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While I love Agent Carter, I didn't find myself terribly impressed with this book -- I'm glad I didn't pay full price! Maybe I was expecting too much from a coffee table book. [ETA: read the Season One version since, and found it much better.]

The biggest portion of non-picture content is probably the episode summaries. Probably because it's faster and easier to summarize existing content. The added informational tidbits weren't particularly insightful: most of what they had to say is either pretty self-evident from the show or has already been stated by numerous other fans. Some of the bits that were interesting were short: you generally get about 2 little paragraphs per note, and just as it's getting good, it stops and moves on, leaving you with the most superficial exploration.

(Maybe I'm spoiled by fandom meta. I'm the type of person for whom half the fun is chewing over and dissecting motivations and explanations and intentions vs actual content.) (To be fair, I'm also spoiled by the rare gems like Mad Men, which actually pack a metatextual wallop right down into the colors of the wardrobe. Agent Carter, for all its fun, was not an especially deep show to start with. There, I said it! I can admit that and love it anyway.)

There were missed opportunities for photos. Piggybacking off my previous complaint, ex 1) they describe finding a location for the premiere's bank heist and constructing the fake vault. Is there a pic of the vault or the fight scene? Nope. There's a random half-page photo of Peggy pressed against Jason Wilkes, and a full-page image of Dottie in Peggy-drag -- in the bank, for sure, but I was getting curious about that vault! This is shortly followed by (ex 2) a blurb about scouting a good Stark mansion, which brings a full page front elevation photo but naught else. At some other page there's a quote about how the self-portraits he has in there, and again, no supporting imagery.

Ex 3) One page describes young Peggy's wedding gown and notes that sharp-viewers might have caught the fitting pins still in it as her mother worked to complete the construction. What photo do we get? A glorified screenshot like I could find off Tumblr. Show me the pins and close-ups of the two styles of recycled lace! C'mon!

What I'm getting at here is that, even in the most basic, coffee tabley "ooh pretty pictures" level, this book is largely shallow and seemingly randomly arranged with strong wafts of repetitiveness. I appreciated the behind-the-scenes photos, and I much rather would have seen more of those inserted over episode stills or actors posing for pics in-character.

Maybe they just weren't taking that many BTS photos?
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