Well, this was quite good. The story was kind of rushed, but fun, and I've rarely seen cel-shaded 3D animation look this good. The technology has finally gotten to the point where sometimes it's almost indistinguishable from traditional animation. Indeed, it looked like there were a lot of painted backgrounds, and I was impressed by how much the lighting, color, and character/action animation reminded me of the Fleischer Superman cartoons from the '40s. Whereas one or two of the animated explosions reminded me of Tokyo Movie Shinsha's work in their heyday in the '80s and '90s. They always did the best explosions. I still find it a little off-putting how fluid CGI animation is compared to cel animation (except in shows like The Dragon Prince and Pacific Rim: The Black where they deliberately reduce the frame rate to mimic 2D, usually reducing it too much), and the lines are a bit heavy for my taste, but the character animation was very expressive and subtle, really terrific work.
Josh Keaton was remarkably good as Steve. I didn't pay enough attention at the start of the credits to know whether it was Chris Evans or not, and I became convinced it actually was him. As for Atwell, it was interesting how she played Captain Carter with more fun and playfulness than Agent Carter, as if she were really rejoicing in the freedom her new power gave her. But the performance I enjoyed most was Dominic Cooper's Howard Stark, who was in full Starkian form with a perfect '40s screwball-comedy delivery on top of it.
It kind of seemed to me that Captain Carter was even more superpowered than Captain America ever was. I don't think we ever saw Steve flip a truck over his head, for example. I bet that's really going to upset a certain segment of the audience.
I found the tag scene kind of anticlimactic. It would've been nice to get some answers about what happened to Hydra Stomper Steve in the 70 years since the war. Maybe they're saving that for a sequel next season?
Should the thread title be given a spoiler flag, since we're discussing the episode specifics?