[li]Donny’s ice power: Is anyone else having trouble with this? Donny invents an ice machine which malfunctions and somehow transfers its power to Donny? Even for a comic book that’s a ridiculous origin story.[/list][/li][/QUOTE]
…that seems preeetty much one of a dozen standard comic book origins.
I don’t really understand why people are assuming Skye has POWERS. She could have just magically appeared in the village or was found in the wreckage of a spaceship–doesn’t mean she has powers herself.
Just watched this last night (stupid online ABC) and I’m thinking Asgardian (Vanir from Vanaheim like Hogun perhaps?) Skye is a solid theory. Thor got hospitalized long enough for him to make it through hospital intake and then into a bed, and then later, was tranqed and put BACK into bed, without anyone twigging to otherworldly origins.
As a bounced foster kid, Skye probably had fewer “well child” doctor visits than most kids, and as long as she doesn’t get injured or sick badly enough to end up in a hospital, an ordinary slightly rushed GP isn’t going to notice anything different on a basic physical or vacc visit if emergency docs didn’t pick anything up in the emergency room with an actually presumably-traumatically-injured Thor. Likewise, SHIELD (who one would assume would be LOOKING for powers or oddities) didn’t think anything too special of Thor, assuming he was simply a highly trained Merc. Perhaps the part of the original 084 was her parent/parents who were killed before SHIELD got onsite?
Other plot niggles weren’t that bad for me. The season’s spent ages establishing that FitzSimmons work well in tandem, especially vocally. The breadcrumbs in Mexico City is an established trope for a perfectly good reason. Fitz is a well-known graduate, genius, and innocent, and it’s established in the episode that SHIELD regularly has recent graduates come back for “don’t be evil” talks after events like what the students staged. I assumed the truck belonged to the long-haired student, whose dad works for Quinn and is therefore likely filthy rich and the type to buy his kid a useless oversized status vehicle.
Am I the only person wondering what was up with Quinn falling into shadow (flying around the earth?) while talking to Coulson? It seemed too obvious and dramatic to be just an environmental effect.
Also, just to be perfectly clear, screw ABC for giving in to the distributors and making you have a participating cable provider to access the episodes! People in BFE don’t have participating cable providers! Grasping rat-monkeys, the lot of them.
I don’t have cable and watch it on the free version of Hulu. If they’re doing that on their site, that’s bogus. But at least there is a free way to watch legally.
I finally just watched the 5 most recent episodes the past 2 evenings.
I really like where the show is headed. I like that it is suitably “comic-booky”.
Bits and pieces each week of the backstories of each character has also been quite pleasant, and IMO pretty deftly handled.
One of the complaints I recall from the earliest episodes was that the world of S.H.I.E.L.D. didn’t seem to have enough super-powered baddies. Well, after 12 episodes, we have seen/can look forward to again seeing the Centipede soldiers, this new kid, Blizzard, the dude in the gravitonium blob at the Sandbox, the Norwegian Hate folks.
Also a plus for the series are recurring support characters/MU tie-ins, such as Mike, Quinn, Hand, Raina, and The Mysterious Clairvoyant, Chitauri stuff, Asgard stuff, New York City alien battle references.
I’m very satisfied so far, but for the sporadic nature of the airing of new episodes.
I gotta admit, I’m not seeing it. “Scientist’s invention malfunctions, gives him super powers,” is about the most common superhero trope there is, and this one played it straight as an arrow, right down to the lightning strike making it go all funky. I can understand criticizing it the grounds that it’s too much of a cliche, but if that’s the sort of thing that breaks your suspension of disbelief, how have you made it this far in life as a comic book fan?