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Finally got back on the horse. Exactly how long I stay on it? Another matter.
2.01 - Shadows
So, there's time-lag, there's no shortage of drama and angst and backstory. Coulson is very Directorial and not quite as Team Leader as he used to be, May seems to have fallen into the position of Team Leader, Skye's taken a level-and-a-half in Competence learning from May, and she and Trip are buds, while Talbot hasn't learned anything at all. (That's impressive. It takes a very particular kind of stupid/stubborn to learn nothing.)
Fitz. OH FITZ. (My feels. I has them.) Really good writing there.
And Ward (incarcerated) and Simmons (absent).
Brett Dalton does 'earnest' with an impressively manic edge. I felt so creeped out watching Ward trying to convince Skye of his sincerity, talking about his suicide attempts, trying to make a connection with her. And she resists him with the tight control that she seems to have been learning off May.
...I suspect that ardent!Ward/resistant!Skye may very well become a dysfunctional favourite of mine before too long. We'll see what the rest of the season brings.
I barely caught all the extras they introduced - I was quilting at the same time as I was watching - now adding: a cast of thousands! But I understand some of them stick around?
Oh, and I loved Peggy - and Jim and DumDum - making a cameo - particularly Jim since apparently the Howling Commandos were whitewashed for Agent Carter? *sadface*
I am very much enjoying the dynamics of the (new) team so far - or maybe 'enjoying' is the wrong word. The relationships that we got accustomed to in Season One have been completely shifted around in Season Two. It's a good move; shakes things up. So many shows have gotten stuck in the rut of certain characters interacting all the time in the same ways; to find that Agents of SHIELD has gone the more 'difficult' route of not wearing a rut into the easy tropes (the bromance, the girly girls, the mentor/student) is quite a real pleasure.
Of course, everything could just go back to 'the usual' next episode. But I kind of doubt it.
An excellent start to the season, even with the necessary infodumps and Coulson's Statement Of Purpose at the end of the episode.
2.01 - Shadows
So, there's time-lag, there's no shortage of drama and angst and backstory. Coulson is very Directorial and not quite as Team Leader as he used to be, May seems to have fallen into the position of Team Leader, Skye's taken a level-and-a-half in Competence learning from May, and she and Trip are buds, while Talbot hasn't learned anything at all. (That's impressive. It takes a very particular kind of stupid/stubborn to learn nothing.)
Fitz. OH FITZ. (My feels. I has them.) Really good writing there.
And Ward (incarcerated) and Simmons (absent).
Brett Dalton does 'earnest' with an impressively manic edge. I felt so creeped out watching Ward trying to convince Skye of his sincerity, talking about his suicide attempts, trying to make a connection with her. And she resists him with the tight control that she seems to have been learning off May.
...I suspect that ardent!Ward/resistant!Skye may very well become a dysfunctional favourite of mine before too long. We'll see what the rest of the season brings.
I barely caught all the extras they introduced - I was quilting at the same time as I was watching - now adding: a cast of thousands! But I understand some of them stick around?
Oh, and I loved Peggy - and Jim and DumDum - making a cameo - particularly Jim since apparently the Howling Commandos were whitewashed for Agent Carter? *sadface*
I am very much enjoying the dynamics of the (new) team so far - or maybe 'enjoying' is the wrong word. The relationships that we got accustomed to in Season One have been completely shifted around in Season Two. It's a good move; shakes things up. So many shows have gotten stuck in the rut of certain characters interacting all the time in the same ways; to find that Agents of SHIELD has gone the more 'difficult' route of not wearing a rut into the easy tropes (the bromance, the girly girls, the mentor/student) is quite a real pleasure.
Of course, everything could just go back to 'the usual' next episode. But I kind of doubt it.
An excellent start to the season, even with the necessary infodumps and Coulson's Statement Of Purpose at the end of the episode.
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