"Expect fierce confrontations"
Agents of SHIELD 2.21 SOS part 1
I watched three-quarters or so of this live. And then I tried to catch-up on the rest on Saturday..and on Monday (twice), battling against buffering and computer histrionics.
So, Jaying is evil? In fact, she’s kind of a vampire? (Sigh.) And Rayna’s reported vision did come true and she did protect Skye. (Poor thing, betwixt and between. Skye, that is.) I don’t love that they made Jaying so much the bad guy - at all. But if I had to assess her villainy, really, trying to destroy SHIELD is like trying to destroy Japanese Knotweed at this point - hardly a worthwhile effort.
May handled things at Afterlife so wrongly, but so like a SHIELD agent, escalating a volatile situation almost automatically. And sure, you can still outfight Skye, but she’s got superpowers now. As she displayed.
Weaver is now the official hawk in residence.
Kyle MacLachlan was bringing out his whole bag of tricks to play Cal in custody. (Which was fun to watch.)
And we found out why Ward and his flunky, er Agent 33 (her Achilles heel or what she still doesn’t know about him is going to be his feelings for Skye, I imagine) took Bobbi, which I still think was a huge mistake. Compounded as a very motivated you-took-my-ex! Hunter and a you-took-my-face-again-let-alone-my-feelings-about-Ward May are coming after them. (Although I can’t be bothered to suspend my feelings of disbelief that Melinda will get to end Ward this season, however much she wants it.)
I was dubious about Ward comparing Bobbi’s betrayal to his, and lo, it ticked her off, and she was doing quite nicely until the two trained officers against one odds beat her. The comparison also reminded me of Paxton’s scenery chewing, which was less entertaining than MacLachlan’s, but there was at least one moment where, to me, Clark Gregg broke character for the thought bubble ‘This guy’s going big’ to appear above him.
So, Cal becomes Mr Hyde (or the troll in that travel firm’s advert). The official line is clear: Skye’s parents are MONSTERS.
Deeply unsurprising tthat the crack SHIELD agents failed to protect the alien macguffin against a teleporter. I love Bobbi, but I was snorting in derision when she put them there during the last episode. Mac and his axe about to take down the Inhumans on his ship is not something I’m desperate to watch unfold, so Skye had better come to quickly. Hopefully, Bobbi will be most of the way towards saving herself by the time Hunter and May arrive.
And I lost track of what Linc knows - his reaction to Jaying suggested he isn’t going to be a fan of her basically turning into Magneto.
Revenge 4.19 Exposure
Well, after one of the bigger twists on the show, on to the repercussions
Ooh, flashbacks to actual events on the show. I liked the idea of the first takedown coming back and wanting revenge on Emily who he now knows is Amanda. Plus it was fun to watch the different way VanCamp and Mann (if not Stowe, cough)’s performances have changed. Even though it was mostly a clip show, I was fine with reliving the ridiculousness. And daft wigs.
I’m SURE Victoria told Louise the whole story as far as she knew it every time.
Yes, Ben, she didn’t consider you at all. (Trying to be objective, I think his character, has been shortchanged by this being the final season - whenever the showrunners knew that for good. Louise has come out of it better - they were trying harder to make her sympathetic for much of this episode.)
The modern-day ‘Count of Monte Cristo’ line was clunking - worthy of Victoria’s eyeroll.
I loved David backing Amanda up, Louise realising Nolan had always put Emily/Amanda first and his keeping of the files being sentimental - although I thought he could have argued that he never knew when she might need this stuff again - and their partnership not meaning what it did to him to her. How decisively Amanda is turning on being Emily now was interesting. Of course, she’s never done anything by halves.
I’m also glad they looked into Victoria’s motivation a little more through her conversation with Margiaux, who’d got what she wanted and was at peace.
I think it was a good call by Jack to leave Amanda alone now. This is not their moment. She’s got a lot to process, he’s put himself out there and been rejected recently. It’s up to her to make a gesture.
Nice cutaway from Victoria’s line about resurrecting a (metaphorically) dead woman to...David Clarke. And nice to have him reading the letters live. But we have three episodes yet to fill, and someone else holding a red sharpie...
(I hope it’s a returning face and not someone random and new.)
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/179110.html.
I watched three-quarters or so of this live. And then I tried to catch-up on the rest on Saturday..and on Monday (twice), battling against buffering and computer histrionics.
So, Jaying is evil? In fact, she’s kind of a vampire? (Sigh.) And Rayna’s reported vision did come true and she did protect Skye. (Poor thing, betwixt and between. Skye, that is.) I don’t love that they made Jaying so much the bad guy - at all. But if I had to assess her villainy, really, trying to destroy SHIELD is like trying to destroy Japanese Knotweed at this point - hardly a worthwhile effort.
May handled things at Afterlife so wrongly, but so like a SHIELD agent, escalating a volatile situation almost automatically. And sure, you can still outfight Skye, but she’s got superpowers now. As she displayed.
Weaver is now the official hawk in residence.
Kyle MacLachlan was bringing out his whole bag of tricks to play Cal in custody. (Which was fun to watch.)
And we found out why Ward and his flunky, er Agent 33 (her Achilles heel or what she still doesn’t know about him is going to be his feelings for Skye, I imagine) took Bobbi, which I still think was a huge mistake. Compounded as a very motivated you-took-my-ex! Hunter and a you-took-my-face-again-let-alone-my-feelings-about-Ward May are coming after them. (Although I can’t be bothered to suspend my feelings of disbelief that Melinda will get to end Ward this season, however much she wants it.)
I was dubious about Ward comparing Bobbi’s betrayal to his, and lo, it ticked her off, and she was doing quite nicely until the two trained officers against one odds beat her. The comparison also reminded me of Paxton’s scenery chewing, which was less entertaining than MacLachlan’s, but there was at least one moment where, to me, Clark Gregg broke character for the thought bubble ‘This guy’s going big’ to appear above him.
So, Cal becomes Mr Hyde (or the troll in that travel firm’s advert). The official line is clear: Skye’s parents are MONSTERS.
Deeply unsurprising tthat the crack SHIELD agents failed to protect the alien macguffin against a teleporter. I love Bobbi, but I was snorting in derision when she put them there during the last episode. Mac and his axe about to take down the Inhumans on his ship is not something I’m desperate to watch unfold, so Skye had better come to quickly. Hopefully, Bobbi will be most of the way towards saving herself by the time Hunter and May arrive.
And I lost track of what Linc knows - his reaction to Jaying suggested he isn’t going to be a fan of her basically turning into Magneto.
Revenge 4.19 Exposure
Well, after one of the bigger twists on the show, on to the repercussions
Ooh, flashbacks to actual events on the show. I liked the idea of the first takedown coming back and wanting revenge on Emily who he now knows is Amanda. Plus it was fun to watch the different way VanCamp and Mann (if not Stowe, cough)’s performances have changed. Even though it was mostly a clip show, I was fine with reliving the ridiculousness. And daft wigs.
I’m SURE Victoria told Louise the whole story as far as she knew it every time.
Yes, Ben, she didn’t consider you at all. (Trying to be objective, I think his character, has been shortchanged by this being the final season - whenever the showrunners knew that for good. Louise has come out of it better - they were trying harder to make her sympathetic for much of this episode.)
The modern-day ‘Count of Monte Cristo’ line was clunking - worthy of Victoria’s eyeroll.
I loved David backing Amanda up, Louise realising Nolan had always put Emily/Amanda first and his keeping of the files being sentimental - although I thought he could have argued that he never knew when she might need this stuff again - and their partnership not meaning what it did to him to her. How decisively Amanda is turning on being Emily now was interesting. Of course, she’s never done anything by halves.
I’m also glad they looked into Victoria’s motivation a little more through her conversation with Margiaux, who’d got what she wanted and was at peace.
I think it was a good call by Jack to leave Amanda alone now. This is not their moment. She’s got a lot to process, he’s put himself out there and been rejected recently. It’s up to her to make a gesture.
Nice cutaway from Victoria’s line about resurrecting a (metaphorically) dead woman to...David Clarke. And nice to have him reading the letters live. But we have three episodes yet to fill, and someone else holding a red sharpie...
(I hope it’s a returning face and not someone random and new.)
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/179110.html.