Weekend TV and writing
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shallownessAgents of SHIELD 5.16 Honeymoon
I sat down to watch Agents of SHIELD begrudgingly Sunday night. ‘I am not watching Poldark for this and Gotham has been way more entertaining of late’ begrudgingly. But it was quite enjoyable.
The reason why is that we had encounters and declarations that we’ve long needed, the mix of the characters who shared scenes and the ones who weren’t meeting worked better. There is a definite feel of a show that’s afraid it’s going to get cancelled about it (I should check its status), but that was much better.
My favourite bit was May pulling Coulson apart to have A Talk about him running off and accepting his demise, telling him the truth about Daisy as leader (so true about her unreadiness and emotions not helping her) and May’s own feelings about him. Yes, she told him. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for them to have more than one and a half scene per episode, but we’ll see what Phil does after processing.
Of course, this confirmed what we’d all have thought about Yo-Yo’s claim that they needed to let Coulson die. I mean, Fitzsimmons seem to be feeling a bit of doubt on the invincible front after what they’ve been through, and would be a tough sell on it normally, but Daisy and May??? Pfft, they weren’t going to roll over and accept that plan. (I still think Deke may be the pivot for changing the timeline, but Coulson is the hero when it isn’t Fitz.)
As for the invincible three !?!?, I had spent their little mission snarking that Yo-Yo had forgotten her original superpower in the excitement of robot arms, so I’ll give them kudos for the robot arms not being able to cope with her superspeed. (Mack was right, love, you weren’t ready.)
As any Celt will know, Fitz must really, really love Simmons to accept going to England for their honeymoon and to be happy saving England. Otherwise that line was darling, as was him calling her Better Half after putting his foot in it. I rather like them both having decided they’re not being parted after everything they’ve been through. However, they are each other’s weakness (as per Ruby and Hale) as we saw at the end.
That’s about all I have to say about Ruby and Hale and their twisted mother-daughter bond. Hale set stuff in motion, Ruby probably doesn’t know everything about it and I don’t care enough about them, Van Strucker junior and Ivanov. Or Creel if he survived.
Drugged-up Deke is the funniest iteration of Deke, as he admitted what we all assumed about his feelings about Daisy, and though he exasperates her mightily, does that feel the same? I don’t think she treats him seriously, though he had a fair point about her both treating his as an agent when it comes to being her subordinate but not giving him the respect she’d give a proper agent. Granted, he was just looking for loopholes because he wants to save her life, and he’s so untrained. Didn’t she have some of these issues with Linc?
It was good to see Daisy face off against Ruby - pre-Ruby getting powered up, presumably - because Daisy handed it to her.
Also notable, Fitzsimmons having a slo-mo Battle Couple moment until her gun jammed. With things like that and all the callbacks, do you see what I mean about a wrapping-things-up sense?
I found the rank amateurs operating on Deke borderline difficult to watch as it hit my squicks. And as I think that the invincibly three are being misguided (oh look how it all went pear shaped and we don’t actually know what happened to Yo-Yo) the fact that Jemma wasn’t around to save her own grandson was effectively hovering over that.
Was not surprised by Talbot’s phone call leading to trouble. They deployed him reasonably, reacting to everything (why didn’t Coulson spell out who the aliens were?) and inasmuch as I care about his family (not much – I’d have exchanged him and Daisy discussing Daisy’s daddy issues for a Philinda scene in a heartbeat) it’s going to hurt that his wife turned him. If he survives. So, he’s brainwashed and we’ve got a threat within the Lighthouse. Again.
On Saturday, I posted two ficlets: Nowhere Else To Turn. Gotham. PG. Selina Kyle, (Selina/Bruce). Double drabble. Expanding on a moment in 4.10 ‘Things That Go Boom’.
Cherimoya. Harry Potter. Teen. Neville + ? (see Notes at the bottom). 500 words. Summary: Neville's trust is rewarded. Written for the prompt: ‘Any, any/any, blindfold.’ at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
comment_fic.
The idea for ‘Nowhere Else to Turn’ came whilst I watched the episode and I wrote the first draft along with my post about the episode. I was determined for it to be a double drabble, so I redrafted it a lot.
I think that influenced how quickly I wrote and posted ‘Cherimoya’. I got the idea when I saw the prompt, wrote the first draft the morning after, which was over 400 words, the second over 500 – it needed to be a drabble or a drabble multiple so I sanded it down, as it were, the same morning.
Those were not the fics I expected to be posting next.
I sat down to watch Agents of SHIELD begrudgingly Sunday night. ‘I am not watching Poldark for this and Gotham has been way more entertaining of late’ begrudgingly. But it was quite enjoyable.
The reason why is that we had encounters and declarations that we’ve long needed, the mix of the characters who shared scenes and the ones who weren’t meeting worked better. There is a definite feel of a show that’s afraid it’s going to get cancelled about it (I should check its status), but that was much better.
My favourite bit was May pulling Coulson apart to have A Talk about him running off and accepting his demise, telling him the truth about Daisy as leader (so true about her unreadiness and emotions not helping her) and May’s own feelings about him. Yes, she told him. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for them to have more than one and a half scene per episode, but we’ll see what Phil does after processing.
Of course, this confirmed what we’d all have thought about Yo-Yo’s claim that they needed to let Coulson die. I mean, Fitzsimmons seem to be feeling a bit of doubt on the invincible front after what they’ve been through, and would be a tough sell on it normally, but Daisy and May??? Pfft, they weren’t going to roll over and accept that plan. (I still think Deke may be the pivot for changing the timeline, but Coulson is the hero when it isn’t Fitz.)
As for the invincible three !?!?, I had spent their little mission snarking that Yo-Yo had forgotten her original superpower in the excitement of robot arms, so I’ll give them kudos for the robot arms not being able to cope with her superspeed. (Mack was right, love, you weren’t ready.)
As any Celt will know, Fitz must really, really love Simmons to accept going to England for their honeymoon and to be happy saving England. Otherwise that line was darling, as was him calling her Better Half after putting his foot in it. I rather like them both having decided they’re not being parted after everything they’ve been through. However, they are each other’s weakness (as per Ruby and Hale) as we saw at the end.
That’s about all I have to say about Ruby and Hale and their twisted mother-daughter bond. Hale set stuff in motion, Ruby probably doesn’t know everything about it and I don’t care enough about them, Van Strucker junior and Ivanov. Or Creel if he survived.
Drugged-up Deke is the funniest iteration of Deke, as he admitted what we all assumed about his feelings about Daisy, and though he exasperates her mightily, does that feel the same? I don’t think she treats him seriously, though he had a fair point about her both treating his as an agent when it comes to being her subordinate but not giving him the respect she’d give a proper agent. Granted, he was just looking for loopholes because he wants to save her life, and he’s so untrained. Didn’t she have some of these issues with Linc?
It was good to see Daisy face off against Ruby - pre-Ruby getting powered up, presumably - because Daisy handed it to her.
Also notable, Fitzsimmons having a slo-mo Battle Couple moment until her gun jammed. With things like that and all the callbacks, do you see what I mean about a wrapping-things-up sense?
I found the rank amateurs operating on Deke borderline difficult to watch as it hit my squicks. And as I think that the invincibly three are being misguided (oh look how it all went pear shaped and we don’t actually know what happened to Yo-Yo) the fact that Jemma wasn’t around to save her own grandson was effectively hovering over that.
Was not surprised by Talbot’s phone call leading to trouble. They deployed him reasonably, reacting to everything (why didn’t Coulson spell out who the aliens were?) and inasmuch as I care about his family (not much – I’d have exchanged him and Daisy discussing Daisy’s daddy issues for a Philinda scene in a heartbeat) it’s going to hurt that his wife turned him. If he survives. So, he’s brainwashed and we’ve got a threat within the Lighthouse. Again.
On Saturday, I posted two ficlets: Nowhere Else To Turn. Gotham. PG. Selina Kyle, (Selina/Bruce). Double drabble. Expanding on a moment in 4.10 ‘Things That Go Boom’.
Cherimoya. Harry Potter. Teen. Neville + ? (see Notes at the bottom). 500 words. Summary: Neville's trust is rewarded. Written for the prompt: ‘Any, any/any, blindfold.’ at
comment_fic. The idea for ‘Nowhere Else to Turn’ came whilst I watched the episode and I wrote the first draft along with my post about the episode. I was determined for it to be a double drabble, so I redrafted it a lot.
I think that influenced how quickly I wrote and posted ‘Cherimoya’. I got the idea when I saw the prompt, wrote the first draft the morning after, which was over 400 words, the second over 500 – it needed to be a drabble or a drabble multiple so I sanded it down, as it were, the same morning.
Those were not the fics I expected to be posting next.
