Don't you just love it when a character who's supposed to be from the Balkans not only has her lines captioned as [speaking Russian] (spoiler alert: Russia and the Balkans are nowhere near each other), but the lines themselves are in Polish - terrible Polish, I might add, but Polish nonetheless (also not a language you'd find in the Balkans)? I know the Slav Squad is more or less interchangeable to English speakers, but you'd think they'd at least make an effort to get it right. Unless of course it was a deliberate choice since Deke was the one narrating the story and he probably can't tell the difference, but since the joke would fly over a lot of viewers' heads, my point still stands.
Overall, this was a fun episode that made me laugh out loud a few times, but it also felt... unnecessary, I guess? I like both Mack and Deke just fine, but do I like them enough to have an entire episode dedicated to them? Maybe in a regular season, but definitely not in a short final one. We already have so few episodes left, we didn't need what was essentially a filler that excluded most of the main cast. Throughout the whole thing I couldn't help but think "okay, we've had a few laughs, can we find out how Daisy's doing now?". I did like the fact that it gave Mack time to deal with his grief, but other than that and Sybil getting the Time Streams to Malick it didn't really move the plot along in any significant ways. I know not everyone feels the same way and that's fine, but I'm mostly here for my OG team, so this episode didn't really do it for me. The preview for next week looks insane though.
(Also, if Nathaniel Malick got his powers in '76 and we're in '84 now, that means he's had them longer than Daisy who's only had hers for like 5 years. That should be interesting.)
Now, for your weekly rundown of AoS's greatest hits: 3x17 "The Team" This one had me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. Trying to guess which Inhuman got infected by Hive was so exciting and Daisy turning out to be the one after a series of clever misdirections was a big fat shocker. I loved how they really kept us guessing the entire episode and the ending still truly surprised me. Plus, Daisy using her seismic blasts or whatever you call them to basically bring down the entire Playground was a very sexy look that I still think about sometimes. It truly had big "mark me down as scared and horny" energy.
Review by Aniela KrajewskaVIP 8BlockedParentSpoilers2020-07-09T16:16:49Z— updated 2020-07-11T18:38:44Z
Don't you just love it when a character who's supposed to be from the Balkans not only has her lines captioned as [speaking Russian] (spoiler alert: Russia and the Balkans are nowhere near each other), but the lines themselves are in Polish - terrible Polish, I might add, but Polish nonetheless (also not a language you'd find in the Balkans)? I know the Slav Squad is more or less interchangeable to English speakers, but you'd think they'd at least make an effort to get it right. Unless of course it was a deliberate choice since Deke was the one narrating the story and he probably can't tell the difference, but since the joke would fly over a lot of viewers' heads, my point still stands.
Overall, this was a fun episode that made me laugh out loud a few times, but it also felt... unnecessary, I guess? I like both Mack and Deke just fine, but do I like them enough to have an entire episode dedicated to them? Maybe in a regular season, but definitely not in a short final one. We already have so few episodes left, we didn't need what was essentially a filler that excluded most of the main cast. Throughout the whole thing I couldn't help but think "okay, we've had a few laughs, can we find out how Daisy's doing now?". I did like the fact that it gave Mack time to deal with his grief, but other than that and Sybil getting the Time Streams to Malick it didn't really move the plot along in any significant ways. I know not everyone feels the same way and that's fine, but I'm mostly here for my OG team, so this episode didn't really do it for me. The preview for next week looks insane though.
(Also, if Nathaniel Malick got his powers in '76 and we're in '84 now, that means he's had them longer than Daisy who's only had hers for like 5 years. That should be interesting.)
Now, for your weekly rundown of AoS's greatest hits:
3x17 "The Team"
This one had me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. Trying to guess which Inhuman got infected by Hive was so exciting and Daisy turning out to be the one after a series of clever misdirections was a big fat shocker. I loved how they really kept us guessing the entire episode and the ending still truly surprised me. Plus, Daisy using her seismic blasts or whatever you call them to basically bring down the entire Playground was a very sexy look that I still think about sometimes. It truly had big "mark me down as scared and horny" energy.