Of Swords and Parasols

 Agent Carter and The Shannara Chronicles finished their sophomore and freshman runs respectively this week and...eeeh. Like season 1, AC could have just been better in general. They listened to fan demands for more diversity and more women for Peggy to interact with, but their efforts were rather lackluster overall, IMO. I shouldn't feel overwhelmed with relief that the sole POC character in the show didn't end up dead or ebil, or be surprised when a major character from the first season gets a passing mention. I also found Whitney Frost to be the most interesting of Peggy's antagonists by far (I enjoy Dottie a lot but don't find her very compelling as an individual) and was disappointed in how her story ended, and that we never got a reason for the things she did other than a need for more power. I am very interested in the apparent setup for the third season though.

TSC I mostly found disappointing because they're shooting for an ongoing series instead of what most of us assumed, which was a series of limited series based on different novels and characters. Even with my vague memories, I know they left most of the book canon behind long ago, but I was hopeful. There were also things that happened that I wasn't very ok with to start with, and am even less ok with with the possibility of future seasons.

Which is not to say that I disliked either one or don't intend to watch more seasons if they manage to exist, I just wanted more.

OTOH, this week's Star Wars Rebels and Supergirl were both excellent, though it's too close to my bedtime to get into either.