Tag: peggy carter

So, there are super secret reports from WW2 documenting what is surely one EPIC Roaring Rampage of Revenge from Steve. I’m just trying to imagine Col. Phillips writing those uncensore reports (filled, no doubt, with heavy swearing and despairing for his ulcers) and then he and Peggy cobbling together a sanitized version that wouldn’t shock the brass. The Howlies are explicitly forbidden from writing anything ever, I’d guess.

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Answering separately, because I KNOW, RIGHT?

Bucky’s poster at the exhibit is adorable – “in an ironic twist of fate, his prison camp was liberated by none other than his childhood friend, Steve Rogers, now Captain America.” It almost makes it sound like they knew each other briefly in middle school, then lost touch and, years later, Steve just happened to be liberating the right place at the right time, which, wow, really makes you think, if that’s the history the world remembered.

There have to be some reports, perhaps Howard kept notes? He was around in the weapons’ division, perhaps he wanted something more substantial than “Cap shot a guy and the gun you made broke.”

“Excuse you, my guns don’t break.”

“Okay, Cap ran out of bullets and he started using it as a club, and then the Kraut mentioned Sarge, so he had a wee little accident? On the plus side, Cap managed to dent a tank with it, I mean eventually, so job well done?”

And Howard just stares at the submachine gun he lovingly put together for maximum accuracy and minimum kickback and picks up a bloodied half of it through a napkin and says “A==>ha.”

Peggy just looks at it and jots it down as “lost to self-inflicted friendly fire.” Philips doesn’t even bother, at that point, just signs Rogers’ weapons requisition forms in blanco. It’s faster, cheaper, and easier on his ulcers.

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This scene. THESE WOMEN.

Okay, here’s my thing about this scene and it hit me when I first watched it but has taken me a while (and some conversation) to put into words.

Peggy, for a moment, seems rather uncomfortable with the idea of stealing food, where the other girls encourage it, even praising each other for it.  This to me, seems to underline a real cultural difference. Peggy, having grown up in England with the rationing and the Blitz spirit, would have had a very much ‘make, do and mend’ mindset.  What you had, you shared. Stealing or fiddling rations was not only very frowned upon by others, but could be punishable. 

The American girls, on the flipside, probably grew up young in the Depression.  When there was food, you took it and you took as much as you could, because who knows when it would be there again?  They have made ingenious solutions to avoid waste, and to avoid hunger.  They eat like women who have known what it feels like to not have anything to fill a hungry belly.

That being said, I don’t think less of either set of women. I just think it’s an interesting dichotomy. 

Mostly, of course, yay lady friendships and MOAR PLEASE.

YES ALL OF THIS. It’s a total two-nations-divided thing, on one hand you’ve got the full on stiff upper lip oh no thanks awfully i’ve had quite enough versus, GIRL ARE YOU SERIOUS LEMME FILL YOUR HANDBAG WITH GRAVY.

Also, I love how surprised and impressed Peggy is by their resourcefulness. All the food-swiping would be the kind of thing you’d expect an observant spy to spot instantly, so the fact she hasn’t suggests to me that she’s either been absent from a lot of mealtimes or too wrapped up in her own concerns. And it leads me to hope this is the start of her becoming more integrated into the Griffith circle because LADY FRIENDSHIPS.

Also also I know having a moment where all the Griffith girls band together to get Peggy out of a jam like some sort of Voltron of Moxie would be as cheesy as hell but I STILL WANT IT

yes yes but most importantly CHICKEN POCKET

THIS WAS MY FAVORITE SCENE

Rather than being due to country of origin I think a lot of this comes down to class. Peggy is posh and probably went to a posh school. I doubt she ever went really hungry until she was out on missions. By the time rationing came around she probably would have been working for the SSR and probably got more rations than the general public.
I haven’t actually seen Agent Carter yet so I’m only going on info available from other stuff but I doubt Peggy grew up not knowing where her next meal would come from.
Also while there was make do and mend mentality and you shared what you had with you and yours there was a huge amount of crime and black market stuff during the war/Blitz. I’m sure there was a lot of getting what ever you could and everyone else can get stuffed.