For all those that have yet to
watch this last Tuesday’s episode of Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D., entitled ‘Repairs’, well then you’re even later to the
show than I am so you should probably go watch it now. This isn’t a spoiler
free blog. THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN
SPOILERS! Proceed ahead at your own discretion.
This series seems to be coming
together rather slowly. Even just with this week’s episode the characters seem
mostly superficial, and in May’s case mostly rigid. There’s very little heart
to this series on a consistent basis, it seems to peak out at times, but not
quite often enough. I just don’t care enough about these people’s lives, and I
think that the rest of the audience is feeling that way as well. These actors
don’t seem to play off each other well enough and don’t seem to have enough
good chemistry to keep this show up. Someone needs to throw them all in a cabin
in the middle of a no-signal patch of deep woods and let them work together for
a week and see how they come out after that.
More regarding this episode, while
it was inferred to the last episode, I’m not getting Ward and May. They didn’t
set that thing up anywhere near as well as they should have. Of all people, I’d
expect May to gravitate towards Coulson more than Ward, despite her sharing more
in common with Ward – job wise. They just, they don’t fit well enough at all.
And the fact that they feel the need to hide it, I honestly don’t think anyone would care if they were getting
their freak on together. And yes, I did just use freak on. Basically, for me,
it didn’t feel natural to either the story or the characters themselves. I
would feel differently if it had.
So basically this week’s episode,
otherwise, was about this man who kept jumping between dimensions – or, at
least, that’s the gist I got from it. This was a very confusing concept for me.
Was the guy going to die? Or was he just holding on to this reality too
grippingly that he wasn’t able to stick to the other dimension? They didn’t
explain this nearly as well as they should have, so it kind of feels like
unfinished business to me.
Up until that point, I was
enjoying what was going on with this episode, very intriguing. I really liked
the whole prank situation that went on, although it wasn’t done nearly as well
in certain situations as it could have. Also, I’m kind of angry with Coulson
for thinking that what May needed to hear at her ‘Cavalry’ moment was what she
told the man clinging to a woman he liked. That was completely terrible, and
not at all something anyone should tell another person. It kind of made me want
to punch him out.
All in all, this series isn’t
exactly moving in a way that makes sense. It feels like it’s jumping all over
the place, and that it’s resolving certain storylines improperly. It’s like
they don’t seem to know where they’re going, or even have some endgame in
sight. The way that it is moving is rather sloppily done, and not at all
something that will likely keep this series around longer than this season.
Unless they really get their act together, I don’t have high hopes.
My rating: 6 out of 10.
Best Lines:
“No! You do not touch that!” – Fitz scolds Skye for touching
the graphics.
“My boring, old, flat computer.” – Skye mutters, after being
told not to touch the graphics.
My apologies for how late this is, although I did watch it
two days ago, I’ve just not felt in the mood, I’ve been in the Christmas spirit
– something that’s getting harder to ignore the closer we get to Christmas. But
here you go. I’m probably not going to have the Dracula review up until tomorrow, alongside Once Upon A Time.
