Agents of SHIELD 1-05 Girl in the Flower Dress

still :-)
still bored with Skye
still feeling like they can let us in on the others any time now. really, there's whole numbers of minutes. they could show us some reason to care.
... still <3 Coulson but it would take a lot to make that wear off.

I was thinking earlier this week, I'm not sure we know what the stakes are. In general, each week, the SHIELD business stakes, yeah, but specifically why the characters are involved, what they individually have to gain or lose, not so much. I'm still having trouble caring, and I'd quite like to care.

Also this week I've been thinking, I'm going to have to give up on tumblr between tuesday and friday. there is no culture of spoiler cuts, there's not even consistent tagging, and between gifsets and people having what would on other platforms be comment threads out in the open I saw and read about every beat of this story while actively trying to skip SHIELD posts. It's frustrating and wearying and means every first watch feels like a rewatch and I think i've had it with tumblr just on that basis. Why, why has fandom activity moved so heavily to the platform that lends itself to this kind of mass fail? *giant shrug*

But, this week:
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I'll happily watch again next week.
but while I remain a Coulson fan I'm not actually a fan of this show yet.