Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-1895174-20150112204853

Wha? Going through old material on Captain America, I still haven't found the part where she's ever portrayed as a helpless Snow White clone. So that radio show within the show was total BS. Well, the radio show didn't portray Agent Carter as a "helpless Snow White clone," whatever that means. She wasn't even in it. Peggy's problem in the show is she doesn't think she's treated with enough respect. But then, she does everything painfully in secret, so that nobody has any reason to trust her and nobody gets to see her be a hero Because she's explicitly going against her chauvinistic superior officer's explicit orders to try and clear Howard Stark's name. If she revealed herself, she'd be thrown in jail for aiding and abetting a wanted fugitive and enemy of the United States. The justice system doesn't look lightly on treason. I realize that one jackass in the diner was specifically designed to be someone contemptible; but did Carter really just threaten to shove a fork through an artery of his and kill him? Was his obnoxiousness really worth her acting like a complete psycho? And how does that make her heroic, to murder in cold blood a defenseless fat man whose only crime was being rude to a waitress? No, she intimidated him. Did you really expect Agent Carter to murder a guy in a public place like that?

Also, remember to watch the language. We try to keep that family-friendly around here. The show's own feminism discredits itself at every turn, leaving us with nothing but a psychotic, bitter version of Hayley Atwell that seems to want to be Steve Rogers' distaff counterpart - but without his sense of class nor his sense of morality. Where exactly is this "psychotic, bitter version of Hayley Atwell" that you speak of? I saw the episodes twice to write the plot synopses, but I only remember seeing Peggy Carter fighting spies, trying to clear her friend's name, and dealing with a prejudice of the time period.