Teams as families shows
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shallownessScorpion's last two episodes have aired at some random times (what does that mean for when/if ITV2 airs season 3?), so I caught up with them.
2.21 Djibouti Call
JASON STREET! I mean Scott Porter, playing an outsider being mentored by Cabe among our team/family of geniuses. Toby mouthed off the most about being threatened, but it was really Walter who had the problem as ‘Tim Armstrong’ was not what he seemed to be, just as Walter had insisted. Of course, he was even more heroic, out in the field with Walter’s father figure and good at playing Paige’s fake husband/saving her life – if Ralph had looked up to him, what would Walter have done? As it was he was stand-offish and lied about not being jealous, or rather didn’t recognise that he’d used any justification to snoop around (illegally) for proof Tim was up to no good - although that turned out to be useful for plot reasons – because he was jealous.
The plot involved something about stealing antiquities and turning them into IEDs, a South African and a dead colleague of Tim’s. I didn’t entirely follow it, because I knew I didn’t need to. Mainly I was looking out for Sly’s feared monkeys to turn up at the wrong moment, as the team crossed over from a US military camp to a criminal den in a made up country, because their mission was a cover for a secret mission that Tim had only let Cabe in on at first.
Also, a dare involving American crackers turned out to be useful for the plot, Happy and Paige were very competent. Hilariously, Toby and Walter weren’t when it came to bringing down a thug, while a tied up and punched up Cabe had to do all the hard work himself, and Sly dropped a bowl at the wrong moment. Arrant, enjoyable nonsense.
2.22 Twist and Shout
It’s not getting Ralph on side, but Tim beat Walter’s high score on an arcade game they have in the garage, and Toby wouldn’t let him forget it. (Tim tried to be sweet about it, not realising the nature of Walter-Toby dynamic at all. Actually, Tim bent over backwards to get Walter on side, but...) Enter Linda from Da Bomb, who despite being given a new lease of life after the bomb jacket incident failed to meet anyone and, because he saved her life and they had some connection, wants to go out on a date with Walter!?!? Even if I weren’t rooting for Walter/Paige, I don’t think that’s a great choice on her part.
She looked askance at the arcade games shenanigans, but the team could have been doing so much worse in the garage when she turned up.
Anyway, the return of Linda made Paige do the stinky face Walter has been doing around Tim being all impressive around Paige, and as we’d already been prepped by the previouslies, this episode was all about Waige and not letting go even when the tornadoes of other potential love interests swirl around. Or something.
Also closure.
Having said that, the biggest emotional hit for me was that I really didn’t want Little Guy Ralph potentially overhearing his mother’s death over the comms, not that Walter was going to let her go, not after she wouldn’t let him drive into a tornado alone. And also because she’s Paige.
The mission was to find further identification of fallen American soldiers in a spot in Viet Nam that was about to get bulldozed for a factory. They had two days, and then because of a storm, they had two hours, and then the storm became a mile-wide tornado.
Oh, show.
The man who hired them was, of course, the son of one of the dead soldiers, so he was very motivated. Tim and Paige bonded over his emotional constipation reminding her of the team. Walter didn’t like that.
I did like that Paige insisting they got the people in the nearby nursing home (REASONS) to safety from the storm, and Walter listened to her led to the factory owner helping them with their typical plan to cool the tornado down into a mere storm with SCIENCE that will only work in a certain Vietnamese valley in certain circumstances.
Walter giving Ralph a ‘giddy up and use your brains to help us, kid’, speech was also sweet and Paige was giving him heart eyes for treating her son as a part of the team, but he didn’t notice, for it. (In one of the numerous wash-up scenes, Ralph’s professor stealing his supersmart software led to the return of the daft lawyer being promised, even though Sly will probably have to do all the legal work).
I was with Walter and, eventually, the team about how closure was not worth living people risking their lives, although I think they did a little neat dance by making Poldova and the man who fought his father talk about how men/boys who were drafted into being soldiers could hardly be held liable. Because I had been thinking ‘Uh, Viet Nam?’
Anyway, Walter was quite sympathetic with his bad jokes and not quite understanding and denial about his feelings about Paige. But he made his own bed by putting up all the rules about their relationship, arranging to arrange a date with Linda (he so should have rerecorded that message, and I speak as a rambler on phone messages) and giving Tim no reason to think he shouldn’t ask Paige out. As Walter is dating, why shouldn't she say yes? So, while I was more on his side than not, it’s his fault he’s in this situation and from what I’ve seen of the show (yes, writing as the person who thought Frasier's Ros was a regular character), it doesn’t track, even allowing for Walter’s spectacular emotional illiteracy. He was opening up to Paige over Megan’s death, then he decided he needed to be more sociable, but then he went speed dating, which doesn’t compute.
Perhaps Tim and Linda can comfort each other when this plays out as I expect it to next season.
Meanwhile, of course Toby has hats stashed around the garage, and the way he warned Happy that she might be getting a proposal next season was heart-warming. She absolutely would hate having a proposal sprung on her, and I’m glat he’s figured that out.
Agents of SHIELD 3.18 The Singularity
Setting aside Civil War for a bit (not really, there are minor spoilers in the last paragraph of this), quite a lot did happen at the end of the last episode, and the team is reeling from Daisy’s infection and method of leaving to go to what we’re supposed to call Hive. (AKA Evil!Neo, AKA Maveth.) Cue ickiness with its Ward memories and her being brain-washed (so she’s a bit of a Winter Soldier). I was never into Skyeward, and I found them dull in season 1, so...
Cue determined Coulson, enabled by May, while Mack’s brow is furrowed and Linc is less important as the newest team member. And flirty Fitzsimmons (mainly on her side. I wish they had gone for the comedy 'Leo's brain shuts down when Jemma mentions sex' more).
Shouldn’t Coulson know what transhumans are?
Fitz and Mack haven’t interacted that much of late, I think.
Fitzsimmons’s ire at Nack’s labcoats prejudice was nothing compared to Linc’s understandable dilike of the ‘murder vest’ idea, although if he thought they were going to let him go to protect another Inhuman from the Inhuman-controller as is, he was being stupid. However, he was bang on to call out Coulson and May for wanting to keep a weird familial triad with Daisy, although that seemed to slide past Phil. And in fairness, they were supportive of her as the team leader, and her last boyfriend was horrendous, so they'd be understandably wary of Linc.
But I was even more YEAH MAY! when she called Phil on being so cavalier with Linc’s life but protective of Daisy. Andrew was neither here nor there, her question as his triggerwoman was valid.
Cue Linc seeing, but not seeing, how strong Hive’s influence is over Alesha, while the out of control blue eyes were new and Coulson went ‘nobody shoots May dead.’
Ahem.
Was it really clear that James (purveyor of stereotypes about Australians) would become an Inhuman when he was exposed to the terragen?
Linc got pulled off the mission (yeah, like he’ll listen to Coulson on this, especially when Ward-in-Hive has plans for pre-Hiving Daisy’s Inhuman boyfriend) and Coulson apologised to May and acknowledged that he sees Daisy as his daughter. The family side of Daisy wanting connection is the strongest part of this
Fitz’s event horizon speech was cute, but not to be acted in the middle of a mission, guys!
I hope they get decent use out of John Hannah.
Yes, May loves Coulson because they’re both equally stubborn. (My shipper filter was activeated for all their interactions and I was quite happy.) Coulson’s surprise shield was cool -yeah, yea, literal shield, but also Cap fanboying - but it’s no laser finger.
Fitz’s encounter with Daisy, who was hurting him badly, while threatening worse (but twistedly warning about her glimpse of the future in a non-specific way) was pretty good, but mainly because it was cut with Jemma’s with Hive. I’ve always thought Dalton and Henstridge had chemistry, more so than he has with Bennett, and the layers of Hive/Ward/Will came through chillingly. (In fairness, it was one more layer than there is between Hive and Daisy.) I was so pleased for her that she shot him, even if she knew it did nothing except give her some control and an opportunity to run.
Meanwhile I don’t care what he calls himself (I think Jaying was wise not to let him become an Inhuman, no?) was the first person to say out loud what’s been intimated i.e. that Mack’s feelings for Daisy aren’t just platonic.
Apparently HYDRA is decapitated based on Malick’s intel. Uh-huh.
I was quite amused by Mack, having put up with Huntingbird, now being pro Fitzsimmons. I mean, after getting the lowdown, he was quite wise to go off to the quinjet and let them be.
Meanwhile, Daisy is with her new team of Inhumans (except she’s not in charge) and ‘family’, and we have a glimpse of what Hive’s plan is. ‘Kay. (I knew there was no point getting invested in the previous team of Inhumans.)
Other than some things happening in Bucharest, no xo with Civil War really. I mean, the ‘demise’ of Hydra didn’t have any ramifications in Civil War that I noticed. And if they decide to tackle the Inhumans differently when they get their own movie, will the two diverge?
2.21 Djibouti Call
JASON STREET! I mean Scott Porter, playing an outsider being mentored by Cabe among our team/family of geniuses. Toby mouthed off the most about being threatened, but it was really Walter who had the problem as ‘Tim Armstrong’ was not what he seemed to be, just as Walter had insisted. Of course, he was even more heroic, out in the field with Walter’s father figure and good at playing Paige’s fake husband/saving her life – if Ralph had looked up to him, what would Walter have done? As it was he was stand-offish and lied about not being jealous, or rather didn’t recognise that he’d used any justification to snoop around (illegally) for proof Tim was up to no good - although that turned out to be useful for plot reasons – because he was jealous.
The plot involved something about stealing antiquities and turning them into IEDs, a South African and a dead colleague of Tim’s. I didn’t entirely follow it, because I knew I didn’t need to. Mainly I was looking out for Sly’s feared monkeys to turn up at the wrong moment, as the team crossed over from a US military camp to a criminal den in a made up country, because their mission was a cover for a secret mission that Tim had only let Cabe in on at first.
Also, a dare involving American crackers turned out to be useful for the plot, Happy and Paige were very competent. Hilariously, Toby and Walter weren’t when it came to bringing down a thug, while a tied up and punched up Cabe had to do all the hard work himself, and Sly dropped a bowl at the wrong moment. Arrant, enjoyable nonsense.
2.22 Twist and Shout
It’s not getting Ralph on side, but Tim beat Walter’s high score on an arcade game they have in the garage, and Toby wouldn’t let him forget it. (Tim tried to be sweet about it, not realising the nature of Walter-Toby dynamic at all. Actually, Tim bent over backwards to get Walter on side, but...) Enter Linda from Da Bomb, who despite being given a new lease of life after the bomb jacket incident failed to meet anyone and, because he saved her life and they had some connection, wants to go out on a date with Walter!?!? Even if I weren’t rooting for Walter/Paige, I don’t think that’s a great choice on her part.
She looked askance at the arcade games shenanigans, but the team could have been doing so much worse in the garage when she turned up.
Anyway, the return of Linda made Paige do the stinky face Walter has been doing around Tim being all impressive around Paige, and as we’d already been prepped by the previouslies, this episode was all about Waige and not letting go even when the tornadoes of other potential love interests swirl around. Or something.
Also closure.
Having said that, the biggest emotional hit for me was that I really didn’t want Little Guy Ralph potentially overhearing his mother’s death over the comms, not that Walter was going to let her go, not after she wouldn’t let him drive into a tornado alone. And also because she’s Paige.
The mission was to find further identification of fallen American soldiers in a spot in Viet Nam that was about to get bulldozed for a factory. They had two days, and then because of a storm, they had two hours, and then the storm became a mile-wide tornado.
Oh, show.
The man who hired them was, of course, the son of one of the dead soldiers, so he was very motivated. Tim and Paige bonded over his emotional constipation reminding her of the team. Walter didn’t like that.
I did like that Paige insisting they got the people in the nearby nursing home (REASONS) to safety from the storm, and Walter listened to her led to the factory owner helping them with their typical plan to cool the tornado down into a mere storm with SCIENCE that will only work in a certain Vietnamese valley in certain circumstances.
Walter giving Ralph a ‘giddy up and use your brains to help us, kid’, speech was also sweet and Paige was giving him heart eyes for treating her son as a part of the team, but he didn’t notice, for it. (In one of the numerous wash-up scenes, Ralph’s professor stealing his supersmart software led to the return of the daft lawyer being promised, even though Sly will probably have to do all the legal work).
I was with Walter and, eventually, the team about how closure was not worth living people risking their lives, although I think they did a little neat dance by making Poldova and the man who fought his father talk about how men/boys who were drafted into being soldiers could hardly be held liable. Because I had been thinking ‘Uh, Viet Nam?’
Anyway, Walter was quite sympathetic with his bad jokes and not quite understanding and denial about his feelings about Paige. But he made his own bed by putting up all the rules about their relationship, arranging to arrange a date with Linda (he so should have rerecorded that message, and I speak as a rambler on phone messages) and giving Tim no reason to think he shouldn’t ask Paige out. As Walter is dating, why shouldn't she say yes? So, while I was more on his side than not, it’s his fault he’s in this situation and from what I’ve seen of the show (yes, writing as the person who thought Frasier's Ros was a regular character), it doesn’t track, even allowing for Walter’s spectacular emotional illiteracy. He was opening up to Paige over Megan’s death, then he decided he needed to be more sociable, but then he went speed dating, which doesn’t compute.
Perhaps Tim and Linda can comfort each other when this plays out as I expect it to next season.
Meanwhile, of course Toby has hats stashed around the garage, and the way he warned Happy that she might be getting a proposal next season was heart-warming. She absolutely would hate having a proposal sprung on her, and I’m glat he’s figured that out.
Agents of SHIELD 3.18 The Singularity
Setting aside Civil War for a bit (not really, there are minor spoilers in the last paragraph of this), quite a lot did happen at the end of the last episode, and the team is reeling from Daisy’s infection and method of leaving to go to what we’re supposed to call Hive. (AKA Evil!Neo, AKA Maveth.) Cue ickiness with its Ward memories and her being brain-washed (so she’s a bit of a Winter Soldier). I was never into Skyeward, and I found them dull in season 1, so...
Cue determined Coulson, enabled by May, while Mack’s brow is furrowed and Linc is less important as the newest team member. And flirty Fitzsimmons (mainly on her side. I wish they had gone for the comedy 'Leo's brain shuts down when Jemma mentions sex' more).
Shouldn’t Coulson know what transhumans are?
Fitz and Mack haven’t interacted that much of late, I think.
Fitzsimmons’s ire at Nack’s labcoats prejudice was nothing compared to Linc’s understandable dilike of the ‘murder vest’ idea, although if he thought they were going to let him go to protect another Inhuman from the Inhuman-controller as is, he was being stupid. However, he was bang on to call out Coulson and May for wanting to keep a weird familial triad with Daisy, although that seemed to slide past Phil. And in fairness, they were supportive of her as the team leader, and her last boyfriend was horrendous, so they'd be understandably wary of Linc.
But I was even more YEAH MAY! when she called Phil on being so cavalier with Linc’s life but protective of Daisy. Andrew was neither here nor there, her question as his triggerwoman was valid.
Cue Linc seeing, but not seeing, how strong Hive’s influence is over Alesha, while the out of control blue eyes were new and Coulson went ‘nobody shoots May dead.’
Ahem.
Was it really clear that James (purveyor of stereotypes about Australians) would become an Inhuman when he was exposed to the terragen?
Linc got pulled off the mission (yeah, like he’ll listen to Coulson on this, especially when Ward-in-Hive has plans for pre-Hiving Daisy’s Inhuman boyfriend) and Coulson apologised to May and acknowledged that he sees Daisy as his daughter. The family side of Daisy wanting connection is the strongest part of this
Fitz’s event horizon speech was cute, but not to be acted in the middle of a mission, guys!
I hope they get decent use out of John Hannah.
Yes, May loves Coulson because they’re both equally stubborn. (My shipper filter was activeated for all their interactions and I was quite happy.) Coulson’s surprise shield was cool -yeah, yea, literal shield, but also Cap fanboying - but it’s no laser finger.
Fitz’s encounter with Daisy, who was hurting him badly, while threatening worse (but twistedly warning about her glimpse of the future in a non-specific way) was pretty good, but mainly because it was cut with Jemma’s with Hive. I’ve always thought Dalton and Henstridge had chemistry, more so than he has with Bennett, and the layers of Hive/Ward/Will came through chillingly. (In fairness, it was one more layer than there is between Hive and Daisy.) I was so pleased for her that she shot him, even if she knew it did nothing except give her some control and an opportunity to run.
Meanwhile I don’t care what he calls himself (I think Jaying was wise not to let him become an Inhuman, no?) was the first person to say out loud what’s been intimated i.e. that Mack’s feelings for Daisy aren’t just platonic.
Apparently HYDRA is decapitated based on Malick’s intel. Uh-huh.
I was quite amused by Mack, having put up with Huntingbird, now being pro Fitzsimmons. I mean, after getting the lowdown, he was quite wise to go off to the quinjet and let them be.
Meanwhile, Daisy is with her new team of Inhumans (except she’s not in charge) and ‘family’, and we have a glimpse of what Hive’s plan is. ‘Kay. (I knew there was no point getting invested in the previous team of Inhumans.)
Other than some things happening in Bucharest, no xo with Civil War really. I mean, the ‘demise’ of Hydra didn’t have any ramifications in Civil War that I noticed. And if they decide to tackle the Inhumans differently when they get their own movie, will the two diverge?
