They’re lucky all their fighter jets didn’t get washed off the desk as well.
In real life jets that are left unattended on an aircraft carrier deck are securely tied down. If not, just the normal pitch and yawl motion of a day at sea would slowly slide them overboard, (even with the brakes locked).
And by desk, I mean deck. What can I say, I was an Army guy.
My WAP (wild-ass prediction), which may or may not be what smiling bandit was saying:
Hand is neither the Clairvoyant nor working for the clairvoyant. But the Clairvoyant has somehow tricked/convinced/deluded her into believing that Coulson’s team are traitors.
A complete and total waste. I didn’t even realize it was him. And I was trying to figure out who it was, and if it was an actor or just a mannequin.
True. If you wanted to summarize what changed this week from last week, the only thing would be the rest of the team found out about May’s secret calls.
Understood - but her actions took her from being ‘person following orders’ to ‘enemy leaking information’ in 2 seconds with little time to explain.
(which, of course, is typical comic book fashion for cliff hangers)
My money is on Bill Paxton being the Clairvoyant. It’s always the new guy.
I take it as another demonstration of The Clairvoyant’s “power”. The plan was always to have Ward kill Nash and the words he “spoke” were carefully designed to make Ward do what he did.
Anyone who’s seen enough of The Mentalist knows the type. 
The “new guy” in this case would probably be Paxton’s new trainee. Paxton is playing an established character in the Marvel Universe, whom they’re unlikely to veer too far in characterization.
Also, that’s not what “double-blind” means. It doesn’t mean that there are two people who don’t know everything. For it to be double blind, Skye herself would also not know who was going where. Instead, it seemed that she did the deciding and then parceled out the information, meaning the entire plan was in her head, thus defeating the purpose.
Also also, if I were an all-knowing, all-seeing bad guy, and there were three teams coming after me, and I had one bodyguard available, I would maybe consider having the bodyguard show himself in a place where I WASN’T. Sure enough, as soon as he showed up, the other two teams immediately packed up and quit, despite the fact that one team had just spotted a series of very suspicious delaying tactics.
If I was among the producers and director, when it came up that we had a character that would be a speechless quadriplegic I would immediately have said “O.K. we need to cast the best possible actor that we can cast.”
You take away an actor’s voice and body, and you’ve taken away pretty much all of the tools of the craft. A moderately good actor would have sucked
I think a mind-reader would need to make choices of when and who when it comes to reading minds. So, splitting the information would make it harder to find. So, I was o.k. with this idea. You’re right, though, that it was just stupid that the partners immediately shared the information.
However, the evil mystery guy isn’t called “The Mind Reader”, he’s called “The Clairvoyant”. Clairvoyance as an ability to see the future would not require actual mind reading. But, they were still acknowledging that “The Clairvoyant” might not truly be Clairvoyant but, rather, getting information through other means.
Ok I didn’t know that so I’ll change my guess to the trainee. He has a budding romance thing going on with Simmons so it would be some nice drama for him to get her involved in his “Clairvoyant” activities and for her to be devastated and probably put in danger when she finds out it’s him.
On another note, does anyone else feel like Skye is Scrappy Doo? It seems like she is supposed to be a character the audience can identify with, but I just find her pretty but annoying. I can identify with almost all the other characters more than her.
Except that Coulson’s explanation for meeting on the plane was that the Clairvoyant couldn’t read their minds if they were so high up. Mind you, that explanation also sounded dubious.
Instead of convincing me that Skye is brilliant and Coulson knows what he’s doing, the writing here actually did the opposite.
My take on it as well. It was designed to tie things up and have SHIELD think TC was dead.
Yeah, but he just sat there motionless. I’m not sure he even blinked. Seriously, an Academy Award winner, a dinner theater reject, and a mannequin would all have done exactly the same job.
The entire episode seemed as though Skye was in charge of everything. Coulson somehow convinces Hand (off-camera) to agree to elevating Skye to Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. status. Garrett is completely taken with her, although he is pretty affable anyway. Ward and Coulson both are being entirely anal about her safety, to the point of assigning her armed guards FFS. Fitz is taking orders from her re: May’s phone line. Coulson is taking her psych-eval idea and eating it up with a spoon, and discussing the possibility of treason within S.H.I.E.L.D. as though she’s suddenly his equal. Only several episodes ago this is the young woman who had a freaking tracking bracelet.Skye, Skye, Skye! [/Janet Brady]
Don’t forget the oddity of Ward and Triplett being greeted by nobody in the guardhouse of a high-security prison.
Yeah, you’re just wrong about this.
Even a moderately talented professional actor would have been at a loss being tasked at putting depth of character into only his eyes with no other tools of the craft at his disposal- I wouldn’t allow a dinner theater reject within a hundred miles of the casting session for this role.
The effective buildup of tension in that scene was all due to a performance that Dourif had going on with just his eyes. You need an excellent actor to pull that off.
I watched the episode after having seen The Winter Soldier. The movie contains some events that will have to seriously impact the course of the show if they try to stay in sync. So the whole time I was watching the episode I was processing everything through that filter (so I had thoughts on Mae and her reaction).
But I don’t know if I was supposed to and how synched they will be and when (since if the show incorporates it all immediately it will be a huge spoiler for the movie.
“It all ties together.”
My guess is that next week’s episode will still deal with stuff that is background in CA:WS, but the end of the season will get more directly involved. Then next season will totally incorporate the changes.