his waitress. So Agent Carter feels he should be put in his place, and rightly so. She goes over grabs his fork and jabs it somewhere near his gut and says something to the effect of :
"Unless you do what I say, I'm going to jab this into some-such place, which will kill you very quickly. You will never come in here again. You should be nice to waitress and tip generously."
Maybe I'm just being critical of the usual action-movie-schick, but it was just a dude, albeit a rude one, but just a dude, not a super villain, a henchmen, etc.
This wasn’t an ambiguous or morally problematic thing either. Our heroine dawns her stylish sun-glasses and hat, then triumphantly saunters out into a bright new day (¿with the rising music?)
To be clear they wouldn’t do that if roles were reversed, not unambiguously. But they way they did it was so brazenly disturbing.
Girl Power!
Guys who are rude to women deserve to die or at least have their lives seriously threatened.
ugh.