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shallownessSS-GB episode 1
Watched in two parts because I mistimed things, and I’d been hearing (loud and clear) all week that the dialogue was hard to follow, probably because the actors were mumbling, and yes, I missed a lot even after turning the sound up during the first half.
Swastikas all over London to ram home the point that this was London as run by the Nazis, as our protagonist, Archer, a police detective, tried to pretend it was all fine as he slept with his secretary and was good at his job as the Nazis were Nazis and the resistance resisted. Riley mumbled when he wasn’t rasping, the Scottish sergeant mumbled, even Maeve Dermody mumbled. Kate Bosworth turned up and was very...taut.
Things got more interesting when Oskar Huth turned up and we learned more about the resistance, while Archer argued for keeping law and order (collaborating), even if it meant taking orders (collaborating), for some day when the Nazis would be gone (er how? Why?). The director really loved having characters make entrances in shadows.
I am not sure if I’ll carry on keeping up with it.
Agents of SHIELD 4.6
One big mision, with a sideplot for Jemma (oh, Fitz, not too many points on the good boyfriend scale) and the Director. I had forgotten who already knew he was an Inhuman, and I didn’t get around to parsing all the Vienna stuff beyond going ‘Civil War, right?’
As for the main plot, Daisy was unhappily back to working with people she respects and cares for, especially her family unit. Gauntlets or no, should she have been fighting with her bones in the state they were in? MCU biology handwaving, although some moments in her fight scenes were a bit wobbly from the stunt team.
Far more interesting – if nearly always delivered with 20% more energy than all of the other scenes, for some reason – was Coulson needling a cranky May to talk about her short-term death. Her seeing him whilst dead was intriguing. I know what I want it to mean (and you could add it to the ‘Phil’s big heart’ speech and come up with something), but it may mean something else.
While I approve of those three running around together, fighting about who gets to save who, tactically, it was stupid – they couldn’t fight the ‘scientist ghosts’ and then created more mayhem because of it. Ah well, they learned more about how the watchdogs were being recruited from prisons (read your own parallel into that).
Meanwhile Mack had to babysit Robbie, whose venegeance cost his uncle his freedom, and probably more. That didn’t go as I expected it to, really, because Lucy clocked Robbie brother, so I was expecting him to be kidnapped and used as leverage. Could always happen later, I s’pose, or be dropped and forgotten.
I liked the fact that there was so much Spanish. AoS continues to be quite diverse – most of the white people on it are Brits.
Has Kerr Smith (playing Lucy’s husband) really gone grey/white-haired? I feel old now.
Lastly, in this episode, we learned that Director Aphorisms is really easy to blackmail. Jemma might not be beaming if she’d thought through the implications of her win (or watched the final scene).
Watched in two parts because I mistimed things, and I’d been hearing (loud and clear) all week that the dialogue was hard to follow, probably because the actors were mumbling, and yes, I missed a lot even after turning the sound up during the first half.
Swastikas all over London to ram home the point that this was London as run by the Nazis, as our protagonist, Archer, a police detective, tried to pretend it was all fine as he slept with his secretary and was good at his job as the Nazis were Nazis and the resistance resisted. Riley mumbled when he wasn’t rasping, the Scottish sergeant mumbled, even Maeve Dermody mumbled. Kate Bosworth turned up and was very...taut.
Things got more interesting when Oskar Huth turned up and we learned more about the resistance, while Archer argued for keeping law and order (collaborating), even if it meant taking orders (collaborating), for some day when the Nazis would be gone (er how? Why?). The director really loved having characters make entrances in shadows.
I am not sure if I’ll carry on keeping up with it.
Agents of SHIELD 4.6
One big mision, with a sideplot for Jemma (oh, Fitz, not too many points on the good boyfriend scale) and the Director. I had forgotten who already knew he was an Inhuman, and I didn’t get around to parsing all the Vienna stuff beyond going ‘Civil War, right?’
As for the main plot, Daisy was unhappily back to working with people she respects and cares for, especially her family unit. Gauntlets or no, should she have been fighting with her bones in the state they were in? MCU biology handwaving, although some moments in her fight scenes were a bit wobbly from the stunt team.
Far more interesting – if nearly always delivered with 20% more energy than all of the other scenes, for some reason – was Coulson needling a cranky May to talk about her short-term death. Her seeing him whilst dead was intriguing. I know what I want it to mean (and you could add it to the ‘Phil’s big heart’ speech and come up with something), but it may mean something else.
While I approve of those three running around together, fighting about who gets to save who, tactically, it was stupid – they couldn’t fight the ‘scientist ghosts’ and then created more mayhem because of it. Ah well, they learned more about how the watchdogs were being recruited from prisons (read your own parallel into that).
Meanwhile Mack had to babysit Robbie, whose venegeance cost his uncle his freedom, and probably more. That didn’t go as I expected it to, really, because Lucy clocked Robbie brother, so I was expecting him to be kidnapped and used as leverage. Could always happen later, I s’pose, or be dropped and forgotten.
I liked the fact that there was so much Spanish. AoS continues to be quite diverse – most of the white people on it are Brits.
Has Kerr Smith (playing Lucy’s husband) really gone grey/white-haired? I feel old now.
Lastly, in this episode, we learned that Director Aphorisms is really easy to blackmail. Jemma might not be beaming if she’d thought through the implications of her win (or watched the final scene).
