Agents of SHIELD double-bill
4.12 Hot Potato Soup
Lots of doubles in this episode, although the Koenings multiplied beyond that - I predictably liked tough big sister L.T. - and a lot of meta. I’m pretty sure that Sam isn’t the usual fanfic writer, and I doubt that ‘Quack’ is THE top Skye/Daisy/Quake pairing. Plus, did they conflate fanfiction with fanart?
Anyway, robot May got made as things came to a head with the Darkhold. I liked that Jemma worked it out independently. They left it ambiguous as to whether it was the kiss that made Coulson realise or if he was bluffing after her programming gave her away. Now he’s sad and this will have ramifications for his relationship with May, or it should.
Also, I know that Radcliffe (and Aida, Nadeer and Ivanov) having the Darkhold is bad, but I would hope that they’d put rescuing May higher on their to do list.
We learned that Leo has a brilliant but abusive father. It made sense that they’d use both characters’ Scottishness for that connection. Wonder who they’ll cast.
Is Ivanov the Superior? He’s certainly the banker, easy on the eye and has his own motivations.
There were some clunky exposition moments - that whole ‘let us recap the significance of the Russian prime minister for you’ bit, and other parts where I frowned at the script, but it got things moving and there was just about enough emotional clout to outweigh the Koenig business. Because it did feel like business.
4.13 Boom
So, are we going to get a May in the Matrix Framework episode, possibly teaming up with Agnes’s consciousness? Are we?
The point that Aida’s look was a replication of some one else seems so obvious in hindsight. Typical Radcliffe selfishness and short-sightedness to do so: Agnes (suffering from Hollywood disease, slightly, no?) was understandably freaked out and Aida didn’t like the discovery. Although as to her ‘I’m not unique’ line - well, no. We’ve seen at least one copy. I’m now thinking that this is the Aida we’ve seen the most of and the other was just created to break into the base.
However, trying to find a cure for a dying woman he obviously had feelings for made what Radcliffe’s said about extending life make even more sense.
And yes, props to Malloy Jansen for differentiating between the human and the android. (As they were meant to dupe us and the team, Li-Na and Hannah mostly didn’t have to play robots if you know what I mean.)
I thought some of the conflict between Coulson and Mack over how to handle Agnes was contrived. Coulson would probably have pushed this much if it had been any team member, so I disagreed with Mack’s sudden scruples, and Coulson did find a more respectful way of getting Agnes to listen. Of course, that doesn’t mean that to rescue May Coulson shouldn’t have ensured Agnes had a tracking device on her just in case.
I was disappointed they killed off Nadeer now that they’ve got the Big White Man to be a baddie. I thought that because it seemed like they weren’t done with her brother’s story, she’d be around for a little bit yet. Ah well, making a henchman who loathed the Inhumans turn out to be one and one who could blow up and reconstitute himself (did not actually need to seem him do that in quite that glorious detail, my squeamish self) was a nifty twist.
Daisy was cocksure for someone in a leadership position. Mace’s feelings of uselessness were only going to end one way, although he did better than I’d thought in not having a heart attack and actually distracting five cars. I thought he was only going to stop one vehicle. I was amused that his American football references clearly meant nothing to Fitzsimmons. ‘Your footie’ indeed. Jemma could have handled telling him about how dangerous the serum was and shutting Fitz up sooner, but on the other hand they were adorable over the prod and hug and the coming up with solutions.
Coulson’s reference to the Avengers (who still think you’re dead if they think of you at all, PHIL) was clunky.
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/277595.html.
Lots of doubles in this episode, although the Koenings multiplied beyond that - I predictably liked tough big sister L.T. - and a lot of meta. I’m pretty sure that Sam isn’t the usual fanfic writer, and I doubt that ‘Quack’ is THE top Skye/Daisy/Quake pairing. Plus, did they conflate fanfiction with fanart?
Anyway, robot May got made as things came to a head with the Darkhold. I liked that Jemma worked it out independently. They left it ambiguous as to whether it was the kiss that made Coulson realise or if he was bluffing after her programming gave her away. Now he’s sad and this will have ramifications for his relationship with May, or it should.
Also, I know that Radcliffe (and Aida, Nadeer and Ivanov) having the Darkhold is bad, but I would hope that they’d put rescuing May higher on their to do list.
We learned that Leo has a brilliant but abusive father. It made sense that they’d use both characters’ Scottishness for that connection. Wonder who they’ll cast.
Is Ivanov the Superior? He’s certainly the banker, easy on the eye and has his own motivations.
There were some clunky exposition moments - that whole ‘let us recap the significance of the Russian prime minister for you’ bit, and other parts where I frowned at the script, but it got things moving and there was just about enough emotional clout to outweigh the Koenig business. Because it did feel like business.
4.13 Boom
So, are we going to get a May in the Matrix Framework episode, possibly teaming up with Agnes’s consciousness? Are we?
The point that Aida’s look was a replication of some one else seems so obvious in hindsight. Typical Radcliffe selfishness and short-sightedness to do so: Agnes (suffering from Hollywood disease, slightly, no?) was understandably freaked out and Aida didn’t like the discovery. Although as to her ‘I’m not unique’ line - well, no. We’ve seen at least one copy. I’m now thinking that this is the Aida we’ve seen the most of and the other was just created to break into the base.
However, trying to find a cure for a dying woman he obviously had feelings for made what Radcliffe’s said about extending life make even more sense.
And yes, props to Malloy Jansen for differentiating between the human and the android. (As they were meant to dupe us and the team, Li-Na and Hannah mostly didn’t have to play robots if you know what I mean.)
I thought some of the conflict between Coulson and Mack over how to handle Agnes was contrived. Coulson would probably have pushed this much if it had been any team member, so I disagreed with Mack’s sudden scruples, and Coulson did find a more respectful way of getting Agnes to listen. Of course, that doesn’t mean that to rescue May Coulson shouldn’t have ensured Agnes had a tracking device on her just in case.
I was disappointed they killed off Nadeer now that they’ve got the Big White Man to be a baddie. I thought that because it seemed like they weren’t done with her brother’s story, she’d be around for a little bit yet. Ah well, making a henchman who loathed the Inhumans turn out to be one and one who could blow up and reconstitute himself (did not actually need to seem him do that in quite that glorious detail, my squeamish self) was a nifty twist.
Daisy was cocksure for someone in a leadership position. Mace’s feelings of uselessness were only going to end one way, although he did better than I’d thought in not having a heart attack and actually distracting five cars. I thought he was only going to stop one vehicle. I was amused that his American football references clearly meant nothing to Fitzsimmons. ‘Your footie’ indeed. Jemma could have handled telling him about how dangerous the serum was and shutting Fitz up sooner, but on the other hand they were adorable over the prod and hug and the coming up with solutions.
Coulson’s reference to the Avengers (who still think you’re dead if they think of you at all, PHIL) was clunky.
This entry was originally posted at http://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/277595.html.