I mostly liked it, but I’m really tired of people in a covert agency being angry about other members of a covert agency keeping secrets. The proper response to finding out that your superior didn’t tell you something is to think “I need to get promoted and get a higher clearance level.” It’s not to get butthurt that they don’t trust you enough. That’s the whole point of this type of organization - people don’t tell other people things.
No one in SHIELD trusts anyone in SHIELD. Nor should they, in fact they have all proven themselves undeserving of trust.
They are entirely trustworthy. You just don’t have high enough clearance to know that.
In comics continuity even pre-Terrigenesis Inhumans benefit from the Kree modifications of their genome - they arebetter than peak human. That could account for some of the super-fighting ability even in an only lightly-trained person.
I am in the minority here. I found the Ward/original team scenes cringeworthy. His monologue about betrayal was bloody awful. He was always Hydra, from the beginning. He never betrayed anyone. Why should he give penance for that then. He can feel bad about being Hydra. The betrayal storyline is unsupportable.
The fight scene bothered me because I think if I had Quake powers, I’d use them instead of a gun or my fists at all.
I like the show a lot, but I don’t love not knowing who to trust. And I just don’t know what to think about Ward. I thought he had undying love for Skye, but I guess I was wrong on that.
I did enjoy the hot pocket line.
Thing is, she’s trying to rescue Lincoln who’s in an operating room, hooked up to medical machinery. She probably figured it was safer not to subject the place to earthquakes.
We get the S.H.I.E.L.D. show a couple weeks late here so I can never participate in these threads in a timely manner. However, Age of Ultron has already been out for a week here and almost everywhere else. Suck it, USians!
Finally got to watch this last night, and I’m left with the suspicion that Raina is going to try to usurp Jiaying by playing on the Terrigenesis desires of the unchanged Inhumans. They’ve set it up through the comments about how the unchanged Inhumans are jealous of Raina and Skye going through Terrigenesis without being vetted, and Jiaying needing to keep her relationship to Skye on the downlow – until Cal spilled the beans in public.
And as the Bahrain flashback demonstrates, it’d create a lot of dangerous Inhumans for them to spend the next half-season dealing with.
I liked Skye’s fight seen for the visuals but it did take me out of the moment. I asked myself how did I miss her becoming Christian Bale in Equilibrium.
Because you weren’t paying attention to all the training May was giving her?
That is the most likely answer. I will view Youtube after work to see what I missed.
Even if she was training 16 hours a day, it would be pushing it to get that good in whatever amount of time she’s had. Especially in a group fight like that, unless May got everyone on the bus in as part of the training.
Well, let’s take as an example a Navy SEAL. They train for over a year before being made part of a team, but a very large percentage of that training is in things other than gunfighting. They learn SCUBA diving, parachuting, small boat tactics, and a host of other things. If they were to concentrate just on gunfighting, how long would they have to train to be proficient? A few months?
For an Inhuman - not long at all.
This is the best answer. Even pretty boy stood up to deathlok.
Perhaps we’ll get a better idea of the timeline after Age of Ultron appears, but let’s say it is a few months of training for advanced handgun proficiency, with the comic book fudge factor of proficiency equalling what she was capable of doing in the shot. We can also add in strength and agility from her Inhuman physiology enhancing her advanced hand-to-hand proficiency (again, with the comic fudge factor). So where did she learn the situation awareness required for that fight? May or Bobbi pulling it off, I’ve got no problem, as it is acknowledged they are veterans with years of practice and experience. Not Skye.
I know it’s the Skye and the Agents of SHIELD show, and that’s why I might not come back should they get a season 3, or at the very least put this show at the end of my queue.
Another new element brought in at the end… Agent 33/Masque is back at SHIELD…unwillingly.
Show-wise- was she brought in there as a backup field agent if the Bobbi and Hunter spin-off goes forward?
Every time I hear Agent 33 I think of Get Smart’s Agent 13, who was always inside trash cans or vending machines.
Could very well be. I wouldn’t put it past them at least.