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Agents of Shield
Is anyone else still watching this show? Spoilers, naturally.
I am mainly watching with a RL friend, in real-time, which never happens with other television for me these days. It's probably the only reason I'm still watching (the mocking gets us through the really awful bits), but it means sometimes I'm not paying as much attention as I would be if I were watching alone, or watching on a format I could play back. So, for those of you who are: how do you think we are supposed to interpret what the hell was happening to Coulson: were they downloading his brain with that device? Just stimulating it? That "thing" he became--do you think that was metaphorical or actual? I'm still trying to figure out if he's supposed to be an LMD or something else.
Other than that, as usual I found the episode entirely formulaic and predictable, down to most of the dialogue. Bleh. I like the characters enough by now to put up with it--Skye impersonating May was actually pretty cute--but even though I know Joss isn't involved in the day-to-day running of things, I am continuously disappointed at how BAD the writing is on this. Like, May's "betrayal" of Skye was so damned telegraphed, as was Ward's torturing the suspect, and pretty much everything else. Um, I guess I'm glad J. August Richards' character isn't dead? And it was nice to see the return of Dr. Shepherd Book? And while everything she did was entirely predictable, I like Agent Hand and was glad to see her return (since somebody on this show ought to act like an actual SHIELD agent sometime, if only as a foil for all the nonconformity of Coulson's crew--otherwise they're not the nonconformists the show so clearly wants them to be).
I am mainly watching with a RL friend, in real-time, which never happens with other television for me these days. It's probably the only reason I'm still watching (the mocking gets us through the really awful bits), but it means sometimes I'm not paying as much attention as I would be if I were watching alone, or watching on a format I could play back. So, for those of you who are: how do you think we are supposed to interpret what the hell was happening to Coulson: were they downloading his brain with that device? Just stimulating it? That "thing" he became--do you think that was metaphorical or actual? I'm still trying to figure out if he's supposed to be an LMD or something else.
Other than that, as usual I found the episode entirely formulaic and predictable, down to most of the dialogue. Bleh. I like the characters enough by now to put up with it--Skye impersonating May was actually pretty cute--but even though I know Joss isn't involved in the day-to-day running of things, I am continuously disappointed at how BAD the writing is on this. Like, May's "betrayal" of Skye was so damned telegraphed, as was Ward's torturing the suspect, and pretty much everything else. Um, I guess I'm glad J. August Richards' character isn't dead? And it was nice to see the return of Dr. Shepherd Book? And while everything she did was entirely predictable, I like Agent Hand and was glad to see her return (since somebody on this show ought to act like an actual SHIELD agent sometime, if only as a foil for all the nonconformity of Coulson's crew--otherwise they're not the nonconformists the show so clearly wants them to be).
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They could have been downloading his brain or that was the memories being implanted/changed. It was really unclear. I kept waiting to see some piece of Chitauri tech to be grafted onto him, since he became some kind of "thing".
And then he doesn't even ask Book the pertinent questions! How long he was dead isn't as important as how and why they brought him back (though given that it seemed like a significant amount of time, how did they keep the body from decomposing/restart the brain etc.?). I feel like that was a sad lack of payoff.
I was glad Mike Peterson isn't dead, though.
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The Chitauri angle is one I hadn't thought about, and it makes a lot of sense considering that the episode started with them catching the black market Chitauri salesman. And yeah, I agree with you about Coulson not asking the right questions (though that seems just like a stupid plot contrivance to stretch the mystery out further).
The fact that Mike Peterson is still alive--and that he's clearly the new Akela Amador--gives me some hope that they're going somewhere interesting with the future plotline. Or that they could go somewhere interesting, anyway, if they got some writers who could write.