and this was called history

[musesfool]

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

Comments

[musesfool]

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*

I hoped to love the show, but it's not even that it's not the show I wanted that bothers me so much as that it's not good at being the type of show it was trying to be! Chuck, Alias, Burn Notice, etc. are all similar setups, but much better executed.

I also feel like if the show wasn't going to really get going until episode 16, it shouldn't have been a 22 episode season.

[viridian5]

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.

[musesfool]

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.

[musesfool]

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.