Into the future and into the past
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shallownessAoS 5.7 Together or Not At All
Turns out I was wrong, Sinara was only knocked out and Kasius got only a nick on the cheek. As he moodily surveyed it, I could think ‘I thought you got your throat slit, mate!’ This makes a little more sense than the salted earth policy towards characters they’d introduced this season that I thought they had going on in the last episode. We got more backstory on the duo, although I still think Sinara should dump her sponsor and be her own boss. The determination not to have them be a couple seemed…determined. Seeing Kasius kill his brother after scrabbling and begging was more like it – and it seems Kasius is a surname. Also, I feel that we haven’t got much info on Kree society, considering how often they’ve popped up on the show/in the MCU.
Still, the team needed to reunite and get away from the Kree. Of course most of Fitz’s previously laid plans went wrong. It felt a little baggy at times. I don’t care enough about newly motivated Flint with his cool powers, although it is nice that someone sees the humans of the day as more than collateral damage. I thought Yo-Yo had more of a bond with him, but no, it was Mack who went to have a pep talk that went differently to how he intended.
I liked that it was the pronunciation of Coulson’s name that made May recognise Enoc, and all the reasons she had for not trusting him made for an amusingly tense encounter. (The humour was hit and miss, sometimes a little tryhard.) I liked also that Coulson was perfectly aware that she was missing. I am pleased that (a much more lucid) Robin is around in the future – it feels nice that they’re using a character that was introduced so long ago.
Timeless 2.1
The War to End All Wars
I don’t recall whether I talked about this, but I saw scattered bits of Timeless’s first season, usually during the break for another show and watched the final episode, then it got cancelled and then it got uncancelled. So, I thought I’d give it a proper chance, because although it is daft, its main character is a girl, Matt Lantner is pretty (as is the show in general), it’s about the complications of time travel and it seems like E4 owns me this spring.
I’m not claiming to have grasped everything because of my tenuous hold on the backstory, but poor Lucy. Now, I thought she could have beaten herself up more for not getting the friend away from the futuristic medical treatment and thus avoiding the invidious choice of killing him or getting killed, but that act and meeting Mama Curie (I’d love it if she or Irene Curie now decided to branch out into researching time travel!) driven mother of two were the plot truncheons for Lucy.
‘Meanwhile’ Wyatt was very intense about getting Lucy back at all costs. Good for Rufus for calling him on it. Massive ‘this is the show’s OTP’ during their reunion, and him going to see if she was all right (after everything she’d been through? No, obviously not) was as close as he was going to get to an admission of his feelings without making it. Djhia (sp?) interrupting their snog to give the shippers something to hold out for.
So, they set up the team in a slightly different configuration, set up their antagonists – made very personal for Lucy, and of course the mystery man was her great-grandfather – and their mission and ended up with Flynn Garcia, which still strikes me as the most ridiculous name, wanting to talk to her. It is actually on at a time when it’ll generally be convenient for me to catch it live.
Turns out I was wrong, Sinara was only knocked out and Kasius got only a nick on the cheek. As he moodily surveyed it, I could think ‘I thought you got your throat slit, mate!’ This makes a little more sense than the salted earth policy towards characters they’d introduced this season that I thought they had going on in the last episode. We got more backstory on the duo, although I still think Sinara should dump her sponsor and be her own boss. The determination not to have them be a couple seemed…determined. Seeing Kasius kill his brother after scrabbling and begging was more like it – and it seems Kasius is a surname. Also, I feel that we haven’t got much info on Kree society, considering how often they’ve popped up on the show/in the MCU.
Still, the team needed to reunite and get away from the Kree. Of course most of Fitz’s previously laid plans went wrong. It felt a little baggy at times. I don’t care enough about newly motivated Flint with his cool powers, although it is nice that someone sees the humans of the day as more than collateral damage. I thought Yo-Yo had more of a bond with him, but no, it was Mack who went to have a pep talk that went differently to how he intended.
I liked that it was the pronunciation of Coulson’s name that made May recognise Enoc, and all the reasons she had for not trusting him made for an amusingly tense encounter. (The humour was hit and miss, sometimes a little tryhard.) I liked also that Coulson was perfectly aware that she was missing. I am pleased that (a much more lucid) Robin is around in the future – it feels nice that they’re using a character that was introduced so long ago.
Timeless 2.1
The War to End All Wars
I don’t recall whether I talked about this, but I saw scattered bits of Timeless’s first season, usually during the break for another show and watched the final episode, then it got cancelled and then it got uncancelled. So, I thought I’d give it a proper chance, because although it is daft, its main character is a girl, Matt Lantner is pretty (as is the show in general), it’s about the complications of time travel and it seems like E4 owns me this spring.
I’m not claiming to have grasped everything because of my tenuous hold on the backstory, but poor Lucy. Now, I thought she could have beaten herself up more for not getting the friend away from the futuristic medical treatment and thus avoiding the invidious choice of killing him or getting killed, but that act and meeting Mama Curie (I’d love it if she or Irene Curie now decided to branch out into researching time travel!) driven mother of two were the plot truncheons for Lucy.
‘Meanwhile’ Wyatt was very intense about getting Lucy back at all costs. Good for Rufus for calling him on it. Massive ‘this is the show’s OTP’ during their reunion, and him going to see if she was all right (after everything she’d been through? No, obviously not) was as close as he was going to get to an admission of his feelings without making it. Djhia (sp?) interrupting their snog to give the shippers something to hold out for.
So, they set up the team in a slightly different configuration, set up their antagonists – made very personal for Lucy, and of course the mystery man was her great-grandfather – and their mission and ended up with Flynn Garcia, which still strikes me as the most ridiculous name, wanting to talk to her. It is actually on at a time when it’ll generally be convenient for me to catch it live.
