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shallowness) wrote2014-03-22 09:41 am
shallowness) wrote2014-03-22 09:41 am
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Agents of SHIELD 1.12 Seeds
I was honestly starting to wonder how long I'd be sticking with Agents of SHIELD, but then, I rather enjoyed this episode.
Oh, I’ve still got quibbles. The show has the problem of my feeling like lashing out when Sky name-checked Bucky Barnes, and Coulson’s little homily about what Sky had taken out of the story of her childhood and how she felt like she belonged to SHIELD diluted my sympathy – there was sympathy, because what orphaned foster kid wants to hear that they may have caused a massacre and the death of several agents by living? The scene where she found out was well done, especially because we knew the story and just saw her response. Although this probably means she’s super special – alien? – and I read ‘surrounded by death’ as ‘death is my gift’ and no, she’s not a Slayer and the show has a huge problem in that I so strongly dislike its heroine, and nearly everything they do with her irritates me.
Putting her on the backfoot because she hadn’t attended any SHIELD academy and letting some of the focus be on those who had helped big time.
What this episode did remind me of was the X-Men though, from the ice stuff – Donnie basically turned into Iceman, the school for gifted kids who just didn’t fit in elsewhere, but, certainly at the science academy, the geeks were the coolest (heh) and even May and the plane had echoes of the Blackbird. Which is an intriguingly mad reference, given that Marvel doesn’t have the live action or movie rights to that property.
(The opening teaser scene also reminded me of Smallville. Except in Smallville, that guy would have died then and Lana would have cried.)
But I like the X-Men, so I liked how the mystery of the week gave us backstory about FitzSimmons. I LOVED how Fitz admitted that Simmons is a little smarter than him (and that’s because she knows to do her homework). I also spent most of the episode wondering why Fitz was wearing that cardigan.
There were a few bits where Simmons teamed up with Sky, mainly to mock Ward, and I really enjoyed that.
And May, in talkative mode around Coulson, fighting against the other agent (maybe it makes a difference to watch this show on a proper TV set and not my laptop, because the lighting of the scene in the car with the doctor looked more impressive in the previously) and giving blunt, by her lights advice – I disagree with her that Coulson shouldn’t investigate what happened to him if he wants. But I felt the weight of their history and that little previously referenced bit of her doing some amazing flying was sold by Ming-na Wen.
It wasn’t perfect, but in the main, it trundled along well enough. I hadn’t recognised the backer from the previous episode (and I thought he looked too much like the ex-agent in Mexico City). The moment where Coulson used Lola’s flying capablities was great, and made me think that there hasn’t been enough of that on the show.
Oh, I’ve still got quibbles. The show has the problem of my feeling like lashing out when Sky name-checked Bucky Barnes, and Coulson’s little homily about what Sky had taken out of the story of her childhood and how she felt like she belonged to SHIELD diluted my sympathy – there was sympathy, because what orphaned foster kid wants to hear that they may have caused a massacre and the death of several agents by living? The scene where she found out was well done, especially because we knew the story and just saw her response. Although this probably means she’s super special – alien? – and I read ‘surrounded by death’ as ‘death is my gift’ and no, she’s not a Slayer and the show has a huge problem in that I so strongly dislike its heroine, and nearly everything they do with her irritates me.
Putting her on the backfoot because she hadn’t attended any SHIELD academy and letting some of the focus be on those who had helped big time.
What this episode did remind me of was the X-Men though, from the ice stuff – Donnie basically turned into Iceman, the school for gifted kids who just didn’t fit in elsewhere, but, certainly at the science academy, the geeks were the coolest (heh) and even May and the plane had echoes of the Blackbird. Which is an intriguingly mad reference, given that Marvel doesn’t have the live action or movie rights to that property.
(The opening teaser scene also reminded me of Smallville. Except in Smallville, that guy would have died then and Lana would have cried.)
But I like the X-Men, so I liked how the mystery of the week gave us backstory about FitzSimmons. I LOVED how Fitz admitted that Simmons is a little smarter than him (and that’s because she knows to do her homework). I also spent most of the episode wondering why Fitz was wearing that cardigan.
There were a few bits where Simmons teamed up with Sky, mainly to mock Ward, and I really enjoyed that.
And May, in talkative mode around Coulson, fighting against the other agent (maybe it makes a difference to watch this show on a proper TV set and not my laptop, because the lighting of the scene in the car with the doctor looked more impressive in the previously) and giving blunt, by her lights advice – I disagree with her that Coulson shouldn’t investigate what happened to him if he wants. But I felt the weight of their history and that little previously referenced bit of her doing some amazing flying was sold by Ming-na Wen.
It wasn’t perfect, but in the main, it trundled along well enough. I hadn’t recognised the backer from the previous episode (and I thought he looked too much like the ex-agent in Mexico City). The moment where Coulson used Lola’s flying capablities was great, and made me think that there hasn’t been enough of that on the show.