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 integrity. Like, it would've been really easy to special-angel what I really do believe was compassion for Skye's situation, or to come down hard on him for the way he swung into being unfair about her being ready to ~come out. But it just...made sense on the character's terms.
(Or like, the way everyone got mad at him for not outing her, because they can get on his case but they can't mess with Skye. #TVD LIFE LESSONS.)
ahaha, I thought I had that all out of my system! Nope! v excited about Fitz. <33
He literally called Mack "a beast" when telling him why he would be good in the field.
My jaw dropped both times I watched it.
there's a great shot of him and Tripp when Coulson is showing them the map of the Alien City, where Mack is GLARING at Coulson
ha, ha, he was already super-attractive and all, BUT
I've kind of....abstractly understood the problems with Coulson but not really felt like he pushed my buttons before? IDK, I think his storyline in 2A about all that image-preserving doublethink finally spiraling out of control was engaged with enough of those issues to be sympathetic? (Kind of Elijah-like in some ways, though neither a mass murderer nor a chronic flop and therefore significantly less endearing to me.) And I totally believe that he would come out of that experience and compensate by being even more controlling. But I've definitely had that UGH, NO response during these two eps.
It's such a pity because ITA that they're both really good for each other. Ughhh
IT'S GOING TO BE CRUSHING I CANNOT WAIT.
There are some pretty solid indications, at least, that Mack and Bobbi are mostly genuine in these connections? Like, the fact that Mack was willing to be vocal in challenging Coulson, rather than just keeping his head down, is a good sign that he's there for real. And I think the big brother kind of tendencies he shows around Fitz are also pretty evident in the way he talks to Bobbi, and he doesn't seem likely to be playing her, you know? But it's not going to feel that way to Lance and especially Fitz.
I mean, she is a very closed-off person in general and I appreciate that as part of her characterization, but it gives all the more meaning and weight to moments where she opens up and you feel all that EMOTION. I love it. :D
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.
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 integrity. Like, it would've been really easy to special-angel what I really do believe was compassion for Skye's situation, or to come down hard on him for the way he swung into being unfair about her being ready to ~come out. But it just...made sense on the character's terms.
(Or like, the way everyone got mad at him for not outing her, because they can get on his case but they can't mess with Skye. #TVD LIFE LESSONS.)
ahaha, I thought I had that all out of my system! Nope! v excited about Fitz. <33
He literally called Mack "a beast" when telling him why he would be good in the field.
My jaw dropped both times I watched it.
there's a great shot of him and Tripp when Coulson is showing them the map of the Alien City, where Mack is GLARING at Coulson
ha, ha, he was already super-attractive and all, BUT
I've kind of....abstractly understood the problems with Coulson but not really felt like he pushed my buttons before? IDK, I think his storyline in 2A about all that image-preserving doublethink finally spiraling out of control was engaged with enough of those issues to be sympathetic? (Kind of Elijah-like in some ways, though neither a mass murderer nor a chronic flop and therefore significantly less endearing to me.) And I totally believe that he would come out of that experience and compensate by being even more controlling. But I've definitely had that UGH, NO response during these two eps.
It's such a pity because ITA that they're both really good for each other. Ughhh
IT'S GOING TO BE CRUSHING I CANNOT WAIT.
There are some pretty solid indications, at least, that Mack and Bobbi are mostly genuine in these connections? Like, the fact that Mack was willing to be vocal in challenging Coulson, rather than just keeping his head down, is a good sign that he's there for real. And I think the big brother kind of tendencies he shows around Fitz are also pretty evident in the way he talks to Bobbi, and he doesn't seem likely to be playing her, you know? But it's not going to feel that way to Lance and especially Fitz.
I mean, she is a very closed-off person in general and I appreciate that as part of her characterization, but it gives all the more meaning and weight to moments where she opens up and you feel all that EMOTION. I love it. :D
!! SO great.
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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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