By: Chris "Sledge" Douglas
Episodes 1, 2
So yeah, my apologies for being so late with this. The thing is... this week's show left me with very little excitement... and that's saying something. Even though the show has had it's detractors, I had been one of the few people enjoying it for what it is (a spy show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with perhaps some occasional cameos), rather than what everyone else wanted it to be (straight up superhero action show).
This week though... well, read on. Of course, spoiler warnings are in effect.
"The Asset"
October 8th, 2013
The Plot:
Mysterious gravitational shit is going down, and S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist Dr. Franklin Hall is kidnapped by an old friend (Quinn) who has a mysterious gravity controlling whoohaa, and wants Hall to show him how it works.
Meanwhile, Skye is starting her training to become a field officer when they get the call, and the team prepare their plan to rescue him. And of course Skye, as the show's designated fish out of water, gets her first assignment undercover.
However, it's revealed that Hall conspired with Quinn by leaking the information himself. Then he does the old supervillain fall in to the whoohaa and if the show doesn't get canceled, we may indeed see Graviton himself.
The Analysis:
I have very mixed feelings about this episode. On one hand, I was VERY excited about finally having an established Marvel supervillain on hand to give our heroes something to do. On the other, I thought it was a really cheap way to do it. Dr. Hall here, instead of being a super villain with the innate ability to control gravity, here is controlling it a little bit less directly, but he's got some messed up morals. He thinks he's trying to save everybody by getting rid of this device that controls gravity. And that all would be fine and perfect for a supervillain to act that way. But to have this complexity and then have him just end up falling into a CGI ball just fell flat with me. I'm not saying I would have done any better had I worked on the show myself, but it just felt so... meh.
Also, this show is constantly teasing a betrayal by Skye. On more than a couple of occasions, she seems to genuinely be thinking about betrayal, for it to not turn out that way. This is obviously what Whedon and co. want to lead us to think. Which leads ME to think that there will be some sort of swerve (as most other paranoid wrestling smarks would).
Also, speaking of Skye, her constant references to technology of the day will date the show very very soon.
Also, the way Skye was boxing, I almost thought she was going to break a wrist.
And just in case you didn't get enough of Skye, there was way more screen time for Ward and Skye together. ARE YOU SYMPATHIZING WITH THEM YET?
Next Week: "Eye-Spy"... not sure where this is leading...
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