Marvel’s Agent Carter
 

Sorry if theres a thread for this already. I thought Carter deserved her own thread, not sure how close it will tie to the current Shield show.

Agent Carter from Captain America has officially been picked up by ABC, as well as S.H.I.E.L.D being renewed for a second season.

http://www.newsarama.com/21076-marve...d-renewed.html

Is any one looking forward to Carter's adventures set in the 1940's?

http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content...es-writers.jpg

I'm very interested to see how this series will turn out.

One thing I'll give modern Marvel credit for is they take risks rather than choose to focus on regular people in extraordinary posistions as the fixtures of their major live-action tv shows, while reserving all their more established flagship heroes to movies, cartoons, and Netflix exclusives. Interested in where this will go, even if Winter Soldier already tragicly spelled out how Carter will end up in her twilight years

They want to make another series when the first one is barley holding the ratings up? I am kinda sick of all the Superhero themed T.V show (especialy Arrow, that sucks so much ass) The only one that i am mildy interested is Constantine...

I'm down. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is becoming something that I can't get enough of. And, like Agents of SHIELD, this sounds like something I'd love to get dig into.

I think I'm going to really like this show. Should be cool to discuss it with everyone here when it's out. Really like the concept, and Carter is a really cool character, so ... I'm hoping the show will be good.

Now, is this the Carter from the movies, or her daughter? Because (spoiler alert!) Sharon Carter IS an agent of present-day SHIELD, and is the daughter of the former agent. And it would make more sense to have a series about her, with it being present-day, to tie-in to AoS and the movies. Plus, she had been romantically linked to both Cap and Hawkeye (as Ronin, I think), so....

It's the former, since it's set in the 1940's.

Anyway, really looking forward to this.

The official plot came out today as well as the new series logo.

http://assets1.ignimgs.com/2014/05/1...jpg-9ab272.jpg

I can dig it!

Sad to say that I've yet to see the original Agent Carter one-shot.

You and me both.

Y'know, I just though of something. I think it would be pretty cool if we got to see some golden age Marvel heroes appear on this show.

I'm excited, looks promising.

Hopefully they'll get better writers than AoS started out with (that show got a lot better over time). This could be a big hit if done right...

Actually Sharon Carter is Peggy's niece.

Welp looks like the first season will only have 8 episodes. This makes a bit of sense since it's airing during a mid-season break for Agents of Shield. Also, the series is premiering in January.


http://collider.com/agent-carter-tv-show-episode-count/

James D'Arcy has been cast as Edwin Jarvis!

Get out yer drool buckets folks. :D

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=123010

The plot synopsis for this series has been revealed.

Basically it's the adventures of Peggy Carter with Edwin Jarvis as her sidekick as they try to solve stuff for Howard Stark....

http://www.newsarama.com/22565-agent...-synopsis.html

I'm definitely looking forward to this show. I had no interest in Agents of Shield but I'll watch this for sure. Agent Carter was one of my favorite characters in the Captain America movie and I wish she could have had a bigger role in it. I also loved the Captain America movie for having a different look and feel by being set in the 40's so I'm looking forward to more adventures in the 40's. That gave it a lot of charm in my opinion.

So I saw the premiere a couple days ago... what a waste of two hours.

The show had a boring premise, annoying characters, poor cinematography, bland music, and it was all just so lifeless in general.

Atwell was fantastic as Peggy, and the other actors were pretty great too, but the characters themselves just weren't very interesting.

I especially couldn't stand Jarvis. At first, he complained about how Peggy expected too much of him, and that he had to be at home with his wife by 9:00. Then without warning he groans and moans about how he never is given enough assignments by Peggy. Huh?

I also couldn't help but notice that the show was trying to get me to sympathize with the guy with a crutch. Was I suppose to like him because he wasn't as chauvinistic as every other man as the show, save Jarvis and Stark? Mission failed, then, because he came off as distracting as annoying. I don't even remember his name, so I just call him Peg-leg Pete.

And is it just me, or did the show just look very fake? In The First Avenger, it actually felt like the 1940s. Here it just looks like they used CGI for most of it...

I also think that the guys writing the show should learn about the subtle art of, well, subtlety. As in, don't be so damn blatant about matching the radio show to the events of the show! I think it was supposed to be cute or something, but it was just stupid. And having listened to a few myself, I doubt radio shows back then were that cheesy.

Another thing that irked me was that stupid picture of Peggy in the wig. Why'd they make such a big deal about that? Why bother having that in the story at all? It was pretty clear that Peggy turned her head at just the right second so that you couldn't see her face, so why would they try to trick the audience into thinking that the photo was incriminating?

It wasn't all bad. I liked seeing Howard Stark and Peggy again, and the voicebox machine thing was a cool idea. The dialogue was good, and as I said, all the actors did a great job. Other than that, it was just disappointing in general. People say the first few Agents of SHIELD episodes were lame, but even those were better than this was.

I'll keep watching this show and hope for improvement, but I doubt it, which is a shame. When you think about how fun The First Avenger and the Agent Carter Marvel One-Shot were, you can see that this show had a lot of potential.

I liked it especially the first hour.

I found myself wanting the second episode to end though because I wanted to see the Ant-Man preview.

Much better start than Agents of SHIELD had.

I liked it a lot! The story moved at a brisk pace, there was solid action and some fun twists, a lot of easter eggs and references for comic fans, and Hayley Atwell is phenomenal as Carter. For a TV-budget period piece I thought it looked great.

It benefits a lot by being a shorter miniseries that isn't directly tied into an upcoming movie. In a way that gives them even more freedom. I like Agents of SHIELD a lot, but the big Winter Soldier twist really tied the show's hands for the first season. It's gotta be difficult to run a major TV show that also has the role of following up on and setting up plot points from major tentpole movies. But they've gotten a lot better at it.

i loved the Premiere alot! can't wait to see how far this series goes

This show was exactly what I wanted it to be. It was clever, well paced, looked great. The time period is a great match for television. Definitely liking this more than the first half-season or so of Agents of SHIELD.

Season two begins on January 5th

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/marvels...-agent-carter/

I can't wait, they also said the first episode will be a two hours.

So the show has been cancelled. :cry:

It's godawful, so good. It was nowhere near as interesting as it should have been, and season 2 was total cheese.

Waste of a good character.

Yeah, season one is alright, but wasn't really the right fit for the character, and the Hollywood stuff in the second was just cringe.

SHIELD keeps losing viewers but miraculously hangs in there, I'd rather move it to Netflix, Marvel know the money is there and not with networks that are prone to inevitably caving in to capes*it fatigue like ABC is now.

Looks like I'm in the minority but I loved Agent Carter. I'm going to miss it.

Not really a fan of AoS. It had a decent run following the events of Winter Soldier but it's been all over the place since then. I cringe every time they try to shoehorn the show into the MCU now. The Winter Soldier tie-in had to happen and that's why it worked so well. The Age of Ultron tie-in was the worst. It also doesn't help that most of the actors are pretty terrible.

I liked it too, it's just that second season was very jarring, I guess I was expecting different sort of things from a character so crucial to SHIELD and she just got stuck in a very demeaning setting...does'nt matter that she rose above it "girl power" yadda yadda, we should have been focusing on bigger and bolder things, the sort of thing her flashback appearances in SHIELD were hinting at, or something similar to the Howling Commandos episode they did.

Agreed. I had a whole stack of third season episodes waiting to watch and I just ended up deleting all of it, hate Sky/Daisy, hate the insistence on the Inhumans, hate Fitz-Simmons (not Fitz, just the awkward romance with Simmons), the best things about it were either written out (Bobbi and Hunter), or killed off/turned into another character (Ward), if Mac goes I probably won't stick with it.

I really liked this show, but agree that the second season wasn't as strong as the first.

Boo. Just freakin' boo.

I kinda like the idea that Coulson was behind activating the old Helicarrier, and the fact that he tracked List to Sokovia and tipped Hill off for The Avengers, but everything else was stupid.

Raina's vision of Ultron was cheesy and AoU's timeframe just didn't jive with AoS's continuity. Clunky.

As for Agent Carter's tie in value, I liked seeing the real Jarvis, the original Black Widow was cool, and the Zola thing at the end of season 1 kind of hinted to me that Fenhoff might have been involved with the Winter Soldier program.

Season 2 apparently had something to do with Doctor Strange. I dunno... was too busy trying to stay awake.

Oh well, at least she ended up with Sousa, like I wanted.