Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-112155-20160223215354/@comment-27112771-20160301220743

I think you guys really need to think this through.

We can't let our personal desires get in the way of what could be a good story or connection.

Hydra's getting old--I'll be the first to admit that. But I think we're a little burn out on them from Agents of SHIELD and even Age of Ultron. (I don't think we'll see much of them in CW)

This is an Agents of SHIELD problem. They need to relax on all the Hydra stuff as soon as possible. And I mean AS SOON.

But Hydra was active in 1947. We know that Hydra has been apart of S.H.I.E.L.D. since Operation: Paperclip, which took place in 1949.

Agent Carter has given us so many good non-Hydra antagonists, but it is the most appropriate place for Hydra right now. One off-hand reference would create an MCU-wide connection. Besides the Council of Nine was A PART of Hydra in the comics, and though there are so, so SO many other baddies out there, in the MCU (as well as comics like Secret Warriors) they were the guys behind so many things. "Hydra has been weaping war and crisis" --Zola. It would be RIGHT UP THEIR ALLEY to put something like the 1929 Stock Market Crash into action.

The main focus of the story is between Peggy and Whitney, and that shouldn't change at all. But just like Season One ended with a nice-nod to the Winter Soldier program, something even smaller than that would be a nod to Hydra's presence (they undeniably have one) but also to Agents of SHIELD if this is the Hydra symbol hidden.