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Elledy92 wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Elledy92 wrote: SonOfAres1 wrote: I think the idea of a powered Madame Masque without the mask really bothered me. And I really wanted the Maggia to be the main focus, ot the Council of Nine. The plot wasn't the best, but I agree that character development (for the protagonists) was very good.

I had imagined that Agent Carter would get 4 seasons with theae focuses. I really didn't like Agent Carter's Madame Masque. Not because they stripped most of her comic-book counterpart background, but because his storyline was terrible. Having her being just a superpowered "Darkforce vampire" didn't make her a more compelling character at all.
 * 1) Leviathan
 * 2) Maggia, allusions to Secret Empire (Count Nefaria, Madame Masque)
 * 3) Secret Empire
 * 4) Leviathan (Orion, Magadan, Dottie revealed as the Contessa)

But generally speaking, i think that the second season of Agent Carter was overall a waste of time and money, and it makes me made that they decided to move with the plot only in the finale. Really? I thought the whole message of "even if you're the smartest woman in the world, if you're not pretty, you're not anything" that drove her so evil in the first place was what made her so compelling. It was never about the powers, it was about her own perceived lack of freedom in her life. And it was how the powers gave her the freedom to be who she wanted. That's why when her freedom is taken away (when her powers are), she descends into the safe comfort of madness. Because that's something she can control. It wasn't really her freedom to gave her madness, most likely the Darkforce completely taking over her mind (same thing was happening to Wilkes). In the end, she became just an escamotage for the climax in Hollywood, and there wasn't really anything else they did with the character. The way she was taken out in the middle of the episode was laughably bad.

And the other thing is: why focusing the story on her, and scratching the all Council of Nine storyline in the middle of the season? And why focusing on the CoN instead of finishing the Leviathan storyline in the first place? I mean, I can't answer these questions, I'm not on the writing staff, but I do agree that they could've done a better job of defeating her. Then again, looking at Ophelia, John Garrett, Daniel Whitehall, Jiaying, Hive, Eli Morrow and Killgrave's defeats, they seem to be into quick and easy for female-led shows as opposed to spectacle defeats for the men (Daredevil vs. Fisk and Nobu, Luke vs. Diamondback, Danny vs. Harold). Peggy vs. Dottie is honestly the one exception, and even then that fight was pretty short.