Agent Carter Agent Carter General Discussion Thread

[Ant-manic]

But I'm still hoping for some of the Golden Age heroes to show up like Union Jack, a young Spitfire, Miss America, The Whizzer and any of the others.

you won't see any of that.

 

[Eddie]

Union Jack isn't that unlikely. He was in CA:TFA as a Howling Commando.

 

[Ant-manic]

Union Jack isn't that unlikely. He was in CA:TFA as a Howling Commando.

yes, and not the costumed Union Jack.

 

[chronos]

I think that Union Jack is probably the easiest to translate to TV, and actually fits within the tone of the show best out of any hero.

 

[Vartha]

Oh, we do have exact dates for the netflix series now? Have I missed something?

No we DON'T have dates yet, we're just waiting to see about WHEN the series will be out. The Net Flix shows are more like the animated Movies that go straight to Video than a TV Series.

 

[captainart]

That makes no sense. Do we have exact dates for when Flash or Gotham start to air? Then why do they have their own sections? They're at the same exact point in production as Agent Carter.

 

[Vartha]

Not sure, I just saw the pics and Trailer for Flash

 

[DN91]

All we have for Carter is the synopsis and title card. Not even a teaser yet.

 

[chronos]

That's because they greenlit this based off of the Marvel One-Shot rather than a traditional pilot. All that the teasers for those other shows are just clips from their pilots. The point is this show needs it's own section as much as the Netflix shows and Gotham and Flash, as does Contantine and IZombie.

 

[Shifty]

The only obstacle is that period dramas haven't had any luck in terms of bringing in viewers. Mad Men and The Americans are heavily DVRed but still have a small audience. Boardwalk Empire does okay for cable and Turn, Penny Dreadful all premiered with soft numbers even for cable. Then there are a dozen more cable dramas that had/have small audiences. The Playboy Club and Pan Am didn't last long on NBC and ABC.

Downton Abbey does well after word of mouth spread but nothing out of the gate has down well. ABC will be okay if it maintains the numbers of AoS but it could debut low and drop down like a lot of ABC's dramas did this past season.

 

[Raiden]

But you don't need to stick with a series for a whole year waiting for it to get better.

AOS has already gotten better before its season finale, way before. I admit that I had quitted watching it after 10 eps or so, but after TWS I started watching it again and now I can't wait to watch the new episodes. It did had a slow start, but now it has justified its renewal for a second season.

 

[Loki882]

It depends on who is telling me it has gotten better and how much better it has become. I have plenty of high quality television to watch. In 2014 it is no longer necessary to watch mediocre television. Network television dramas that rise to the quality of HBO, Showtime FX, Netflix and AMC programming is almost nonexistent.

Also the AOS crowd here isn't exactly the most reliable narrator. A heavy Marvel fan feel, who want it to succeed because of where it comes from, not necessarily based on how good it actually is.

Oh, so because it's a fandom that you don't agree with, you just dismiss their opinion entirely. Here's a little hint for you, those same fans really didn't like the first part of the season precisely because they were fans and didn't think that it was measuring up. In fact, they disliked it more than the GA did. So if a bunch of them now tell you that it's gotten good, then that should be a big hint that it has gotten good. Oh and if you haven't watched the entire season, then you have no right to judge it's quality. If you refuse to at least finish the first season, then you have no right to judge it's quality. If you somehow think that you're opinion is better than other peoples because they're "fans" then you're just arrogant.

 

[Intouch]

it's funny because agent carter will have to build the shield and coulson will have to rebuild it ..

 

[flickchick85]

It didn't take Game of Thrones six episodes to start getting good. It didn't take Mad Men, the Sopranos, Community, or any show I have spent years watching actually.

That's because on the drama front, cable shows are developed differently than broadcast shows due to longer development periods, larger investments for them, and wholly different (and more flexible) production timelines. Holding broadcast shows to the same standards as cable is...unfair. I understand only being able to stomach cable because when you're used to one brand of drama, then its hard to accept such a markedly different one, but regardless of individual tastes, SHIELD should be compared to other broadcast fare, not those cable shows you mentioned.

I personally have room in my viewing calendar for great cable AND broadcast shows. Mad Men, Breaking Bad (I haven't let it go yet), Game of Thrones, The Americans, Orphan Black, Shameless, True Detective - all favorites of mine. But I can enjoy broadcast shows like SHIELD, Person of Interest and Arrow as well...just on a different standard scale. They are basically my "popcorn" shows while the cable fare is the heavier, more substantive viewing. And Hannibal is one broadcast exception that is, thanks to its unusual foreign production deal, able to reach the same heights of cable, imo. But being "popcorn" doesn't automatically make the broadcast fare "mediocre." Just like with movies, there's good popcorn entertainment, and bad popcorn entertainment. SHIELD, imo, started off as mediocre popcorn entertainment and became GOOD popcorn entertainment in the 2nd half of its season. Not comparable to Mad Men or the Sopranos, but then, it was never supposed to be.

For me, only watching the good cable/streaming stuff is the equivalent of having the only movies in my viewing diet be the heavy indie flicks and Oscar hopefuls. I need my lighter summer fare, too.

 

[fixxxer]

^ About the best, most balanced, true post I've read on here for a while. *slow clap*

 

[ShadowBoxer]

I like the actress that plays Peggy and her Marvel One Shot was sweet, but I am not really super excited about her having her own show. I think marvel is pushing it to far now, and people could start to get tired of the brand. They have one or two movies out every year, Agents of Shield, and now Agent Carter. Agent carter seems to be a 1940's version of agents of shield so it seems like it could be super redundant. The only interesting thing the show could do is show the early days of shield and how it was founded but that really could just be explained. Doesn't really need a whole TV series to explain if you ask me.

 

[kosh33]

Made a wallpaper and cleaned up an old SSR eagle. I can't seem to find the one I made back with First Avenger
Full size http://i.imgur.com/7KSFdZx.png

great work Vartha as usual!

 

[Vartha]

That makes no sense. Do we have exact dates for when Flash or Gotham start to air? Then why do they have their own sections? They're at the same exact point in production as Agent Carter.

ALL we have on the Agent Carter series is the one-Shot film (on the IM3 dvd), the Title Card (the ART/LOGO) and the info that ABC wants 13 shows of Agent Carter.

Flash and Gotham are farther along than Agent Carter as in actual production. You'd have to ask in THOSE threads for dates, or related threads like Arrow.

Marvel's Netflix series of movies for the Defenders are not even actual TV shows, they are more like a Film that goes straight to DVD and skips theaters like the ANIMATED movies.

 

[Vartha]

great work Vartha as usual!

Thanks Kosh!!

 

[Pokkle]

Gotham and Flash section were there before their trailer, right ?
And we know Agent Carter will air during the mid-season break of Agents of Shield.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05...med-to-air-while-shield-takes-midseason-break

 

[Vartha]

Gotham and Flash section were there before their trailer, right ?
And we know Agent Carter will air during the mid-season break of Agents of Shield.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05...med-to-air-while-shield-takes-midseason-break

Yeah we have dates now I didn't SEE them but now We're waiting for Administration to make the Forum

 

[Vartha]

Agents of SHIELD tweeted this
https://***********/AgentsofSHIELD/status/466753467328233473/photo/1

.@HayleyAtwell will reprise her role as Peggy Carter in the new TV show, Marvel’s #AgentCarter - Coming soon to ABC! pic.***********/PUWmEQKstq

http://t.co/PUWmEQKstq

 

[luis4u]

Thank you mod..

 

[Dark Raven]

Yay, we have an Agent Carter forum now.

Now we need all the other threads moved into this section.

 

[Vartha]

OKAY I THINK I have all the Agent Carter threads moved from Marvel films and Agents of shield if you see one I missed pm me I'll move it later