Buffy ,'Lessons'
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I kind of love Garrett. He's so cheerfully evil.
He's like Ron Swanson with no moral compass. Or a moral compass with the polarity reversed.
I love the file transfer protocol. LOVE!
I also love that Ward was Hydra before he was Shield (although not quite as much). I will not be pleased if he does get redeemed. Unless they really really surprise me and totally win me over, I suppose. But even if that happens I think I will resent it. If it happens which I hope it does not.
I hoped I was wrong, but when I was not, I broke up with the show. Honestly. It was cheap, unnecessary emo-wringing and, frankly, working with abused dogs, like I have, I don't need to see the audience being schooled in how to prove you are tough by killing a loyal creature.
What did I miss? It looked to me like Ward let the dog go.
What did I miss?
He did let him go once, but then...crosshairs/bang.
What did I miss?
On re-watch: telescopic sight following the dog as it runs, loud mechanical sound as the scene shifts back to the plane in the present. The sound could have been a gunshot, could have been the release of the container from the plane, could have been both.
Was "Pablo Jimenez" a reference to anything?
They come from warring factions on the planet of Winsome Big-Eyed Brunettes. Syke's parents were warriors of clan Just Say What You Mean, Goddamnit, while Raina's people hail from the Kingdom of Oblique Referrals.
This is AWESOME!
I actually thought when Raina said that Skye's parents were monsters "Skye's parents were Godzilla and Mothra?" then I realized it was the wrong country. That's how my brain works.
Was "Pablo Jimenez" a reference to anything?
Possibly a reference to artists Pablo Marcos and Phil Jimenez.
I made a Photoshop of the large file transfer:
Which led to this:
and this
And because I'm not right in the head:
I assumed Garrett had the scope, as Ward had a pistol.
DC, that's what I thought.
I couldn't decide if that meant that Garrett went ahead and killed the dog since Ward didn't. Or if we were shown that just to know why Garrett still talks about Ward's weakness.
Oh, I thought for sure Ward went back to kill the dog. It doesn't make sense for Garrett to have done it - his goal wasn't for Buddy to die, it was for Ward to kill him to prove he wasn't "weak." I think if Garrett knew Ward hadn't done it, he would have just gotten rid of Ward. (And so Ward went back to kill Buddy so he wouldn't get caught in his initial moment of weakness.)