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shallowness) wrote2017-04-10 08:28 pm
shallowness) wrote2017-04-10 08:28 pm
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In which I learn I've been spelling character names wrongly
Agents of SHIELD
4.11 Wake Up
I wish this had been more consistently good, because when it was good, it was rather good. Unsurprisingly, I thought most of the good bits had to do with May and Robot May. I was pleased to get the flashback to how Aida (according to the Channel 4 website, that’s the spelling) and Radcliffe captured and replaced her. Getting to see the simulation, it was no wonder it didn’t work, beyond a spa being so far from Melinda May’s comfort zone. I saw through the second sim quite quickly, but not quickly enough – I put Aida’s clumsiness down to her trying to needle May into giving her an excuse to get rid of her and then forgot about it, but it was always unlikely she’d be that clumsy.
But the ending!? Trapped in a replay of Bahrain, oh May’s poor mental state. That’s yet another violation.
As for Robot May, with her existential angst and the discoveries that she isn’t the May she thought she was – I don’t think she’s fully processed that AT ALL – and the limits of her programming, well, that got developed nicely. I doubt, myself, that she’ll be able to commit to this whole ‘going for it with Phil’/following Radcliffe’s programming line when it comes down to it. (Though a part of me thinks it would be interesting if they kept the robot version for once. But it’s a small part.) Sidebar: everyone is shipping them. Heh. She is, too much Melinda May and I don’t think she’s going to be able to live with it. But they should be able to wangle quite a lot more emotions, complications and ramifications out of all this.
The news that There Was Another (replacement robot) added a lot of suspicion to how we viewed every other character and their weird activities until various things eliminated them off the suspects list.
As he was smarter than I (and Jemma) gave him credit for – not dallying with a robot head at all – I hope that Leo bears in mind that Rawlings did a fairly believable fake of himself and is suitably paranoid.
Most of the other subplots and action were…less gripping.
Yes Talbot was irritating enough to drive Coulson into a bad move, just about, although it wasn’t a great advert for the new arrangement. Mace was sympathetic in this episode; now that he knows he’s not in the inner circle and he’s trying to find his place in the new regime, some of his good qualities shone through. Though some of the stuff about Daisy always feeling she has to perform rings true, I’m not sure that it is relevant to how she’s been with the team so far this season.
Although Mack’s tragic backstory was tragic, I can’t say I care massively that he and Yo-Yo were unconvincingly shown to have had sex etc. The writing didn’t help much. But I care more that Fitzsimmons are okay as a couple.
Nagra’s accent sadly deserves a feh. (So from onscreen, her character’s surname is ‘Nadeer’.)
4.11 Wake Up
I wish this had been more consistently good, because when it was good, it was rather good. Unsurprisingly, I thought most of the good bits had to do with May and Robot May. I was pleased to get the flashback to how Aida (according to the Channel 4 website, that’s the spelling) and Radcliffe captured and replaced her. Getting to see the simulation, it was no wonder it didn’t work, beyond a spa being so far from Melinda May’s comfort zone. I saw through the second sim quite quickly, but not quickly enough – I put Aida’s clumsiness down to her trying to needle May into giving her an excuse to get rid of her and then forgot about it, but it was always unlikely she’d be that clumsy.
But the ending!? Trapped in a replay of Bahrain, oh May’s poor mental state. That’s yet another violation.
As for Robot May, with her existential angst and the discoveries that she isn’t the May she thought she was – I don’t think she’s fully processed that AT ALL – and the limits of her programming, well, that got developed nicely. I doubt, myself, that she’ll be able to commit to this whole ‘going for it with Phil’/following Radcliffe’s programming line when it comes down to it. (Though a part of me thinks it would be interesting if they kept the robot version for once. But it’s a small part.) Sidebar: everyone is shipping them. Heh. She is, too much Melinda May and I don’t think she’s going to be able to live with it. But they should be able to wangle quite a lot more emotions, complications and ramifications out of all this.
The news that There Was Another (replacement robot) added a lot of suspicion to how we viewed every other character and their weird activities until various things eliminated them off the suspects list.
As he was smarter than I (and Jemma) gave him credit for – not dallying with a robot head at all – I hope that Leo bears in mind that Rawlings did a fairly believable fake of himself and is suitably paranoid.
Most of the other subplots and action were…less gripping.
Yes Talbot was irritating enough to drive Coulson into a bad move, just about, although it wasn’t a great advert for the new arrangement. Mace was sympathetic in this episode; now that he knows he’s not in the inner circle and he’s trying to find his place in the new regime, some of his good qualities shone through. Though some of the stuff about Daisy always feeling she has to perform rings true, I’m not sure that it is relevant to how she’s been with the team so far this season.
Although Mack’s tragic backstory was tragic, I can’t say I care massively that he and Yo-Yo were unconvincingly shown to have had sex etc. The writing didn’t help much. But I care more that Fitzsimmons are okay as a couple.
Nagra’s accent sadly deserves a feh. (So from onscreen, her character’s surname is ‘Nadeer’.)