Agents of SHIELD 1-06 : FZZT
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beccaelizabeth<3 Agents of SHIELD
:-D
see, that was the show I was hoping for.
how to make us care about all these characters: show they care about each other.
Also, <3 Phil Coulson <3 <3
Also, hugs for everyone. All of them. Their week was hard, and not in the morally ambiguous way that usually happens.
... you know, even though I spent half an hour thinking before I sat down to write, I mostly have feels and not thinks about this one.
Especially <3 Phil Coulson. I mean, he's kind of a propaganda project, because if you're going to give ultimate powers of sneaky ignore the law to anyone then of course you'd want it to be a fuzzy and caring anyone, but <3 anyway.
Also, if it turns out he was just dead, this arc of his works perfect. If it turns out to be something sneakier, it still works perfect, because all the feels along the way. And it works as an aging metaphor anyway, like, he's turning 50 now and he's all 'for your age? you say that to old people!' and in total denial of the whole age is relevant to super agents thing, and that works for a wider slice of audience than the whole back from the dead bit. Mid life crisis - you're doing it right.
... I pretty much just want to hug Phil. That's my main reaction. All the hugs. For he is a nice guy, and all this happened to him.
SHIELD are not nice though. So, like, the major themes I spotted in fanfic of a Clint/Coulson kind, the fic writers want Phil to be the good middle management. That's the guy that's the leader of the local team, but insulates them from the red tape, uncaring rules, and bugfuck seniors. He's the boss you want between you and Nick Fury, lying liar who lies. So that's what he's being within Agents of SHIELD, the nice guy boss that makes you feel warm and fuzzy about Our Team even when the organisation they belong to are the sort of people who will order you thrown out of the plane.
... it is logical to throw her out of the plane. It's just not nice.
I like the way that whole plot went. She's ill because unique method of infection, not incompetence. Phil notices and just quietly walks out and says sorry and seals her in. Fitz is all sod quarantine my brain twin needs me. And then when it seems like they're out of time and she's about to blow up the plane (and seriously, you don't tend to get situations where someone's about to accidentally blow up the plane, these are not the choices we're likely to face, and also if they're trying to avoid pandemic infection of an alien virus that travels by zap they should probably not drop it in the ocean? I mean, big water, big zap, yesno? but, not the point, superhero science is different, she is about to accidentally blow up the plane) and nobody grabs and pushes her, which would be total suck and leave us unable to like whoever it was however logical it was, she is just Very Brave. Except, if the rat was only unconscious, possibly she could have noticed that? I mean, she has all that shiny lab stuff, why is she just using her eyes? Because: upset and ill, is perfectly good reason. And then Fitz was going to be brave but then Ward finally found something he could do that was helpful. Hero! Character arcs! Everyone has a yaays!
Everyone has something to do and the only one who doesn't have it close tied to character is Skye, who has been the center of the universe thus far so it's not her turn.
I feel like we just met the team. Like, here they are, as people. So like I said, this is what I been waiting for, this is where I actually like these people instead of just wanting to.
I also like that Coulson yelled at them after for being brave dumbasses. Like he said, that was not her call. If she'd waited a minute there would be less drama. That's quite a reasonable thing to have yelling about. It seemed the proper amount of yelling, too.
Fitz said he was with Simmons through 'the academy, psy-ops' ... psy-ops? *looks at that sideways* I suspect 'sci-ops' is the less interesting version, but I'm reading these episodes, so that's what it said.
Melinda May still didn't get much, but she got stuff nobody else could say and have it seem the same way. I really hope her episode is soon though, because she's still the quietest.
Phil's scar... *hugs him a lot*
... she tells him take his shirt off / unbutton it, and he does it. says a lot right there.
... I have tendency to think scars are pretty, because survived and still here. But Phil does not think that one is pretty yet. :-(
But MM saying that there's only forward and not back to like it was before is good smart. Not easy though.
Despite having read almost all the C/C on Ao3, I could a bit ship Coulson/May. But only a bit, because tis a bit tidy. I'd rather someone else who was not the only het similar age bracket person in the story. But friendship them? Yaays. He can't always be being the boss, has to be a people too.
Is often a people. The bit just sitting down and telling the fireman it's not so bad? Not safe, very human.
... if he wasn't strictly speaking dead, if he's an LMD, that's going to undercut his whole worldview. I mean, if he's willing to reassure others death isn't so bad because he's been there, and then he finds out he has not in fact been there, he's going to feel much bad about it.
Having his own people run tests makes it less likely he's robot? But the x ray specs lady saw something interesting. Also, his own people might be in on it. You never know. Also, robots could be cylons, it's superhero science.
we don't know but I'm both happy to see them tell it at their own pace and caring more how it'll hit Phil when he finds out. Whatever it is he isn't supposed to know, it's going to hurt. And this is not a guy we want to see hurt.
Unfortunately for him, he is on TV show. Fortunately for us, it has a whole season.
I really hope future episodes are more like this one. If this one is the high point then I'll merely like the show, but if they keep on like this I'll love it like I wanted to.
:-D
see, that was the show I was hoping for.
how to make us care about all these characters: show they care about each other.
Also, <3 Phil Coulson <3 <3
Also, hugs for everyone. All of them. Their week was hard, and not in the morally ambiguous way that usually happens.
... you know, even though I spent half an hour thinking before I sat down to write, I mostly have feels and not thinks about this one.
Especially <3 Phil Coulson. I mean, he's kind of a propaganda project, because if you're going to give ultimate powers of sneaky ignore the law to anyone then of course you'd want it to be a fuzzy and caring anyone, but <3 anyway.
Also, if it turns out he was just dead, this arc of his works perfect. If it turns out to be something sneakier, it still works perfect, because all the feels along the way. And it works as an aging metaphor anyway, like, he's turning 50 now and he's all 'for your age? you say that to old people!' and in total denial of the whole age is relevant to super agents thing, and that works for a wider slice of audience than the whole back from the dead bit. Mid life crisis - you're doing it right.
... I pretty much just want to hug Phil. That's my main reaction. All the hugs. For he is a nice guy, and all this happened to him.
SHIELD are not nice though. So, like, the major themes I spotted in fanfic of a Clint/Coulson kind, the fic writers want Phil to be the good middle management. That's the guy that's the leader of the local team, but insulates them from the red tape, uncaring rules, and bugfuck seniors. He's the boss you want between you and Nick Fury, lying liar who lies. So that's what he's being within Agents of SHIELD, the nice guy boss that makes you feel warm and fuzzy about Our Team even when the organisation they belong to are the sort of people who will order you thrown out of the plane.
... it is logical to throw her out of the plane. It's just not nice.
I like the way that whole plot went. She's ill because unique method of infection, not incompetence. Phil notices and just quietly walks out and says sorry and seals her in. Fitz is all sod quarantine my brain twin needs me. And then when it seems like they're out of time and she's about to blow up the plane (and seriously, you don't tend to get situations where someone's about to accidentally blow up the plane, these are not the choices we're likely to face, and also if they're trying to avoid pandemic infection of an alien virus that travels by zap they should probably not drop it in the ocean? I mean, big water, big zap, yesno? but, not the point, superhero science is different, she is about to accidentally blow up the plane) and nobody grabs and pushes her, which would be total suck and leave us unable to like whoever it was however logical it was, she is just Very Brave. Except, if the rat was only unconscious, possibly she could have noticed that? I mean, she has all that shiny lab stuff, why is she just using her eyes? Because: upset and ill, is perfectly good reason. And then Fitz was going to be brave but then Ward finally found something he could do that was helpful. Hero! Character arcs! Everyone has a yaays!
Everyone has something to do and the only one who doesn't have it close tied to character is Skye, who has been the center of the universe thus far so it's not her turn.
I feel like we just met the team. Like, here they are, as people. So like I said, this is what I been waiting for, this is where I actually like these people instead of just wanting to.
I also like that Coulson yelled at them after for being brave dumbasses. Like he said, that was not her call. If she'd waited a minute there would be less drama. That's quite a reasonable thing to have yelling about. It seemed the proper amount of yelling, too.
Fitz said he was with Simmons through 'the academy, psy-ops' ... psy-ops? *looks at that sideways* I suspect 'sci-ops' is the less interesting version, but I'm reading these episodes, so that's what it said.
Melinda May still didn't get much, but she got stuff nobody else could say and have it seem the same way. I really hope her episode is soon though, because she's still the quietest.
Phil's scar... *hugs him a lot*
... she tells him take his shirt off / unbutton it, and he does it. says a lot right there.
... I have tendency to think scars are pretty, because survived and still here. But Phil does not think that one is pretty yet. :-(
But MM saying that there's only forward and not back to like it was before is good smart. Not easy though.
Despite having read almost all the C/C on Ao3, I could a bit ship Coulson/May. But only a bit, because tis a bit tidy. I'd rather someone else who was not the only het similar age bracket person in the story. But friendship them? Yaays. He can't always be being the boss, has to be a people too.
Is often a people. The bit just sitting down and telling the fireman it's not so bad? Not safe, very human.
... if he wasn't strictly speaking dead, if he's an LMD, that's going to undercut his whole worldview. I mean, if he's willing to reassure others death isn't so bad because he's been there, and then he finds out he has not in fact been there, he's going to feel much bad about it.
Having his own people run tests makes it less likely he's robot? But the x ray specs lady saw something interesting. Also, his own people might be in on it. You never know. Also, robots could be cylons, it's superhero science.
we don't know but I'm both happy to see them tell it at their own pace and caring more how it'll hit Phil when he finds out. Whatever it is he isn't supposed to know, it's going to hurt. And this is not a guy we want to see hurt.
Unfortunately for him, he is on TV show. Fortunately for us, it has a whole season.
I really hope future episodes are more like this one. If this one is the high point then I'll merely like the show, but if they keep on like this I'll love it like I wanted to.