US: Marvels Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (US timeline) *spoilers*

I think I said earlier in this thread that I thought Ward was quite an interesting character, but they've just made him the most interesting character in the whole show.
 
One of the most ridiculous scenes in the series yet.

The god damned interrogation, he asks more than once about him being involved in hydra, but because he then says he came back for Skye he lets him go and then ends up dead.... wtf.

I can't stand such disgracefully awful writing. How does answering one question later truthfully suddenly make it okay he was lying for the other questions regarding hydra?

I think that was the biggest most ridiculous piece of writing yet and that is going some. "hmm I think from his answers he might actually be with hydra... wait, you want to bang the hot chick, then let me release you with all suspicions gone instantly"
 
Other than that and the fairly random bad guy of the week thing, it was pretty good, no? :D
Still a little disappointed that Ward actually is Hydra though... Still, it was a pretty good character twist as character twists go.
 
I think the bad guy of the week was kind of important.
It shows that even when things have gone south, they know they need to be who the world needs them to be.

And it's always good to see Amy Acker.
 
The villain of the week thing was not too bad, I think. Ultimately it's there to foreground the idea that SHIELD are going to have to follow and attempt to capture other escaped inmates at some point in the future. I mean, there wasn't really anyway they could show Ward and Garrett breaking into The Fridge and letting people out without there being someone to chase almost immediately. I think in some ways, this episode had a later Dollhouse style feel to it.

Which isn't a bad thing, because Dollhouse was starting to become a good show. If anything, the pace of the latest episode demonstrates how the characters can work together and still develop individually all while embracing both serial and non-serial plotlines at the same time. Really, the show should have been doing this to begin with. Instead it took sometime to slowly set everything up for the current 'Uprising' arc, only it tried to juggle creating plot threads whilst playing around with characters dynamics to see who fits where and what their role is in the show.

I felt the latest episode was better than most of the first half of the season. The bits with the interrogation/lie detector thing threw up some interesting character traits for each character, which was nice. The bit of character progression with Ward's back story and the abuse in his past was really nicely done. Developing Coulson away from the rest of the team was handled well, even if Amy Acker was essentially reading dialogue that was almost 100% cliches. We even got a huge hint about May's backstory too with her mother, which I was glad to see.

It's just a shame the episode was so romance heavy. It really sucked the tension out of it.
 
So I just happened to rewatch The Avengers and in the scene at the beginning when Coulson is trying to sign Stark on, Pepper says "I want to hear about the cellist, is that still a thing?" That is some attention to detail!
 
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