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I have not yet watched Black Panther. That is the plan for tomorrow.
But I have started rewatching Agents of SHIELD from the beginning.

Everyone is babies and SHIELD is creepy and it's a lot more annoying to watch when you just want to kill Ward in the face a lot.

But I just watched the one with Akela Amador that starts with the heist where she found the one with the diamonds, and I'm like, they hired 55 people to wear stupid masks and identical suits and gain maximum possible attention and gave one (1) all of the diamonds.

Would it not have been actually less effort to give 55 ordinary looking people 1/55 of the diamonds and know that even if the thief struck there was an upper limit to how much they could actually carry?

I mean stick them in big enough cases and they're trying to escape through a crowd with gigantic luggage that might be silly colors, and even if they stick with the stupid identical suitcases plan there's only so many one person can hold, and instead of losing 100% they'd lose, what, 6/55? 8? I don't know, anything over 2 seems ambitious for holding bags but with strong hands and small handles you can manage.

It's just the most Extra plan that leaves them with minimum extra security and no decrease in risk.

Send multiple small batches and some of them get past the single singular thief.

Is stupid.



... I am critiquing the anti theft logic of a 'verse where they can stick bombs and x ray vision in someone's fully functional prosthetic eyeball. I mean, this should not be where they lose my disbelief.

... except it is because it's about How People Work, and it don't matter how much cyberware you pack into them, they still can't rob 55 people as effectively as one.

So.




Anyway.



I am not finding it as interesting as I used to. I had hopes that Coulson was a different guy than he turned out to be. Nicer than SHIELD baseline still didn't achieve minimum requirements.

And TV keeps doing the thing where the solution to big organisations is small vigilante groups with no accountability, so, you know, that... that is a problem.

But watching is something to do.

I have watched Agents of SHIELD season three up through Singularity.
I'm still not having as many feels for the characters as I used to. They're having big emotional stakes, I'm watching plot. It's annoying when you fall out of feels with a show.

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I watched a bunch more of Agents of SHIELD season three
and this whole 'HYDRA is secretly older than nazis' bit is just... ridiculously stupid.
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I have rewatched Agents of SHIELD season 1 up to the end of Yes Men.
It's less fun that I'd hoped. My feelings for the characters have mostly fallen out.

It's fun to see how fair they played it now I know the end of the season. Everyone's reactions were right there to be read different once you know.

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Yes Men pisses me off because of the utter stupidity of the setup. A woman who can control men with her talking, okay, fair enough, comic book rules. But once SHIELD has been told that, and May has confirmed they really do mean only males, then why in any 'verse would they send men after her? ( Read more... )

Neat how they switched the ICERs to that darker more 'realistic' version in time for a major change in tone. I liked the glowy cartoony weapons better, but, scarier time next.

It's interesting what fanfic does and doesn't soak up. Clint/Coulson came out of pretty much nothing and is still going strong, but it's mostly ignoring Agents of SHIELD. When it does acknowledge AoS there is a really obvious big problem in suggesting any outside relationship for Coulson is super important. Mostly fic just has 'Fury made me do it' and a lot of anger and apologies. But it has reached the point where I'm wanting to talk back at it, because there is in fact logic much stronger than that, and clearly the internet needs to know. ( Read more... )

It's four in teh morning and I'm not sure how much of that made sense in English. Or who would want to read it. But hey, OTP thoughts.

There was a lot in that ep that could be interesting. But the recap and the start reminded me of how I felt at the end of the previous episode, and I just don't see why I should get over that.
Someone looked at the cast of Agents of SHIELD and thought, 'you know what we need? another white guy!'
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That kind of thought process all over a show I was looking forward to? Kills any remaining enjoyment I had.
I am bored. I am angry and I am bored. This is not a good combination.



... and yet after a couple years of reading/watching Phil Coulson, I ended up watching this week despite deciding not to.

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The stuff I like is not sufficient reason to stick around though. Because that season opener pretty much promises they're going to burn it all and expect us to like it.

Take Away Day achieved. I like HabitRPG, I got some armour for doing Take Away Day. I did all my daily tasks, and bonus points for Go Outside and Be Social. And I leveled up to where it starts dropping stuff, so I got a wolf egg and a desert potion so now I have a pet desert wolf. This is much more rewarding than simply having clean and tidy and a life that functions.

It's too hot to actually eat all the food but I already know the little triangle things taste just as good tomorrow so that'll be fine.



The house we were going to view tomorrow cancelled and rescheduled for Thursday instead. Houses are difficult. The other one that mum was enthusiastic about even though I pointed out it had an EPC E rating and said it couldn't be improved, she phoned up and found when there's a viewing, but then she looked at the pictures more carefully and there's the round things on the side of the house that are to hold the wall on, and also places where a wall has been built right next to the wall, also to hold the wall on, and basically that would explain how it's not insulated, if the wall is falling off. So we're not going to go see it after all. Which is what I said in the first place. And then there was another place mum wanted me to send her the link for, and I was explaining how it's Not Good, but she just wanted the pictures of the bathroom. Okay then.


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So now I have to decide between going back to sleep and thinking of something to do. The weather forecasts have a lot of lightning on them so I'm not going to go play on the big computer cause any power flicker makes it turn off. Laptop batteries are better. I'll see if they can make the big one better that way next time I get it to a shop. In the meantime I'll probably just go read a book. I have a whole stack still.

Also reinflate the air mattress. It got better once I figured out how to stop the squeaking problem (use it upside down compared to the instructions), but mostly deflated it's not much use at all.

I've noticed that fanfic versions lag loooooong behind canon twists. Which, given how long it takes to write anything, fair enough. But it's also that we get attached to a fanon version, for instance the Coulson that mixed in 616 canon to get ex-Ranger best friend of Fury, and then when things get Jossed we just like our guy better. But the recent big organisational changes seem least likely to show up. It's not as bad as Torchwood, where people kept writing season 2 team fics and ignored the existence of everything after that, but there's a tendency to try and pull everything back to status quo ante that reminds me of comics more than TV. Comics are cyclical, everything that falls will always rise in familiar form. Television? Sometimes trashes all before it and revises the paradigm. Sometimes.

So, how hard would it be to just get SHIELD back?

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Seeing as I've never been the boss of even a quite small team, have no military or law enforcement experience, and get all my learnings from reading the internet or RPG rulebooks or watching TV, this Grand Plan right here is the sort of thing that makes sense from my recliner this morning and probably not very practical at all.

But I like to think it would make good story.

Each week the core team would go somewhere new, meet new people, and help them. And then leave with the understanding they can call on their help in return in future. In a friendly way.

Different, but nice.

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This show is fun now cause I can sit down thinking I have not much to say and then use bits of it to mull over the nature of evil for like an hour.

I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Only one more episode of this season (so heavily spoiled on tumblr I can tell it got everyone excited), and the next season on its way. Could be very cool.

Had fun bits. As I had seen them in tumblr gifs some weeks ago, they didn't quite grab me, but they are fun.
... tumblr sucks. It's not even particular people I could ignore, tumblr itself has started dropping 'recommended' posts onto my dash, and they've included untagged spoilers.
Yet Dreamwidth involves much less talking. Maybe I should just read people at random until there's some noise around here...

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I like this show now. I'm glad it got renewed. :-)

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The Cap 2 movie goes right in here, between 1.16 and 1.17, so I'm just going to talk movie stuff mixed in with Agents of SHIELD. I'm curious though, do people who haven't seen the movie reckon the series makes sufficient sense without it?
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They've done an interesting thing to the premise of the show.
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so I eagerly await the new Agents of SHIELD next week and thereafter.

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I want to see what happens next, now. The character stuff is super twisty and hopefully the plots get better than this.

Hmmm.
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