It's wild how all over the map the fan reactions are.
I've really been enjoying the show. But having just finished Breaking Bad, and switching over to The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, and looking forward to Hannibal's return - i have to admit the show is incredibly cheap and silly. in comparison. to those best of show dogs. eh. which is unfair. i get that.
Bob's retelling skipped my favorite moment in the episode : when the evil scientists say "oh (no) you gave him a name?"
Maybe it's because I've watched the walking dead episodes a few times each so far this season, but the notion that you shouldn't name the animals because you don't want to get too connected to them - made me laugh out loud. These scientist ladies are SO EVIL!
... but maybe I was reading too much into that line?
Still, it made it funnier when Coulson used the same line later. because callbacks are easy funny. (though when he says it, Coulson is basically saying "oh shit, now HE thinks he's one of these super heroes. !#^@").
* I loved the various plot twists. Especially how Ward goes out on a limb to vouch for Skye RIGHT before she fucks up and exposes how untrustworthy she is. drama!
* This episode reminded me a lot of that early Dollhouse episode "Man on the street" where they stopped fucking around got back to the core plot. which appears to be an evil organization hellbent on making unstable people into false heroes. It was nice to see another nice guy getting lost in the power trip. (which arguably was also the hacker guy's problem).
* I was really peeved at the way the sexy hacker guy hacked the buildings cooling system by making gestures at a floating hologram. Was also peeved that they took the time to say Scorch's blood platelettes were fire proof. If they just took his blood platelets, it implies they took out his blood and put it back? why not just say his blood is fire proof? why not have his dilemma at the end be : he's almost completely drained of blood?!?! this would read much more clearly. instead they introduced this blood platelette angle that makes no scientific sense. ALl of their scifi (and hacking) so far has been in this weird half retarded place. Wish they'd either back off or go deep.
* Also, I'd totally disagree about the idea that Coulson is fun because he isn't cool. he's cool incarnate! WTF!?!?!
That's why it was funny that he revealed a dorky card collection in the Avengers. He wears expensive suits and never loses his cool in all his appearances until then. Even when he lay dying, he calmly kept his cool and make a snarky observation. I think we'll see him continuing to express his ridiculously high cool factor as the show goes on. sorry. bring on the sexy ladies.
* that said, this summary also skipped over maybe the worst moment on the show so far. When coulson stiffly hobbled out and emptied his tranq gun into the fire like an idiot. I thought was bizarrely aweful. The first shot failed, so he continued to unload? making him the worst field agent ever? It was so bad it almost made Coulson seem.... uncool. OMG! Maybe i do have it all wrong.
