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shallownessMy excitement that Pixar have announced they'll be making The Incredibles 2 is tempered a little. I’d like to find out what happened next to the Parrs, of course, and I'm very much pro superhero franchises, if you hadn't noticed, but I’m hoping they’ve decided to make it because the Pixar team have come up with a great story (more in the Toy Story vein than the more recent sequels from the studio). I also hope that Brad Bird is involved – at the very least as Edna, but also in the writing, producing and directing.
I caught up with Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
1.11 The Magical Place
(Every time Coulson said it, I felt compelled to sing the Toys R Us jingle).
Decent opening bit in that it credibly showed all the remaining team at work, TOGETHER, determined to find their Coulson, but then there was all this expositionary dialogue and even Simmons’s charm can’t fight that level of clunkiness. And then we had Skye faffing about, sorry, doing her thing outside the system, emulating May and proving all she’d learned with her team and I rolled my eyes.
Negga is effective as Rayna, though, and until she broke Coulson too easily with a mention of the cellist (whom we should meet before the end of the season, yes? And she should be good) there were hints of good by-play between the amoral voice poking at Coulson’s doubts about SHIELD and what it had done to him. Plus I was slightly curious about Rayna’s past with the machine. That was the first time we learned that Coulson was an orphan, I think.
I don’t know that they’ve really explained much about what happened to Coulson – he’s a Frankenstein’s monster? Of what kind? Was that an alien machine that we saw at the end? I would hope that that isn't it.
I can’t help noticing how much Simmons likes to touch Ward.
I still feel like I’m exactly where I was with this show, if I’m honest. The glimpse of Fury and references to what he’s willing to do will probably feed into Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Also, was the guy on the cover of the business magazine significant? And I thought of Bruce when Dr Shepherd Book talked about doing things no good doctor would do. So, basically I'm more interested in the Marvel cinematic universe and a bit disappointed in what I'm seeing onscreen.
And that might have been a creepy location in which to keep Coulson...if I hadn’t seen Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.
Parks and Rec
3.11 Jerry’s Painting
RON’S SPEECH. I cackled at Andy taking out the marshmallow gun and attacking Ben. And in between Chris not letting her make out with Ben and Jerry’s painting made Leslie go a little crazy. I chuckled.
3.12 Eagleton
I enjoyed this a lot more, though. Everything worked from Leslie being betrayed by an ex-best friend, the towns' rivalry and social satire to Ron getting ever more deranged at the thought of celebrating his birthday Leslie style. The final Leslie-Ron scene was lovely, especially that it tied into the main plot.
Any Pawnee public meeting with contributions from the floor is good value, but the contrast with Eagleton made it delicious.
I caught up with Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD
1.11 The Magical Place
(Every time Coulson said it, I felt compelled to sing the Toys R Us jingle).
Decent opening bit in that it credibly showed all the remaining team at work, TOGETHER, determined to find their Coulson, but then there was all this expositionary dialogue and even Simmons’s charm can’t fight that level of clunkiness. And then we had Skye faffing about, sorry, doing her thing outside the system, emulating May and proving all she’d learned with her team and I rolled my eyes.
Negga is effective as Rayna, though, and until she broke Coulson too easily with a mention of the cellist (whom we should meet before the end of the season, yes? And she should be good) there were hints of good by-play between the amoral voice poking at Coulson’s doubts about SHIELD and what it had done to him. Plus I was slightly curious about Rayna’s past with the machine. That was the first time we learned that Coulson was an orphan, I think.
I don’t know that they’ve really explained much about what happened to Coulson – he’s a Frankenstein’s monster? Of what kind? Was that an alien machine that we saw at the end? I would hope that that isn't it.
I can’t help noticing how much Simmons likes to touch Ward.
I still feel like I’m exactly where I was with this show, if I’m honest. The glimpse of Fury and references to what he’s willing to do will probably feed into Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Also, was the guy on the cover of the business magazine significant? And I thought of Bruce when Dr Shepherd Book talked about doing things no good doctor would do. So, basically I'm more interested in the Marvel cinematic universe and a bit disappointed in what I'm seeing onscreen.
And that might have been a creepy location in which to keep Coulson...if I hadn’t seen Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.
Parks and Rec
3.11 Jerry’s Painting
RON’S SPEECH. I cackled at Andy taking out the marshmallow gun and attacking Ben. And in between Chris not letting her make out with Ben and Jerry’s painting made Leslie go a little crazy. I chuckled.
3.12 Eagleton
I enjoyed this a lot more, though. Everything worked from Leslie being betrayed by an ex-best friend, the towns' rivalry and social satire to Ron getting ever more deranged at the thought of celebrating his birthday Leslie style. The final Leslie-Ron scene was lovely, especially that it tied into the main plot.
Any Pawnee public meeting with contributions from the floor is good value, but the contrast with Eagleton made it delicious.
