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shallownessAgents of SHIELD 2.08 The Things We Bury
Good episode. All the strands worked for me. Having Peggy (of course Simmons fangirls her) appear balanced out the relative pushing out of May, Simmons and even Skye. And we met the latter’s mother – but how would her relationship with Pa have worked if she was many years older than him and unable to age? – and I’m relieved that Skye is a little less superspecial than I was afraid she might be.
Oh, Tripp, Coulson doesn’t deserve that much loyalty – not that I’m siding with Mac - and you deserve a little more attention. I say that because his character is somewhat whatever he needs to be rather than developed. (But nice parallelism with Bahkshi and more obliquely Grant Ward, now I come to think of it.)
Fitz’s recovery is coming apace; I liked the nonchalance of how he’d got the timing down with his bad hand, and I thought that his presence added a lot to the Birth Father/Father Figure showdown. After all, remember when he had a crush on Skye? But with her not knowing, and despite her bossing the geek squad very capably on the mission, she was more an object than an agent, as it were.
MacLachlan was great – it does help that Gregg and Diamond underplay opposite him, letting his character go crazy when he needs to.
What was revealed about the Wards’ family dynamic was really disturbing, and both brothers’ analysis of each other was fascinating. I don’t know how far and for how long they can take ‘our’ Ward, but for now, especially with his alliance with Whitehall and ‘I’m a doctor’ I’m interested to see where it goes.
What was satisfying was that stuff happened and was revealed – I really liked the montage of Reinhart’s imprisonment. The writing was pretty good here – the referencing of Pierce worked better for me than the What Would Fury Do, but that’s partly because I don’t care that much about whether Coulson is a good director of SHIELD v2.0. I wish they’d look into whether SHIELD v2.0 is a good thing instead of assuming that it is, there’s been more questioning about whether it was a good idea to bring Coulson back to life than SHIELD. I get that Phil has done if because he believed in the ideal, and for the other ‘good’ agents like him who believed and someone has to fight Hydra, but it doesn’t take on board all the films showed us about SHIELD.
Oh, Bobbi, you deserve someone who trusts you more (although Hunter may be right that she has another agenda) and has less conditionality in their feelings about you. I’m pretty tepid on shipping in this show, really.
I haven’t heard that Agent Carter has been picked up by an UK broadcaster yet, which is plain daft.
Good episode. All the strands worked for me. Having Peggy (of course Simmons fangirls her) appear balanced out the relative pushing out of May, Simmons and even Skye. And we met the latter’s mother – but how would her relationship with Pa have worked if she was many years older than him and unable to age? – and I’m relieved that Skye is a little less superspecial than I was afraid she might be.
Oh, Tripp, Coulson doesn’t deserve that much loyalty – not that I’m siding with Mac - and you deserve a little more attention. I say that because his character is somewhat whatever he needs to be rather than developed. (But nice parallelism with Bahkshi and more obliquely Grant Ward, now I come to think of it.)
Fitz’s recovery is coming apace; I liked the nonchalance of how he’d got the timing down with his bad hand, and I thought that his presence added a lot to the Birth Father/Father Figure showdown. After all, remember when he had a crush on Skye? But with her not knowing, and despite her bossing the geek squad very capably on the mission, she was more an object than an agent, as it were.
MacLachlan was great – it does help that Gregg and Diamond underplay opposite him, letting his character go crazy when he needs to.
What was revealed about the Wards’ family dynamic was really disturbing, and both brothers’ analysis of each other was fascinating. I don’t know how far and for how long they can take ‘our’ Ward, but for now, especially with his alliance with Whitehall and ‘I’m a doctor’ I’m interested to see where it goes.
What was satisfying was that stuff happened and was revealed – I really liked the montage of Reinhart’s imprisonment. The writing was pretty good here – the referencing of Pierce worked better for me than the What Would Fury Do, but that’s partly because I don’t care that much about whether Coulson is a good director of SHIELD v2.0. I wish they’d look into whether SHIELD v2.0 is a good thing instead of assuming that it is, there’s been more questioning about whether it was a good idea to bring Coulson back to life than SHIELD. I get that Phil has done if because he believed in the ideal, and for the other ‘good’ agents like him who believed and someone has to fight Hydra, but it doesn’t take on board all the films showed us about SHIELD.
Oh, Bobbi, you deserve someone who trusts you more (although Hunter may be right that she has another agenda) and has less conditionality in their feelings about you. I’m pretty tepid on shipping in this show, really.
I haven’t heard that Agent Carter has been picked up by an UK broadcaster yet, which is plain daft.
