I thought the way they phrased it left things vague so they could go that route or not; they hadn't committed to anything. But I could be misremembering, and cannot at present fire up the movie to check.
More non-romantic relationships (that are not being used to divert or erase the previous)
Men and women in relationships that are neither antagonistic nor romantic are high on my list of Favorite Things. Friends! They can happen! So can teachers and students, bosses and subordinates (even female bosses and male subordinates, shock, gasp), partners who don't fall into bed together, and so forth.
I think you would love the hell out of The Sandbaggers. It is carried entirely by the script and the acting, because the production values are crap; I forgive its periodic cynicism because the writer is all but confirmed to have been a career intelligence officer writing from experience. (One of his scripts got censored under the Official Secrets Act, because it too closely resembled a real event.) It is my favorite go-to source for actual politicking in fiction, rather than the paper-thin facsimile that is all most writers can manage.
That's pulp!
Oh, sure! It's just a pet peeve of mine, because the default assumption for most media is that women can do kung fu in high heels. (I mean, we can't have them in flat shoes or boots; that wouldn't be sexy.) This show has more justification for it than most, at least, because genre.
I headdesked a bit at the fact that Peggy has a safecracking wristwatch but no communication device better than a bulky radio that alerts the bad guys to her presence. Then again, I can believe Howard Stark's priorities might have gone in such directions.
Oh. I thought she hit him with the stapler because it was there. I guess that too.
And that is what I mean by them not overplaying it. Hell, it might not even have been intentional -- but it worked for me regardless.
The Captain America Adventure Program itself could have been more subtly done
I'm pretty sure it's about as subtle as the real-world examples it models itself on. :-P
When your world comes with its own meta, you might as well do something with it.
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I thought the way they phrased it left things vague so they could go that route or not; they hadn't committed to anything. But I could be misremembering, and cannot at present fire up the movie to check.
More non-romantic relationships (that are not being used to divert or erase the previous)
Men and women in relationships that are neither antagonistic nor romantic are high on my list of Favorite Things. Friends! They can happen! So can teachers and students, bosses and subordinates (even female bosses and male subordinates, shock, gasp), partners who don't fall into bed together, and so forth.
I think you would love the hell out of The Sandbaggers. It is carried entirely by the script and the acting, because the production values are crap; I forgive its periodic cynicism because the writer is all but confirmed to have been a career intelligence officer writing from experience. (One of his scripts got censored under the Official Secrets Act, because it too closely resembled a real event.) It is my favorite go-to source for actual politicking in fiction, rather than the paper-thin facsimile that is all most writers can manage.
That's pulp!
Oh, sure! It's just a pet peeve of mine, because the default assumption for most media is that women can do kung fu in high heels. (I mean, we can't have them in flat shoes or boots; that wouldn't be sexy.) This show has more justification for it than most, at least, because genre.
I headdesked a bit at the fact that Peggy has a safecracking wristwatch but no communication device better than a bulky radio that alerts the bad guys to her presence. Then again, I can believe Howard Stark's priorities might have gone in such directions.
Oh. I thought she hit him with the stapler because it was there. I guess that too.
And that is what I mean by them not overplaying it. Hell, it might not even have been intentional -- but it worked for me regardless.
The Captain America Adventure Program itself could have been more subtly done
I'm pretty sure it's about as subtle as the real-world examples it models itself on. :-P
When your world comes with its own meta, you might as well do something with it.
Amen!