Woofs and squawks
AoS 3.14 Watchdogs
Good grief, Daisy went off on several tears that I could not support her in during this episode. I was jumping to her defence when Mack turned on her about using her powers against the Watchdogs, when at that point, it had just been her hacking skills. And though he had a point about SHIELD jumping in like ‘the Gestapo’, given the implosion (it was never made clear if people were killed) and everything they’ve done since he’s been on the show or in SHIELD, huh!? Now you start worrying about civil liberties?
But then she was determined to use her powers to terrorise informants and catch Blake when discretion suggested a retreat. I’m blaming her for Fitz nearly getting imploded, and as he gave her the side-eye for destroying that Watchdog’s car windows, I was surprised he didn’t tell her off for running towards danger, leaving him exposed. It took Mack getting targeted because the Watchdogs were stupid, and thought he was the one with powers (Watchdogs clearly never saw Buffy or the Scarlet Witch’s part in the Ultron/Sekovia shenanigans) for her to think perhaps she did something wrong.
!?!?
It just felt like a plot-convenient escalation from her Inhumans yay!/don’t badmouth Inhumans or even mention that at least one is a serial killer attitude. I’ve come over to Daisy’s side for so long, I don’t like this.
Although actually this episode was about Mack and his sacrifices and lies to be an agent and how he was moping now that Mockingbird had left, while of course his brother got into the Watchdogs, which they tied into angry anti-government politics - take your pick of real life movements to see this as a metaphor for.
Mack was not the most annoying character in this episode (where does hacker Daisy get off calling Mack and Leo the nerd herd, for example?) He is also, in no way, a convincing insurance adjustor.
Well, is he?
I didn’t get as much out of Daisy and Leo working together as I’d hoped, and when Fitz was all ‘I don’t want to tell Simmons’ I was all ‘Tell Simmons about the special effects on your neck instead of dying in noble science’ until they worked out how to deal with it. However, Coulson (also aggrieved at losing people, so much so that he upgraded Hunter to ‘good people’ even though Hunter was arguably in SHIELD for Bobbi just as much OR MORE than Linc is in it for Daisy) testing Linc was interesting. Linc passed by not going for the kill shot (yay! And as a trained doctor...not surprising). Phil had banter with Blake, but I can’t say I was waiting desperately for their reunion. It was a decent twist that Blake is still in a chair, but chooses to project an image of himself standing. And he hasn’t a clue he’s working with the freaks or being used by Malick/HYDRA.
I approve of Simmons feeling guilty for unleashing Lash to save herself and now taking steps about it - I love the show for it being true that she’s the only (named) woman in SHIELD with can’t kill with her bare hands. May was the right one to say that Andrew was still the actual killer and helping her to channel the guilt. They made May a little too stupid for Jemma to look clever with the search, and even if they do ‘cure’ Andrew, he’s still killed a lot of people as Lash. It’s not something you can gloss over (am I predicting a sacrificial death so Melinda won’t have to kill him?)
I think they’re a little too on the nose, but the Watchdogs make sense as an outside reaction to all that’s going on in the MCU. It is the developments with Daisy that worry me the most.
Scorpion 2.18 The Fast and the Nerdiest
It all started so well - Sylvester at the gameshow was adorable and daffy, and then Cabe’s old friend came up (played by a hey, it’s that guy, who was pretty good at it) with some desperate story that the kids (geniuses!) didn’t quite buy, but Cabe did out of loyalty and the possibility that the bad guys really were smuggling out biological weaponry.
They were (good job because nobody considered any alternative explanation for the mysterious goods that had to be kept a certain temperature). Indeed, they were exporting a genocide bomb.
I should look up to see if there’s an atlas of Scorpion’s fake countries.
Cue Walter, Happy and Toby in danger (they didn’t make the most of that particular trio, focusing on Quintis issues), Cabe having to rescue them, because he put them in danger, while Paige and Sylvester got to go outside a bit and balance each other out because TEAM.
Happy went and stole the episode, I think, with her rising irritation becoming agitation over Toby’s gambling. As nearly every second thing he said was related to gambling, she had a point, even though Paige tried to pooh-pooh it as someone who hasn’t that much experience of a romantic relationship as if it was needing to adjust to dirty socks all over the place. It’s betting slips and it’s gambling.
Anyway, the scene where it looked like she was going to lay into breezy and annoying Toby turned into her opening up emotionally about her fears and it felt like a breakthrough.
I was more interested in that than Walter apologising (as he should) and then getting Cabe some drawing lessons. But with the heavy-handedness about the gambling, it wasn’t a great episode, although it featured a great cut to break in the middle of a high-speed game of chicken.
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Good grief, Daisy went off on several tears that I could not support her in during this episode. I was jumping to her defence when Mack turned on her about using her powers against the Watchdogs, when at that point, it had just been her hacking skills. And though he had a point about SHIELD jumping in like ‘the Gestapo’, given the implosion (it was never made clear if people were killed) and everything they’ve done since he’s been on the show or in SHIELD, huh!? Now you start worrying about civil liberties?
But then she was determined to use her powers to terrorise informants and catch Blake when discretion suggested a retreat. I’m blaming her for Fitz nearly getting imploded, and as he gave her the side-eye for destroying that Watchdog’s car windows, I was surprised he didn’t tell her off for running towards danger, leaving him exposed. It took Mack getting targeted because the Watchdogs were stupid, and thought he was the one with powers (Watchdogs clearly never saw Buffy or the Scarlet Witch’s part in the Ultron/Sekovia shenanigans) for her to think perhaps she did something wrong.
!?!?
It just felt like a plot-convenient escalation from her Inhumans yay!/don’t badmouth Inhumans or even mention that at least one is a serial killer attitude. I’ve come over to Daisy’s side for so long, I don’t like this.
Although actually this episode was about Mack and his sacrifices and lies to be an agent and how he was moping now that Mockingbird had left, while of course his brother got into the Watchdogs, which they tied into angry anti-government politics - take your pick of real life movements to see this as a metaphor for.
Mack was not the most annoying character in this episode (where does hacker Daisy get off calling Mack and Leo the nerd herd, for example?) He is also, in no way, a convincing insurance adjustor.
Well, is he?
I didn’t get as much out of Daisy and Leo working together as I’d hoped, and when Fitz was all ‘I don’t want to tell Simmons’ I was all ‘Tell Simmons about the special effects on your neck instead of dying in noble science’ until they worked out how to deal with it. However, Coulson (also aggrieved at losing people, so much so that he upgraded Hunter to ‘good people’ even though Hunter was arguably in SHIELD for Bobbi just as much OR MORE than Linc is in it for Daisy) testing Linc was interesting. Linc passed by not going for the kill shot (yay! And as a trained doctor...not surprising). Phil had banter with Blake, but I can’t say I was waiting desperately for their reunion. It was a decent twist that Blake is still in a chair, but chooses to project an image of himself standing. And he hasn’t a clue he’s working with the freaks or being used by Malick/HYDRA.
I approve of Simmons feeling guilty for unleashing Lash to save herself and now taking steps about it - I love the show for it being true that she’s the only (named) woman in SHIELD with can’t kill with her bare hands. May was the right one to say that Andrew was still the actual killer and helping her to channel the guilt. They made May a little too stupid for Jemma to look clever with the search, and even if they do ‘cure’ Andrew, he’s still killed a lot of people as Lash. It’s not something you can gloss over (am I predicting a sacrificial death so Melinda won’t have to kill him?)
I think they’re a little too on the nose, but the Watchdogs make sense as an outside reaction to all that’s going on in the MCU. It is the developments with Daisy that worry me the most.
Scorpion 2.18 The Fast and the Nerdiest
It all started so well - Sylvester at the gameshow was adorable and daffy, and then Cabe’s old friend came up (played by a hey, it’s that guy, who was pretty good at it) with some desperate story that the kids (geniuses!) didn’t quite buy, but Cabe did out of loyalty and the possibility that the bad guys really were smuggling out biological weaponry.
They were (good job because nobody considered any alternative explanation for the mysterious goods that had to be kept a certain temperature). Indeed, they were exporting a genocide bomb.
I should look up to see if there’s an atlas of Scorpion’s fake countries.
Cue Walter, Happy and Toby in danger (they didn’t make the most of that particular trio, focusing on Quintis issues), Cabe having to rescue them, because he put them in danger, while Paige and Sylvester got to go outside a bit and balance each other out because TEAM.
Happy went and stole the episode, I think, with her rising irritation becoming agitation over Toby’s gambling. As nearly every second thing he said was related to gambling, she had a point, even though Paige tried to pooh-pooh it as someone who hasn’t that much experience of a romantic relationship as if it was needing to adjust to dirty socks all over the place. It’s betting slips and it’s gambling.
Anyway, the scene where it looked like she was going to lay into breezy and annoying Toby turned into her opening up emotionally about her fears and it felt like a breakthrough.
I was more interested in that than Walter apologising (as he should) and then getting Cabe some drawing lessons. But with the heavy-handedness about the gambling, it wasn’t a great episode, although it featured a great cut to break in the middle of a high-speed game of chicken.
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/230767.html.