This was an especially eventful two hours of Agent Carter, featuring the return of Dottie Underwood, quite a few near-death experiences, and one very serious talk in a surveillance van. There was a lot to love in these episodes, but the thing I keep coming back to is that they once against proved how committed the show is to portraying all different types of women, women who have made completely different choices in their lives, yet all share a conviction and respect for one another.
We have Peggy, of course: fiercely good at her job, idealistic (sometimes to a fault, as Dottie and Jack pointed out), but unafraid to be vulnerable, to humanly pursue love. That was something she showed in these episodes in particular, torn between Sousa and Wilkes, a dilemma that Jarvis was more than willing to comment on in that rather hilarious car scene. In Wilkes, Peggy has what one might call the safer choice, but these episodes showed a side of him that I wasn’t all that keen on and hinted that he doesn’t share Peggy’s complete and total sense of honor. I know the dark matter is affecting him, but his suggestion that they kill Dottie instead of rescuing her was in direct contrast to Peggy’s feeling that you never leave a woman behind, despite how you may feel about her, a disparity that I don’t think Peggy can, or should, get past. To Wilkes’ credit, he did turn down Whitney’s offer for world domination at the end of the hour (despite how she tried to coax him with talk of shared experiences), but it wasn’t enough to make me truly root for the guy.
We have Peggy, of course: fiercely good at her job, idealistic (sometimes to a fault, as Dottie and Jack pointed out), but unafraid to be vulnerable, to humanly pursue love. That was something she showed in these episodes in particular, torn between Sousa and Wilkes, a dilemma that Jarvis was more than willing to comment on in that rather hilarious car scene. In Wilkes, Peggy has what one might call the safer choice, but these episodes showed a side of him that I wasn’t all that keen on and hinted that he doesn’t share Peggy’s complete and total sense of honor. I know the dark matter is affecting him, but his suggestion that they kill Dottie instead of rescuing her was in direct contrast to Peggy’s feeling that you never leave a woman behind, despite how you may feel about her, a disparity that I don’t think Peggy can, or should, get past. To Wilkes’ credit, he did turn down Whitney’s offer for world domination at the end of the hour (despite how she tried to coax him with talk of shared experiences), but it wasn’t enough to make me truly root for the guy.
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