The Caped Knight
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It's a damn shame Haley Atwell can't play a more modernized role in Marvel other than older Peggy.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Writers Offer An Update On ABCs AGENT CARTER Series
Highlights:
1) The first season will be set in 1946. So this is more cold war Peggy than World War II Peggy.
2) Haley Atwell is involved and ready to jump into television. This is great news, as shes arguably the best part of The First Avenger outside of Steve Rogers himself, and her one shot is fantastic.
3) Markus and McFeely wrote the pilot script in addition to having Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters of Reaper fame show run if the project goes to series. This means the voice of the character will remain consistent across the medium jump.
4) The team is currently planning for a season that runs as a limited series event of 13 episodes that would continue with a brand new story set in 1947 and so on should it continue. Limited series events are all the rage right now, so thats absolutely the best way to approach a show this ambitious.
5) Howard Stark would be a recurring character and Dominic Cooper is interested in coming back. The goal is to keep the show the Peggy Carter show and not make it a buddy-drama, thus explaining why Stark wouldnt be a series regular.
Oh man oh man oh man
MARVEL GIVE IT TO ME NOW!! This sounds so absolutely perfect and wonderful and my brain cannot fully process it, but pretty much they're giving her show the treatment I hoped they would!
ILU, MARVEL! ILU SO MUCH!
I actually would love to see a Hedy Lamarr like character on the show. Famous actress that invents espionage devices in her free time.I want an Agent Carter series so much. We lucked out because Louis D'Esposito loves Peggy and Hayley so he pushed for the One-Shot to set up a series. And we've further lucked out with Markus & McFeeley on board to write the pilot and shape the series because they created Peggy and understand her perfectly. I am so looking forward to their continuation of Peggy's saga.
Starting Peggy off as a field agent who has to struggle against the attitudes of the time as well as fight SHIELD's enemies is a brilliant way to go. In the 1940 there were women in the OSS and British intelligence who were pioneers in the field of counterintelligence, but most of them were pushed out after the war. Julia Child was famously a high ranking OSS operative. Exploring the career of a brilliant, capable woman who had to fight for everything she earned will make for a compelling story.
Ah...too bad Steve had to get frozen.
I wonder if they'll ever reveal as to whether Peggy was able to completely move on with her life and if she went on to meet someone else and eventually have a family of her own.
It'd be kind of sad and tragic if she had remained single for most of her life due to her work and her inability to move past from her feelings for Steve.
I want an Agent Carter series so much. We lucked out because Louis D'Esposito loves Peggy and Hayley so he pushed for the One-Shot to set up a series. And we've further lucked out with Markus & McFeeley on board to write the pilot and shape the series because they created Peggy and understand her perfectly. I am so looking forward to their continuation of Peggy's saga.
Starting Peggy off as a field agent who has to struggle against the attitudes of the time as well as fight SHIELD's enemies is a brilliant way to go. In the 1940 there were women in the OSS and British intelligence who were pioneers in the field of counterintelligence, but most of them were pushed out after the war. Julia Child was famously a high ranking OSS operative. Exploring the career of a brilliant, capable woman who had to fight for everything she earned will make for a compelling story.
I agree with a limited series format.
The best thing about it is that it prevents crappy filler episodes.
The big problem with that is that BOTH Howard Stark and Colonel Phillips are backing her. Star even personally ordered her to Washington to help them RUN SHIELD. She's one of the highest ranking SHIELD agents at this point. The interracial relationship, yeah that'd be cool to see. I want them to take advantage of the Cold War setting to do cool stuff.
First of all, what an incredibly good looking couple they make. WOW. I'm sorry, but I don't think EVC holds a candle to her. I am heart broken that she's not playing Sharon.
Why is having Stark & Philips' backing a problem? In a military/paramilitary organization, there are always going to be plenty of men who will harass, demean and sabotage a woman in their midst. My mom was a noncom during wartime and I have other female relatives who served. Even men my mom outranked would go after her if they felt like it. That's the way it was (and probably still is). The same would be true of a woman in Peggy's position. The support of her superiors might even make the agents she's working with more resentful and likely to try to undermine her, not less.
And it isn't as if Stark or Philips are going to be with Peggy day-to-day, watching her back. She will be working as a field agent, where she'll have to depend on her own resources. There are many potential situations where the men around her can backstab her if they want to, without fear of immediate repercussions. Howard and Philips would expect Peggy to be strong enough to handle most of the crap that came her way on her own, anyway. There would be no use in grooming her to lead SHIELD if she wasn't capable of dealing with the bastards who come along with the job. That doesn't mean overcoming the obstacles in her way won't be a struggle for her, though.