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shallownessAgents of SHIELD
1.17 Turn, Turn, Turn
Well, the start was quite thrilling, mainly because of the shouting and nobody knowing who to trust and me knowing more than Coulson (because of having seen Cap 2, not because it was necessarily predictable).
The comparison with Cap 2 isn’t exactly flattering, despite all the flash-bangs, it’s obvious they didn’t have the time to really think through everyone’s motivation and responses (and for someone to delete the ‘even if it is the HYDRA theme song’ type of lines or realise that shooting someone in cold blood means being in control of your emotions).
I was most interested in what was going on with Melinda May and how she was trying to get Coulson to believe her – Ming-na Wen was fierce. I loved that she was doing what Fury ordered (putting her in the same class as Romanov and Hill) plus the weight of history with Coulson was great. Obviously, the show spent some time on Coulson’s backstory with Bill Paxton’s character and Fury, but I wasn’t watching them thinking that I’d didn’t matter that she was handcuffed, she’d still get win any fights.
I’m less taken with the fact that she came up with the team, apart from rogue element Skye.
It should be noted that Ward and, to a lesser degree, Fitz got trusted pretty quickly, by Coulson while May got put in the doghouse for her betrayal...
Good flip to have Hand be not HYDRA, although I couldn’t believe that any of the core team would turn out to be HYDRA (dear Jenna, Coulson is a Cap fanboy, so no) or would die, although the scale of the disaster needed something like that and the fact I never believed it would happen is the show’s problem. The best bit was how they were all flapping around, trying to decide who to trust, how to react – who was willing to shoot first and ask questions later (except that is TOTALLY what Ward did and they’d decided to forego the fall-out of that) – and listing everyone’s shady behaviour. More of that, more doubt about the team wouldn’t hurt.
Ward/Skye happened. Can we skip the scene where they have a drink?
Bill Paxton got to utter ‘Heil Hydra’ first.
Aww, I like Fitz too, not as much as Simmons or May, but quite often more than Coulson. (Although having him throw the non-lethal weapon to Coulson worked better than having him shoot the agent).
Confusing ending, although I suppose that it would indeed be a scramble. I’m sort of wondering who will fund all this activity or where the infrastructure is going to come from. IF they get a second season, they need to work that out.
Coulson, you CUT May, how very dare you!? An ally, indeed.
I wished that Tripp could have stayed on the plane if Ward was going, although the SECOND Hand deviated, I could see what was coming. It’s a shame that they made her stupid and so vengeful five minutes after spitting and shaking hands with Coulson.
Even with the final scene, Brett Dalton was a little...boring, especially next to Paxton doing mad eyes. Given that Ward got so much heroic stuff to do and there was the final look at Coulson, this might possibly be a double bluff, but I don’t care as much as the show wants me to. And I’m not shipping Tripp/Simmons either, and the show decided not to bother too hard with that, given that FitzSimmons had to have the emotional beat. Relationshipwise, I am mostly about Coulson’s strained relationship with May and everyone’s feelings about Simmons.
So, HYDRA is not wholly decimated. This makes sense, especially if we’re buying that most of them were high level, although I think that changing the logo was a bit too cheap. Are you going to rename the show Marvel’s Former Agents of Now Disbanded SHIELD?
But what Hand said about HYDRA makes sense in terms of bringing Fury back in, as or after he hunts in Europe, which I think they have to do for Coulson and May’s sakes.
And also Coulson wasn’t the agent in the suit in the observation room in the film, although that agent was totally there as an avatar of him. And we didn’t get to hear Steve’s little pep talk because they were doing their own thing in the Hub.
All in all, not as bad as it could have been, given that the show had to deal with a massive curveball that was out of its producers’ hands. They did an honourable job of trying to deal with the effects of what happened in the MCU while telling their own story and bringing in the characters they’d established to do so.
1.17 Turn, Turn, Turn
Well, the start was quite thrilling, mainly because of the shouting and nobody knowing who to trust and me knowing more than Coulson (because of having seen Cap 2, not because it was necessarily predictable).
The comparison with Cap 2 isn’t exactly flattering, despite all the flash-bangs, it’s obvious they didn’t have the time to really think through everyone’s motivation and responses (and for someone to delete the ‘even if it is the HYDRA theme song’ type of lines or realise that shooting someone in cold blood means being in control of your emotions).
I was most interested in what was going on with Melinda May and how she was trying to get Coulson to believe her – Ming-na Wen was fierce. I loved that she was doing what Fury ordered (putting her in the same class as Romanov and Hill) plus the weight of history with Coulson was great. Obviously, the show spent some time on Coulson’s backstory with Bill Paxton’s character and Fury, but I wasn’t watching them thinking that I’d didn’t matter that she was handcuffed, she’d still get win any fights.
I’m less taken with the fact that she came up with the team, apart from rogue element Skye.
It should be noted that Ward and, to a lesser degree, Fitz got trusted pretty quickly, by Coulson while May got put in the doghouse for her betrayal...
Good flip to have Hand be not HYDRA, although I couldn’t believe that any of the core team would turn out to be HYDRA (dear Jenna, Coulson is a Cap fanboy, so no) or would die, although the scale of the disaster needed something like that and the fact I never believed it would happen is the show’s problem. The best bit was how they were all flapping around, trying to decide who to trust, how to react – who was willing to shoot first and ask questions later (except that is TOTALLY what Ward did and they’d decided to forego the fall-out of that) – and listing everyone’s shady behaviour. More of that, more doubt about the team wouldn’t hurt.
Ward/Skye happened. Can we skip the scene where they have a drink?
Bill Paxton got to utter ‘Heil Hydra’ first.
Aww, I like Fitz too, not as much as Simmons or May, but quite often more than Coulson. (Although having him throw the non-lethal weapon to Coulson worked better than having him shoot the agent).
Confusing ending, although I suppose that it would indeed be a scramble. I’m sort of wondering who will fund all this activity or where the infrastructure is going to come from. IF they get a second season, they need to work that out.
Coulson, you CUT May, how very dare you!? An ally, indeed.
I wished that Tripp could have stayed on the plane if Ward was going, although the SECOND Hand deviated, I could see what was coming. It’s a shame that they made her stupid and so vengeful five minutes after spitting and shaking hands with Coulson.
Even with the final scene, Brett Dalton was a little...boring, especially next to Paxton doing mad eyes. Given that Ward got so much heroic stuff to do and there was the final look at Coulson, this might possibly be a double bluff, but I don’t care as much as the show wants me to. And I’m not shipping Tripp/Simmons either, and the show decided not to bother too hard with that, given that FitzSimmons had to have the emotional beat. Relationshipwise, I am mostly about Coulson’s strained relationship with May and everyone’s feelings about Simmons.
So, HYDRA is not wholly decimated. This makes sense, especially if we’re buying that most of them were high level, although I think that changing the logo was a bit too cheap. Are you going to rename the show Marvel’s Former Agents of Now Disbanded SHIELD?
But what Hand said about HYDRA makes sense in terms of bringing Fury back in, as or after he hunts in Europe, which I think they have to do for Coulson and May’s sakes.
And also Coulson wasn’t the agent in the suit in the observation room in the film, although that agent was totally there as an avatar of him. And we didn’t get to hear Steve’s little pep talk because they were doing their own thing in the Hub.
All in all, not as bad as it could have been, given that the show had to deal with a massive curveball that was out of its producers’ hands. They did an honourable job of trying to deal with the effects of what happened in the MCU while telling their own story and bringing in the characters they’d established to do so.
