Well, someone must have watched John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness recently...
This episode had more Dutch angles than a geometry textbook from the Netherlands.
After everything that's happened in this series, they've finally managed to offend me.
Why does Swamp Thing have a freakin' MAN-BUN?!?!?!
"Daisy Ex Machina" digs the writers out of their own hole once again. Pretty good episode otherwise.
Why is every extra-dimensional being from a dimension of fear, pain, and/or darkness?
Are there no dimensions of happiness, rainbows, and ice cream?
Shouldn't half the members be dust right now?
I guess they're no longer even trying to pretend they're part of the MCU any more.
Hashtags for this episode: #DirtyDan-ing #DiablosExMachina
This show is getting duller with each episode. I'm to the point where I'm not sure I even want to finish it...
That Graviton costume is almost spot-on. Regardless of the "heel turn" implications, it makes sense considering Talbot has been SHIELD's whipping boy for so long, that once he has the upper hand, he abuses it (complicated further by all the voices in his head).
Glenn Talbot may not be the hero we want, but he is the hero we need. :-D
Why O why couldn't they have killed off Winona instead of Samwise? Bob is infinitely more useful, likeable, and less annoying than Joyce. Seriously, I'd like this series more if she wasn't in it.
I want to like this series more than I do. It's somehow coming across as feeling decompressed yet loaded with plot-driving exposition at the same time, which is a weird dynamic.
Gorgon feels like he's trying to keep a straight face when he delivers his lines.
Karnak's arc isn't working for me at all.
I realize Black Bolt can't speak, but his expressions are coming across as creepy and not stoic.
Maximus is coming across the best, playing the duality between sympathetic villain and master manipulator pretty well.
Crystal is a close second. Her teenager forced to grow up in a hurry is working well, too.
I don't know where I'm going to fall on this show. It's not the pile of garbage some folks are touting it as, but it's got a lot of problems as well. I honestly think it would have worked better as a two-hour movie versus an eight-hour miniseries, considering it's following a near-identical plot to the first Thor movie.
Did I miss something? When did Arvid hook up with Hildur? That big announcement at the end really threw me off what was otherwise a satisfying end to the first season.
Well, that's one way to resolve your daddy issues...
I'm curious to see if Harold remains dead, since Hand resurrectees are notoriously difficult to kill (again).
This was a really good episode as a whole, but one thing bugged me when it happened and still boggles my mind:
So you're telling me that the father of HYDRA's Second-In-Command lives in a random suburb with no guards, no overhead drones, and no security system whatsoever? I know Jemma is smart and resourceful,
but there's no way someone on HYDRA's most wanted list should be able to just walk up to the front door (armed, no less) of one of HYDRA's elite and no one notices.
"It turns out, brother, I understand women better than you."
I'll miss Princess Ellisif. She was almost as pretty as Lagertha.
This might have had more impact had I not seen the "Hearts and Minds" episode of The Outer Limits almost twenty years ago, since it has almost exactly the same plot.
The Pilot is spent mainly establishing the characters, and there was a lot of jumping around as the showrunners are trying to set the theme of the series. Of course, all the team members have their own closet skeletons.
With all the focus being on setting up the series, the plot itself seemed almost an afterthought, The case resolution was no surprise as the victim's mother spouts out a name with zero context, and surprise that's the guilty party.
I'm hoping future episodes get more focused on the cases, as the pilot was pretty disjointed, and I'm worried people won't come back. Despite the script flaws, it was well-acted, and Hayley Atwell is absolutely gorgeous. I'll give this a few more episodes to develop, but the show is fighting an uphill battle at this point.
Just a few thoughts/observations:
While I don't mind the organization changes, and encourage the show shifting things around a bit to keep it fresh, the intentional obfuscation of the new director's identity seemed a bit heavy-handed. Although judging by 4x02's episode title, we'll meet him/her next week.
I'm not familiar with this incarnation of the Ghost Rider (although I read a ton of the motorcyle-era versions), but the effects looked great for a TV show, and Gabriel Luna did a good job with his limited on-screen time.
May is still a badass. I like how the Triad guys get infected/possessed, freak out, and kill each other, but Melinda is all "Huh... that's a bit unsettling."
Honestly, my only complaint is how everyone is still fixated on Skye/Daisy/Tremors/Quake. I've found the character dull since the first episode, and they've made her entirely too overpowered at this point. I kind of wish she had gotten shot into the sun with Ward/Hive instead of Lincoln.
Elektra is still the weakest part of this season, but more Punisher... oh heck yeah!
"You're supposed to be blond."
"That's what everyone keeps telling me!"
I admit it -- I lol'ed.
The more "human" Lucifer gets, the less interesting.
Awesome battle scene. No appearance by Lagertha, though, which is always a shame.
I was getting worried, especially after last week's episode, that the show was turning into "Castle" with Satan. Fortunately, they started dipping into the source material more in this episode.
Rollo is kind of a jerk.
Being a fan of the comic series, I went into this with major trepidation. Yes, forget most everything from the comics but the character names, however, the dialog is snappy, and I ended up enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would, even if this ultimately just "Castle" with Satan.
Great finale -- until the last two minutes totally crapped the bed.