Agents of SHIELD spoilers
Because Hulu is a week behind and all the television websites have finally wised up (alas) and now you need a cable or dish username and password to even access streaming episodes on the websites for the BROADCAST channels. Stupid wised up tv channels... ::grumbles mumbles::
I am not sure I like where it is going. I fell for the show because 1st off, Avengers-verse still owns my soul, even if I haven't been reading as much (read - ANY) fan fic, so if they tempt me with a TV show based around one of the awesomest characters from all of the first gen films, I WILL be giving it a whirl.
Once the initial Magic Marvel Dust had cleared from my eyes a bit, though, I *kept* watching the series because it made me go "Yay! TEAMY GOODNESS! ::grabby hands::" and FitzSimmons is/are adorable and May is awesome and bad ass and COULSON, nuff said.
But now it seems like they are trying to drive wedges into the team - May's apparent but not not quite betrayal, Ward's Very Obvious betrayal that may or may not be real, and even Fitz and Simmons were just a teeny tiny bit at odds with each other in this episode. It's like in physics, that moment just before potential energy becomes kinetic, only instead of being energy, it is potential lines that could be crossed, lines that could lead to some pretty epic differences and divide the team up. Some of them may have even already been crossed, for that matter. A four episodes ago, Coulson and May were about as solid and close as two people of their particular brand of bad ass agent could get without getting Biblical about it (BFF for the win!), and now... not so much. Even FitzSimmons may be in danger of becoming just Fitz and Simmons, especially with the new guy, Triplett, kind of encroaching on their territory - and I *like* Triplett, I just don't see how the writers *wouldn't* take advantage of his presence to create a little friction between the Science Twins.
It just seems less "TEEEEEEEEEEAM! \o/" and more "What can we do to *really* tick off our viewers this week, at least temporarily?" and I am less than pleased with that particular direction.
It's times like these that I really wish there was a Netflix Future or something, because I'd much rather be able to KNOW whether or not all the "God dammit, show, NOT COOL" frustration is going to result in something EVEN MORE AWESOME, or if it is going to be a big waste of time.
I am not sure I like where it is going. I fell for the show because 1st off, Avengers-verse still owns my soul, even if I haven't been reading as much (read - ANY) fan fic, so if they tempt me with a TV show based around one of the awesomest characters from all of the first gen films, I WILL be giving it a whirl.
Once the initial Magic Marvel Dust had cleared from my eyes a bit, though, I *kept* watching the series because it made me go "Yay! TEAMY GOODNESS! ::grabby hands::" and FitzSimmons is/are adorable and May is awesome and bad ass and COULSON, nuff said.
But now it seems like they are trying to drive wedges into the team - May's apparent but not not quite betrayal, Ward's Very Obvious betrayal that may or may not be real, and even Fitz and Simmons were just a teeny tiny bit at odds with each other in this episode. It's like in physics, that moment just before potential energy becomes kinetic, only instead of being energy, it is potential lines that could be crossed, lines that could lead to some pretty epic differences and divide the team up. Some of them may have even already been crossed, for that matter. A four episodes ago, Coulson and May were about as solid and close as two people of their particular brand of bad ass agent could get without getting Biblical about it (BFF for the win!), and now... not so much. Even FitzSimmons may be in danger of becoming just Fitz and Simmons, especially with the new guy, Triplett, kind of encroaching on their territory - and I *like* Triplett, I just don't see how the writers *wouldn't* take advantage of his presence to create a little friction between the Science Twins.
It just seems less "TEEEEEEEEEEAM! \o/" and more "What can we do to *really* tick off our viewers this week, at least temporarily?" and I am less than pleased with that particular direction.
It's times like these that I really wish there was a Netflix Future or something, because I'd much rather be able to KNOW whether or not all the "God dammit, show, NOT COOL" frustration is going to result in something EVEN MORE AWESOME, or if it is going to be a big waste of time.