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Originally Posted by wei yau
I also dislike the needlessly overcomplicated tech. That stupid file system that FitzSimmons was using was horribly impractical. You have to virtually scan through the files by virtually moving some big columns of virtual files. Let's roll through all of these to find the dates we're looking for...whereas a simple search utility would've done it no prob.
Yet, I still can't stop watch the show. I keep hoping it'll get better. |
wei yau is very smart and I agree with everything he says.
Except to suggest that watching two nerds
at keyboards is already boring enough so giving them something to do at least makes it look exciting, even if it's the totally ass backwards way to search for something. Additionally, it's odd that Fitz figured out it wasn't just encrypted but it was an ascii picture of where the Guest House was. Which, you know, creates other Where is this place and What is this place questions that they didn't show them solving. One is forced to assume they used GUI based satellite terrain matching software to find it. And also also, Skye was in nacoma stasis from Switzerland to Maryland and then to the undisclosed location (I assume western US). TV magic everborty.
wei yau sort of walked me through some of the squicky stuff I was having a problem with. I don't like that
my Agent Coulson is one of the bad guys. Alright, so SHIELD is the kind of organization that kicks in doors and kills people all they want and nobody can say boo about it. They're a supragovernmental entity, they're beyond any single government and thus any silly thing like constitutional rights don't seem to exist. But that's comic logic for you. Of course organizations and the people who comprise them will tend to abuse any authority they think they have as well as any they actually have. But here in the real world I'm tired of the so called good guys using the ends to justify their means. My small hope is that this comes to a head in some manner in the Winter Soldier. If this were just the movie-verse, I could feel good about that small hope. But thus far, Agent Coulson's Marvel's Agents of SHIELD hasn't demonstrated they can handle these things with anything like nuance or skill.
But let's put all that aside for this episode. (It's a bunch of the little things from this episode and others that keep building up detracting from my zeal in enjoying this show.) Here's what bugs me especial this episode: Wasn't it just a few episodes back we had this big ol' thing about secrets and how they can destroy even professional relationships? And now that Coulson is all shell shocked somehow from seeing an alien - albeit one that is half an alien and hooked up to extraction tubes - he's back to keeping secrets for someone's own good. WTF, Phil? You know this is just going to shit on your face at the exact wrong moment, right?
Now as to the providence of this alien? My immediate thoughts were HEY THAT'S A KREE RIGHT. And checking some comments and stuff around the internet, other folks had the same thought. Which was quickly dampened by others who say MCU doesn't have the rights to Kree, so this alien is prolly a Sakaran or something. (And also trying to find some alien tie-in with Guardians.) So, nobody knows for sure yet and I thought I'd let you all know.