Agents of SHIELD 2x01: Shadows
All the spoilers ahead!
Well, that's the way to come back from summer hiatus with a bang!
I'm going to be unashamedly squeeful and I reserve the right to ignore anyone harshing my squee, okay?
This was a fantastic season opener. It felt like it built on and grew from the final run of episodes from season one, opening their world up and making it all a bit more terrible all at once. I kind of had a feeling HYDRA would be a big theme this year, but even with that, I didn't expect to find HYDRA had spread so far. So many red dots. So many.
There were just too many things to love:
- That opener with Agent Carter. Be still my heart, it was so good for me. So very good. Peggy being badass, Dum Dum and Morita discussing the German for nuts, the origin of the 084 designation...best opener.
- Skye. Everything she did. Picking up on the beginnings of a friendship with May at the end of the last season and running with it, so they're now a team and Skye is learning from her. She's more than just the hacker now, which makes me squeeful.
- May being protective over Coulson. Their friendship is so great, and I love that it hasn't changed even though Coulson is clearly trying to pull away from people.
- Lucy Lawless being amazing. I adored her character, all hardass and grim determination. It was fantastic. I don't believe for one moment that she's actually dead. The 084 did something. This is not the last we've seen of that character.
- Trip. Really, everything he did. He's a shining light of happy awesome. BJ Britt in a uniform. Posing as General Jones (Gabe shout out?) and looking fine doing it. I'm so happy to see Trip back and I'm really hoping he gets bumped up to series regular soon because he's terrific.
- Creepy HYDRA dude played by Reed Diamond (Daniel Whitehall). Yeah, I'm totally calling that this is the same guy we saw in the opener. Something has kept him from aging, and I'd put my money on it being the 084.
- Coulson's Talbot impression. So beautifully funny :-)
And then there were the things that broke my heart:
- FITZ. This is going to be painful. So very painful. I didn't see the reveal about Simmons coming at all. Not for one moment. They played that so perfectly, so seamlessly, that it wasn't until after that I thought back and realised nobody else had definitively interacted with Simmons. I'd just made assumptions and filled bits in. This storyline is going to hurt.
- COULSON. I'm guessing that he's pulling away from everyone because he knows something is wrong. The writing on the wall stuff would be a big clue. On the one hand, I'm happy that he trusts Skye to help him decode it. On the other hand, his relationship with Skye is one of my favourite things and I'm sad to see him pulling back from that. Pulling back from everyone and isolating himself. He looked so tired, and I don't think it was entirely because he's chasing allies around the globe 24 hours a day. This plot thread is going to be painful.
- No Skimmons scenes. Yes, okay, my shippy little heart is being all pouty about this. I need the real Simmons back pronto.
In conclusion, this episode was so good for me and opened up so many questions and threads for the season. I can't wait to see how everything plays out from here.
Is it next week yet?
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Well, that's the way to come back from summer hiatus with a bang!
I'm going to be unashamedly squeeful and I reserve the right to ignore anyone harshing my squee, okay?
This was a fantastic season opener. It felt like it built on and grew from the final run of episodes from season one, opening their world up and making it all a bit more terrible all at once. I kind of had a feeling HYDRA would be a big theme this year, but even with that, I didn't expect to find HYDRA had spread so far. So many red dots. So many.
There were just too many things to love:
- That opener with Agent Carter. Be still my heart, it was so good for me. So very good. Peggy being badass, Dum Dum and Morita discussing the German for nuts, the origin of the 084 designation...best opener.
- Skye. Everything she did. Picking up on the beginnings of a friendship with May at the end of the last season and running with it, so they're now a team and Skye is learning from her. She's more than just the hacker now, which makes me squeeful.
- May being protective over Coulson. Their friendship is so great, and I love that it hasn't changed even though Coulson is clearly trying to pull away from people.
- Lucy Lawless being amazing. I adored her character, all hardass and grim determination. It was fantastic. I don't believe for one moment that she's actually dead. The 084 did something. This is not the last we've seen of that character.
- Trip. Really, everything he did. He's a shining light of happy awesome. BJ Britt in a uniform. Posing as General Jones (Gabe shout out?) and looking fine doing it. I'm so happy to see Trip back and I'm really hoping he gets bumped up to series regular soon because he's terrific.
- Creepy HYDRA dude played by Reed Diamond (Daniel Whitehall). Yeah, I'm totally calling that this is the same guy we saw in the opener. Something has kept him from aging, and I'd put my money on it being the 084.
- Coulson's Talbot impression. So beautifully funny :-)
And then there were the things that broke my heart:
- FITZ. This is going to be painful. So very painful. I didn't see the reveal about Simmons coming at all. Not for one moment. They played that so perfectly, so seamlessly, that it wasn't until after that I thought back and realised nobody else had definitively interacted with Simmons. I'd just made assumptions and filled bits in. This storyline is going to hurt.
- COULSON. I'm guessing that he's pulling away from everyone because he knows something is wrong. The writing on the wall stuff would be a big clue. On the one hand, I'm happy that he trusts Skye to help him decode it. On the other hand, his relationship with Skye is one of my favourite things and I'm sad to see him pulling back from that. Pulling back from everyone and isolating himself. He looked so tired, and I don't think it was entirely because he's chasing allies around the globe 24 hours a day. This plot thread is going to be painful.
- No Skimmons scenes. Yes, okay, my shippy little heart is being all pouty about this. I need the real Simmons back pronto.
In conclusion, this episode was so good for me and opened up so many questions and threads for the season. I can't wait to see how everything plays out from here.
Is it next week yet?
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