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And I just read this, why? I need to listen when I'm warned. Ugh!
She may want it but I doubt it will ever happen. AC had great ratings it's first season and it played really well as a period piece where it was set, they should have left it there and kept going. As per an interview with one of the shows producers it was Atwell who fought to make the show edgier and bring in a racial slant, she thought the viewers would love it. They fought, she fought, she won and the viewers hated it. The negative mail was a reflection of the almost immediate sinking ratings. The second season was more 66 batman with a pc message than anything to do with her character. Once again, they had a good thing going and made a stupid move by letting her change the whole dynamic of the show. Where is she now?Hayley Atwell wants an Agent Carter film!
http://theplaylist.net/give-movie-h...t-carter-get-feature-film-treatment-20160928/
⇧ didn't realize that's why the second season changed so much. I thought it lost its atmosphere out in LA and the story became incoherent, silly and not worth the effort. Also the Sci-fi was embarrassingly inconsistent and, I'll just say it, stupid.
But I still enjoyed the period details that remained and the passion she brought to it enough to stay with it, but it was much better in season one. The problem with pc stuff was that it was obvious - it felt forced. The racial narrative could have been very interesting, but it wasn't put in a '40s context of how it would have played out then, but in a 2015 idealized manner to jam a message down the viewers' throats.
Where is she now?
...no one wanted to see Carter with anyone but Capt. A.
...Or, uh me...
In my opinion they should have stayed in NY for the "look" maybe brought in a little sexual tension with one of the other agents but face facts, no one wanted to see Carter with anyone but Capt. A.
I suspect that "she" had less to do with the retooling of the second season than directives that came down from ABC/Disney/Marvel. But yeah, most of the second season changes didn't improve the series. (In particular, the utterly-wrong-for-the-period racial stuff is classic ABC/Disney PC meddling.) Still, it had its moments and I'd love to see her play the character again, at whatever age.
BTW, the character got a shout-out in this week's Agents of SHIELD episode: Coulson is giving a congressional group a tour of SSR/SHIELD HQ (since in light of the Sokovia Accords, SHIELD has been re-instituted as a less-secret organization) and he said something like, "While she's quite famous, there are a lot of things Peggy Carter did that aren't yet public knowledge." How meta!
Atwell's new series, Conviction, starts next Monday. I'm gonna give it a try, but I suspect it's gonna leave me cold apart from Atwell herself.
Times article on Hayley Atwell. Yeah, it's primarily a puff piece about Conviction, but there's some info about Atwell herself I hadn't seen elsewhere:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/a...l-swapping-a-secret-agent-for-a-hot-mess.html
Okay, I watched the Conviction pilot last night. I don't think it's got a chance of succeeding. Do we really need another legal procedural set in NYC?!?...
Hayley Atwell's next role is one of the leads in a new miniseries adaptation of Howard's End from the BBC and Starz:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hayley-atwell-star-howards-end-series-976481
Well, it's a step up from the godawful Conviction. And Emma Thompson won an Oscar for playing the same character in the 1992 Merchant/Ivory film.