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Agents of SHIELD FTW
Nov. 30th, 2014 11:18 pmSKYE PRETENDING TO BE MELINDA MAY TO GIVE HERSELF CONFIDENCE IN HER OWN BADASSERY, YES, I DID NOT KNOW I WANTED THIS IN MY LIFE.
Also a big fan of Lady Sif showing up. More Asgard is always fun! (I may eat these words if Loki shows up. I am assuming that the cost of getting Tom Hiddleston on the show will protect us. But anyone else from Asgard.)
I also really liked the episode with the train, partly because the structure is so neat - the show kept looping back to show it from a different characters' point of view until we finally get the whole story, and they do it so well that it never gets dull - but also because I love Simmons putting together her cover story, which involves a tearful breakdown where she accuses Coulson (who is playing her father) "YOU NEVER HAD TIME FOR MOM, BUT YOU ALWAYS HAD PLENTY OF TIME FOR YOUR PROSTITUTES!"
Coulson: "Prostitutes? Plural?"
I have always liked Simmons, but this is the scene where I fell in love with her, because it's at once totally unexpected that she would make a scene in public as part of getting into her role for this op...and yet it seems totally in character once she does it. It's of a piece with her admiration for Skye's "bad-girl shenanigans." Simmons contains multitudes!
Speaking of totally unexpected and yet totally in-character, I also really liked the ending of "End of the Beginning." Until now, Agent May has always been in control (even when she looks like she might not be), and that makes it ten times more affecting Coulson yells at her what did you do?, because their plane is turning around and going God knows where, and she says she doesn't know - and for the first time, she isn't in control, and there's a little tremble in her voice.
I haven't gone on to the next episode yet, because I decided I needed to emotionally prepare myself a bit before it turns out that everything we thought was true was a lie, a lie (I mean, I've been spoiled for pretty much all of it, but still).
I'm also pleasantly surprised that this heel-turn comes as early in the season as it does. I vaguely expected it to be the game-changing season finale (that being how television generally works), but instead we still have half a dozen episodes in which shit can go down.
I may need to get an Agents of SHIELD icon.
Also a big fan of Lady Sif showing up. More Asgard is always fun! (I may eat these words if Loki shows up. I am assuming that the cost of getting Tom Hiddleston on the show will protect us. But anyone else from Asgard.)
I also really liked the episode with the train, partly because the structure is so neat - the show kept looping back to show it from a different characters' point of view until we finally get the whole story, and they do it so well that it never gets dull - but also because I love Simmons putting together her cover story, which involves a tearful breakdown where she accuses Coulson (who is playing her father) "YOU NEVER HAD TIME FOR MOM, BUT YOU ALWAYS HAD PLENTY OF TIME FOR YOUR PROSTITUTES!"
Coulson: "Prostitutes? Plural?"
I have always liked Simmons, but this is the scene where I fell in love with her, because it's at once totally unexpected that she would make a scene in public as part of getting into her role for this op...and yet it seems totally in character once she does it. It's of a piece with her admiration for Skye's "bad-girl shenanigans." Simmons contains multitudes!
Speaking of totally unexpected and yet totally in-character, I also really liked the ending of "End of the Beginning." Until now, Agent May has always been in control (even when she looks like she might not be), and that makes it ten times more affecting Coulson yells at her what did you do?, because their plane is turning around and going God knows where, and she says she doesn't know - and for the first time, she isn't in control, and there's a little tremble in her voice.
I haven't gone on to the next episode yet, because I decided I needed to emotionally prepare myself a bit before it turns out that everything we thought was true was a lie, a lie (I mean, I've been spoiled for pretty much all of it, but still).
I'm also pleasantly surprised that this heel-turn comes as early in the season as it does. I vaguely expected it to be the game-changing season finale (that being how television generally works), but instead we still have half a dozen episodes in which shit can go down.
I may need to get an Agents of SHIELD icon.
