A Thought About Agent Carter
Feb. 8th, 2015 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteSo we are of course watching Agent Carter. Well, not necessarily "of course" since we gave up on SHIELD, but we liked the Capt. Amer. films, like Hayley Atwell, and are open to new things, so we tried it in the first place. And we like it. I don't love it to bits the way I do Arrow or Elementary, but at a time when comics-to-TV adaptations are happening with great frequency, it's a welcome addition to a crowded field. (I like Flash more than Agt. Carter but I will admit that both have their flaws. Guess I remain a Flash fanboy above all else.)
There was a very interesting moment this week that I want to note. So while in Russia, the gang stumbles over the remains of the Red Room's film studies project. And Peggy and friends see...The Dover Boys. As some of you might know, this is a classic Looney Tunes work by Chuck Jones that spoofs a now-forgotten property involving clean cut young men from Princeton and a damsel in distress named Dora. First off, it's no longer under copyright, which is how a Warner Bros. cartoon ended up in a Disney/Marvel show. But more interestingly, at the end of the cartoon, Dora ends up rescuing herself.
Juxtapose that with the cartoon we see little Dottie and classmates watching. We go from Snow White pledging to be a perfect maid or housewife to the dwarves to something that ends with the damsel relieving herself of distress. An intentional metaphor for the sort of woman Peggy is? For the changes that came with WWII for not just Peggy but millions of women who were never going be Snow White again? Maybe. It could just be that the show's producers are fans of The Dover Boys. But I wonder.
There was a very interesting moment this week that I want to note. So while in Russia, the gang stumbles over the remains of the Red Room's film studies project. And Peggy and friends see...The Dover Boys. As some of you might know, this is a classic Looney Tunes work by Chuck Jones that spoofs a now-forgotten property involving clean cut young men from Princeton and a damsel in distress named Dora. First off, it's no longer under copyright, which is how a Warner Bros. cartoon ended up in a Disney/Marvel show. But more interestingly, at the end of the cartoon, Dora ends up rescuing herself.
Juxtapose that with the cartoon we see little Dottie and classmates watching. We go from Snow White pledging to be a perfect maid or housewife to the dwarves to something that ends with the damsel relieving herself of distress. An intentional metaphor for the sort of woman Peggy is? For the changes that came with WWII for not just Peggy but millions of women who were never going be Snow White again? Maybe. It could just be that the show's producers are fans of The Dover Boys. But I wonder.
