Agents of SHIELD:
This week's installment showed us a glimpse of the sterner, harsher Coulson-that-was, when he tries to rescue/redeem an old protege that appears to have gone to the bad. Character-wise, it was pretty much business as usual, where Skye hacks everything, Ward beats up/shoots everything, Fitz/Simmons provide slapstick and !MiracleTech, and May does some snazzy fighting but ultimately lets someone get the drop on her again.
The best part was, of course, the robot eye enucleation, where the rogue agent administered her own retrobulbar block (not quite in the right place, but I guess if you're doing your own, you should get some leeway.) When Fitz/Simmons are frantically dithering about as to how to disarm the eyeball (and wouldn't you think that would have come up BEFORE they were sitting there yanking something out of her skull?) they have the globe attached to wires stretching some four-five inches from the orbit. Either the people who put that in left a lot of redundant wire coiled in the back of the orbit for emergencies, or they were yanking pretty hard on something that, in theory, was attached to her brain. Which seems like a bad idea.
A fun episode, if you don't think too hard about the overall optical logistics of everything.
Questions:
- What did Akela see in Coulson that made her so mystified? Since Skye still has the replica magical "backscatter" glasses, can she see it too?
- What was the equation that Ward transmitted to the secret agency? Shouldn't we be a little concerned about that?
- They have enough money for a bar and a gym in their plane, but they don't have enough for a portable commode?
- How did Coulson know Akela's handler was that guy, versus the doughy white guy that walked right in front of him?
Once Upon A Time in Wonderland:
Second week of OUATiW, and it continues to not impress. Alice continues to browbeat Jack into accompanying her on her mission to find Cyrus, her twue wuv; the Red Queen and Jafar continue to practice brinksmanship on each other while they jockey for position; the White Rabbit continues to labor under what I like to call the "Mad Hatter Syndrome," in which he keeps trying to believe anyone known as an Evil Queen will keep their bargains; and Cyrus does origami.
The issue that is becoming most problematic for me with this show, is that all the women in it are awful, and the men are mostly saps. No matter how many times the Knave saves her bacon, Alice is pretty relentlessly rude and ungrateful to him. When they land on a turtle, her method of getting it to help them is to start stabbing and threatening it. Silvermist, the jilted fairy, is willing to kill the Knave over what was apparently an affaire de coeur gone bad. I feel like Cyrus is supposed to be the proof for us that Alice is terrific by the way he falls in love with her the first time he claps eyes on her, but what exactly is this based on? She's not funny, she doesn't seem nice, she clearly has father issues...I guess she's agile? And a quick learner? That doesn't seem like enough.
We'll continue to hang in there for the time being, but frankly Alice, you're on probation.
Once Upon A Time:
Another pretty solid episode in which our heroes continue their search for Henry in Neverland. The bulk of this one was Rumple and Neal who finally get together for a brief moment, before Pan succeeds at playing on Neal's distrust of his Dad to separate them again. Everyone else was in a holding pattern, after Tinker Bell points out that they have, as yet, given no consideration to an escape route once they've gotten Henry back.
Probably the most interesting point was Pan's gibe at Neal after recapturing him--when Pan reminds him that no one escapes Neverland, Neal points out that he did, as a boy. Pan then suggests that he let him escape, presumably so that he would grow up, find Emma, impregnate her, and thereby produce Henry, the True Believer who will bring magic back to Neverland. That is one long-reaching plan--even Rumple would have to admire someone who could screw with that many people for that long to get what they wanted. Maybe Rumple's been going after the wrong kid--he and Pan have way more in common than he and Bael ever did.
Thoughts:
- Charming is digging himself a pre-etty big hole with Snow by not telling her he's poisoned. That's going to be a bad scene.
- Emma is way more forgiving than I am, if she instantly knew she still loved Neal the first time she saw him, after he left her penniless, pregnant, and in jail for his crimes.
- Bael was an impressively accomplished kid, for growing up and turning into Neal, who was nothing more than a dupe for Tamara and couldn't even lean out a window without dropping his cell phone.
- Did you think Mulan was going to tell Aurora she loved her last week? Because I totally thought she was just going to ask permission to go poach on Philip. Either way, I'm not sure why she thought she had a chance, because that ship looked like it sailed a long time ago.
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