Agents of SHIELD 1.16
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shallownessLots of the usual clunky exposition.
Having seen Captain America 2 means that I know that Skye’s smiles at joining SHIELD and all Coulson’s quasi-paternal pride, are no cause for celebration. Even if I didn’t, I doubt I’d be going along with the show’s urging me to sigh ‘look how far she’s come’ either.
Skye and Ward’s ‘meant to be’ exchange allowed me to rehearse my fake gagging and the unsubtle continued with Garrett. Okay, it set up Ward’s claim that Nash was pressing his buttons WRT to Skye and I have accepted that the show is shipping these two, but can it do it less irksomely?
Bye then Sitwell, off to your movie after behaving suspiciously.
May smiled at you, Fitzsimmons, be very afraid. (Their double-act entertained me the most.)
I’d think the agents of SHIELD's cunning plan to find the Clairvoyant was a lot more impressive if they’d stopped to think about how Garrett and Triplett couldn’t exactly neutralise or subdue Deathlok with their weapons. So, having people declaim how very dangerous he was and sending off Jenna to do a debrief was all a lot previous.
I liked that Coulson was paranoid enough to wonder if Nash was a set-up (surely, yes, although having him appear to access the world through computers was clunky foreshadowing if the Clairvoyant is Zola 2.0 which doesn't really make sense as to its motivation, but with both Ward and May acting weirdly, Coulson’s paranoia would of course be misdirected, although at least they’ve allowed for complexity WRT him and Fury.
The show seems to be scuttling around to bring up a lot of stuff together, which is understandable, as Captain America 2 is going to Change Everything, but it made for quite a mental last third.
May is so working for Hill or Fury, surely. Whatever’s going on with Ward is less clear.
I'm hoping this show will get cancelled, honestly. I want to see the fall-out to you know what, so I'm probably going to watch the next few episodes, but even if it seeds stuff for the MCU, for what little I care about that's all the show, there's too much that irritates me about the handling of everything else.
Having seen Captain America 2 means that I know that Skye’s smiles at joining SHIELD and all Coulson’s quasi-paternal pride, are no cause for celebration. Even if I didn’t, I doubt I’d be going along with the show’s urging me to sigh ‘look how far she’s come’ either.
Skye and Ward’s ‘meant to be’ exchange allowed me to rehearse my fake gagging and the unsubtle continued with Garrett. Okay, it set up Ward’s claim that Nash was pressing his buttons WRT to Skye and I have accepted that the show is shipping these two, but can it do it less irksomely?
Bye then Sitwell, off to your movie after behaving suspiciously.
May smiled at you, Fitzsimmons, be very afraid. (Their double-act entertained me the most.)
I’d think the agents of SHIELD's cunning plan to find the Clairvoyant was a lot more impressive if they’d stopped to think about how Garrett and Triplett couldn’t exactly neutralise or subdue Deathlok with their weapons. So, having people declaim how very dangerous he was and sending off Jenna to do a debrief was all a lot previous.
I liked that Coulson was paranoid enough to wonder if Nash was a set-up (surely, yes, although having him appear to access the world through computers was clunky foreshadowing if the Clairvoyant is Zola 2.0 which doesn't really make sense as to its motivation, but with both Ward and May acting weirdly, Coulson’s paranoia would of course be misdirected, although at least they’ve allowed for complexity WRT him and Fury.
The show seems to be scuttling around to bring up a lot of stuff together, which is understandable, as Captain America 2 is going to Change Everything, but it made for quite a mental last third.
May is so working for Hill or Fury, surely. Whatever’s going on with Ward is less clear.
I'm hoping this show will get cancelled, honestly. I want to see the fall-out to you know what, so I'm probably going to watch the next few episodes, but even if it seeds stuff for the MCU, for what little I care about that's all the show, there's too much that irritates me about the handling of everything else.
