The storyline with Skye is so great. Like, her whole raison d'etre in the pilot episode was fighting the system, man, changing the world, just shaking things up. HA, HA, I GET IT NOW.
Oh, OH, or Skye (air), Rising Tide (water), and now Quake (earth). She's only missing fire!
He's amazing.
AMAZING. And consistently so. There's this new pacing and cadence that has to be part of everything Fitz says and it always works.
I love that it's such a long-running storyline, it's an ever-present part of Fitz's narrative, and that it's not simplified in any way at all, for any of the characters involved and most especially not Fitz. YES. I was initially pretty apprehensive about it, and I don't think that was unreasonable? Because Inspirational Cripple or otherwise kind of character-flattening narratives can overtake characters far less puppy-like than Fitz if there's not a lot of effort going into resisting it. And I mean, he is still a puppy! But no more or less than before, and not in a way that diminishes his perspective or character
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I don't think either Mack or Bobbi can keep up a persona with the completeness that Ward did in S1.
I think that's probably true of Mack, though that might be wishful thinking on my part. But Bobbi managed to infiltrate the top level of Hydra's security division of all places, so she probably is in Ward's league, skill-wise. Which makes me doubt Mack all the more, if she's so convincing! But I don't want to doubt Mack! The apparent existence of a social network including Lance (ie people who aren't in on whatever it is) is a good sign, though.
I did end up really feeling for Lance already. Like, you could tell he went to Mack because he knows how desperate he is to believe Bobbi and that's why she keeps throwing off his scent.
Yes! It's also been doing a really cool job of putting us close to the team's POV (well, Skye and Fitzsimmons, at least) in terms of trust. In S1, when they hadn't experienced that betrayal, there was no indication to the audience that anything was up with Ward. And that loss of innocence, and the fact that it doesn't necessarily come with control, is reflected with S2 showing us that someone is up to something but not giving us enough to know what's going on.
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Oh, OH, or Skye (air), Rising Tide (water), and now Quake (earth). She's only missing fire!
He's amazing.
AMAZING. And consistently so. There's this new pacing and cadence that has to be part of everything Fitz says and it always works.
I love that it's such a long-running storyline, it's an ever-present part of Fitz's narrative, and that it's not simplified in any way at all, for any of the characters involved and most especially not Fitz. YES. I was initially pretty apprehensive about it, and I don't think that was unreasonable? Because Inspirational Cripple or otherwise kind of character-flattening narratives can overtake characters far less puppy-like than Fitz if there's not a lot of effort going into resisting it. And I mean, he is still a puppy! But no more or less than before, and not in a way that diminishes his perspective or character ( ... )
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I think that's probably true of Mack, though that might be wishful thinking on my part. But Bobbi managed to infiltrate the top level of Hydra's security division of all places, so she probably is in Ward's league, skill-wise. Which makes me doubt Mack all the more, if she's so convincing! But I don't want to doubt Mack! The apparent existence of a social network including Lance (ie people who aren't in on whatever it is) is a good sign, though.
I did end up really feeling for Lance already. Like, you could tell he went to Mack because he knows how desperate he is to believe Bobbi and that's why she keeps throwing off his scent.
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