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shallownessAoS 5.20 The Force of Gravity
I see your Obama and your Dirty Dancing references, show. I think it would have been impossible not to see the X-Men references with Gravitonium!Talbot, both with the basically copying Magneto and the visits to suburbia. Mack and Yo-Yo raced after him with no plan, and I thought, ‘hmm, if she wasn’t busy with Other Stuff, Scarlet Witch could bring him down’ as her telekinetic abilities matched his and she could probably do something with his mind (don’t want to know what’s going on there.)
I’m iffy on the way they’re acknowledging what’s going on in IW, because that’s a lot of alien ships in the atmosphere – or it was, heh. Talbot keeps saying he’s going to save the world, but keeps paying visits elsewhere. Gobbling up Creel underlined how evil he’s got, ditto seeing his son and not noticing that attacking George’s mother MIGHT traumatise him and undermine Talbot’s claims to be the hero. And fine, I get that he wants all the gravitonium to get even more power and…beat Thanos (except he won’t) or whatever. Anyway, it all led to the dilemma for the team.
It was quite a fun journey there, especially above the Earth’s atmosphere. Down below, it was furrowed faces as Fitzsimmons pondered dodgy ways of saving Coulson’s life and maybe having to kill Talbot now. Mack talked about forgiveness, and gave Yo-Yo hope (don’t know if she picked up on redeemable Creel and why what she did to Ruby was wrong). I noticed that Fitzsimmons absolutely did not tell Mack about Jaying’s DNA. Fitz floated another ‘break the timeloop’ theory – this time we DO save Coulson. Hmm.
Up above, I was most worried about Daisy, especially when it seemed she was in Kasius’s clutches but needn’t have been. (The actor playing Pa Kasius is bothering me because I feel like I should know who he is.) Her breaking out of the induced state herself was very cool (if not that plausible).
Meanwhile, Coulson and May were in a prison cell and I wanted them to talk. Not about Talbot, although that was a good conversation, which re-emphasised who they were. Deke rescuing them just as they were about to break out themselves was fun. In fact, he showed good instincts – well, he is Fitzsimmons’s grandson so fine, he makes brilliant guesses. May was happily responsible for a lot of the violence warned for, and the plan of turning the weapons on the ship and transporting off was exceptionally cool.
Also cool? May ordering Coulson and it turning him on enough for the full-blown cinematic kiss we’ve all been waiting for. The whole SHIELD imagery was both cool and in the way of the kiss, so I’m glad we got the reverse angle. It was a good kiss, and the other two’s goggling response was excellent.
Coulson and May still hadn’t talked, exactly, but I should have expected his condition to deteriorate after all that.
And we ended with Talbot having decided he hadn’t terrorised enough mothers and children this episode. Poor Polly. (The subject line refers to him, BTW.)
I see your Obama and your Dirty Dancing references, show. I think it would have been impossible not to see the X-Men references with Gravitonium!Talbot, both with the basically copying Magneto and the visits to suburbia. Mack and Yo-Yo raced after him with no plan, and I thought, ‘hmm, if she wasn’t busy with Other Stuff, Scarlet Witch could bring him down’ as her telekinetic abilities matched his and she could probably do something with his mind (don’t want to know what’s going on there.)
I’m iffy on the way they’re acknowledging what’s going on in IW, because that’s a lot of alien ships in the atmosphere – or it was, heh. Talbot keeps saying he’s going to save the world, but keeps paying visits elsewhere. Gobbling up Creel underlined how evil he’s got, ditto seeing his son and not noticing that attacking George’s mother MIGHT traumatise him and undermine Talbot’s claims to be the hero. And fine, I get that he wants all the gravitonium to get even more power and…beat Thanos (except he won’t) or whatever. Anyway, it all led to the dilemma for the team.
It was quite a fun journey there, especially above the Earth’s atmosphere. Down below, it was furrowed faces as Fitzsimmons pondered dodgy ways of saving Coulson’s life and maybe having to kill Talbot now. Mack talked about forgiveness, and gave Yo-Yo hope (don’t know if she picked up on redeemable Creel and why what she did to Ruby was wrong). I noticed that Fitzsimmons absolutely did not tell Mack about Jaying’s DNA. Fitz floated another ‘break the timeloop’ theory – this time we DO save Coulson. Hmm.
Up above, I was most worried about Daisy, especially when it seemed she was in Kasius’s clutches but needn’t have been. (The actor playing Pa Kasius is bothering me because I feel like I should know who he is.) Her breaking out of the induced state herself was very cool (if not that plausible).
Meanwhile, Coulson and May were in a prison cell and I wanted them to talk. Not about Talbot, although that was a good conversation, which re-emphasised who they were. Deke rescuing them just as they were about to break out themselves was fun. In fact, he showed good instincts – well, he is Fitzsimmons’s grandson so fine, he makes brilliant guesses. May was happily responsible for a lot of the violence warned for, and the plan of turning the weapons on the ship and transporting off was exceptionally cool.
Also cool? May ordering Coulson and it turning him on enough for the full-blown cinematic kiss we’ve all been waiting for. The whole SHIELD imagery was both cool and in the way of the kiss, so I’m glad we got the reverse angle. It was a good kiss, and the other two’s goggling response was excellent.
Coulson and May still hadn’t talked, exactly, but I should have expected his condition to deteriorate after all that.
And we ended with Talbot having decided he hadn’t terrorised enough mothers and children this episode. Poor Polly. (The subject line refers to him, BTW.)
