First Impressions - Agent Carter: "Snafu"

This is by no means a deeply intense dissection of the episode.

It's just my quick comments and notes after seeing the episode only once (a la AoS).
Spoilers after the jump.

You've been warned...


Episode 7: "Snafu"

The Good: The only good thing I got out of this episode was a name:

Dr. Faustus.

Doesn't look a thing like his comic counterpart, but whatever.

The Bad: Most of the rest of this episode. Let's take a look.

Agent Carter, whom this show is named after, spends a lot of time in an interrogation room as male agent after male agent tries to get her to confess...to something we all know she didn't do and therefore will not confess.

Then Jarvis shows up with a confession signed by Howard Stark. Only it's not really a signed confession by Stark, it's a signed confession by Jarvis...who forged Stark's signature.

Wait - it gets better.

Chief Dooley, who's been treating Carter like a secretary for six weeks and now has her under arrest, finally sees her as the agent she is and believes her enough to send agents across the street to check out Carter's theory that Dottie is a "bad person" and is in the building across the street...for some reason.

But he has the "good doctor" close the damn window. Which looks out across the street. At the building he's just sent several men over to investigate. Who just happen to be doing so when the "good doctor" closes said window. Just so the doctor can see them. Oh - did I mention that Dooley believes Carter only after she reveals Steve Rogers' blood? Then he's put in a trance (along with an exploding vest) by the "good doctor" only to jump out a window and explode.

 (sigh)

Then there's Carter and Jarvis, who are handcuffed to a table until they execute their master plan to escape: breaking the interrogation room's glass mirror with the table. All well and good, until they realize they're still handcuffed to the table! The HELL?

The WTF?:

Can't any of these agents shoot? Like at all?

* What exactly is Leviathan? Is it an organization? If so, what's their motivation. HYDRA wants to rule the world. It didn't work that well in WWII, so they went into hiding. Yeah, that whole thing pisses me off, but at least I get what HYDRA wants. Leviathan? Not a damn clue.
Is it a person? Okay, I can see that - a badass with a code name. If that's true, who is it?

Dr. Faustus?

No. I don't think so. He's a mind-controlling meanie, but I don't see him as the master"mind" behind this plot.

Dottie?

Nah. She's one of the muscles, but not the brain.

So if Leviathan is a person, it must be someone we haven't seen yet. Which makes sense, since there's one episode left to the season!

(ugh...)

Maybe Leviathan's a thing. Not a group or organization, but an event - like Hiroshima or D-Day. If that's what it is, what the hell is it? Wasn't it coming to the station in 90 minutes? Maybe it's Item #17 on the old "Howard Stark's List of Things I Wish I Never Thought Of". The theater thing could have been a test run for the "station event" happening in under 90 minutes. Beats me...

My guess is that we'll find out...in Season 3.

Adorkification Moment: 1...2...wait. 1...2...wait. Geez, that sums up this episode, most of this show, two-thirds of Agents of Shield and basically all of the MCU's Phase Two. Hey - Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely - you know why Empire is such a great movie? Because Jedi managed to resolve all the f**king plots. Until I get a Jedi, this whole thing is one big headache.