Based on their current Marvel shows, I don't think it's their cup of tea.
Agent Carter - Season 2
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Well, now I don't feel so bad about not going around to watching season 2.
But Hydra wasn't there to help with that. We already know this from Zola's narration in The Winter Soldier. The new-formed SHIELD recruited him, and he gradually rebuilt Hydra from within SHIELD, slowly and subtly infiltrating it over the course of half a century. It would contradict that to show a major Hydra organization already in place before SHIELD is even on the books.
Despite enjoying the show and loving the character, no great loss. Between the two seasons we got, the one-shot, and all her film and TV appearances both before and after the period those cover, it's not like we're left with an extremely incomplete picture of her life and exploits. Plus, it seems somehow fitting in light of Civil War's portrayal of her...
(Makes me wonder if that's a coincidence or if it was somehow coordinated.)
...death and funeral.
(Makes me wonder if that's a coincidence or if it was somehow coordinated.)
Civil War's script was written before AC premiered at all, and it finished filming five months before season 2 of AC premiered. So there's no possible way the events of the movie could've been influenced by the fate of the TV show. I suppose it's conceivable that the cancellation decision could've been influenced by the movie's events, but it seems very unlikely. The poor ratings and the strong performance of Hayley Atwell's new pilot are more than enough to explain it.
I'm hoping that we can have some "closure" for Peggy via Agents of SHIELD. She's already guested on the show, so doing it one more time isn't that odd. And now that Peggy has died, you can have Sharon Carter guest star to go through some old SHIELD files regarding Peggy.
Good to know. What about the timing of the official announcement—one week after the film's release—despite cancellation having been mooted or at least rumored for some time now? Might that have been calculated? (As I said, it could easily be mere coincidence, but it's a striking and somewhat eerie one.)
I'd certainly welcome that, and didn't mean to imply above that there aren't plenty more possibilities for stories featuring her to be slotted into gaps we haven't seen (or fleshed out from bits we have). And it's true there are all sorts of threads that could have been picked up in another season of AC, not least of which would be Thompson's (apparent) murder, naturally. But I just meant that for Peggy herself, we have a pretty good idea of what happens to her from the movies and we even get to see her a couple of times in later life.
From The Winter Soldier we know she founds SHIELD with Stark (and from Ant-Man that they both remain with it through the 1980s) and that she marries (I'd be happy to presume to Sousa, at this point, though I probably oughtn't—I forget if he ever said anything about his war record that would preclude his battalion being the one trapped behind German lines under a Hydra blockade that Cap broke through) and that she lives to meet Cap again, but suffers from something akin to Alzheimer's. (Could this have anything to do with delayed effects from repeated exposure to that short-term memory wipe thingy this season, I wonder? That's probably the part of her story I'd like most to hear more of, not that her illness need have such exotic origins.)
Aw, Agent Carter. 
Obviously, totally expected, but I was still holding out hope. Agent Carter was a rare classic. It's a shame we couldn't have at least a trilogy. Maybe there's still a ray of hope that Marvel and Disney would want to keep it going for a bit since it's really their class act-- and they can afford it, since the movies responsible for it make them billions-- and that she will one day appear on Netflix or some other streaming blah blah whatever (like that space show that the other network is bringing back).
Oh, well. Some classics have only one season. We should be glad for what we have, I guess.
Obviously, totally expected, but I was still holding out hope. Agent Carter was a rare classic. It's a shame we couldn't have at least a trilogy. Maybe there's still a ray of hope that Marvel and Disney would want to keep it going for a bit since it's really their class act-- and they can afford it, since the movies responsible for it make them billions-- and that she will one day appear on Netflix or some other streaming blah blah whatever (like that space show that the other network is bringing back).
Oh, well. Some classics have only one season. We should be glad for what we have, I guess.
Real shame this. Most shows don't have one decent female character, S2 of Agent Carter had Peggy (obviously) but also Dottie and Whitney who were more fully rounded antagonists than most villains of either gender in most TV/film.
Plus is had Jarvis, and Howard Stark...I hope we at least get some flashbacks in SHIELD as other people have said.
Plus is had Jarvis, and Howard Stark...I hope we at least get some flashbacks in SHIELD as other people have said.
I'm curious what AoS will do, will they make more episodes or will there just be a gap like first season?
I know it won't happen, but I'm still hoping for a Marvel Team Up/Marvel Two-in-One type show where it features a different MCU character every episode. After watching the last episode of AoS I'd go for a General Talbot show, even.
I know it won't happen, but I'm still hoping for a Marvel Team Up/Marvel Two-in-One type show where it features a different MCU character every episode. After watching the last episode of AoS I'd go for a General Talbot show, even.
The announcement was just one part of ABC's announcement of its entire new lineup prior to the "upfronts" next week. The timing of such announcements is dictated by the need to move into production on new or renewed shows in time to make the fall premieres, as well as to free up cancelled shows' casts and crews to pursue other work with the same deadline in mind. And the movie's release date was scheduled years ago.
The norm for most shows is to air reruns in the midseason gap. Since neither AC nor Marvel's Most Wanted got picked up, I assume AoS will just revert to that. After all, putting AC in the gap of AoS was merely a scheduling decision. They're still separate shows with separate production staffs and budgets, so AC's cancellation shouldn't have much, if any, effect on the number of episodes AoS is budgeted for.
Shame. I enjoyed both seasons.
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