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Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD 2.12 Who You Really Are
I was expecting to grouch at the waste of the use of amnesia for Sif in this context, but they sort of got away with it, especially in bringing in a Cree (although acting on his own? Really? About as likely as their having managed to drown all the Diviners.)
The heart of the ep was Skye’s vulnerability, so Fitz’s sympathy was very touching, as were her parental figures standing up for her, until May didn’t (and May was the boss of the episode, with her reactions to Sif-Coulson interactions, her appreciation of Thor etc). I just hope that they all get over their freaking out to help Skye control her powers.
I really wanted Fitz to lecture Simmons about her hawkish anti-alienism. Frankly, I’m surprised she and Mac put up with the Asgardian in their vicinity.
Meanwhile, although I snickered at Mac’s line about not believing in a world where Hunter could knock that pole over himself, I did like that Hunter had got suspicious of what was going on with Bobbi and Mac. Obviously, it was stupid to confront the beefy Mac in the tag, but he didn’t let himself be pushed away. Palicki and that pointed chin of hers is pure charisma, and although I tend to think that whatever she and Mac are up to is a bad idea.
I would love to find out what's going on in Asgard with Loki-as-Odin in charge, though.
Entertaining enough, althoughas ever I would have preferred to watch it on a TV set than a laptop.
2.13 One of Us
Which I got to do with this episode.
So, the fight scenes were good, although the FX with the guy's mouth were a bit much and a bit rubbish.
There’s a part of me that’s a little irritated, I suppose, by the fact that May has an ex-husband, just like Bobbi did, although I really enjoyed her interaction with Andrew and what he brought to matters. The show has so gone May/Coulson and team as family, though, and I loved all the May-Skye stuff, backed up by Fitzsimmons amazement that Andrew could elicit humanity from her. Oh, kids.
More feeling very sorry for Skye, especially at what she thought controlling her powers in fact harming her. In some of the evaluation scenes, I was reminded by how irritated I was by her special snowflakeness in season 1, but she's earned her spurs now.
Lampshading that her father is crazy, but he really is. Interesting that the man his wife mentored checked him. I’m more interested in that group than in the Real Continuity SHIELD and in the ‘SHIELD hasn’t changed’ (which it sort of hasn’t. If it’s so decimated, how does Coulson keep getting access to prime ministers and how are all these secret facilities still running.
I do wonder how the timing of Age of Ultron will work WRT possible interweaving plot points like this, because we’re behind the US on the show, but we’ll probably get the film a week earlier.
And finally, I’m on the Fitz, not Simmons, side of things. She can’t get all morally outraged at Fitz for lying to her and betraying science, when her objectivity went out of the window the second she became an anti-alien hawk. That is, she can, but I have little sympathy for her. He had" good reason not to trust her with Skye’s wellbeing. I find this interesting, because I’ve been so solidly pro-Simmons for the show's run up until now. (The stuff about honesty from Bobbi was a little on the nose, given that she lied and lied throughout this episode. I do find myself hoping, a little, that she and Hunter can work through all this eventually, although if I was going to pick an addition to the original team, it would be her. Once we've got over her presumably picking the wrong side.)
And then I caught the repeat of Person of Interest
3.3 Lady Killer
I really enjoyed this, mainly, again, because of the team dynamics and the brewing Root escape - and didn’t the actual escape scene come off well?
The NotW, eh, if one thinks too much about it, the about-face from stalkery chameleon to potentially loving dad of the result of his liaision with his one true love didn’t really work, although I liked his relationship with Joss. There was something about the actor’s face - I don’t know if he’s a well-known actor’s son or if it’s just his features, but it’s a face where you can see exactly what he’s going to look like in middle to older age. Good casting on the boy as his son, though.
But mainly I just LOVED Carter, Zoe and Shaw hanging out and supporting each other, each with their own strengths for helping the case, but also being willing to tweak the boys. I basically chortled at Shaw’s assessment of Reese’s love life - and I can live with him seeing Zoe and having feelings he doesn’t want to look at too closely for Joss, because Zoe seems fine with that level of a relationship between them. Meanwhile, just in case we were worried about angry psychopath Shaw being lonely, she inveigles herself with Bear.
Bear should be in the credits.
Meanwhile, Acker was, of course, stupendous as Root, acolyte and asset. It’ll be interesting to see her let loose in the city, especially as the Machine isn’t letting her kill. What is the plan? So, the Machine called Finch to clean up/find out it/she sees Root as an asset...
And the TV in the UK news is that Atlantis is back on tonight and E4 will be showing Jane the Virgin, which seems a good fit from what I've heard of the show.
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/166297.html.
I was expecting to grouch at the waste of the use of amnesia for Sif in this context, but they sort of got away with it, especially in bringing in a Cree (although acting on his own? Really? About as likely as their having managed to drown all the Diviners.)
The heart of the ep was Skye’s vulnerability, so Fitz’s sympathy was very touching, as were her parental figures standing up for her, until May didn’t (and May was the boss of the episode, with her reactions to Sif-Coulson interactions, her appreciation of Thor etc). I just hope that they all get over their freaking out to help Skye control her powers.
I really wanted Fitz to lecture Simmons about her hawkish anti-alienism. Frankly, I’m surprised she and Mac put up with the Asgardian in their vicinity.
Meanwhile, although I snickered at Mac’s line about not believing in a world where Hunter could knock that pole over himself, I did like that Hunter had got suspicious of what was going on with Bobbi and Mac. Obviously, it was stupid to confront the beefy Mac in the tag, but he didn’t let himself be pushed away. Palicki and that pointed chin of hers is pure charisma, and although I tend to think that whatever she and Mac are up to is a bad idea.
I would love to find out what's going on in Asgard with Loki-as-Odin in charge, though.
Entertaining enough, althoughas ever I would have preferred to watch it on a TV set than a laptop.
2.13 One of Us
Which I got to do with this episode.
So, the fight scenes were good, although the FX with the guy's mouth were a bit much and a bit rubbish.
There’s a part of me that’s a little irritated, I suppose, by the fact that May has an ex-husband, just like Bobbi did, although I really enjoyed her interaction with Andrew and what he brought to matters. The show has so gone May/Coulson and team as family, though, and I loved all the May-Skye stuff, backed up by Fitzsimmons amazement that Andrew could elicit humanity from her. Oh, kids.
More feeling very sorry for Skye, especially at what she thought controlling her powers in fact harming her. In some of the evaluation scenes, I was reminded by how irritated I was by her special snowflakeness in season 1, but she's earned her spurs now.
Lampshading that her father is crazy, but he really is. Interesting that the man his wife mentored checked him. I’m more interested in that group than in the Real Continuity SHIELD and in the ‘SHIELD hasn’t changed’ (which it sort of hasn’t. If it’s so decimated, how does Coulson keep getting access to prime ministers and how are all these secret facilities still running.
I do wonder how the timing of Age of Ultron will work WRT possible interweaving plot points like this, because we’re behind the US on the show, but we’ll probably get the film a week earlier.
And finally, I’m on the Fitz, not Simmons, side of things. She can’t get all morally outraged at Fitz for lying to her and betraying science, when her objectivity went out of the window the second she became an anti-alien hawk. That is, she can, but I have little sympathy for her. He had" good reason not to trust her with Skye’s wellbeing. I find this interesting, because I’ve been so solidly pro-Simmons for the show's run up until now. (The stuff about honesty from Bobbi was a little on the nose, given that she lied and lied throughout this episode. I do find myself hoping, a little, that she and Hunter can work through all this eventually, although if I was going to pick an addition to the original team, it would be her. Once we've got over her presumably picking the wrong side.)
And then I caught the repeat of Person of Interest
3.3 Lady Killer
I really enjoyed this, mainly, again, because of the team dynamics and the brewing Root escape - and didn’t the actual escape scene come off well?
The NotW, eh, if one thinks too much about it, the about-face from stalkery chameleon to potentially loving dad of the result of his liaision with his one true love didn’t really work, although I liked his relationship with Joss. There was something about the actor’s face - I don’t know if he’s a well-known actor’s son or if it’s just his features, but it’s a face where you can see exactly what he’s going to look like in middle to older age. Good casting on the boy as his son, though.
But mainly I just LOVED Carter, Zoe and Shaw hanging out and supporting each other, each with their own strengths for helping the case, but also being willing to tweak the boys. I basically chortled at Shaw’s assessment of Reese’s love life - and I can live with him seeing Zoe and having feelings he doesn’t want to look at too closely for Joss, because Zoe seems fine with that level of a relationship between them. Meanwhile, just in case we were worried about angry psychopath Shaw being lonely, she inveigles herself with Bear.
Bear should be in the credits.
Meanwhile, Acker was, of course, stupendous as Root, acolyte and asset. It’ll be interesting to see her let loose in the city, especially as the Machine isn’t letting her kill. What is the plan? So, the Machine called Finch to clean up/find out it/she sees Root as an asset...
And the TV in the UK news is that Atlantis is back on tonight and E4 will be showing Jane the Virgin, which seems a good fit from what I've heard of the show.
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/166297.html.