Countdown party!

[sholio]

Your assignments are due on June 1! The SSR Confidential website says 8 p.m. Alaska time, but it actually SHOULD be "end of day on June 1" (I would have done 11:59pm if you could still do that on AO3, but you have to choose from a handful of preset times, and midnight is too confusing since it could also be the previous day) so I've set the countdown to 11:59:59 on June 1. Technically I am going to wait 'til I get up on June 2 to default any remaining assignments from anyone who hasn't asked me for an extension, so if it's still June 1 anywhere in the world, you're still good. PM me, send an email, or contact me on Tumblr if you are not going to make the deadline and need an extension!

~*~THE COUNTDOWN~*~

(Er, let me know if that link doesn't work!)

Meanwhile, here is a visual depiction of my cheerleading efforts this year:



Yeah. So. April and May sure were months that happened. As we all struggle to get our assignments in on deadline (or, for those of you AWESOME PEOPLE who have already turned in assignments and treats, sit back with a martini or other beverage of choice and wave languidly to the rest of us from your pool chairs) ...

... let's have a party!

You don't have to be signed up to participate. You can jump in if you defaulted too.

Let's talk about some of our favorite things about the show we loved in its two tragically short *sob sob* seasons. For this, please keep comments positive - this is a party! We're here to have fun! I've added some conversation-starter threads. Feel free to start your own, jump in anywhere, comment on other people's comments, and share photos, recs, etc.

Comments

Re: Favorite scene

[selenak]

So hard to single out just one. A few relationship-bound favorites of mine:

Jarvis stitching up Peggy and telling her she needn't do it alone: aka what made me very invested in their relationship. Incredibly intimate, and yet delicate. Conversely, I also love their vicious argument in s2 where they both hit where it hurts, because I'm built like that, fannishly.

Which is also why I love the final Peggy-Howard argument from The Blitzkrieg Button (which is also, I'd argue, the most telling scene about Howard Stark in the entire MCU), and the big angsty sequence where she talks him out of hypnosis and into "he was good, wasn't he" in the s1 finale. Not least because that's Peggy getting closure on her loss of Steve.

The two "dinner order" scenes wrapping the progress of the Peggy 'n Jack relationship from s1 and s2. I love that when he says "You know what, Marge... I'll do that" in s2, it feels natural and earned, and also I didn't have the impression Peggy said that to humiliate him earlier, or gloat about how things had changed, but as a ribbing between friends and acknowledgment of the past, and that's how he took it.

Peggy breaking Dottie out from prison, and Dottie's entire reaction. Her best enemy, at last! But Peggy never loses sight of how incredibly dangerous Dottie is for a moment.

Re: Favorite scene

[sholio]

Yesss, these are all excellent choices. :) So many interesting relationships on that show. I especially like what the fight between Peggy and Jarvis in the second season shows about their relationship, that they've learned how to hurt each other -- they know each other that well by that point. And the mirroring of the Peggy and Jack scenes is really well done, too.