Blase about aliens...
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shallownessAgents of SHIELD 3.20 Emancipation (and spoilers for Civil War, but Marvel presumes you've seen that)
With all the British TV shows that I was interested in in this timeslot having finished, it was a chance to watch this live. (But it's taken me a day to get this post up, yes.)
I did get sucked in by the with-holding of information. I thought that Linc was falling into the same frustrating error as last week of not listening to May, although I had twigged from his first contact with Daisy that he was up to something. I thought he mistakenly believed that he could save her, but I was wrong about what was going on. But then I was reading too much into Hive telling Daisy to rest and her then going and breaking Linc out of the base remotely, which I wouldn’t call resting if you’d lost that much blood. So I was wondering if she was possibly resisting the Sway – it turned out she wasn’t.
The doling out of information that we got along with General I Still Can’t With That Moustache was effective, then. I also noted that he was fuming with Coulson for holding out on him when he left it until he had to to admit Hive had got a warhead off ACTU. Oh, well done.
Nicely ironic that the anti-enhanced dog-group were forcibly enhanced, although Hive is basically Magneto in X1 in this scenario and the take on the Sekovia Accords in this episode only highlighted the parallels. The Inhumans are basically mutants with an alien backstory.
And although the beastly Lash (as played by a stuntman) gently freeing and rescuing the pale beauty of Daisy was a touching image Meant To Be, I still remember that he killed a lot of Inhumans (some of which were Linc’s friends; most of which had shown no evidence of endangering Daisy). So, I think there was a lot of convenient glossing going on there.
As for the characters, Coulson and May turned out to be smart and in more control than I thought. You just know Coulson got such a kick out of the way he brought Talbot into the base.
I have quibbles about the medical treatment SHIELD agents get from Dr Simmons.
Elena came back for what? For Talbot? Because there was no way she could be used to fight Hive as she was just as susceptible to Hive’s Sway as Linc and any other Inhuman. Of course, she was also there to give Mack a boost. (I didn’t think that last scene was worthy of a tag).
And John Hannah’s scientist finally realised he’s thrown his lot in with a properly dangerous baddie. Oops.
Decent ep all round. But who is going to destroy Hive?
With all the British TV shows that I was interested in in this timeslot having finished, it was a chance to watch this live. (But it's taken me a day to get this post up, yes.)
I did get sucked in by the with-holding of information. I thought that Linc was falling into the same frustrating error as last week of not listening to May, although I had twigged from his first contact with Daisy that he was up to something. I thought he mistakenly believed that he could save her, but I was wrong about what was going on. But then I was reading too much into Hive telling Daisy to rest and her then going and breaking Linc out of the base remotely, which I wouldn’t call resting if you’d lost that much blood. So I was wondering if she was possibly resisting the Sway – it turned out she wasn’t.
The doling out of information that we got along with General I Still Can’t With That Moustache was effective, then. I also noted that he was fuming with Coulson for holding out on him when he left it until he had to to admit Hive had got a warhead off ACTU. Oh, well done.
Nicely ironic that the anti-enhanced dog-group were forcibly enhanced, although Hive is basically Magneto in X1 in this scenario and the take on the Sekovia Accords in this episode only highlighted the parallels. The Inhumans are basically mutants with an alien backstory.
And although the beastly Lash (as played by a stuntman) gently freeing and rescuing the pale beauty of Daisy was a touching image Meant To Be, I still remember that he killed a lot of Inhumans (some of which were Linc’s friends; most of which had shown no evidence of endangering Daisy). So, I think there was a lot of convenient glossing going on there.
As for the characters, Coulson and May turned out to be smart and in more control than I thought. You just know Coulson got such a kick out of the way he brought Talbot into the base.
I have quibbles about the medical treatment SHIELD agents get from Dr Simmons.
Elena came back for what? For Talbot? Because there was no way she could be used to fight Hive as she was just as susceptible to Hive’s Sway as Linc and any other Inhuman. Of course, she was also there to give Mack a boost. (I didn’t think that last scene was worthy of a tag).
And John Hannah’s scientist finally realised he’s thrown his lot in with a properly dangerous baddie. Oops.
Decent ep all round. But who is going to destroy Hive?
