I remain more pleased with Quinn than with Flowered Dress Girl, so I guess that's good. I enjoyed seeing JAR again. Even all scarred up, he's awfully pretty. Loved watching May be a total bad ass with the knife in her shoulder. Dude should have known that wasn't going to end well.
I still am not sure I care all that much about the Clairvoyant, but I'm beginning to care more about the people on the team so I suppose that's good. Except Ward. I still don't care anything for him at all. I'd rather have May hooking up with Coulson.
The May-Coulson Battered Veterans Together thing is great. Ward doesn't like being the Young, Pretty Distraction. I like the way the show can be subtle at times.
"You called me sweetheart." As soon as she said that, I thought, "There will be blood."
Yeah, you Don't Fuck With May.
This new cliffhanger would be so much better if I cared at all about Skye...
I care about Skye insomuch as it hurts Coulson, and I'm expecting her Unidentified Object status will get clarified.
Hey, Carlo Rota playing the corrupt Italian security guy. I'm now one degree from Clark Gregg!
Why did they go all Hugh Hefner with Stan Lee's cameo? That was creepy.
Well, he did the same thing in the first Iron Man movie.
I think I've figured out why I like Arrow more than S.H.I.E.L.D. It's not that Arrow is any less stupid, it's that they keep the always keep the plot moving forward, always keep things suspenseful, so you don't have time to dwell on how stupid one particular plot point is.
Plus on Arrow, I actually care about the characters. Even some of the bad guys. Even Laurel. Sometimes. But SHIELD has not made me care about any of the characters other than Coulson, and frankly, he started the show with that. I like Melinda May. She's such a badass. But I don't know that I care about her, not really. And the rest of them? Fitz and Simmons are cute but...whatever. Ward is boring as shit. Even sleeping with Melinda May didn't improve him. And Skye is annoying AND boring.
Make me care about the characters, and you can do a bottle episode where they all look for a pen on the plane for the entire episode, and I will love it. Give me characters I don't care about, and...enh.
(We just watched last week's episode, so this was my first chance to comment. I liked the narrative structure, although I confess I was hoping for more of a Rashomon effect. I do actually like Ian Quinn. And I like Mike Petersen, poor bastard. But none of the episode really made me give a damn about the characters.)
I did feel bad for Skye. She was trying so hard, and then that dude shot her!
