THANKS ALOT ADOM. YOU HAVE OFFICIALLY RUINET THE SHOW FOR ME.
Herein I state my lament about Agent Coulson (pbuh).
He's a bad leader. (And by extension, Nick Furious' SHIELD is a shit organization) He seems to have all the answers but he doesn't help his team understand what his plans are - either for the team in general or for the immediate objective. This makes for fantastic soundbites and hilarious yodaisms. It's great to look back and realize that he had everything under control, sort of, but it would reduce a lot of bullshit and stress if they could do more of their own job without worrying about just how close to death, dismemberment and-or injury while cosmic level energies are being pointed at you.
On a real team like this there would be lots of briefings and memos aplenty, Like, for every hour on the ground they'd probably spend 9 hours reading and talking about their duties in and out of objectivating missions. They would spend so many hours learning about the expectations of the other members of the team they would just be tired of talking about it all. With all of the money spent on the highly trained brains and bodies, representing likely tens of millions of dollars of investment nevermind the hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment at risk, you're damn right they'd do every thing they could think of (and even things they couldn't think of) to minimize the risk and loss.
It's alright for a rag-tag group of space cowboy pirates to fly by the seat of their pants but a pan-global and sometimes pan-dimension and on rare occasions pan-galactic organization ain't into playing those kinds of games. Nick Furious should have his boot even further up Coulson's shiny metal ass for accidentally falling bass ackwards into surviving the missions he's living through.
Coulson (pbuh) deserves the flack he's getting from the soldiers he has recuited. They're being told to do the incredible and only being given half a deck of cards to do it with, and not even knowing what the cards in that half a deck are.
Now then, with that out of the way. What happened this week?
Turns out, ladies and gentles, your favorite friendly neighborhood Bort was wrong. I thought for sure, or at least with a high degree of certainty, that Skye was the whole and total of the Rising Tide. Turns out I was wrong. I'm sorry for my wrongness. And in reflecting on that wrongness I wonder what other prognostications I am already likely wrong about also.
So, Skye is working for an unaligned third party. Neither do we know what her true motivation is. An obvious path is that she was recruited and is being forced to do what she's doing. Also likely is that now that she's making friends - seeing the face of the "beast" so to speak - she's going to question her role as an inside agent. I was hoping that she would simply be the liberal Occupy foil to the rigid traditional hierarchy of SHIELD.
No one else's arc moved very much. May is still the stoic and wounded warrior not happy to still be in the business of hitting people and breaking things. Ward is still the White Guy in the middle. Fitz and Simmons are still the sciencey guys.
Tune in next week for SOMETHING.