Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-1895174-20150226023056

Fennhoff/Ivchenko is the MCU Mesmero I mean...he's Doctor Faustus. And now he's going to develop the Faustus method (Are you ready to comply?) for Hydra with his new BFF (and worst possible choice of cellmate) Arnim Zola.

Sousa probably is Peggy's future husband, though. Since Marvel announced Enver Gjokaj and Chad Michael Murray's roles on the same day, I was really worried the show would try and pull some love triangle bullcrap with them. So I could not be more happy that didn't happen, even if there was that line from Chief Dooley about Agent Thompson's "crush." Unlike its cinematic counterparts, Agent Carter never wasted any time on a pointless romance angle; never getting distracted from the spy drama and feminist message at the core of the series. A real career woman, Peggy is. Maybe it'll be explored in a future season, but for now the minimal presence of a love interest in this series is a blessing.

If there is one thing I'm disappointed with, it's that the pilot had Costa Ronin as Anton Vanko and never did anything with him. I guess it might be a bit too obvious the Russian scientist who shares his name with an Iron Man villain is working for the evil Russian spy organization, but it's not like Dr. Ivchenko working for Leviathan was all that surprising, either. The relationship between MCU Howard Stark and Anton Vanko could be an interesting one, but all we have of it now is "Howard Stark is a jerk who screws over his friends."

That's something I'd like to see in Season 2. With Howard Stark's collection of deadly weapons destroyed, Leviathan pressures Anton Vanko into rebuilding some of it for them. We get some bad guys who actually use the crazy technology rather than just try to get their hands on it. Like, I don't know, Unicorn. He's a Soviet intelligence agent (easily changed to Leviathan for the show) with a thing on his head that shoots lasers. That's one of many villains that could blend Cold War spy drama with the zanier action we expect from comic book characters, could be done on a television budget, and probably won't be showing up in a movie any time soon.

And is the One-Shot still canon?