So why is she being trained to beat people up and shoot them?
Because they're running out of people they trust who can do that.
Oh, look at the pretties!
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
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Connie Neil - Oct 08, 2014 6:59:08 pm PDT #4441 of 5827
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Consuela - Oct 08, 2014 7:20:53 pm PDT #4442 of 5827
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The Ward stuff confuses me. He's in prison, okay, and he still loves Skye, or thinks he does, and he wants her to be safe. All well and good. Is he repentant? Because especially after that last scene with Skye, I don't get that sense. I really don't get the sense that he wishes he hadn't gone along with whatever Garrett wanted.
No redemption without repentance, IMO.
I liked Simmons' storyline, although of course I'm worried about her.
I also spent a while in the beginning trying to figure out if Agent 33 was Hartley, but it wasn't. I'm still not convinced she's dead, anymore than Donnie Gill is dead.
Connie Neil - Oct 08, 2014 7:33:43 pm PDT #4443 of 5827
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I like that Ward is owning his evil. He is cooperating, he acknowledges he did wrong. I kind of admire him for being straightforward and not trying to wiggle out of anything.
Jesse - Oct 09, 2014 3:46:09 am PDT #4444 of 5827
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My main problem with the episode was that every time they said Donnie Gill, I thought they were saying Johnny Gill.
Steph L. - Oct 09, 2014 4:57:12 am PDT #4445 of 5827
I look more rad than Lutheranism
damn, the Ward/Fitz scene was powerful stuff.
I tend to get really annoyed with Fitz (not just this season, but in general) and would have been okay if they killed him off in the finale last season, BUT I was really impressed with the Ward/Fitz scene.
Although the crazy survivalist beard is not Ward's best look. (I realize no one in SHIELD is stupid enough to give him a razor, so I get why the beard, but still.)
Polter-Cow - Oct 09, 2014 5:11:33 am PDT #4446 of 5827
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
BUT I was really impressed with the Ward/Fitz scene.
Yeah. It's almost like we're getting to see the Topher storyline in between present and future Dollhouse. A scientific genius deprived of his mental acuity.
Connie Neil - Oct 09, 2014 5:49:56 am PDT #4447 of 5827
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And he knows he's damaged. That's the worst thing. Coulson telling him he's getting better may be the only thing keeping him from supervillainy. If someone bad offers to make him better . . . I believed Simmons when she said her loyalty is to science. Fitz may come down the same way, willing to help someone mostly bad if he can get his brain back. I wonder where Skye's dad is going to come in on the good/bad spectrum.
beekaytee - Oct 09, 2014 8:28:49 am PDT #4448 of 5827
Compassionately intolerant
The hydra hypno-induction sounded so Dollhouse to me that it threw me out of the show. I was waiting to hear someone say, "Are you ready for your treatment."
Connie Neil - Oct 09, 2014 8:59:13 am PDT #4449 of 5827
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I never saw Dollhouse, so it never pinged me.
Strix - Oct 09, 2014 9:19:21 am PDT #4450 of 5827
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Huh. I just did a Dollhouse re-watch, so the Fitz/Topher comparison is interesting. But Fitz has actual brain-damage, whereas Topher had a mental breakdown because of his role in causing the apocalypse.
I did not know who Ward was for the first few minutes of the first show's interaction with him because of the beard.