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shallowness6.1 Missing Pieces
We learned Fitz wasn’t just napping safely. Of course. Hard not to snark about where all this fit in with the whole Snap thing and that we’d only jumped a year forward. Best not to think about it, yeah?
The show’s still going to space, where Quake has quite the reputation (and, like Simmons, new season hair). Redshirty agents abounded, some old, some new, although the one flying with May was hot (AKA Keller. Good taste, Yo-Yo. Not that I blame Mack for shying away from her after she went psycho on Ruby).
A chatty May was dropping ‘enigmatic’ comments that made me think there might be more than hologram sightings of Coulson, even allowing for the fact that Clark Gregg was directing this episode.
Every time they mentioned ‘timelines…’, though, I snorted. And this must be SHIELD’s fourth chance or so.
Enter a new boffin, although this show’s take on deep space isn’t THAT exciting.
Simmons went a bit angsty vamp, sleeping in Fitz’scoffinunit, instead of scanning it. The rest of the team were so excited about returning to Earth to regroup that they never saw her determination to find Fitz, whatever it took, coming. Even Daisy!?
We gradually learned a little bit more about this season’s potential baddies.
The scene from the explosion on was fairly effective. A little predictable from not!Fitzsimmons Fox getting killed on, but enter badass Alterna!Coulson, possibly ruining my half-baked Coulson’s-still-alive theory.
So far, this does not look like it’s going to reach season 4 robots and VR heights.
I realised that all the couples were not together either because of death (their own or someone else’s) or because they were in different parts of the universe.
6.2 – Watched live, which is always better for the action. This was all very macho from Alt!Coulson and his crew, with their slo-mo and their rock music. (The Girl, aka Snowflake, is somewhat Drusillaesque).
And then we followed Fitz (still speaking alien with such a Scottish accent.) As the engineer talked about him coming from the irradiated wastelands of the far north, I can’t have been the only one to go, ‘Scotland’s not that bad!’) Bizarrely, a Cockney Geezer (the tough variety) turned out to be the Controller, but still an alien. Fitz tried negotiating himself out of trouble, ended up being willing to do a heroic sacrifice that shifted Enoch out of an anthropologist mode, and tragically, but typically, left the neighbourhood just as Simmons was arriving.
The New Boffin lampshaded most of the show’s daft past (as regarded Coulson).
With literal repetitions – Sarge seems to have only one speech to victims, ditto Snowflake, no wonder Pax is irritated – and echoes, the script was a bit dull.
Fortunately, there was May. My only quibble is that she should have taken someone with her when she returned to the shippin container place. But angry May fighting three toughies? And winning? <3
At first, I thought they were travelling through parallel universes, because they all look human (and some sound Australian), but it seems like perhaps not and it’s something SHIELD did come to bite them back. Don’t know how it will work long term to keep Clark Gregg on the show.
I am already tired of Mack’s inspiring leader ‘speeches.’
We learned Fitz wasn’t just napping safely. Of course. Hard not to snark about where all this fit in with the whole Snap thing and that we’d only jumped a year forward. Best not to think about it, yeah?
The show’s still going to space, where Quake has quite the reputation (and, like Simmons, new season hair). Redshirty agents abounded, some old, some new, although the one flying with May was hot (AKA Keller. Good taste, Yo-Yo. Not that I blame Mack for shying away from her after she went psycho on Ruby).
A chatty May was dropping ‘enigmatic’ comments that made me think there might be more than hologram sightings of Coulson, even allowing for the fact that Clark Gregg was directing this episode.
Every time they mentioned ‘timelines…’, though, I snorted. And this must be SHIELD’s fourth chance or so.
Enter a new boffin, although this show’s take on deep space isn’t THAT exciting.
Simmons went a bit angsty vamp, sleeping in Fitz’s
We gradually learned a little bit more about this season’s potential baddies.
The scene from the explosion on was fairly effective. A little predictable from not!Fitzsimmons Fox getting killed on, but enter badass Alterna!Coulson, possibly ruining my half-baked Coulson’s-still-alive theory.
So far, this does not look like it’s going to reach season 4 robots and VR heights.
I realised that all the couples were not together either because of death (their own or someone else’s) or because they were in different parts of the universe.
6.2 – Watched live, which is always better for the action. This was all very macho from Alt!Coulson and his crew, with their slo-mo and their rock music. (The Girl, aka Snowflake, is somewhat Drusillaesque).
And then we followed Fitz (still speaking alien with such a Scottish accent.) As the engineer talked about him coming from the irradiated wastelands of the far north, I can’t have been the only one to go, ‘Scotland’s not that bad!’) Bizarrely, a Cockney Geezer (the tough variety) turned out to be the Controller, but still an alien. Fitz tried negotiating himself out of trouble, ended up being willing to do a heroic sacrifice that shifted Enoch out of an anthropologist mode, and tragically, but typically, left the neighbourhood just as Simmons was arriving.
The New Boffin lampshaded most of the show’s daft past (as regarded Coulson).
With literal repetitions – Sarge seems to have only one speech to victims, ditto Snowflake, no wonder Pax is irritated – and echoes, the script was a bit dull.
Fortunately, there was May. My only quibble is that she should have taken someone with her when she returned to the shippin container place. But angry May fighting three toughies? And winning? <3
At first, I thought they were travelling through parallel universes, because they all look human (and some sound Australian), but it seems like perhaps not and it’s something SHIELD did come to bite them back. Don’t know how it will work long term to keep Clark Gregg on the show.
I am already tired of Mack’s inspiring leader ‘speeches.’
