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For Episode 1
As I mentioned in last week's review, I thought the premiere episode was a fine show. It served it's purpose, and was perfectly acceptable telivision. I fully enjoyed it.
However, much like Man of Steel, the people I talked to were sorely divided, with some saying they liked it, while others insisting it was a grave disappointment.
Will this week's episode garner that same response?
Again, read with caution, and prepare for more spoilers.
"0–8–4" - October 1, 2013
Plot:
I didn't get into the plot too much befre, as I usually don't with most of my reviews. However, I've decided it may indeed be beneficial in this and future cases.
As last week's episode was primarily an introduction to our (mostly) new characters, this week's purpose was to flesh them out a bit more and give them a reason to work as a team.
Skye, our resident "computer whiz" (ugh), is now a member of the team, and that is needless to say, creating a lot of conflict, especially with Ward. As hinted at last week, they recieved information on an "084," or as Coulson puts it, an object of unknown origin. The last one was Thor's hammer.
Their travels to find the object brings them to Peru where they encounter a militia led by an old flame of Coulson's (Camilla Reyes) as well as some seemingly not-so-friendly rebels. There they find the object, which is some sort of device powered by tesseract technology.
However, once they get back on there plane, things are not as they seem, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are all tied up and have to rely on each other to get themselves out of this mess.
And Nick Fury is pissed.
Analysis:
As mentioned, the intention of this episode was to better flesh out our characters and their often dysfunctional relationships with one another. We definitely get to see a more authoritarian attitude taken by Coulson, as well as his quick wit and more on his tendency to hold onto the past. Fitz and Simmons finally get their moment in the field and it's more than what they bargained for. And while I initially thought Ming Na Wen's Melinda May was being underutilized, here she shows her no nonsese combat expertise in multiple moments. She really had that sense about her that one should not mess with her.
But, of course, the big focus was the relationship between Ward and Skye. Ward is used to being the one to rely on, and is thrown off guard by having to work with a team and especially working with the newbie. Skye, on the other hand, is trying to find her place among the team.
And as we find out later, there may be more than one member of the Rising Tide...
Again, I felt this was a VERY solid episode. Hell, at times, I forgot it was just a TV show and thought I was watching a movie. As I mentioned last week, I don't watch TV very much anymore. This is BIG for me.
Other Notes:
- Skye seems to be the Whedon voice of snark in this series so far. I guess there always has to be at least one.
- No in between knockout shot here for May? She gets gassed at one point, and it seems like one moment she's wide awake... and then the next she's sound asleep? Maybe it was part of her plan once she realized what was going on, but it seemed wierd.
- One longtime friend of mine had a problem with Ward's apperent vulnerability while under the truth serum last week, saying that his utterence of "Gramsy?" did not fit his badass style. Well, here we have more instances of Ward's vulnerability, so it seems like it was not a writing problem, but rather character development.
Quote-a-mania Running Wild:
"You guys talk a lot."
Next Week: Graviton?
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