Agents of SHIELD 1-01 Pilot

<3 :-)

... I pretty much just have a :-) about it right now, not so much other things to say.

I want to see where they're going with this. Which is kind of a relief. I <3 Coulson so I fear him having more canon cause I like our version already. But he's calm and friendly and interesting and reckons sometimes we need a little old fashioned. And people react to him like he's big government, but he does his best to make that not suck. Still our guy. And now there's the big mystery. That could be fun.



Other reaction to this episode was deja vu. With all the promotional clips in advance I felt I kind of lurched between 'oooh, that was cool in the ads!' moments, which makes the pacing feel bumpy. Add to that the tumblr habit of neither spoiler cut nor spoiler tagging things, and I felt I'd kind of seen the highlights in advance. That's not going to work. The next episode I'll have seen much less, but I don't know how I'm going to manage the Tuesday to Friday delay without abandoning tumblr for half the week. Really, it's cool in the gifs, but it would have been cooler in its proper place.


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Coulson is funny. Sometimes in that awkward way first seen around Captain America. I like it.

I still like Coulson. I'm currently watching to see how things turn out for him, but the others have some interesting hooks built in and I expect I'll get more invested as we go along as intended.


So, basically, :-)

*waits for next week*

Arrow season 1 up to ep 10

I think I <3 it.
It's actually trying for moral complexity and calling Oliver out every time he's actually being several kinds of wrong! ... and, okay, the 'yaay I can kill again' episode was sort of offputting, but mostly it's calling into question the whole vigilante thing and getting stuck in to exactly when and why he might possibly be needed, and the ways he's actually screwing things up and making them harder, instead of just being all 'now he's a vigilante! They Fight Crime!'

It's all about families and revenge and being so absolutely sure you're right you are willing to kill and die for it. Lots of different angles on that. Including a 'you're a dumbass' angle.

And the women are turning out interesting. Moira has a story that goes beyond a one word relationship title, Thea... tells people off a lot, Felicity is a little awesome (though I feel I've seen her on a lot of other shows before), Laurel follows through on her principles and does it with several different kinds of strength, and then there's ( Read more... )

I am epic bored with stuff on the island. Epic. I care not. I can think of a few things I might like to know from then, but nothing at the moment I want to find out in the form of another stupid hair flashback. And I'm a Highlander fan. Stupid hair flashbacks are a perfectly valid storytelling tool. But you have to use them to tell a part of the story that you can't tell another way. This one seems to be using it as a sort of emoticon? Like, he's stoic guy now, so if he's having a feelings they have to have a flashback to tell you what feelings. But I'm still bored.


I also miss the costumes. I know superhero costumes are difficult to do, and what we've seen works as the kind of very dramatic street clothes translation, but... shiny? Where shiny?

The costumes are for mythmaking, for building symbol sets around. I miss them when they go all ordinary.


On the other hand I approve of Oliver's aversion to shirts. I'm plenty shallow enough to think that brightens the scene up nicely. Also, all the training sequences, yaays.
(again reminding me of Highlander)
(I guess my tastes remain consistent)




I like TV box sets and not having to wait a week for the next one, but I also miss thinking things over for a week between stories. I've watched a bunch of things lately that just didn't make enough of a splash to leave me wondering for a week. I'd quite like to watch Arrow with some waiting built in. But as far as I can find I'd need more channels of TV.




I'm keeping my comics comparisons under control, but it is bothering me a bit that everything is an origin story. I mean, when I started reading comics, it was decades into the story, and it never bothered me. But once it's on TV it's all beginnings all the time, and you don't get the multi generational perspective any more. But taken on its own terms, I think I'm liking this version.