Well, so much for that then. 
"Agent Carter" season one discussion and spoilers
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I highly recommend a book called The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know. It really goes over the whole thing.
I'm sure there's a lot of early cold war shenannigans as well as UFO/paranormal lore from that era that they could draw on. They've already tied SHIELD and Hydra into Operation Paperclip and as you say, Mogul has some possibilities. Other possibilities are Kenneth Arnold witnessing the test flight for some of Stark's prototype Quinjets. Project Sign and Blue Book being SHIELD smoke screens for Soviet operated Hydra technology and the Philadelphia Experiment has "Stark and Tesla collaboration" written all over it. Yeah, I know Tesla died like eight or nine months prior....OR DID HE!?
I would like that, not to dwell on it exclusively, but to touch on some of those things. That was one of the things that I like about X-Files. They took existing "legends" and made their own story out of it. The fact of the pre-existence of the the myth gave it a little different dimension.
And in the MCU, there are these type of organizations that really would try to do these things. And Agent Carter has a really nice niche for itself that while they have to eventually end up what we see in Iron Man and The Winter Soldier they aren't really too restricted in how to get there, they can really strech out without stepping on anyone's toes, like Agents of Shield might because it's "current".
So to clarify, I wouldn't want a whole season revolving around any of those things but it could be one of the SSR's projects, mentioned as such and maybe it might be important for 1(only!) episode while the main story is continuing.
I agree, the MCU version of the Philadelphia Experiment has Howard's name written all over it. And that's one of my points, it's the MCU version, it doesn't have to be "historically accurate" just consistent in it's own setting, the MCU itself.
Wouldn't a prototype Quinjet be, ohh, a Monojet?
In the comics, the original Quinjets were called that because they had five jet engines -- a quintet of jets.The MCU version only seems to have two jets, though. But maybe they're fifth-generation Stark jet technology?
In the comics, the original Quinjets were called that because they had five jet engines -- a quintet of jets.The MCU version only seems to have two jets, though. But maybe they're fifth-generation Stark jet technology?
Unless they go to Australia, in which case they have to use Quinntas.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the "quin" in quinjet means it's running five jet engines, which for a small aircraft in '47 is pretty nuts and just the kind of thing Howard would go in for.
The movie version seemed consistent with that: two dorsal turbojets, two vtol rotors in the wings and that central flat engine above the ramp that I'm assuming is a hypersonic scramjet.
So the term is less a name for a specific model as it is a general design type; like helicopter, autogyro, biplane, ornithopter, jumbo jet etc. etc.
Indeed, we've already seen two variants of the design from Avengers (the tilt-wing from Avengers & the Hydra/Insight stub-wing type--both have shown up on AoS) and a distinctly different design (implicitly designed & built by Tony) in AoU.
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I think that, with the influence of Hydra and its old WWII German ties, that the Kecksburg Bell and its similarity in appearance to Die Glocke might be a more topical incident, although Roswell/A51 is more widely known in popular culture.
Indeed. That sounds perfect.
Good question. Maybe they'll break it into two 5-episode blocks at different points in the season...?
I would be ok with that, if it meant less or no other hiatus during the rest of the season.
I'd prefer the ten weeks straight (more accurately, the gap will likely be even longer because of Christmas, etc.). Rather than 22 and 8, they could go with 20 and 10. Or they could go 22 and 10 and we get even more episodes than normal of Marvel shows next season.
Well, all I can say is that they better not lower the number of episodes in an AoS season to give Agent Carter more episodes. I don't think they'd do that anyway (since they are two different shows by two different groups, so I don't think they'd have any reason to take episodes away from AoS), but that would really be infuriating. But, since AoS seemed to have better ratings than Agent Carter anyway, I don't think they'll go for less of the (comparatively) higher rated show for more of the lower rated show.
I'd rather see a full run of Agent Carter with ten episodes of AOS in the middle.
FWIW, while I thought Agent Carter was more consistent, there were greater high points for Agents of SHIELD. The last episode was absolutely great. Plus, there's greater potential because it tends to be a bit more fantastical rather than down to Earth. There's a limit to the Marvel connections of a down to Earth Cold War spy story (although they certainly did well for themselves in season 1).
Well, let's remember, the first two episodes of season 1 aired back-to-back, so the season only took seven weeks to air. If they aired both the first two and the last two back-to-back next season, it'd only take 8 weeks.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking-- a two-hour premire, a two-hour final, and hope that they don't have their schedule disrupted by the SOTU again.
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