Well, when a Mommy LMD and a Daddy LMD love each other very much…
Well, once you’ve got the mold made…
Conveniently, she makes very predictable choices in underwear.
The sports bra especially is useful when one wants to push up Daisies.
Put them all together, in a line, and we have a Daisy Chain
Here’s what I don’t understand:
They’ve established that they can make almost-perfect duplicates of a person’s brain, and put them inside a robotic body.
Yet in “the Framework”, they CAN’T make a copy of a person’s brain, and the brain has to be “plugged in” to the virtual reality instead – in such a way that it kills them if they unplug too fast.
Why put living people in the Matrix – excuse me, the Framework – at all? Why not just COPY their brain pattern into it?
Put 'em in a circle and give 'em an ink ribbon, and you’d have a Daisy Wheel printer.
Two weeks to the next episode. Looks like Ward is a Hydra agent in the Framework, and I like Fitz’ new style.
Anyone else see last night’s episode. I liked it a lot. It was interesting that Daisy got sucked into the simulation being real almost immediately, while Jemma was just marveling at how good a simulation it was until she had to run for her life.
Great reverse heel-turn for Ward, and hilarious that Jemma was still pissed at him for betraying Hydra(!).
I liked the callback to Tahiti & Phil’s “All work and no play” notebook.
Was the Inhuman they were interrogating Senator Nadeer’s brother?
Some fanwanking: the two big divergence points are that Phil never joined SHIELD, and May saved the girl in Bahrain. So no Phil possibly equals no Iron Man & no Thor and therefore no Avengers, while May’s change meant that Hydra was able to take over SHIELD earlier even than Winter Soldier. Does that sound right? Did we ever get a date for the Bahrain mission - if it preceded Iron Man, then Stark may have gotten taken out by Hydra before he even went to Afghanistan.
Does it work like that? I mean, this isn’t an alternate universe or anything–it’s a false reality that Radcliffe and Aida created. I would think that they could arrange it however they wanted it to be, without having to worry about “What changed to make it that way?” Which led to my question, why is Daisy called Skye in the Framework? Neither Aida nor Radcliffe ever knew Daisy when she went by “Skye,” so why should they give the Framework version of her that name?
Did Elizabeth Henstridge have a cold while they were filming? Her voice sounded hoarse throughout the episode.
I thought this was a pretty good start to the new arc (whose title, I guess, is “Agents of Hydra” :)). I loved the little touches like Ward still being a traitor, only this time that makes him a good guy, and Coulson’s having been implanted with false memories once before being the way the Jemma and Daisy get him to remember.
From the last few episodes before the break - Aida hoovered up Phil’s, May’s, Mac’s, Fitz’s and Mace’s memories and found their greatest regrets - this is also how she could have learned Skye’s name. She then rebuilt the Framework changing all their regrets around but leaving everything else alone, and letting things fall where they may. So every other change we see should be as a result of the modified regrets - basically a butterfly effect situation.
I wonder if Fitz’s regret was that he was never able to satisfy his (apparently evil) father - so he had to be become evil to satisfy him.
Alternately, the Darkhold is leading her to make the Framework as evil as possible.
I think Jemma’s hoarse voice was because she had been dead. That’s why she had the pale/zombie makeup too.
Good episode, I really liked it. Marvel’s Agents of Hydra was a nice touch.
I figured Ward was the mole almost immediately, right before he punched Nadeer’s brother. It made perfect sense, I can’t wait until Daisy finds him more attractive now that he’s working on the side of “good”. At first I thought Radcliffe was “the Doctor” but it makes much better sense to have it be Fitz. I’m not thrilled that Aida is in the Matrix, um, I mean Framework, taking an active role. It would be better without her interfering, but from earlier it was clear that she kept having to tweek things.
Coulson’s memory was nicely handled, although I wish it was spread over a few more episodes. We haven’t seen Mack at all, I suppose he’s living a quiet suburban life. May is the most interesting character, should be fun to watch them crack her shell.
The Hydra logo reminds me of an octopus. The “cut off one head, two will grow” thing is from a Greek myth–one of the labors of Heracles–and the heads were on top of tentacles, trying to bite /breathe poison.
Daisy/Skye and Jemma were horrible at being spies during this episode. Captain Kirk did a better job of blending in Mirror, Mirror. Especially Daisy, who should be trained better. Just keep telling oneself “It’s just a simulation” and do what needs to be done! Instead, she was screwing up from start.
Too many damn characters on too many damn shows have to behave far too stupidly just for false drama. We don’t need a writer’s strike. We either need all the writer’s taken out back and shot, or if they are getting it right, whoever is overriding their scripts need to wished to the cornfield.
I really liked the episode because ultimately I was entertained but I was thinking the same thing. I could have tolerated an initial error while maybe she was getting adjusted to it. But she kept making error after error after error. It was really silly.
Jemma actually infiltrated Hydra and was in deep cover for several months. If anyone could do the job of blending in, it would be her rather than Daisy. Which is probably why the writers had Daisy be the one in Hydra and Jemma be dead.
Yet Jemma too couldn’t be arsed to try to blend. They should both be able to adapt to the situation. I shouldn’t have to :smack: every time one of them is on the screen. It hurts my forehead.
Agreed. I was delighted when Daisy started yelling at Ward for not moving in with her - at last she was playing the situation correctly.
At least Jemma used the fact that she was “dead” to distract the Hydra agents.
To be fair to both, when Jemma and Daisy have previously been undercover, they had had some sort of briefing on what the situation was that they would be going into; in this case, they had no idea they were going into a world where Hydra ruled.
But they know this “world” is all an illusion. Their reaction to every weird little thing should be “yeah, sure, whatever.” There’s literally no point to being shocked by any of it.
Agreed.
Well, I should modify that a little. I can picture being momentarily shocked by the sight of Ward, but after that brief instinctive reaction, better to just shrug it off. I was a bit amused by Jemma’s implied eye-rolling; “so you’re a double agent here, too, are you? Surprise, surprise.”
Also, I might adopt the angry open-palm gesture for real life situations.