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locker_monster- I'm still between projects at the moment so I've been doing some coverage for an admin who's out sick. It's a lot like being a temp again. The desk and computer aren't yours and nothing is set up for you and no one has any clue about what the admin does. It's only slightly less painful because I'm already an employee so I have my email and I actually know people in the building. A lot of sitting around and doing nothing yesterday. And my god, I hate the cubicles they have in this building. They're so open. :-P Three walls instead of four and two of the walls have glass in them so people can peek in. I'm going to be so happy when I move back into my old building. At least they have proper cubes there.
- Just some thoughts on the latest episode of Agent Carter:
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newnumber6 that Dottie was the assassin from episode three and it looks like I was right. It was pretty obvious, though, so anyone could have guessed it. First off, Dottie's introduction was so random so that had to mean her character is significant. Next, the assassin is very slight in build and the fedora can conveniently hide a pile of hair. Lastly, the guy on the boat isn't surprised to see Peggy; his dialogue implies that he was expecting a woman to come and try to kill him. I'm just surprised that the show did the reveal of Dottie so soon after the introduction of the assassin. Perhaps the writers knew people would figure it out pretty fast and they decided to bite the bullet? Or maybe Dottie isn't the assassin and she's working for someone other than Leviathan? That'd be an interesting twist.
Whatever the case, it seems that Peggy will have a female enemy to spar with. Dottie's fighting style looks quite different from Peggy's; she performs a Black Widow-esque take down on Mink. Meanwhile, Peggy's fighting style is very simple; she just keeps punching and kicking until the guy goes down. While an epic fight would be awesome, like the May vs May fight from this season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., it also feels a bit lame that they would need to introduce a female adversary for Peggy. Like, she's not worthy of a male foe or something.
Was the conversation Jarvis had with Howard at the end of the episode one related to Howard's lying in this episode? Jarvis says something along the lines of "She doesn't suspect anything." So was Howard playing Peggy all along? Or was Jarvis referring to something else? I do like that Jarvis isn't happy with Howard's lying. He and Peggy have become good friends that he wants to be open and trustworthy with her. This episode was severely lacking in Peggy/Jarvis goodness, though. I always enjoy their exchanges. They're so proper and British together; it's so cute.
Random: What does the SSR do exactly? Are they like FBI? CIA? The homeless guy keeps calling them police, but they don't act like the police. Do they look after science-y, terrorist type things? Oh, and Howard mentions miniaturization at one point. I like to think that it's a reference to the upcoming Ant-Man movie, since Hank Pym and Howard Stark worked together to develop the Ant-Man shrinking technology. So does that mean that there's a young Hank Pym somewhere in Peggy's time? Maybe it's a character they could have on the show in the second season. And why was Howard, a mechanical engineer, one of the lead scientists on Project: Rebirth? Or is he an expert in other fields, too?
The ratings aren't looking too good, though, which makes me sad. Why aren't more people watching this show?!?
- On a slightly related topic, the first trailer for the new Fantastic Four movie was released and it's... so bland. It seems like they're marketing it as a straight up sci-fi movie instead of a superhero movie, which is just bizarre. You'll get more people to the theatre with a superhero movie than a pure science fiction movie. I wasn't that interested in this movie anyway. Also, the Thing has no pants. I kid you not. In the one clear shot of him, albeit from behind, he's not wearing pants or underwear or swimming trunks or anything.
- I wanted to have a fourth point, but I can't think of anything. Um... I finished seven books for the month of January. Working through The Dispossessed right now, but I doubt I will finish it before the end of the week. Read a kind of decent detective novel, but I just felt like it was trying too hard to be gritty and funny at the same time. Also, the author had the tendency to switch tenses in the middle of a chapter and that drove me insane. Stick to one tense, lady! Past or present tense. You can't have both! My book club usually recommends great books, but there's always going to be the occasional stinker.
- Just some thoughts on the latest episode of Agent Carter:
Ha, I knew it! I was speculating with
newnumber6 that Dottie was the assassin from episode three and it looks like I was right. It was pretty obvious, though, so anyone could have guessed it. First off, Dottie's introduction was so random so that had to mean her character is significant. Next, the assassin is very slight in build and the fedora can conveniently hide a pile of hair. Lastly, the guy on the boat isn't surprised to see Peggy; his dialogue implies that he was expecting a woman to come and try to kill him. I'm just surprised that the show did the reveal of Dottie so soon after the introduction of the assassin. Perhaps the writers knew people would figure it out pretty fast and they decided to bite the bullet? Or maybe Dottie isn't the assassin and she's working for someone other than Leviathan? That'd be an interesting twist.Whatever the case, it seems that Peggy will have a female enemy to spar with. Dottie's fighting style looks quite different from Peggy's; she performs a Black Widow-esque take down on Mink. Meanwhile, Peggy's fighting style is very simple; she just keeps punching and kicking until the guy goes down. While an epic fight would be awesome, like the May vs May fight from this season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., it also feels a bit lame that they would need to introduce a female adversary for Peggy. Like, she's not worthy of a male foe or something.
Was the conversation Jarvis had with Howard at the end of the episode one related to Howard's lying in this episode? Jarvis says something along the lines of "She doesn't suspect anything." So was Howard playing Peggy all along? Or was Jarvis referring to something else? I do like that Jarvis isn't happy with Howard's lying. He and Peggy have become good friends that he wants to be open and trustworthy with her. This episode was severely lacking in Peggy/Jarvis goodness, though. I always enjoy their exchanges. They're so proper and British together; it's so cute.
Random: What does the SSR do exactly? Are they like FBI? CIA? The homeless guy keeps calling them police, but they don't act like the police. Do they look after science-y, terrorist type things? Oh, and Howard mentions miniaturization at one point. I like to think that it's a reference to the upcoming Ant-Man movie, since Hank Pym and Howard Stark worked together to develop the Ant-Man shrinking technology. So does that mean that there's a young Hank Pym somewhere in Peggy's time? Maybe it's a character they could have on the show in the second season. And why was Howard, a mechanical engineer, one of the lead scientists on Project: Rebirth? Or is he an expert in other fields, too?
The ratings aren't looking too good, though, which makes me sad. Why aren't more people watching this show?!?
- On a slightly related topic, the first trailer for the new Fantastic Four movie was released and it's... so bland. It seems like they're marketing it as a straight up sci-fi movie instead of a superhero movie, which is just bizarre. You'll get more people to the theatre with a superhero movie than a pure science fiction movie. I wasn't that interested in this movie anyway. Also, the Thing has no pants. I kid you not. In the one clear shot of him, albeit from behind, he's not wearing pants or underwear or swimming trunks or anything.
- I wanted to have a fourth point, but I can't think of anything. Um... I finished seven books for the month of January. Working through The Dispossessed right now, but I doubt I will finish it before the end of the week. Read a kind of decent detective novel, but I just felt like it was trying too hard to be gritty and funny at the same time. Also, the author had the tendency to switch tenses in the middle of a chapter and that drove me insane. Stick to one tense, lady! Past or present tense. You can't have both! My book club usually recommends great books, but there's always going to be the occasional stinker.
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Date: 2015-01-29 04:35 am (UTC)I'm very excited at what appears to be a trainee of the Red Room and the trailer for the next episode has them in Russia apparently? Still, I'm excited because NATASHA! As I just mentioned to someone else, it would be nice to have at least some of her comic canon and after Winter Soldier appeared to take away her senior citizen and super soldier serum status...I'll take what I can get.
The SSR is the precursor to SHIELD...were you able to see the Peggy Carter short with Iron Man 3?
The key to Howard is to remember that moment in The Avengers:
Maria Hill: When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?
Tony Stark: Last night. The packet. Selvig's notes, the extraction theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?
Howard was the same way. Mechanics is his specialty but he can be insanely smart at everything...although I think his min expertise with Project Rebirth was monitoring the mechanics behind it: th machines that delivered the serum, the ones monitoring Steve's vitals, the casket thing he was in, etc.
Howard had most of the government contracts at that point, especially the military ones.
I think a lot of people learned that it was only 8 episodes and was one continuous story like Broadchurch or something and went...
I'll wait for Netflix.
However, I will admit that when Broadchurch was on BBCA, I recorded the whole series and watched it once I had it all on my DVR. For people who don't care about the social aspect online, most prefer to binge-watch.
AOS had a LOT of binge-watchers after the first season finished, too.
I love how the last time I complained about F4, she went, "But we're seeing it anyway!"
Because at this point, the worse everyone says about it, the more she wants to like it...and it surely can't be that much worse than Spider-Man.
I can't believe a tense switcher would get past a competent editor, lazy.
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Date: 2015-01-30 03:52 am (UTC)The SSR is the precursor to SHIELD...were you able to see the Peggy Carter short with Iron Man 3?
But what does the SSR do exactly? During the war, it seemed like they handled experimental science-y stuff, but post-war, I'm kind of fuzzy on their mission. Half the time, I don't even know what S.H.I.E.L.D. does.
Good point about the binge watching. I'm totally doing that with the second season of Broadchurch once all of the episodes air. But how do you track binge watchers? I just hope ABC takes things like that into consideration when they discuss renewal.