For a long time I didn't want to
watch a TV series called „Agent Carter”, I didn't like the
character in the movie „Captain America: First Avenger”, so it
wasn't high on my must-watch-list. But recently I've watched the last
episodes of „Gotham”, „Arrow”, and I've realised I don't have
anything new to watch while I'm eating diner. So I read what the plot was about (and I saw that terrible poster, like they didn't have any
specialists in Marvel. They can do such amazing things like The Age
of Ultron trailer and they can't make a decent poster for their new
baby „Agent Carter”?) and I saw that cast includes Dominic Cooper
who plays Howard Stark (Tony's father) and this made me to watch it.
So we meet agent Carter after the
end of the Second World War. She's still in pain after loosing the
love of her life – Steve Rogers. And that's good, because if she
just agreed that he's gone and now she has to move on, well that
would mean she didn't really love him. But she did. A lot. So here
she is, an English tough girl in New York, who has a secret
job in SSR, an agent totally underestimated because of her sex (let's
remember it was before women got rights), her life is pretty
miserable, she doesn't date of course, she tries to do her best, but
her colleuges just want her to make a coffee and bring lunch. So when
she meets Howard who wants to give her a secret mission, says he can
trust only her, she's delighted. And the adventure starts, she has to
take back some of Howard's inventions that nobody gets hurt. And
there's Jarvis, Howard's butler, who is supposed to help her any
time.
So
I've watched the whole season one (eight episodes, YAY!) and I've
changed my mind about Peggy Carter. She's a strong woman, she can
kick some ass (one guy claimed that five guys did beat him, not a
girl), she's tough, smart and has a funny accent. But my absolutely
favourite character is Howard Stark. He's like his son (well, Tony is
like his father, but you get the point). He's bright, genius,
womanizer, playboy, millionaire, inventor and above all a good human
being. He can be arrogant, selfish, sometimes unpleasant, but you
have to admit he has a reason. Have I mentioned he was a genius? Well
he is. And that's why he's one of the founders of the SHIELD.
Unfortunately, we know his fate is to die with his beloved wife in a
car accident which wasn't a car accident, but a murderer comitted by
Hydra, so this TV series allows us to know him a little bit better
than just from Tony's memories in “Iron Man 1,2,3”.
