Action Friday
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shallownessAgents of SHIELD 2.17 Melinda
Ming-Na Wen was so good at portraying a younger, more open Melinda and so good at Melinda in action. Tying what happened in Barhain so closely to Skye and Jinyang (sp)’s story, with Eva and Katya as potentially a dark mirror, really, really worked. Especially because it acknowledged the Melinda as SRO/mothering figure.
It tied in too to what Melinda was going through now, trying to protect Coulson and her SHIELD while learning he’d been keeping big secrets again.
What happened explained why Melinda had become who she’d become, filled out more backstory about her and Coulson, and watching the trauma of holding a dead girl mean that she’d never hold a living birth child of her own worked well. Plus the way the rumour about the Cavalry grew was sold well.
And Skye found her family (again) and a home...I thought the initial revelation was a bit abrupt, somehow, although I believed in the connection and Skye opening up, probably because she did suspect/wonder.
There was also the Rayna as Skye’s shadow – got that she was seeing the future before you, Lincoln, but I had an advantage - and him walking in on the family reunion is surely the beginning of the cloud that Jinyang mentioned of Skye’s coming and being a privileged daughter making her seen as a threat by ‘these people’ – exactly as Skye was by SHIELD (both versions, to varying degrees), so the same thing is going to happen. Probably. I feel that they’ve learned lessons in how they’re complicating Lincoln, even though, basically, he is so pretty you and Rayna could cry.
Jinyang’s line about Cal stitching her back together was horrifying and suggestive.
Less everybody else time, Enough to make me wish we’d had more Bobbi-May interaction. And I’m glad Fitz worked out he was being followed. And yes, Phil Coulson, we expect you to explain this theta protocol. To May.
I think that the previous episode was better paced and balanced, but I loved the emotional through-line for, well, all these women.
ETA: I'm disappointed that the Hunterbird spin-off will not be happening (er, because it was mooted and Disney/Marvel probably see the show as promo for the MCU, I always assumed Agents of SHIELD would be back. I hope Bobbi and Hunter return to our screens to some extent, but I am going to fervently hope that this means Palicki is available for some amazing project.)
POI 3.7 The Perfect Mark
Caught up on this instead of waiting for it to be repeated, as Longmire is now in the nine o’clock slot. I have not been impressed with schedulers pushing back shows I want to watch one hour all this week. Well, twice. But still.
The NotW seemed only mildly interesting with his fake psychotherapist scheme, and the fact someone had already jacked into his phone made him seem obviously the one in danger, but the English accent (sound enough) and the obviously too dramatic set-up with the ‘cop’ (how did he know the mark wasn’t going to scoop up the money, honestly, though?) meant he was a bit more onion-like and interesting.
I suspected Shaw’s protectiveness of the girl might turn out to be unnecessary.
Once again, with HR’s involvement, Carter’s investigation bumped into the team’s mission.
Poor NotW, all worried by the machine gun toters coming through the window. The Night Watch was a good answer to the ‘who are you?’ question that I am only just now noticing must be asked nearly every episode by the NotWs. Even if our cocky scammer didn’t think he needed protection – or he wanted the score more. Did he not notice the MACHINE GUNS?
Anyway, I was delighted to be vindicated that the con artist was conned – by a pro who outbid him for the ball.
Maybe Finch is indeed jealous the Machine called Root, but he doesn’t think of her/it as Mom. Actually, Root, Harold’s visit was more about wrapping the episode up, but the whole conversation about her being worried about him and what he’d created, was about par for them.
I was tired and needed to be amused when I watched this, but I liked all the comic beats, like Reese being described as creepy.
And that was a dramatic way for Carter to find out who the head of HR is.
Ming-Na Wen was so good at portraying a younger, more open Melinda and so good at Melinda in action. Tying what happened in Barhain so closely to Skye and Jinyang (sp)’s story, with Eva and Katya as potentially a dark mirror, really, really worked. Especially because it acknowledged the Melinda as SRO/mothering figure.
It tied in too to what Melinda was going through now, trying to protect Coulson and her SHIELD while learning he’d been keeping big secrets again.
What happened explained why Melinda had become who she’d become, filled out more backstory about her and Coulson, and watching the trauma of holding a dead girl mean that she’d never hold a living birth child of her own worked well. Plus the way the rumour about the Cavalry grew was sold well.
And Skye found her family (again) and a home...I thought the initial revelation was a bit abrupt, somehow, although I believed in the connection and Skye opening up, probably because she did suspect/wonder.
There was also the Rayna as Skye’s shadow – got that she was seeing the future before you, Lincoln, but I had an advantage - and him walking in on the family reunion is surely the beginning of the cloud that Jinyang mentioned of Skye’s coming and being a privileged daughter making her seen as a threat by ‘these people’ – exactly as Skye was by SHIELD (both versions, to varying degrees), so the same thing is going to happen. Probably. I feel that they’ve learned lessons in how they’re complicating Lincoln, even though, basically, he is so pretty you and Rayna could cry.
Jinyang’s line about Cal stitching her back together was horrifying and suggestive.
Less everybody else time, Enough to make me wish we’d had more Bobbi-May interaction. And I’m glad Fitz worked out he was being followed. And yes, Phil Coulson, we expect you to explain this theta protocol. To May.
I think that the previous episode was better paced and balanced, but I loved the emotional through-line for, well, all these women.
ETA: I'm disappointed that the Hunterbird spin-off will not be happening (er, because it was mooted and Disney/Marvel probably see the show as promo for the MCU, I always assumed Agents of SHIELD would be back. I hope Bobbi and Hunter return to our screens to some extent, but I am going to fervently hope that this means Palicki is available for some amazing project.)
POI 3.7 The Perfect Mark
Caught up on this instead of waiting for it to be repeated, as Longmire is now in the nine o’clock slot. I have not been impressed with schedulers pushing back shows I want to watch one hour all this week. Well, twice. But still.
The NotW seemed only mildly interesting with his fake psychotherapist scheme, and the fact someone had already jacked into his phone made him seem obviously the one in danger, but the English accent (sound enough) and the obviously too dramatic set-up with the ‘cop’ (how did he know the mark wasn’t going to scoop up the money, honestly, though?) meant he was a bit more onion-like and interesting.
I suspected Shaw’s protectiveness of the girl might turn out to be unnecessary.
Once again, with HR’s involvement, Carter’s investigation bumped into the team’s mission.
Poor NotW, all worried by the machine gun toters coming through the window. The Night Watch was a good answer to the ‘who are you?’ question that I am only just now noticing must be asked nearly every episode by the NotWs. Even if our cocky scammer didn’t think he needed protection – or he wanted the score more. Did he not notice the MACHINE GUNS?
Anyway, I was delighted to be vindicated that the con artist was conned – by a pro who outbid him for the ball.
Maybe Finch is indeed jealous the Machine called Root, but he doesn’t think of her/it as Mom. Actually, Root, Harold’s visit was more about wrapping the episode up, but the whole conversation about her being worried about him and what he’d created, was about par for them.
I was tired and needed to be amused when I watched this, but I liked all the comic beats, like Reese being described as creepy.
And that was a dramatic way for Carter to find out who the head of HR is.
