It looks like a parody of a religious baroque painting, which is fitting I guess because when I first saw the ads for this I thought it had to be a parody for sure. I assumed no one would seriously call a show 'The Slap' without comedic intentions.

I didn't think she looked bad but it may not have been her best weight. Hollywood may not agree with me, but I think there are people for whom weight loss is not an appearance enhancer, like Jennifer Connally.

Oh, I totally agree. However given how many people have complained that they didn't like how much the show was showing sexism (even though, if anything, the show is portraying less sexism than the actual 40's) I wonder if they'll decide to tone it down. It does seem like at least people tend to acknowledge more that…

My guess is that it was written that way in the event they get another season, to set up Howard's motivation for involvement in SHIELD.

In this episode the man who took pictures of the dead bodies looked to be a light skinned black man. Also there was a black couple holding flags that was part of the group of people with uniforms/flags that prompted Peggy to ask what day it was. I don't remember if they were both in uniform or not, I just remember…

Yeah, I could definitely see Peggy shooting to disable as Dottie sees her and Dottie managing to react lightning fast and throwing something at Peggy's head off the desk like a paperweight and then tackling her for the gun. Then Dottie is winged and bleeding as they start to fight hand to hand.

It was, and it made perfect sense because the character would have wondered wtf. It's one of the things I hate in tv dialog, particularly in procedurals, when a character says something to another character when they are touching bases that only makes sense in the context of something the audience has seen but the…

RIGHT. I get them confused because I was never into either one of them. I know they've got to be some people's cup of tea but somehow they never were mine.

I would love to see Isaiah Bradley introduced later on. Of course, given how many people have been complaining about the sexism in Agent Carter I wonder how they'll react to the 40's being shown as racist, or if Marvel will decide to rewrite history a bit to make the audience more comfortable if they introduce a major…

I liked the scene on the bridge, too. It was so well acted and sad, and yet I couldn't help but think of all the fish who are now going to be super soldiers. Future Aquaman tie in?

Ah, ok. And yeah, it would have been anomalous, but more than that I think in an episode where Peggy was already getting less screen time, a part where he gets unhypnotized might have taken up too much time on something that didn't move the plot forward.

It would be most satisfying to me if the general were ultimately revealed as a hydra agent, but of course I don't know if there will be another season.

I had that exact thought while watching this. Holy crap, how did this guy get rich? I'll just assume he invented the self flying plane accidentally while trying to make a better vegetable peeler or something.

Plus Peggy is part of a team! It seems like the show has also been criticized for Peggy doing too much by herself and that being unrealistic. It seems like it didn't swing that far over in this episode to now warrant the opposite criticism.

They also clearly showed two white cops with bullet holes in thier heads. So it wasn't the 'kill the black cop' cliche. All the cops that tried to stop Ivchenko ended up dead. It was more that one of the cops who all fell under his influence was black, and he was the cop they gave the most screen time to, you saw a…

Amongst my female, comic book reading friends, new 52 is utterly despised. I don't think that's an accurate picture of how many women are reading comics as a whole.

At times there was definitely an air of 'whelp! We're just putting some crap on the screen. Yup, just filling up some time. LALALALALA here's a commercial.'

I'd love to see it renewed, but I'd also enjoy seeing some more miniseries. Maybe if they cut down AoS episode numbers they'd start tightening the series up. Or breaking up the season so its agent carter, aos, something else, aos.

Mad Men (at least initially) shows the sexist men as still being people who are competent, portrayed as protagonists and relatively in control, instead of stubborn, less than brilliant, and suffering consequences in workplace productivity because of their sexism. To someone who isn't watching the show closely it…

It is kind of amazing. Imagine there was a show about a back man trying to become a doctor in Mississippi around 1900. Everyone is always complaining, but why does this show keep having racism in it??? Why are all the white people so racist? Why don't they think he can run a desegregated hospital? This is so…