and this was called history

Apr 09, 2014 11:32

Actually got a good night's sleep last night. It's amazing how much better that makes me feel.

Item the first: today's poem:

The Futureby Billy Collins ( Read more... )

national poetry month 2014, memes: what i'm reading wednesday, poetry, books, tv: shield, this is captain america calling, books: discworld

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musesfool April 10 2014, 15:05:59 UTC
I immediately assumed that Ward was going undercover to infiltrate HYDRA, the triple-agent theory, and I dismissed him genuinely being a bad guy. That was my instinctive reaction.Well, it would go along with the show's inability to make really hard choices for its characters. Otoh, he did kill Brad Dourif in cold blood, and it looks like he shot Hand's team (there is argument on the internet about whether she is dead dead or just iced), so I'm not sure I feel like him being a triple agent is actually better? (This actually also goes along with the question of whether the movie really went far enough, because is SHIELD any better than HYDRA etc.) I feel like Coulson saying use the night night gun for HYDRA but shooting those two security guards at that medical facility makes him a hypocrite, too. *hands ( ... )

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viridian5 April 11 2014, 06:46:54 UTC
If they started the show that early in the hope of making the audience really care about these characters before the plots posited moles and betrayals within the team, they failed miserably in my case and in many of my friends' cases.

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musesfool April 11 2014, 20:12:21 UTC
Exactly. I feel like they wasted the first 15 episodes before this - yes, there were occasional interesting flashes, but mostly it's been boring and poorly written.

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musesfool April 11 2014, 20:11:47 UTC
Right - I meant that if they had a 13 episode season that started in January, or even in February after the Olympics - they could have been on episode 6 or 7 right now, which is enough time for us to care about them and then still had 5 or 6 episodes to deal with the ramifications of the movie. I still don't know that these writers are up to the task, considering the first 15 episodes of the show, but it would have felt like a lot less time spent treading water.

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