"But with the government agents knocking on the door of the Griffith, it was a missed opportunity not to give a moment to humanize her- to let her stand up and say "I may not have always trusted Peggy Carter, but I believe she's a good girl, and I will not allow you to violate the rules of this establishment without showing me some proof to the contrary." And to have it stick."
That would have been amazing.
One of the things that people elsewhere were pointing out is that, to some degree, her general viciousness and hatred of "men above the second floor" is not, entirely unreasonable, given the society she lives in. For example, in many instances, she is providing a cover (or may even think of herself as providing a cover) for women who are staying there -- it is not that she doesn't like the guy, see, it is that the matron won't allow him past the entrance, so pressuring her is just pointless, for example. It is the sort of thing that I find it interesting to explore, for personal reasons, and while I wouldn't really want the show to go in that direction, it would have been nice to have at least the concept of two-dimensionality acknowledged here.
Unrelatedly, I want to take this opportunity to mention the other thing about Agent Carter that I found interesting, which is that her moment of triumph with the annoying coworker in the airplane in the previous episode mostly... reminded me of the NYT article about how women are expected to do the emotional work around the office. He starts being friendly with her and including her in the office life because she is willing to comfort him about his war crimes, which isn't something that a man would be expected to do, ever. I don't think that the show was going with that intentionally, but I thought that it was interesting.
Man, I like Dottie. I should probably feel bad about enjoying crazy badass Russian women in my fiction, but I kind of enjoy it a lot. "That gun. I want that."
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Date: 2015-02-13 08:29 am (UTC)That would have been amazing.
One of the things that people elsewhere were pointing out is that, to some degree, her general viciousness and hatred of "men above the second floor" is not, entirely unreasonable, given the society she lives in. For example, in many instances, she is providing a cover (or may even think of herself as providing a cover) for women who are staying there -- it is not that she doesn't like the guy, see, it is that the matron won't allow him past the entrance, so pressuring her is just pointless, for example. It is the sort of thing that I find it interesting to explore, for personal reasons, and while I wouldn't really want the show to go in that direction, it would have been nice to have at least the concept of two-dimensionality acknowledged here.
Unrelatedly, I want to take this opportunity to mention the other thing about Agent Carter that I found interesting, which is that her moment of triumph with the annoying coworker in the airplane in the previous episode mostly... reminded me of the NYT article about how women are expected to do the emotional work around the office. He starts being friendly with her and including her in the office life because she is willing to comfort him about his war crimes, which isn't something that a man would be expected to do, ever. I don't think that the show was going with that intentionally, but I thought that it was interesting.
Man, I like Dottie. I should probably feel bad about enjoying crazy badass Russian women in my fiction, but I kind of enjoy it a lot. "That gun. I want that."