Four-dimensional
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shallownessAOS 3.15 Spacetime
I spent quite a bit of this episode feeling irritated with everyone. Hadn’t they seen Paradox? Oh no, nobody did.
Maveth!Ward has upgraded to swanning around in a Neo-esque black coat, which made it about time for Team SHIELD to know Ward was back. Kind of.
Which Fitz was astute enough to realise. Ah, Fitz, so right for most of the episode, yet nobody really listened, and the episode had him be a little wrong.
I suppose we were meant to be worrying who would die, but I never really did. I certainly didn’t think Daisy would cark it, so this was more of a low stakes episode, a puzzle, even, and my main contribution was that Coulson should avail himself of a crossbow so that he had a weapon, but not the one he was bearing in Daisy’s flashforward. (Insert your own Americans and their guns grumble.)
But it was nice that Inhuman of the Week Charles, whom I’d been feeling so sorry for because of the visions he saw too, was the one who could change things, even if he died sacrificially. I wonder if they’ve plotted out what Daisy saw last.
Also, I wonder if promising to protect Robin, who could have who knows what powers, may be reckless.
Speaking of, Andrew’s return would be the thing that would take May off the mission, mainly because Coulson bossed her into it. She was being so great until she started blaming herself for all that had gone wrong for Andrew, which I found ridiculous, because he’d have been as susceptible to becoming Lash via terragen anyway, even if he hadn’t been exposed in the same time and place.
Don’t know what to make of Linc being right about a plan and all their powers being Meaningful, which suggests some sort of redemptive usefulness for Lash (it’s okay if his gut only tells him to kill bad Inhumans? What about guards? Actually, what did Daisy do with the HYDRA agents she downed? Oh, right, handwaving.)
I’ll just move on to the Skye/Daisy-Coulson feels. (They’re bound to play with that with the dark mirror of Malick and daughter.) He grounded her until he couldn’t, and the script did pull out big things to get everyone to their allotted place, but because we knew about Maveth!Ward – and Dalton is doing a very decent job in differentiating them – and have done for weeks it had less impact.
Gotham 2.14 This Ball of Mud and Meanness
Of course, Gotham is always dealing with the coming future.
As this was a Bruce-centric episode, I was waaaay less irritated than normal, although, again, I didn’t believe he’d kill Matches. I’m not sure if I believe Bruce has given up finding out who ordered the hit (or the show may turn around and say actually someone else did it, given the showrunner), or not fully, but they made a good effort at providing a series of interesting encounters to get Bruce to where he’s apparently learning to be...well, Batman. First, Selina telling him it was all a bad idea – I would have liked her to do more than bookend the episode, but I hope that we get to see Bruce living with her on the street because it should be hilarious, yet adorkable. Second, Alfred got beaten up again. As Harvey 'Voice of Sense' Bullock said, that happens a lot to him as a butler. P’raps he should make the most of the lack of Bruce to recover for the next time. Also, he has not been handling Bruce well at all, but that’s because the boy is a stubborn goat who needs to learn things for himself.
Best of all, I think was Lori Petty’s Jerry. How very meta to have the informant be ‘Jerry’ of the ‘Maniax’ – a punk rocker tribute act to the Maniax. Of course, I was going to love the concept because the metaphor was so clearly there with the original Maniax. With the Joker’s face on, and with her being so different to the young men tainted by Jerome, she was an interesting presence, with her own agenda. Yes, her scene with Bruce was portentous, but she was a smart one and she can come back.
Finally, Bruce faced (possibly) his parents’ killer, who had a death wish and was tired of it all. Meanwhile the big question all episode was whether Bruce at this point could kill someone with a gun. As I said, I always thought the answer would be ‘no’, and I still think his lying and planning are basic. It only now occurs to me to wonder if we’re meant to think he left the gun on purpose or didn’t think that far ahead.
Jim was chasing after Bruce, but Lee also dumped the mystery of Kristen on him (in lieu of dealing with their issues) so his presence and importance were contained, which was welcome. Ed seems to hold Jim Gordon’s detecting skills in higher regard than I do. They need something tastier to tease us with than Nygma becoming more Riddleresque and endangering Jim.
Whatever, more interesting was the Strange and Peabody duo – I was quite sad when there was a bit of a split between them at the end. The scene where Oswald saw himself kill his mother was a good start, and the question of what ‘Call Me Hugo’ was up to and what effect it would have on the Penguin kept me interested, because I did think that the other inmate was in trouble, and I certainly don’t believe, given everything else Strange is up to and the methods he uses, Penguin is going to remain a model member of society after being brainwashed.
I spent quite a bit of this episode feeling irritated with everyone. Hadn’t they seen Paradox? Oh no, nobody did.
Maveth!Ward has upgraded to swanning around in a Neo-esque black coat, which made it about time for Team SHIELD to know Ward was back. Kind of.
Which Fitz was astute enough to realise. Ah, Fitz, so right for most of the episode, yet nobody really listened, and the episode had him be a little wrong.
I suppose we were meant to be worrying who would die, but I never really did. I certainly didn’t think Daisy would cark it, so this was more of a low stakes episode, a puzzle, even, and my main contribution was that Coulson should avail himself of a crossbow so that he had a weapon, but not the one he was bearing in Daisy’s flashforward. (Insert your own Americans and their guns grumble.)
But it was nice that Inhuman of the Week Charles, whom I’d been feeling so sorry for because of the visions he saw too, was the one who could change things, even if he died sacrificially. I wonder if they’ve plotted out what Daisy saw last.
Also, I wonder if promising to protect Robin, who could have who knows what powers, may be reckless.
Speaking of, Andrew’s return would be the thing that would take May off the mission, mainly because Coulson bossed her into it. She was being so great until she started blaming herself for all that had gone wrong for Andrew, which I found ridiculous, because he’d have been as susceptible to becoming Lash via terragen anyway, even if he hadn’t been exposed in the same time and place.
Don’t know what to make of Linc being right about a plan and all their powers being Meaningful, which suggests some sort of redemptive usefulness for Lash (it’s okay if his gut only tells him to kill bad Inhumans? What about guards? Actually, what did Daisy do with the HYDRA agents she downed? Oh, right, handwaving.)
I’ll just move on to the Skye/Daisy-Coulson feels. (They’re bound to play with that with the dark mirror of Malick and daughter.) He grounded her until he couldn’t, and the script did pull out big things to get everyone to their allotted place, but because we knew about Maveth!Ward – and Dalton is doing a very decent job in differentiating them – and have done for weeks it had less impact.
Gotham 2.14 This Ball of Mud and Meanness
Of course, Gotham is always dealing with the coming future.
As this was a Bruce-centric episode, I was waaaay less irritated than normal, although, again, I didn’t believe he’d kill Matches. I’m not sure if I believe Bruce has given up finding out who ordered the hit (or the show may turn around and say actually someone else did it, given the showrunner), or not fully, but they made a good effort at providing a series of interesting encounters to get Bruce to where he’s apparently learning to be...well, Batman. First, Selina telling him it was all a bad idea – I would have liked her to do more than bookend the episode, but I hope that we get to see Bruce living with her on the street because it should be hilarious, yet adorkable. Second, Alfred got beaten up again. As Harvey 'Voice of Sense' Bullock said, that happens a lot to him as a butler. P’raps he should make the most of the lack of Bruce to recover for the next time. Also, he has not been handling Bruce well at all, but that’s because the boy is a stubborn goat who needs to learn things for himself.
Best of all, I think was Lori Petty’s Jerry. How very meta to have the informant be ‘Jerry’ of the ‘Maniax’ – a punk rocker tribute act to the Maniax. Of course, I was going to love the concept because the metaphor was so clearly there with the original Maniax. With the Joker’s face on, and with her being so different to the young men tainted by Jerome, she was an interesting presence, with her own agenda. Yes, her scene with Bruce was portentous, but she was a smart one and she can come back.
Finally, Bruce faced (possibly) his parents’ killer, who had a death wish and was tired of it all. Meanwhile the big question all episode was whether Bruce at this point could kill someone with a gun. As I said, I always thought the answer would be ‘no’, and I still think his lying and planning are basic. It only now occurs to me to wonder if we’re meant to think he left the gun on purpose or didn’t think that far ahead.
Jim was chasing after Bruce, but Lee also dumped the mystery of Kristen on him (in lieu of dealing with their issues) so his presence and importance were contained, which was welcome. Ed seems to hold Jim Gordon’s detecting skills in higher regard than I do. They need something tastier to tease us with than Nygma becoming more Riddleresque and endangering Jim.
Whatever, more interesting was the Strange and Peabody duo – I was quite sad when there was a bit of a split between them at the end. The scene where Oswald saw himself kill his mother was a good start, and the question of what ‘Call Me Hugo’ was up to and what effect it would have on the Penguin kept me interested, because I did think that the other inmate was in trouble, and I certainly don’t believe, given everything else Strange is up to and the methods he uses, Penguin is going to remain a model member of society after being brainwashed.
