That only works on T.V.
The girl was able to take over minds with a single touch. That is not a power that you want to let get close enough to conk on the head. The chance of getting take over is just too great. You’re down with just a gun close to you and an enemy that can take you out with a touch and is coming closer to you seems clear to me that she had no other choice.
A slight nitpick, she was not the original 0-8-4. That was the obelisk.
And Van Halen was the original OU812.
Can someone explain to a thick person what the whole “dream” statement thing was from the Inhuman chap?
I can’t help but feel the show has gone a little bit off the boil. I can’t quite put my finger on what exactly, but the last few episodes just haven’t gripped me like the rest of the season has.
But that wasn’t the original Van Halen…
BTW I liked the episode and had no problem with the source of her traumatization. I’m not sure why some people think it was “cheap.”
Reyna (the spiky girl) was complaining of constant nightmares when she slept. One of them was that Skye was sitting eating dinner with her mother and father with a bouqet of daisies on the table. Later, that exact scene happened. The transitioner saw it and realized that Reyna was not dreaming, but having visions of the future.
Cheers. I thought it was something like that but didn’t pick up on the exact details.
And then realized that future events such as these could affect YOU in the future…
Assuming you mean Lincoln (has eyes, randomly shows up to serve meals to people)… He’d heard Raina describing her disturbing dreams previously, which were of two types: (1) she was on the run being chased/hunted but was trapped in thorns, and (2) Skye happy having dinner with her father with daisies on the table.
Lincoln, randomly serving dinner to Skye and her parents, notices the daisies on the table and realizes that Raina’s dreams weren’t just disturbing, they were clairvoyant.
I wouldn’t say it was cheap, but it was not as riveting as I was hoping. May is a bad ass. She should have no problem killing a crazy psychopathic child. She is such a bad ass that she should be able to kill hundreds of psychopathic children if the situation called for it.
Yeah I didn’t get that vibe from her.
“Bad ass”, to me, does not equal “killing hundreds of psychopathic children” to me. In fact, I suspect that if I asked hundreds of people to define “bad ass”, that would not be among their definitions.
There’s a difference between being a bad ass and being a psychopath. A psychopath wouldn’t have any problem with killing hundred of children but a bad ass would.
Indeed. A pretty standard hero template, both in stories and in real life, is the person willing to do violence to bad guys in order to protect the innocent. “Innocent” is variously defined, but just about always includes kids. The girl made some comment about being scared, seemed sort of out of control while being in massive control. It’s totally plausible that a badass warrior like May had her view of herself massively fucked up by being forced to kill a kid in order to protect a bunch of soldiers. Even if rationally she knows it’s the right thing to do, that’s gotta be a punch in the gut.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with May having a weak spot for kids. All heroes have weak spots anyway, and if anything is sexist, it’s the assumption that a male agent/hero wouldn’t have a soft spot for children, and May is weak because she’s a woman.
It may not have just been the girl. It was clear May had previously killed a lot of other people. But she was apparently able to compartmentalize that part of her life from the rest; she’d go on a mission, kill some people, and then return home to live a normal life with her husband.
Killing that one girl may have pierced the wall. And what May was feeling was not just guilt for that one killing but guilt for all of the killings she had done over the years. She could no longer separate her home life from the things she did out in the world.