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shallownessElectric Dreams: KAO
Our hero’s a schlubby ‘manualist’, living in a world five minutes away, where personalised advertising has made everyone consumers who’ve sold all their information for sexy, sexy holograms. Oh, and they live in Meguscan, a meganation, which is about to elect the Candidate (hey, at least this Oceania has a Big Sister), who wants the citizens to kill all others.
Everyone else is chill about this, our Philbert isn’t. The reactions to his reaction to the incitement to violence were disturbing. But he didn’t check the small print before accepting the watch (consenting as heedlessly as if he were clicking a box saying I AGREE or something) or think through that his phone would give away his location. Sadly, the ordinary guy with a conscience is slightly more of an ‘other’ to me. So, although I sympathised as his perception of community was shredded, I felt distanced.
Also, I see what you did there with having the black man talk so lightly about othering, Electric Dreams!
It certainly made all the ads being aired around the show sound very different, especially the one playing on the phrase ‘Yes, we can’ (which always had a different resonance in the UK because of Bob the Builder). But it was a blunderbuss of a warning, not particularly fresh, either, which has been a recurring problem for ED – or maybe I was distanced from the ‘yes us can’ because of the terrible grammar. Still, the production design was amazing and I think Effie Trinkett would have approved of The Candidate’s look.
AoS 5.5 Fun and Games
I noted that Clark Gregg directed this, so I wasn’t expecting much of Coulson.
A bit too much exposition from Enoch, and I shouldn’t wonder how he explained away Fitz’s Scottish accent when he crafted his reputation. I spent all of Fitz’s proposal doubting that Simmons could hear him, though they teased us for a bit with Henstridge’s reaction shots. Thus he got to see her master-slave relationship with Kasius, and she got to see Fitz being eeeevil, but he addressed the Framework stuff in front of her later.
As we’d seen so much of the kid, I presumed he would survive Teragenesis. Well done, Yo-Yo.
We learned Kasius has daddy issues and a big brother – sigh, but of course.
May’s reaction to seeing Fitz would not have happened in season 1. Gulp, I thought she’s more injured than we thought. But she talked the pretty telepath into team work, and it went about as well as it does to all expendable non-regulars. (Meanwhile, an even more battered May has gone planetside.)
Flint coming into his inhuman powers when he did was no surprise, but things kicked up a notch by this point of the episode. First we had Daisy and Jemma hanging (I love that), commiserating, plotting and hugging. Enter Kasius’s big bruv, making Kasius look like something of a runty albino. And then he turned on Sinara at his brother’s suggestion/command, making me almost feel sorry for her, but as Daisy reminded us, she had killed the pretty telepath among other things during her enforcer days. Daisy did not immediately destroy the balls which I would have had I her powers.
Aw, alas, poor Tess.
The rescue feat. team work and gratuitous shooting from Fitz was fun (did Jemma successfully slit Kasius’s throat??? Because that makes five named characters offed in an episode), and Jemma proposing to Fitz amused me because I’d called it, capping a very swoony episode full of longing looks between them. (Of course she prefers him in his cardigans.)
Let’s see how long the whole team takes before being totally reunited. By the end, the ep did live up to the title, although having got rid of several antagonists, the next obstacles for the team had better be good.
Actually, I watched a lot of science fiction if you add watching Arrival on DVD (still wonderous.)
Our hero’s a schlubby ‘manualist’, living in a world five minutes away, where personalised advertising has made everyone consumers who’ve sold all their information for sexy, sexy holograms. Oh, and they live in Meguscan, a meganation, which is about to elect the Candidate (hey, at least this Oceania has a Big Sister), who wants the citizens to kill all others.
Everyone else is chill about this, our Philbert isn’t. The reactions to his reaction to the incitement to violence were disturbing. But he didn’t check the small print before accepting the watch (consenting as heedlessly as if he were clicking a box saying I AGREE or something) or think through that his phone would give away his location. Sadly, the ordinary guy with a conscience is slightly more of an ‘other’ to me. So, although I sympathised as his perception of community was shredded, I felt distanced.
Also, I see what you did there with having the black man talk so lightly about othering, Electric Dreams!
It certainly made all the ads being aired around the show sound very different, especially the one playing on the phrase ‘Yes, we can’ (which always had a different resonance in the UK because of Bob the Builder). But it was a blunderbuss of a warning, not particularly fresh, either, which has been a recurring problem for ED – or maybe I was distanced from the ‘yes us can’ because of the terrible grammar. Still, the production design was amazing and I think Effie Trinkett would have approved of The Candidate’s look.
AoS 5.5 Fun and Games
I noted that Clark Gregg directed this, so I wasn’t expecting much of Coulson.
A bit too much exposition from Enoch, and I shouldn’t wonder how he explained away Fitz’s Scottish accent when he crafted his reputation. I spent all of Fitz’s proposal doubting that Simmons could hear him, though they teased us for a bit with Henstridge’s reaction shots. Thus he got to see her master-slave relationship with Kasius, and she got to see Fitz being eeeevil, but he addressed the Framework stuff in front of her later.
As we’d seen so much of the kid, I presumed he would survive Teragenesis. Well done, Yo-Yo.
We learned Kasius has daddy issues and a big brother – sigh, but of course.
May’s reaction to seeing Fitz would not have happened in season 1. Gulp, I thought she’s more injured than we thought. But she talked the pretty telepath into team work, and it went about as well as it does to all expendable non-regulars. (Meanwhile, an even more battered May has gone planetside.)
Flint coming into his inhuman powers when he did was no surprise, but things kicked up a notch by this point of the episode. First we had Daisy and Jemma hanging (I love that), commiserating, plotting and hugging. Enter Kasius’s big bruv, making Kasius look like something of a runty albino. And then he turned on Sinara at his brother’s suggestion/command, making me almost feel sorry for her, but as Daisy reminded us, she had killed the pretty telepath among other things during her enforcer days. Daisy did not immediately destroy the balls which I would have had I her powers.
Aw, alas, poor Tess.
The rescue feat. team work and gratuitous shooting from Fitz was fun (did Jemma successfully slit Kasius’s throat??? Because that makes five named characters offed in an episode), and Jemma proposing to Fitz amused me because I’d called it, capping a very swoony episode full of longing looks between them. (Of course she prefers him in his cardigans.)
Let’s see how long the whole team takes before being totally reunited. By the end, the ep did live up to the title, although having got rid of several antagonists, the next obstacles for the team had better be good.
Actually, I watched a lot of science fiction if you add watching Arrival on DVD (still wonderous.)
