Too much Ada
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shallownessAgents of SHIELD 4.9 Broken Promises
Ugh to the opening, which was 80% lingering ogling of the female form and 20% showing how Ada had been shot and affected by the previous episode, but still functioning, which a human wouldn’t have been. The lampshading that ensued about Rawlings building her as a sexbot made me irked for most of the episode.
I think my favourite part was watching Jemma and Daisy hang and work together, with Simmons being fairly awesome – a Tazer hairclip is nifty! And Daisy being blase about Simmons getting into trouble/abducted – similarly the fact that they’ve been locked out of the computers so often that Fitz has a back up for that, invovling floppy discs that were actually floppy.
I was expecting there to be revelations that someone was up to something, but I was hoping that it was Coulson knowing not to trust Substitute!May, rather than Rawlings, whose reformed character was shown to be a sham, but I don’t love the older white man playing pupeteer instead of lady android jump-started by alien tech into self-actualisation, even if it’s destructive. Whenever she was acting in self-defence, Ada had a point. I don’t know if they’ll try to pull something similar with Ada 2.0, but I honestly don’t need to see her underclothes again or the actress’s sternum.
The realisation that Substitute!May is another android made me make rude comments about SHIELD security for most of the episode – wouldn’t they pick that up somehow? I’m not sure whether she realises she is an android or not – I thought the writing and performance was ambiguous here.
So, on top of rage at being knocked out, drugged and held captive, May is going to have to deal with Coulson going for it with an android version of herself without realising something was hinky. Well, I hope she goes beserk before she goes sad.
Even though I have agreed with Mack’s point about Rawlings being an idiot about creating Ada since he did it, it didn’t endear me to Mack.
Robot hand vs. actual robot = one winner.
Last season, Fitz had Will to be jealous of; it looks as if, this season, Jemma has Ada to be jealous of.
I thought that the actor they cast as the Senator’s brother was really believable as her brother. In the midst of all the Chitauri attack backstory, the way they talked about how Inhumans became Inhumans is not what I remember being explained last season. And when his powers finally appeared, they were basically Yo-Yo’s, which WHAT? And also, if you buy that they all get their powers for a reason, I WANT TO KNOW MORE. Inevitably, becasue he was a special snowflake Inhuman who took seven months to emerge, despite getting shot by his sister (because he’s a trusting dupe) and anchored to the bottom of the sea, it looks as if he’ll survive. Oh show – I mean they took a moment for the dead agent, but he was such a redshirt...
I love Nagra, but her accent was shaky, and I’m disappointed that there’s a Superior and he’s a he. (If he’s hot, will we see his torso in caressing slo-mo with klassy klassikal music?)
So, let’s call that a mixed bag.
And it's slowly dawned on me this morning that I could have set the alarm for half and hour later.
Ugh to the opening, which was 80% lingering ogling of the female form and 20% showing how Ada had been shot and affected by the previous episode, but still functioning, which a human wouldn’t have been. The lampshading that ensued about Rawlings building her as a sexbot made me irked for most of the episode.
I think my favourite part was watching Jemma and Daisy hang and work together, with Simmons being fairly awesome – a Tazer hairclip is nifty! And Daisy being blase about Simmons getting into trouble/abducted – similarly the fact that they’ve been locked out of the computers so often that Fitz has a back up for that, invovling floppy discs that were actually floppy.
I was expecting there to be revelations that someone was up to something, but I was hoping that it was Coulson knowing not to trust Substitute!May, rather than Rawlings, whose reformed character was shown to be a sham, but I don’t love the older white man playing pupeteer instead of lady android jump-started by alien tech into self-actualisation, even if it’s destructive. Whenever she was acting in self-defence, Ada had a point. I don’t know if they’ll try to pull something similar with Ada 2.0, but I honestly don’t need to see her underclothes again or the actress’s sternum.
The realisation that Substitute!May is another android made me make rude comments about SHIELD security for most of the episode – wouldn’t they pick that up somehow? I’m not sure whether she realises she is an android or not – I thought the writing and performance was ambiguous here.
So, on top of rage at being knocked out, drugged and held captive, May is going to have to deal with Coulson going for it with an android version of herself without realising something was hinky. Well, I hope she goes beserk before she goes sad.
Even though I have agreed with Mack’s point about Rawlings being an idiot about creating Ada since he did it, it didn’t endear me to Mack.
Robot hand vs. actual robot = one winner.
Last season, Fitz had Will to be jealous of; it looks as if, this season, Jemma has Ada to be jealous of.
I thought that the actor they cast as the Senator’s brother was really believable as her brother. In the midst of all the Chitauri attack backstory, the way they talked about how Inhumans became Inhumans is not what I remember being explained last season. And when his powers finally appeared, they were basically Yo-Yo’s, which WHAT? And also, if you buy that they all get their powers for a reason, I WANT TO KNOW MORE. Inevitably, becasue he was a special snowflake Inhuman who took seven months to emerge, despite getting shot by his sister (because he’s a trusting dupe) and anchored to the bottom of the sea, it looks as if he’ll survive. Oh show – I mean they took a moment for the dead agent, but he was such a redshirt...
I love Nagra, but her accent was shaky, and I’m disappointed that there’s a Superior and he’s a he. (If he’s hot, will we see his torso in caressing slo-mo with klassy klassikal music?)
So, let’s call that a mixed bag.
And it's slowly dawned on me this morning that I could have set the alarm for half and hour later.
