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TV commentary:
Gotham- Sounds like a mess! Hmm, not only did Tetch, Scarecrow and Jerome organize a mass breakout and are loose in the city with a few dozen other maniacs, the League of Shadows is also in Gotham, and they answer to Barbara?
The Americans- Hmm, interesting setup for the final season, unexpected! So, we get a time jump, and retirement is working out great for Phillip! He's actually smiling, has a cool car, a successful business, finally gets to go line dancing. And hey, glad to see Henry did get to go to that boarding school, and he's a hockey star there!
Alas, things are not going well for Elizabeth. I mean, she seems to be doing her job, but you can tell without Phillip, the spy game is really taking its toll on her. She gets to work with Paige (though keeping their relation a secret from the other spies they work with. But even that's worse, because Paige can't fill the same role, because she's her daughter. If anything, its a cause for more stress!
Like during a mission, some creepy Naval guy takes Paige's (fake) student ID in order to coerce to a date. Elizabeth says its fine, the ID is connected to a fake name (though its Paige's real face on it) shit happens. But then she totally secretly goes after the guy to kill him, which leads to a big problem in the end! But more on that later!
Stan's out of Counter-intel but still in the FBI, and still with Renee. Aderholt's is still doing the counterintelligence thing, and he has a wife and kid! As does Oleg! Arkady's a high ranking member of the Directorate. And here's where the setup for the season comes in, and how we get a potential conflict we weren't even thinking could happen.
So turns out the KGB and Gorbachev are at odds. Now, Arkady is a Gorbachev loyalist, he likes the changes happening in their country. Only some KGB hardliners don't like change. So he's quite concerned when he discovers members of his own organization went behind his back and gave a mission to Elizabeth!
And so he seeks out Oleg, partially because he knows what Oleg did and can use that as a pressure point, partially because he's someone outside of his department that he can trust. He gets Oleg to seek out Phillip and tell him Elizabeth may be being manipulated by the hardliners, or maybe she is a hardliner. He convinces Phillip to spy on Elizabeth to prevent these guys from doing all the good things that have happened in the USSR over the past few years.
This is where Elizabeth's murder of that guy causes it all to go to shit. She comes home that night, which is the same night Phillip meets with Oleg. He tries to talk it out with her, but she's so upset about all the shit she's been doing lately that she won't hear him out.
So we were all wondering if this last season, they were going to be close to getting caught and have to go on the run. But now there's a potential conflict between Elizabeth and Phillip, the true believer and the one who's embraced the American way of life. They might end up killing each other even before Stan or Aderholt even discovers them!
Agents of SHIELD- Oh please! Daisy is still pretty pissed at Fitz and "will never forgive him!" Whatever, she's being ridiculous! Yes, he did some horrible things to her, but one, he was kinda having a mental break at the time, and two it saved them. She can talk all about they could've found a way, but maybe that was the way.
I also don't see how they can never trust him again, because he could revert to his HYDRA self, but I don't know how anyone can think that! Deep down he figured out a solution to the rift problem that required Daisy to get her power back, even though she would never agree to that, and again, his mind still had to engineer a mental hallucination to even go through with it.
But yeah, that was a case where they were in huge trouble and this was the last resort! He's not going to all of a sudden want to start crazy HYDRA projects! Yet they act like they need to get that version of him if they want to win. It seems like unnecessary conflict.
Anyways, Jemma tells Fitz Deke is their grandson, so it proves they'll get through this. Which both Yoyo and Fitzsimmons seem to think because they're in the future, they're invincible. Which is ridiculous! They have no idea how this time stuff works. If they think they can prevent the world from cracking, that means the future is totally changeable, therefore they can die. If they can't change anything, then why bother doing anything if the world gets destroyed either way?
I just don't like them going around thinking they can't be killed, because that totally means one of them might die to prove the theory wrong, and that would not be cool.
Anyways, this ep told Hale's backstory. Apparently she was the star female pupil at HYDRA school, with guys like Sitwell as her classmates. Whitehall was impressed by her, but only wanted to use her to carry a genetically engineered HYDRA super project.
I'm not too keen on her experiences turning her into a "man hater" because its such a tacky trait. Like even though she talks to aliens on the reg, for some reason she thinks Phil and his team going to the future is a delusion or manipulation, and its just another example of a man telling her what she has to do.
We also see why Ruby is so obsessed with Daisy. Apparently, she was born and raised to be the ultimate HYDRA soldier. But her mom doesn't think she has the temperament. So the idea was floated around that Daisy should be the one being empowered by the chamber. And as such Ruby is totally jealous that they're trying to give away her legacy.
Gotham- Sounds like a mess! Hmm, not only did Tetch, Scarecrow and Jerome organize a mass breakout and are loose in the city with a few dozen other maniacs, the League of Shadows is also in Gotham, and they answer to Barbara?
The Americans- Hmm, interesting setup for the final season, unexpected! So, we get a time jump, and retirement is working out great for Phillip! He's actually smiling, has a cool car, a successful business, finally gets to go line dancing. And hey, glad to see Henry did get to go to that boarding school, and he's a hockey star there!
Alas, things are not going well for Elizabeth. I mean, she seems to be doing her job, but you can tell without Phillip, the spy game is really taking its toll on her. She gets to work with Paige (though keeping their relation a secret from the other spies they work with. But even that's worse, because Paige can't fill the same role, because she's her daughter. If anything, its a cause for more stress!
Like during a mission, some creepy Naval guy takes Paige's (fake) student ID in order to coerce to a date. Elizabeth says its fine, the ID is connected to a fake name (though its Paige's real face on it) shit happens. But then she totally secretly goes after the guy to kill him, which leads to a big problem in the end! But more on that later!
Stan's out of Counter-intel but still in the FBI, and still with Renee. Aderholt's is still doing the counterintelligence thing, and he has a wife and kid! As does Oleg! Arkady's a high ranking member of the Directorate. And here's where the setup for the season comes in, and how we get a potential conflict we weren't even thinking could happen.
So turns out the KGB and Gorbachev are at odds. Now, Arkady is a Gorbachev loyalist, he likes the changes happening in their country. Only some KGB hardliners don't like change. So he's quite concerned when he discovers members of his own organization went behind his back and gave a mission to Elizabeth!
And so he seeks out Oleg, partially because he knows what Oleg did and can use that as a pressure point, partially because he's someone outside of his department that he can trust. He gets Oleg to seek out Phillip and tell him Elizabeth may be being manipulated by the hardliners, or maybe she is a hardliner. He convinces Phillip to spy on Elizabeth to prevent these guys from doing all the good things that have happened in the USSR over the past few years.
This is where Elizabeth's murder of that guy causes it all to go to shit. She comes home that night, which is the same night Phillip meets with Oleg. He tries to talk it out with her, but she's so upset about all the shit she's been doing lately that she won't hear him out.
So we were all wondering if this last season, they were going to be close to getting caught and have to go on the run. But now there's a potential conflict between Elizabeth and Phillip, the true believer and the one who's embraced the American way of life. They might end up killing each other even before Stan or Aderholt even discovers them!
Agents of SHIELD- Oh please! Daisy is still pretty pissed at Fitz and "will never forgive him!" Whatever, she's being ridiculous! Yes, he did some horrible things to her, but one, he was kinda having a mental break at the time, and two it saved them. She can talk all about they could've found a way, but maybe that was the way.
I also don't see how they can never trust him again, because he could revert to his HYDRA self, but I don't know how anyone can think that! Deep down he figured out a solution to the rift problem that required Daisy to get her power back, even though she would never agree to that, and again, his mind still had to engineer a mental hallucination to even go through with it.
But yeah, that was a case where they were in huge trouble and this was the last resort! He's not going to all of a sudden want to start crazy HYDRA projects! Yet they act like they need to get that version of him if they want to win. It seems like unnecessary conflict.
Anyways, Jemma tells Fitz Deke is their grandson, so it proves they'll get through this. Which both Yoyo and Fitzsimmons seem to think because they're in the future, they're invincible. Which is ridiculous! They have no idea how this time stuff works. If they think they can prevent the world from cracking, that means the future is totally changeable, therefore they can die. If they can't change anything, then why bother doing anything if the world gets destroyed either way?
I just don't like them going around thinking they can't be killed, because that totally means one of them might die to prove the theory wrong, and that would not be cool.
Anyways, this ep told Hale's backstory. Apparently she was the star female pupil at HYDRA school, with guys like Sitwell as her classmates. Whitehall was impressed by her, but only wanted to use her to carry a genetically engineered HYDRA super project.
I'm not too keen on her experiences turning her into a "man hater" because its such a tacky trait. Like even though she talks to aliens on the reg, for some reason she thinks Phil and his team going to the future is a delusion or manipulation, and its just another example of a man telling her what she has to do.
We also see why Ruby is so obsessed with Daisy. Apparently, she was born and raised to be the ultimate HYDRA soldier. But her mom doesn't think she has the temperament. So the idea was floated around that Daisy should be the one being empowered by the chamber. And as such Ruby is totally jealous that they're trying to give away her legacy.