Tag: agent carter

Women’s anger isn’t pretty or useful to men. It prevents them from cheering their male superhero on from the peanut gallery; it makes them unattainable in a way that’s not because the hero is being admirably noble. Also, it makes their faces go all scrunchy, and we can’t have that; never forget Jessica Alba being told to “cry pretty” on the set of Rise of the Silver Surfer, or, more recently, Joss Whedon telling Elizabeth Olsen to keep her face calm during Age of Ultron’s fight scenes because an angry, combative face was unattractive.

There’s a reason women love Agent Carter, a show powered by a subtextual engine of Peggy’s grief, frustration, and rage. There’s a reason Laurel Lance never clicked as a character until her largely incoherent but still deeply satisfying Season 2 rage spiral; life has done her wrong, and she’s finally, finally hitting back. There’s a reason so many readers are proudly labeling themselves non-compliant. We so rarely get to see our own anger reflected in mass media, and when we do, it’s deeply cathartic.

I’m so ready for Jessica Jones to be furious for a whole 13 episodes of her first season. I’m hoping Karen Page gets to be as livid as Foggy was when she finds out that Matt is Daredevil. I want Sara Lance to come back from the grave as spitting mad as she was when she went in, and I want Laurel and Thea and especially poor Felicity, sadly defanged by her romantic entanglement with Oliver in Season 3, to get and stay angry with Oliver when he inevitably does something dishonest or ethically dubious. Even Supergirl – as sunshiney as Kara seems, and as I want her to be, I also want her to be allowed to get pissed when the situation warrants it. Girl’s got laser-eyes for a reason. 

I’m so excited for this coming year of superhero TV to bring me Supergirl, and Jessica Jones, and Peggy Carter, and Speedy and Hawkgirl and two different Canaries. And I’m excited for the supporting stories of Iris West and Karen Page and Felicity Smoak and Caitlin Snow and Alex Danvers and Angie Martinelli.

But God, I hope they get to be angry this year. Because these women have been through enough to make them mad as hell. And I don’t want them to have to take it anymore.

SUPERHEROES AND THE GENDER POLITICS OF ANGER (x)

huffley6:

greenbergsays:

God I love this moment.

Because this? This is what men do. Even today, they don’t see women; they see some version of her that speaks to their own masculinity. That part of a girl that makes them feel strong and powerful and righteous in one way or another. 

None of them bothered to see who Peggy Carter really is because none of them cared. All they cared about is how she made them look to the outside world, how their actions towards her made them feel about themselves. The Father, The Knight, The Nice Guy.

And here my girl is, calling them all out on it. Here she is saying, if you actually saw me as a person, you would’ve seen what I was doing. You would’ve known. Don’t blame me for not being able to see past your ego.

Peggy Carter has never and will never put up with this misogynistic bullshit and I am HERE for it.

This scene is iconic.

black-nata:

so you’re telling me y’all are willing to watch TEN SEASONS of a show that barely passes the bechdel test, has minimal to none poc representation, zero disabled representation, and the only gay representation you get is when the two hetero male protagonists stare at each other for 5 seconds…

yet you’re eager to shit on agent carter for only having passed three of those things on the FIRST FOUR EPISODES OF ITS ENTIRE EXISTENCE??

avengeravenue:

okay. i’m not trying to be that blogger who gets angry and complains about her fandom, but for a few minutes i’m gonna be that blogger. bear with me, please? i’m really sorry. 

agent carter is NOT doing well. it’s just not. we can debate about it all we want, but already entertainment weekly is reporting it as a potential “flop.“ and that is beyond infuriating to me, because this show and this character is excellent.

is the plot breaking bad? no, of course not. but it is well-acted and engaging and, above all, entertaining. these actors have poured themselves into the project (especially hayley atwell). rotten tomatoes gave the show a 97% freshness rating. that is a good score. an awesome score. but each week, ratings slip, and now the show has dipped down into abc’s ratings “red zone.” that is just unacceptable.

if all the sjw and feminist bloggers are really as gung-ho about female representation as they say they are, then they need to back this project. this is the only female-led title on the marvel line-up until 2018. it needs support. it needs overwhelming, earth-shattering support. 

if everyone in the marvel fandom claims to love peggy as much as we do, we need to do more for this show. that means fan art out the wazoo. i want so much fanfic that i have to blacklist it from my dash. i want pictures of eight-year-old girls dressing up as peggy carter. i want us each watching the show (LIVE, please) and then watching the DVR playback. and then i want us watching it on the abc website the next day. twice. three times. just play it in the background while you make lunch, i don’t care. give it attention.

please. again, not to be that blogger but – "spread this like wildfire.”

peggy may not have the brand name of captain america, but she has just as much power. 

Legal Ways to Stream Agent Carter

aggressivelybicaptainamerica:

So, if you’re like myself and are without cable, it’s very tempting to just pop onto an illegal stream to watch your shows.  However, I think it’s vital that we support Agent Carter in legal ways.

Obviously, if you have a TV that gets ABC, that’s the best way to do it, but there are other hosting sites that will legally allow you to stream through your internet and tv.

Free

Note that these typically update the day after the next episode airs.  Yes, you’ll be a week behind.

  • Hulu  **5 most current episodes
  • ABC.com  **Only streams the two most current episodes

Pay per Episode

These typically update within a day or two, depending on the show license.  Plus you get to own the episode forever, in excellent quality.

Why bother?  These sites keep exact records of views and purchases, which are then reported back to studios.  Of course we want the show to get good ratings, but in this day of digital viewing, it’s also important to have a strong web presence as well.

This is not season 1.  This is currently all Marvel Studios wants to give us.  Just an 8 episode special TV event.  This show needs to blow up if we are going to see a second season.

It’s more vital that ever that we support this show in legal ways if we want to see more.

If you are outside the US you can download an extension for Chrome called Hola! and country switch to the US and see it on abc.com.

Please! Support the show.

inconsistentblogger:

t-palmer:

Agent Carter Panel at San Diego Comic Con

There were exactly four people who got to ask questions during this panel

All four were women

Three of them were dressed as Agent Carter

And they all asked questions surrounding the fact that they loved hearing the story of a strong woman like Agent Carter in a world that seems to exclusively show the stories of strong men

 So if you were wondering why this show is a big deal: That’s why.

fuckyeahladiesofthemcu:

omnicat:

zarabithia:

atwellling:

if you’re ready to crucify agent carter for the amount of male cast members cast in it so far but have no problem with the same thing happening in marvel’s cis dude led properties then your double standards are showing.

I’m basically rolling my eyes at the idea that a show whose primary goal is to address sexism is getting shit for showing the actual difficulty that women had post War by positioning Peggy as one of the few ladies in positions of power (yes, we saw a lot of women active in WWII in CTFA, and that was the case but guess what happened to those women’s opportunity after the war? Oh, gosh, they showed us that in Agent Carter’s short)

Obviously more women would be great but lol, this one actually has a fucking purpose and it has about the same amount of women vs men ratio as Iron Man’s shitty movies did. Funny how nobody complained then. Not even when ladies were being shamed for the same activities Tony was engaging in or being stuffed in a fridge.

And the Agent Carter show is being subjected to all sorts of double standards that this fandom never gave a fuck about during the white dude movies. “It’s very white” (yes, how do you feel about Coulson being director of shield, again?), “it’s very male,!” (yes, but you watched the Avengers, didn’t you?) And my fucking favorite. : “If she doesn’t end up with the dude I want her to end up with, I’m going to stop watching the show.”

Spoilers: She doesn’t end up with that dude. We saw the (results of ) dude she ended up with in her photo in the movie. And it was not that dude. (Edit; While I’m aware we didn’t see the dude in q uestion, and that fandom has wanked themselves into believing that those kids were not hers despite the fact they were obviously intended to be in the conversation that Steve and Peggy had … those were some white kids. Very white kids. Those were  not the result of hooking up with Gabe Jones.) 

Fandom pretends that they want female characters to thrive, but fandom is just as guilty as holding female books and media to a different standard than those led by white dudes.

I hope that Agent Carter has more ladies. I hope Gabe Jones shows up. I hope Morita shows up.

But if it doesn’t, then I hope the people calling for boycotts also boycotted the Avengers and are boycotting AOU for … you know, white washing two of the cast.

Don’t you just love how absolutely fucking desperately people will try to sabotage and undermine female characters and female representation?

“Oh, we’re getting a female lead, but it’s not the right one. BOYCOTT THE BITCH.”

“Oh, we’re getting a female lead battling sexism, but we’re not getting her in a post- -ist utopia of equality and representation. BOYCOTT THE BITCH.”

Above all else I want Agent Carter to be a realistic representation of the time, if only to show the struggles that real women of that age faced in a post war society. You know, realistic and gritty, but with super powers and spies and stuff. 

As they’re starting to film I expect we’ll get a casting announcement and details of some more female characters soon.