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Agent Carter - Season 2
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As we suspected based on reports of the ratings back in April the likelihood of an Agent Carter S3 is not looking good.
Yeah, no surprises here. I hate when show end with as much hanging as AC will.
If only there was a publisher of some kind of... visual stories on paper to give things a proper conclusion...Yeah, no surprises here. I hate when show end with as much hanging as AC will.
Marvel has been reluctant to publish MCU comics that have any kind of impact on the MCU continuity. Craig Kyle pitched a monthly MCU comic and was told as much. Perhaps in this case an exception can be made.If only there was a publisher of some kind of... visual stories on paper to give things a proper conclusion...
^ On the one hand, I find that deeply odd - the world's biggest comics publisher doesn't want to extend their comics-based movie/TV universe into actual comics? On the other hand, it makes perfect sense, as there are plenty of cooks in this kitchen already, and the actual comics readership is tiny.
... What if Agent Carter and Marvel's Most Wanted did a sort of joint one-season miniseries? AC could set up a threat that goes dormant, and MMW could deal with it in the present. (That's the format I thought AoC and AC would go with anyhow.) A MCU fan can dream...
... What if Agent Carter and Marvel's Most Wanted did a sort of joint one-season miniseries? AC could set up a threat that goes dormant, and MMW could deal with it in the present. (That's the format I thought AoC and AC would go with anyhow.) A MCU fan can dream...
I guess they could always continue Agent Carter after couple of years, or even more. Skip to the founding of the SHIELD. Or even to Carters time as a SHIELD agent.
And if they have to wait several decades they can make Miss Marple style series with elderly Peggy Carter solving crimes around the neighborhood.
And if they have to wait several decades they can make Miss Marple style series with elderly Peggy Carter solving crimes around the neighborhood.
That's a shame, but not surprising-- there's still Netflix if they want to go that route.
There have been a bunch of comics set in the MCU, generally telling prequel stories or filling in gaps in the movie continuity. They just don't want the tie-in comics to have "impact on the MCU continuity" as Turtletrekker put it, to take the lead in advancing major plot points. Which makes perfect sense, since they're bound to have a tiny audience compared to the movies and shows. This is the way tie-ins always work. They exist, they may even be nominally considered part of the canon (at least until the primary canon contradicts them), but it would make no sense for them to lead rather than following. If any major plot development or lasting change is going to happen in the universe, it needs to happen in a forum that will be seen by millions rather than one that will probably only be read by a few thousand.
The "Marvel One-Shots" shorts are much the same way. They tell side stories or prelude stories or continuity-fixer stories that build on what the movies already established. One of the Coulson shorts was just a vignette between IM2 and Thor; the other was mainly about handwaving why the General Ross/Tony Stark tag in The Incredible Hulk didn't lead anywhere. And so on. And when a short did purport to tell a significant story -- how Agent Carter became the co-founder of SHIELD -- it got overwritten by the later TV series. The shorts are onscreen, and thus technically canonical, but they're far less widely seen than the core works, and so it wouldn't be practical to have them take the lead in establishing continuity. True, Agents of SHIELD picked up a character introduced in the Item 47 short, but the TV shows are also a "secondary" level of continuity/canon, following the movies' lead but never having their own lead followed by the movies.
So basically there's a hierarchy of influence and canonical weight going roughly Movies > TV series > One-Shots > MCU comics.
and yet they seem to be going ahead with Most Wanted.
I'd watch more Agent Carter but have zero interest in Most (un)Wanted.
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Yeah, but I think the fact that Marvel didn't even bother to licence the actors' likenesses for said comics shows just how little they care about them. I've paged through a few, and from what I've seen, they're garbage.
Well, you said it seemed like they didn't want to "extend... into actual comics," which I took to mean that you thought there had been none at all. I simply meant to indicate that they exist, regardless of what one thinks of their quality.
I've looked through a few of the comics, and I didn't think they were bad. I liked the Fury's Big Week one that explained how all the events of The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, and Thor all fit together in the same span of time, and what was going on behind the scenes.
Actually, that same article said that Most (un)Wanted is looking most unlikely.
Actually, it said it's looking less likely. It didn't say it's looking unlikely.
I'd much rather have an Agent Carter S3 than MMW. The characters are much more interesting, the time period much richer for stories and there is the opportunity to finally found SHIELD officially and even, perhaps, dash in some early heroes like the android Human Torch.
Yeah, but Most Unwanted/most unlikely was too good to pass up.
I had a thought during Civil War, what if they keep the title, but change the time period and the Carter. We've gotten a bit of Sharon Carter in The Winter Soldier and Civil War, and Emily Van Camp has proven she can handle a series lead role. It would also give them a lot of opportunities for easy crossovers.
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