What's interesting about that?
Yup. I find him uninteresting. Also, I don't see any man on the show who's cool enough for Bobbi anyway.
Also also, I'm still mourning Hartley: why couldn't Lucy Lawless have had more than one episode? Sigh.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
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Consuela - Dec 14, 2014 5:54:00 pm PST #4751 of 5827
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Connie Neil - Dec 14, 2014 5:59:32 pm PST #4752 of 5827
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I liked the fakeout on Hartley/Lucy Lawless. "Look who is on our show this year! Watch how she doesn't survive the first episode!"
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2014 6:20:41 pm PST #4753 of 5827
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's interesting about that?
Well, they set up the idea of someone involved with SHIELD with no professed interest in saving the world, but just trying to get paid, and then getting sentimentally attached to a former flame.
I'm not saying it worked, but it was a deviation from type, and it was details, which are/were sorely lacking with Tripp.
quester - Dec 16, 2014 4:39:59 pm PST #4754 of 5827
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Tripp was the conduit to Shield's history, he was a potential love interest for Simmons, he earned the trust of the rest of the team through the whole Hydra takeover and he was better looking and more charming than Hunter. I wish Hunter had bought it instead of Hartely in the first place.
Connie Neil - Dec 16, 2014 4:57:53 pm PST #4755 of 5827
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Steph L. - Dec 16, 2014 5:09:42 pm PST #4756 of 5827
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Ha! I liked the FB comment of "Agent Coulson, you have failed this city!" Crossing the streams, yo.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2014 5:10:34 pm PST #4757 of 5827
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tripp was the conduit to Shield's history, he was a potential love interest for Simmons
He wasn't their only conduit, and the Simmons/ went right over my head. And I like him better than Hunter, but Hunter's standing was more detailed out of the gate--fewer unanswered questions, which is frustrating, but also an indication of writer effort.
Even if he comes back they're going to have to do more work to make him more than potential, IMO. Actor charisma aside.
Who knows--maybe the actor got a gig so he can't film now/again. It's really not only writer decisions here, although folks always blame them first. Maybe he just hated it and quit--we will never know if he doesn't come back.
smonster - Dec 18, 2014 5:01:59 pm PST #4758 of 5827
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I totally got the Simmons/, Trip was his charismatic self and she was a little twitterpated around him. Although maybe they were just doing that to highlight how it made Fitz jealous.
Put me on the "pissed (if) Trip is dead" bench. As soon as he ducked into the circle, I knew it was bad. I was waiting for someone to die, because 1) Joss 2) mid-season finale and 3) written by Jeff Bell (see #1). It almost seemed like they had us going with Mac being possessed, and then were like, "just kidding, we're going to kill the OTHER black guy. hahaha fooled ya."
It's possible I'm projecting.
I went back and watched the first two episodes with a friend on Thanksgiving, and holy CRAP I'd forgotten how annoying Skye was. And May is a chatterbox now compared to then. I do appreciate the character development for both Skye and Ward, for sure.
So Cal was humming "Bicycle Built for Two?" I had a hard time figuring that out.
Bobbi better not be evil, dammit. Just because I say so.
§ ita § - Dec 18, 2014 5:17:23 pm PST #4759 of 5827
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't mind if Bobbi has done evil stuff, though. I like to think of SHIELD as the School of Hard Calls.
I guess I was looking at Simmons/Tripp from Tripp's POV. Especially considering how twitterpated I'd be around him.
Vortex - Dec 18, 2014 6:12:00 pm PST #4760 of 5827
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Who knows--maybe the actor got a gig so he can't film now/again. It's really not only writer decisions here, although folks always blame them first. Maybe he just hated it and quit--we will never know if he doesn't come back.
Yeah, people were pissed that Harrison got killed off on Scandal, but it turns out that the actor was an addict and was a mess onset, so they had to fire him.