{"id":5759,"date":"2016-08-09T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2016-07-28T08:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:13:46","slug":"mark-watches-agent-carter-s02e07-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2016\/08\/mark-watches-agent-carter-s02e07-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Agent Carter’: S02E07 – Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the seventh episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter<\/i>, everything falls apart. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Agent Carter<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I expected that this show was heading towards a disaster of sorts, but I did not anticipate everything happening in the same episode. Whew, this is bleak. LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S CHAT.<\/p>\n

Sousa<\/b><\/p>\n

When you look at Sousa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story in the last couple episodes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going through the\u00c2\u00a0worst<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0time ever, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. His fiance\u00c3\u00a9 broke things off with him, his relationship with Peggy is complicated, and now, Vernon Masters sidles into his life and ruins it. I HATE VERNON SO MUCH. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very straightforward antagonist here, a near-literal manifestation of the evil of white men with power. At times, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find him all that interesting as a character because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so simplistic, but I\u00c2\u00a0loved<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0that Sousa, well aware that his career was on the line, still stood up to him. Even after Vernon sent a men to his house to kick his ass, he still defied his boss. I HAVE SO MUCH RESPECT FOR HIM, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL.<\/p>\n

Fuck Vernon Masters, for the record. It can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be said enough times.<\/p>\n

Dottie<\/b><\/p>\n

I agree with Peggy: If anything, Dottie is a survivor, so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think this is the last we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen of her. I also hope that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case because I adore seeing her character do pretty much\u00c2\u00a0anything<\/i>. Namely, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rewarding to watch her terrify Vernon, and I hope that at some point before this show ends, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the one to kill him. LET US ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE HOW SCARY IT IS TO SEE DOTTIE TERRIFIED OF WHITNEY FROST. Good lord, that scene was so intense, and I really do think that Bridget Regan and Wynn Everett should be in a few hundred scenes, thank you.<\/p>\n

Inevitability<\/b><\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an entropy built into this story that drives the action. We know Whitney Frost has set a trap for Peggy; we get the sense that Jason Wilkes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s containment device will go wrong; we assume that something bad is going to happen to Ana because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left behind. The episode achieves this through little clues and outright foreshadowing. So I\u00c2\u00a0knew<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0I was being pushed in this direction, and yet, IT STILL AFFECTED ME. I was nervous once Jason and Ana were all alone in the Stark residence; I was on edge because of where Dottie was being held. Each of these pieces contributed to the whole.<\/p>\n

I knew something bad was going to happen, yet I had no idea what it was.<\/p>\n

Whitney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans are still nebulous at this point, though this episode does provide a slight suggestion as to what it is that she wants to do with her powers: make a world that is better for those who are forgotten and ignored. Which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of messy? No, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0super<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0messy, given that the show is trying to draw a parallel between the plight of women and black men at a time when one of those groups had it significantly worse than the other. In one breath, Whitney insults Jason, then offers up solidarity to him. Understandably, he wants nothing to do with whatever weird plan she has for the universe! Part of that is because\u00c2\u00a0she doesn<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing<\/i>. I at least understood that she wanted Jason specifically so she might better grasp what it is that Zero Matter does.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mostly an agent of chaos. She kidnaps Jason and shoots Ana as a distraction, bringing Jarvis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s job home in a terrifying and tragic way. Again, that was an inevitable plot point, one that was foreshadowed long before this episode. I hope Ana isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dead (I sense the show won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t kill her off), but what does this mean for Jarvis? Will he want to be back out in the field, or is this it for him?<\/p>\n

Basically, everything is a mess right now, and I wonder if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep getting worse or if Peggy and her team will get a victory against Whitney soon.<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Monsters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded\u00c2\u00a0here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n

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