“During the War, I had a sense of purpose, but now I connect the calls but I never get a chance to make them.”
- Peggy Carter
So while our current day Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are on break, we are getting a glimpse into the past with “Agent Carter”. As you likely know, Peggy made her debut in “Captain America: The First Avenger” and she was Cap’s girlfriend. Of course, we know he went down in an iceberg and was lost for like 70 years but that’s how things go. We find Peggy now in 1946 in New York and she’s working for the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR), the precursor to SHIELD. Her friends think she works at the phone company but she’s really an agent. Unfortunately, now that the war is over and men are returning, the women who worked in all of these typically male-oriented positions are being pushed to the sidelines and treated like dirt. This is especially clear when the agents get called into a briefing because Howard Stark (Tony Stark’s father) is being accused of selling weaponry to the enemy and now he’s missing. A real hotshot agent, Thompson, is assigned to hunt Stark down. Clearly Peggy is not happy about this given her close connection to Stark during the war and his efforts with the super soldier program. But it’s a real boys’ club and they treat her like a secretary. She’s got one guy in her corner, Agent Daniel Sousa (played by the ever versatile Enver Gjokaj whom you should know from his days in the Dollhouse). Obviously, Peggy doesn’t need a man to defend her but she appreciates that he feels offended on her behalf. That night, she’s at a diner when someone slips her a note to meet in the back alley. A handsome Brit approaches her and when he says she’ll be going with him, she beats him up and shoots out the tire of the oncoming car only to realize it was Howard Stark trying to get her attention.
Stark thinks he’s being framed and he explains to Peggy en route to the docks that he came back from a trip to find his super-secret vault with a giant hole in it and all his bad inventions (the ones he can’t help thinking up and creating but that he couldn’t sell because of the negative repercussions) were gone. Some have already been sold in Europe and some are still trying to find buyers in the US. Stark tasks Peggy with finding the real bad guy and clearing his name. This of course means working a bit counter to her SSR colleagues which could be dangerous. She’s a very good spy though. She finds Sousa the next morning looking at photos of Stark and a woman on a boat. Peggy convinces him that Stark can’t swim and is afraid of the water so getting on a boat is the last thing he’d do (which we obviously know is a big fat lie). And Thompson is having a briefing on a fence who he thinks is going to snap up one of Stark’s inventions. Peggy inserts herself into the meeting via coffee and when she’s learned who they are going after and his preferences in women (he likes blonds) she excuses herself with a “woman’s issues” excuse and gets dolled up for the night. She worms her way in with her feminine wiles and then uses some paralyzing lipstick (did she steal that from Captain Harkness during the War?) and breaks into the vault where she finds a little shiny and glowing device which I’m guessing isn’t what she was looking for but it’s good she’s found it. Oh and the thief who took all of Stark’s inventions is played by the ever nefarious James Frain. Seriously, I can’t think of a role he’s played recently where he wasn’t evil (or creepy at least…I guess he turned out to not be evil on Sleepy Hollow).
It turns out, as Thompson and his guys show up, that what Peggy found is the formula that Stark had developed put into practical use and weaponized. She calls Jarvis for help and luckily Stark left some handy notes on how to handle and dispose of it. She heads home with it and has to do some quick thinking on the dance floor to avoid her co-workers seeing her. And it seems that James Frain’s character has goons who are cleaning up messes including the fence. Peggy manages to get home and successfully diffuse the bomb but no sooner has she done that than her roommate is shot dead and two gunmen surround her in her apartment. Oh dear, how is she going to get out of this?
As we know, Peggy is no pushover in hand-to-hand combat and after some improv she manages to best the guy and toss him out a window. She’s devastated over losing her roommate though and she feels responsible. Jarvis tries to cheer her up but she’s not having it. At least not until the mission is done. Jarvis has an idea of where they can go to get the answers they need on how the device was made and it turns out it likely came from a nearby factory and the device is still letting off a certain type of radiation which was used in the super soldier program. While Peggy is at work retrieving a device and recalling her last conversation with Steve, the guy she tossed out the window is using a very Fringe-like typewriter to get permission to kill Peggy to salvage their operation. I like how they are weaving in bits from the first Captain America movie (and I’m sure Chris Evans isn’t complaining either since they probably have to pay him some sort of royalty to use the footage).
Peggy and Jarvis head to the facility and she is pretty badass breaking in and taking out one of the guards. I have to say though I don’t see why she didn’t take the guy’s weapon. Also, Peggy and Jarvis are hilarious with their banter. I quite enjoy them. It turns out the radiation bomb devices are being mass produced and James Frain’s character has a truck full of them and apparently he’s got voice issues and speaks like Steven Hawking. The other scar-throat guy isn’t with him and calls him the Leviathan. Cryptic. The facility ends up blowing up and imploding so there’s no building left. Thompson and Sousa and their boss go check it out while Peggy heads back to work and Jarvis shares a very cryptic phone conversation with Stark in which it really sounds like they’re secretly Hydra which would piss me off to no end.
For a pilot episode, I thought it was pretty well done and it introduced us to our lead heroine and gave her some interesting (if chauvinistic) supporting characters) to work with. Let’s see how the rest of the season progresses. I do hope we get a complete story with these eight episodes.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Galavant 1.01: "Pilot"
“Actually, I don’t know. I’ve been thinking a lot about it ever since he kidnapped me, and I’m going to go with the fame and fortune.”
-Madalena
“Galavant” was by far my most anticipated new show of the 2014-2015 season. I think ABC’s idea to make it a limited-run event for a month in the winter is perfect. This show is to quirky to be sustainable over your typical 22 episode American television season, but for four weeks, it may just do well enough for ABC to commission another adventure for Galavant and his friends to broadcast next winter. “Galavant” combines many things I greatly enjoy. There’s the goofy medieval theme, in the tradition of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” or “Spamalot.” There’s music composed by Alan Menken, of “Little Shop of Horrors” and too many Disney moves to count fame. And there’s Tim Omundsen, until now best known for his role as Detective Carlton Lassiter on “Psych.” While I wouldn’t say that the pilot invoked the “insta love” feeling I was hoping for (like “Pushing Daisies”), it and the following episode were a perfectly enjoyable way to spend an hour, and I will be happy to write about this charming little show for the next month.
Through a catchy tune that we eventually learn is sung by the court jester, we learn the background of Galavant’s current sorry predicament. Sir Galavant (Joshua Sasse) was once the most celebrated knight, but that all ended when King Richard (Tim Omundsen) kidnapped his girlfriend, Madalena (Mallory Jansen). Galavant rides in heroically to try and stop King Richard’s wedding to Madalena, but he’s in for an unpleasant surprise. He gives a big speech about how King Richard may have fame and fortune, but he, Galavant, is the one who truly loves Madalena. Madalena, however, has decided that she’d rather have the fame and fortune. Galavant is crushed. When we next see him, he is basically living in a pig sty, and he’s let his once famous abs go by drinking too much beer.
When Galavant is at his low point, Princess Isabella of Valencia (Karen David) walks into his life. She has heard about his achievements, and she wants his help to save her kingdom. She is willing to give Galavant the Jewel of Valencia, her kingdom’s priceless asset, in exchange for his help. Galavant, however, isn’t really interested. He got out of the hero business after Madalena broke his heart. Isabella, for her part, finds Galavant to be pretty gross. She eventually tells him the story of how she hid under the floor of the throne room of her family’s castle in Valencia, and she only revealed herself when her parents were about to be killed. Galavant still isn’t especially interested until Isabella reveals that the conqueror of her kingdom is none other than King Richard.
While Galavant doesn’t know the true story of what happened to Isabella, we viewers get to see it. King Richard was in Valencia mostly because Madalena wanted the Jewel, and King Richard desperately wants her approval. King Richard certainly has a sadistic streak (four generations of chefs have been killed by Richard and his ancestors for small transgressions), but Madalena brings out the worst in him. She’s very manipulative, and she gets whatever she wants just by mentioning Galavant. King Richard understandably can’t stand Galavant, because his wife keeps making the comparison. Madalena, also understandably, is disgusted by King Richard. He did kidnap her and all. But it doesn’t seem like she actually likes much of anything other than herself. I think Galavant dodged a bullet with that one.
Anyway, back to Isabella, what she doesn’t tell Galavant is that when King Richard discovered her hiding under the floor, he set a plan in motion. He wants the Jewel of Valencia for Madalena, but he’s playing a long game. In exchange for sparing her parents’ lives, King Richard wants Isabella to go find Galavant and offer him the Jewel in exchange for freeing her kingdom. He instructs her to strategically let it slip that King Richard is the one who conquered her kingdom. Then he tells her to let Galavant know that she constantly heard Madalena crying “I’m sorry Gal, I made the wrong choice.” The plan works exactly as King Richard predicted. As soon as Isabella starts talking about Madalena, Galavant is all in. He wants to defeat King Richard once and for all and win Madalena back.
As you’d expect, since the composer was Alan Menken, the music was a highlight for me. The main “Galavant” theme is super catchy. ABC decided to promo all their shows by singing about them to the theme, though, so I got kind of tired of it by the end of Sunday night. King Richard also has a very funny song in this episode about how much he hates Galavant and wants to kill him. If you’ve previously seen Tim Omundsen’s musical talents in Psych credit sequence routines, you can guess that this number was a lot of fun. Omundsen is a reasonably good singer, although I think the real vocal standouts were Joshua Sasse and Ben Presley (the Jester). The lyrics to the music are all irreverent and quirky, courtesy of Glenn Slater, who also collaborated with Menken on Disney’s “Tangled.”
All of the performers in “Galavant” seem to be having a great time with their roles, which makes watching the show enjoyable. They all play their parts with tongue firmly in cheek. I don’t think a show like this could work if it took itself too seriously. There are singing and dancing knights, after all! Tim Omundsen especially seems to be having the time of his life. He hams it up as King Richard like nobody’s business. Even the actors in the more serious roles in the show play every scene like they can’t believe their good fortune. I always feel that when the creative team and actors behind a show are having a good time, that comes out on screen and makes the show itself more fun to watch.
While I think the quirk of “Galavant” (which makes it something I really enjoy watching) makes it unsustainable for a typical 22 episode American television, I think it’s going to be a very fun month of January. I’m going to enjoy all the singing knights, Alan Menken music, and Tim Omundsen hamming it up that I can get. Since the ratings from the first night (which featured two half hour episodes, the second of which I will blog about within the next few days) were decent, I would really love if ABC would order a second limited run adventure for next winter. For now, though, I’m going to enjoy what we’ve got, and I suggest you do the same.
Sleepy Hollow 2.12: "Paradise Lost"
“Evil has taken hold in men’s’ hearts. It must be lanced out like a sickness of the flesh, burnt out before it corrupts completely.”
- Orion
As you may recall, when last we hit the “pause” button on journey to the End of Days, Henry had surprised everyone (well some people anyway) by using the Sword of Methuselah and killed Moloch. Oh and Frank is dead. Ichabod comes to and is very disoriented, as is Abbie. But one’s for sure, Moloch is dead and Henry is gone. We jump six weeks ahead to find Ichabod and Abbie at a farmer’s market. We assume it’s just Ichabod reacting to another modern thing until he starts getting a little crazy and waving a knife around at a fruit stand when he finds a rotten apple. It turns out, they’ve been chasing snatches of something maybe supernatural this whole time and it comes down to a farm. Before heading out to search it, we learn that Ichabod and Katrina are “contemplating” their marital issues separately and she’s keeping an eye on Abraham. No one likes dealing with conflict but come on Cranes, get it together and try to work it out. At the farm, Abbie wonders if Ichabod’s been chasing all this stuff because he doesn’t want the fight to be over. If it were, they’d both have to find out who they’d be. Just as they think the farm is clear, they hear weird chanting and find some of Moloch’s minions trying to find him. Abbie and Ichabod get a few shots off but it’s only when an actual angels swoops in and using a circular weapon that glows to kill them, are they good. Yeah, so apparently everyone is into angels now and they’re all British.
Anyway, our winged hero’s name is Orion and after a little tense moment they start swapping information. He was in Purgatory for 200 years and with Moloch’s demise, he was freed. But so were some demons, including the ones they were all after. Before he explains much else, Ichabod gets an urgent text from Katrina so he goes off to see her. It turns out she thinks she can separate Abraham from the avatar of Death. But Abraham isn’t really keen on that idea. He’s still you know pissed at his ex and his best friend for screwing him over back in the day. And Ichabod’s not too happy about the idea either. Their plans, whatever they may be, might become moot though. Orion says the demons are trying to find the next Big Bad that they can pledge allegiance to (sounds like the minions from Despicable Me) and that would be our buddy the Horseman of Death. Orion is very keen to kill Headless. We also learn that Orion used to be a member of the angelic host but he left which was tough for him. Makes me wonder if he’s more Lucifer than Michael (not literally obviously…although can you tell I miss Dominion?).
In short order, Abbie and Ichabod swap details on Orion and Katrina’s plans while those two suss each other out. I don’t think Katrina trusts him (and neither does Ichabod) because she goes and sets Abraham free with a promise that while she tries to separate him from the Horseman he will not kill. Elsewhere, Hawley shows up to meet Jenny at a bar (she’d been intent on flirting with the bartender with Abbie as her wing woman) and he’s brought a demon hunting rock thing. They argue a bit about it and eventually Hawley admits he’s kind of jealous of Jenny and her interest in the bartender. They finally make the rock work and see that the demons Orion is hunting have found Abraham at the old carriage house where he’s gone to ground for daylight. Abbie is out in the woods and she calls for Orion with his little talisman and he’s quite pleased that she’s not standing in his way. He is very gung ho and avenging angel type with his lust for violence. In a sort of horror movie way, Ichabod calls Abbie right as she and Orion are about to get in the car and head off to the carriage house to warn her that Orion has shown up right before disasters throughout history. He might be an angel, but he might very be a bad one.
Abbie lets Orion lead her to Abraham, where the demons have gathered and are pledging themselves to him. He’s also remaking his axe (which apparently can be done with random bits of scrap metal….okay). As Abbie and Orion are on a collision course with Headless, Orion reveals his true plan. His weapon can take the Horseman’s power and then he will cleanse the world of all evil, which basically means Judgment Day and he’s judge, jury and executioner. Yeah, he’s definitely not a friendly, benign angel. Luckily, Ichabod meets up with Abbie in the woods and they forge a plan (sorry couldn’t help myself) to keep Orion from succeeding. While Abbie distracts the angle, Ichabod grabs Abraham’s new axe and uses it to pry Orion’s weapon out of Abraham’s’ back and then smashes it. Orion can’t understand why they are all siding with evil but Abbie explains it pretty well; the enemy of my enemy is my ally. And at that particular moment, Abraham was the lesser threat. Orion eventually flies off (oh Abbie’s distraction method involves shooting him and finding out he’s bulletproof) and Abraham and the Witnesses come to an agreement. He will remain free in the carriage house while Katrina tries to separate man from demon. Speaking of, Ichabod is still very unhappy that Katrina basically used their marriage as a bargaining chip to try and get him on her side. She didn’t use logic or fairness. She’s not particularly apologetic but he does say he wants to try and redefine their marriage. One small step at a time.
It seems both of our Witnesses have accepted the fact that their role is not yet played out and that the field has changed but the fight is still the same. And as Abbie contemplates that over coffee, we see that Captain Irving is not in fact so dead anymore. He’s not looking very good but he’s back!
- Orion
As you may recall, when last we hit the “pause” button on journey to the End of Days, Henry had surprised everyone (well some people anyway) by using the Sword of Methuselah and killed Moloch. Oh and Frank is dead. Ichabod comes to and is very disoriented, as is Abbie. But one’s for sure, Moloch is dead and Henry is gone. We jump six weeks ahead to find Ichabod and Abbie at a farmer’s market. We assume it’s just Ichabod reacting to another modern thing until he starts getting a little crazy and waving a knife around at a fruit stand when he finds a rotten apple. It turns out, they’ve been chasing snatches of something maybe supernatural this whole time and it comes down to a farm. Before heading out to search it, we learn that Ichabod and Katrina are “contemplating” their marital issues separately and she’s keeping an eye on Abraham. No one likes dealing with conflict but come on Cranes, get it together and try to work it out. At the farm, Abbie wonders if Ichabod’s been chasing all this stuff because he doesn’t want the fight to be over. If it were, they’d both have to find out who they’d be. Just as they think the farm is clear, they hear weird chanting and find some of Moloch’s minions trying to find him. Abbie and Ichabod get a few shots off but it’s only when an actual angels swoops in and using a circular weapon that glows to kill them, are they good. Yeah, so apparently everyone is into angels now and they’re all British.
Anyway, our winged hero’s name is Orion and after a little tense moment they start swapping information. He was in Purgatory for 200 years and with Moloch’s demise, he was freed. But so were some demons, including the ones they were all after. Before he explains much else, Ichabod gets an urgent text from Katrina so he goes off to see her. It turns out she thinks she can separate Abraham from the avatar of Death. But Abraham isn’t really keen on that idea. He’s still you know pissed at his ex and his best friend for screwing him over back in the day. And Ichabod’s not too happy about the idea either. Their plans, whatever they may be, might become moot though. Orion says the demons are trying to find the next Big Bad that they can pledge allegiance to (sounds like the minions from Despicable Me) and that would be our buddy the Horseman of Death. Orion is very keen to kill Headless. We also learn that Orion used to be a member of the angelic host but he left which was tough for him. Makes me wonder if he’s more Lucifer than Michael (not literally obviously…although can you tell I miss Dominion?).
In short order, Abbie and Ichabod swap details on Orion and Katrina’s plans while those two suss each other out. I don’t think Katrina trusts him (and neither does Ichabod) because she goes and sets Abraham free with a promise that while she tries to separate him from the Horseman he will not kill. Elsewhere, Hawley shows up to meet Jenny at a bar (she’d been intent on flirting with the bartender with Abbie as her wing woman) and he’s brought a demon hunting rock thing. They argue a bit about it and eventually Hawley admits he’s kind of jealous of Jenny and her interest in the bartender. They finally make the rock work and see that the demons Orion is hunting have found Abraham at the old carriage house where he’s gone to ground for daylight. Abbie is out in the woods and she calls for Orion with his little talisman and he’s quite pleased that she’s not standing in his way. He is very gung ho and avenging angel type with his lust for violence. In a sort of horror movie way, Ichabod calls Abbie right as she and Orion are about to get in the car and head off to the carriage house to warn her that Orion has shown up right before disasters throughout history. He might be an angel, but he might very be a bad one.
Abbie lets Orion lead her to Abraham, where the demons have gathered and are pledging themselves to him. He’s also remaking his axe (which apparently can be done with random bits of scrap metal….okay). As Abbie and Orion are on a collision course with Headless, Orion reveals his true plan. His weapon can take the Horseman’s power and then he will cleanse the world of all evil, which basically means Judgment Day and he’s judge, jury and executioner. Yeah, he’s definitely not a friendly, benign angel. Luckily, Ichabod meets up with Abbie in the woods and they forge a plan (sorry couldn’t help myself) to keep Orion from succeeding. While Abbie distracts the angle, Ichabod grabs Abraham’s new axe and uses it to pry Orion’s weapon out of Abraham’s’ back and then smashes it. Orion can’t understand why they are all siding with evil but Abbie explains it pretty well; the enemy of my enemy is my ally. And at that particular moment, Abraham was the lesser threat. Orion eventually flies off (oh Abbie’s distraction method involves shooting him and finding out he’s bulletproof) and Abraham and the Witnesses come to an agreement. He will remain free in the carriage house while Katrina tries to separate man from demon. Speaking of, Ichabod is still very unhappy that Katrina basically used their marriage as a bargaining chip to try and get him on her side. She didn’t use logic or fairness. She’s not particularly apologetic but he does say he wants to try and redefine their marriage. One small step at a time.
It seems both of our Witnesses have accepted the fact that their role is not yet played out and that the field has changed but the fight is still the same. And as Abbie contemplates that over coffee, we see that Captain Irving is not in fact so dead anymore. He’s not looking very good but he’s back!
Sunday, January 4, 2015
New Girl 4.10: "Girl Fight"
“I'm a damn feminist who loves purses. Where else am I supposed to keep my feminist writings? In a purse! That’s where!”
-Jess
I’m honestly torn about whether I liked or hated this episode. I’ll admit I definitely laughed a few times. I’m not sure if I like what it says about women, though. As you can see from the Quote of the Episode, Jess most definitely considers herself a feminist, so I don’t think it is really meant as an attack on women, but it’s not exactly flattering to women, either. The crux of the whole episode is stereotypes of how men and women fight. As you could probably tell just from the title of the episode. I didn’t really appreciate that, of all the things, it’s a purse (and a kind of ugly one at that) which starts a major fight between Jess and Cece. I know the idea is that the purse was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but come on. It’s just a purse!
The main plot of the episode is, of course, the rather short-lived (but apparently intense) fight between Jess and Cece. The pair are at the loft, planning a baby shower for Cece’s crazy Russian model roommate, Nadia, when they witness a little argument between Coach and Schmidt over DVR privileges. Coach and Schmidt resolve their differences by throwing a few light punches, and order is restored. The ladies are kind of horrified at the idea of using violence to solve a disagreement, and they tell the guys about their more passive aggressive style. We see a flashback to a time when both Jess and Cece wanted the same purse. As they tell the story, neither of them ended up with the purse after a very long back-and-forth of “oh it would look better on you!”
Schmidt, however, makes a terrible mistake. He mentions that he has seen the purse in question in Jess’ closet before. Cece sees this as a betrayal. They both decided that neither would buy the purse, and Jess went back and bought it anyway. Like I said, I don’t think that a purse is the be-all-end-all of the world, but apparently it matters a lot to Jess and Cece. Or, as the episode sort-of suggests, it is the last disagreement that will make it impossible for them to ignore all their prior disagreements. Jess explains to Schmidt and Coach that when she and Cece have a disagreement, they typically don’t speak for three days, then Jess buys Cece a latte and all is forgiven. Schmidt can’t stand the thought of not being able to talk to Cece for three days. Jess, however, begs him to keep his distance, because she doesn’t want to upset the delicate balance of her and Cece’s reconciliation ritual. I guess she thinks that seeing Schmidt in the three day window will just make Cece keep thinking about the argument.
Meanwhile, Nick has his first date with Tran’s granddaughter, Kai. They go to dinner and talk about how much they hate first dates, and dating in general, mostly because of all the awkwardness. I would agree with them, however, the way they frame their discussion seems less mature in a “blah dating takes effort and I’m lazy” kind of way. They’d both rather just hang out and do nothing, so they go back to the loft, and that’s what they do. For several days. They just sit on the couch, drink beer, watch television, and eat junk. In a way, they kind of bring out the worst in each other. As a sitting on the couch and watching television fan myself, I think I’d appreciate somebody who would challenge me to get up off the couch now and then. But what do I know?
Anyway, Winston is supposed to be studying for a big police academy test, and he’s procrastinating. The latest procrastination is worrying about Kai. Since she’s been hanging out at the loft for several days on end, and Nick met Tran sitting on a park bench, Winston is convinced that Kai is homeless and mooching off of Nick. Nick decides to put this theory to the test by telling Kai he wants to hang out at her place. She eventually relents, and to Nick’s (but not any reasonably observant television viewer’s) shock, Kai is actually rich. She started a business, sold it, made a ton of cash in the deal, and now just consults once in a while when she feels like it. One thing I did enjoy was Nick innocently calling consulting a scam. Nick is quite happy with this discovery. He’s even happier when Kai offers him $200 to stay with her instead of go to work, even though it feels a little wrong. Nick Miller as kept man – who would have thought?
As you might expect, Schmidt, despite Jess’ begging, does not stay away from Cece for three days. When Jess goes to give Cece her peace latte, Cece says she can buy a latte herself, and the feud continues. Jess is really pissed at Schmidt, and she tells him this is uncharted territory that could bring all of her and Cece’s arguments back to the surface. Cece and Jess then have a text argument entirely using emoji, which I’ll admit I found pretty funny. Apparently Cece’s use of “double syringe” was the crushing blow. Even though his involvement has only served to make things worse at any turn, and Coach keeps warning him to stay out of it (because apparently he knows what he’s talking about because he has three sisters), Schmidt continues to interfere. I think it’s partly because he wants to keep interacting with Cece and partly because he can’t stand the idea that Coach might know more about women than he does.
Everything comes to a head at Nadia’s baby shower (where Nadia is hilariously dry and kind of sociopathic, as always). Cece and Jess shoot each other dagger looks, and Schmidt starts to get a little nervous. I think he invited himself to the baby shower because he’s an idiot who just doesn’t know when to stay out of other peoples’ business. He calls Coach in a panic, who after telling Schmit he never should have been at the shower in the first place, comes over to help. He tells Jess and Cece that they should resolve their fight like men by punching it out. Jess and Cece take Coach’s advice, and the whole thing escalates to a full-on brawl between all the women who had been secretly holding grudges against each other for years. This is where I think the episode loses the feminism thread. The huge fight was just dumb. Afterwards, though, Jess and Cece are happy that they finally worked out their differences and have each other to talk to again.
The Librarians 1.06: "And the Fables of Doom"
“Give it your happy ending, tell your story.”
- Zeke
So when I read the description for this week’s episode, I thought it would be awesome if the gang headed to Storybrooke during the Snow Queen’s curse. Obviously that’s not actually what’s going to happen but a girl can dream (come on, someone wants to write some crossover fan fiction). Anyway, our craziness begins in Brenmen, Washington where an impatient truck driver nearly gets into an accident trying to get through a construction site. He then gets grabbed by what looks like a giant hand and tossed in the lake. Our crack team is on it and when Eve’s sort-of government mumbo jumbo doesn’t really work, Jake throws in that they’re from the Metropolitan Library conducting traffic flow studies in rural areas. Yeah, it sounded like crap to the sheriff but he’s kind of bewildered as it is. They go to check out the truck and Cassie sees waves and spirals on the window, aka a giant fingerprint. Jenkins fills them in that during the day, trolls are stone (sounds like gargoyles to me) so if they can get a photo or sample he can find a weakness. While Eve and Zeke go troll hunting (and Zeke goes on about how he’s in this for the fun until he gets bored and then he’s out), Jake and Cassie go to get surveillance from the bridge and things just get weirder. Well, before they get the surveillance Jake says he’s fine with the way he and Cassie are working now and that she doesn’t have to go around trying to earn his trust back (I hope she does one day but it’s not looking particularly likely at this point). From the photos of the bridge they see that there were two smaller cars on the bridge and then the town mayor comes jogging by naked. There’ve been some other strange occurrences lately and just as the team meets up again and a giant wolf with red eyes and a bonnet comes trotting into view.
The wolf starts going for someone in red hoodie (obviously) and Jake snags an ax and tosses it, killing the wolf. He’s not so sure on where the ax throwing skills came from but I’m guessing he’s playing the part of the Huntsman. Anyway, they head back to the Annex for a pow wow with Jenkins and he starts ruling out artifacts that could have caused it. He narrows it down to two and he orders the gang bring back the wolf for an autopsy. So while the boys find a way to get the wolf out of the local bar owner’s freezer and through town, Cassie and Eve keep said owner busy. It seems Cassie is being effected by something too because everyone keeps staring at her in kind of a very admiring way. It’s creepy. Jake and Zeke end up commandeering a guy’s truck only to determine back at the Annex that it’s neither of the artifacts Jenkins previously surmised (they pull a girl out of the wolf’s gut). We then see an older man reading to a very sick young girl in a hospital bed. I’m guessing he’s got the magic mojo that’s making all this happen.
Events continue to be kind of weird and everyone is still very attached to Cassie, including the girl who got pulled out of the wolf. She insists Cassie played an important part and won’t even give Jake the time of day. Jenkins has made the trek out of the Annex to help this time given the nature of the artifact. He explains that the stories build with the magic and new ones can be formed and reality can be changed. So while he and Cassie search for magic patient zero and Zeke gets into shenanigans, Jake and Eve try to find any old book collectors. They hit the jackpot at the library and find that they need Zeke’s lock picking skills. He’s a bit busy with patient zero (though he doesn’t realize it yet). Oh and I should mention the guy playing the librarian in the small town is the same guy who played Hugo on Warehouse 13! I love seeing genre actors show up places.
We get a mini pow wow where everyone is kind of talking over each other to share information when the sheriff shows up and tries to arrest Zeke for being in his daughter’s room. Of course, Zeke gets free of the cuffs and then the sheriff turns into the big bad wolf from the three little pigs. Unfortunately, just as the gang realize they are some of the heroes of the fairy tales (Cassie is Prince Charming, Jake is the Huntsman and Eve is Snow White), the rest of the town gets thrown into chaos as a giant briar patch type thing shows up and the rest of the gang is being chased by the sheriff and some high school football players. It turns out that the only person who always escapes unscathed in the original stories is Jack the nimble thief. I think we know who that is. Zeke races to the hospital to find the librarian reading from the book and the girl in unconscious. The book and the guy are glowing blue as the magic grows. This isn’t going to end well. But it might give Zeke the chance to really be the hero for once.
With a bit of luck (thanks to his role in the story), Zeke manages to temporarily paralyze the librarian and stop the rest of the gang from being killed (although Cassie does get to give an empowering speech). But really it’s the girl who gives it her happy ending and the librarian gets sucked into the book. Hopefully that means the magic is done and everyone will go back to normal. She does punish her dad with having to eat green Jell-O forever. Honestly, I think the yellow kind is worse. The gang manages to breeze out of town without too many questions from the locals (they pass everything off on localized swamp gas). Back at the Annex, it seems that things are back to normal although we do see Cassie still has some magic from when the girl turned her into Merlin. I’m guessing they all retained some of those qualities which are going to come in handy one day.
- Zeke
So when I read the description for this week’s episode, I thought it would be awesome if the gang headed to Storybrooke during the Snow Queen’s curse. Obviously that’s not actually what’s going to happen but a girl can dream (come on, someone wants to write some crossover fan fiction). Anyway, our craziness begins in Brenmen, Washington where an impatient truck driver nearly gets into an accident trying to get through a construction site. He then gets grabbed by what looks like a giant hand and tossed in the lake. Our crack team is on it and when Eve’s sort-of government mumbo jumbo doesn’t really work, Jake throws in that they’re from the Metropolitan Library conducting traffic flow studies in rural areas. Yeah, it sounded like crap to the sheriff but he’s kind of bewildered as it is. They go to check out the truck and Cassie sees waves and spirals on the window, aka a giant fingerprint. Jenkins fills them in that during the day, trolls are stone (sounds like gargoyles to me) so if they can get a photo or sample he can find a weakness. While Eve and Zeke go troll hunting (and Zeke goes on about how he’s in this for the fun until he gets bored and then he’s out), Jake and Cassie go to get surveillance from the bridge and things just get weirder. Well, before they get the surveillance Jake says he’s fine with the way he and Cassie are working now and that she doesn’t have to go around trying to earn his trust back (I hope she does one day but it’s not looking particularly likely at this point). From the photos of the bridge they see that there were two smaller cars on the bridge and then the town mayor comes jogging by naked. There’ve been some other strange occurrences lately and just as the team meets up again and a giant wolf with red eyes and a bonnet comes trotting into view.
The wolf starts going for someone in red hoodie (obviously) and Jake snags an ax and tosses it, killing the wolf. He’s not so sure on where the ax throwing skills came from but I’m guessing he’s playing the part of the Huntsman. Anyway, they head back to the Annex for a pow wow with Jenkins and he starts ruling out artifacts that could have caused it. He narrows it down to two and he orders the gang bring back the wolf for an autopsy. So while the boys find a way to get the wolf out of the local bar owner’s freezer and through town, Cassie and Eve keep said owner busy. It seems Cassie is being effected by something too because everyone keeps staring at her in kind of a very admiring way. It’s creepy. Jake and Zeke end up commandeering a guy’s truck only to determine back at the Annex that it’s neither of the artifacts Jenkins previously surmised (they pull a girl out of the wolf’s gut). We then see an older man reading to a very sick young girl in a hospital bed. I’m guessing he’s got the magic mojo that’s making all this happen.
Events continue to be kind of weird and everyone is still very attached to Cassie, including the girl who got pulled out of the wolf. She insists Cassie played an important part and won’t even give Jake the time of day. Jenkins has made the trek out of the Annex to help this time given the nature of the artifact. He explains that the stories build with the magic and new ones can be formed and reality can be changed. So while he and Cassie search for magic patient zero and Zeke gets into shenanigans, Jake and Eve try to find any old book collectors. They hit the jackpot at the library and find that they need Zeke’s lock picking skills. He’s a bit busy with patient zero (though he doesn’t realize it yet). Oh and I should mention the guy playing the librarian in the small town is the same guy who played Hugo on Warehouse 13! I love seeing genre actors show up places.
We get a mini pow wow where everyone is kind of talking over each other to share information when the sheriff shows up and tries to arrest Zeke for being in his daughter’s room. Of course, Zeke gets free of the cuffs and then the sheriff turns into the big bad wolf from the three little pigs. Unfortunately, just as the gang realize they are some of the heroes of the fairy tales (Cassie is Prince Charming, Jake is the Huntsman and Eve is Snow White), the rest of the town gets thrown into chaos as a giant briar patch type thing shows up and the rest of the gang is being chased by the sheriff and some high school football players. It turns out that the only person who always escapes unscathed in the original stories is Jack the nimble thief. I think we know who that is. Zeke races to the hospital to find the librarian reading from the book and the girl in unconscious. The book and the guy are glowing blue as the magic grows. This isn’t going to end well. But it might give Zeke the chance to really be the hero for once.
With a bit of luck (thanks to his role in the story), Zeke manages to temporarily paralyze the librarian and stop the rest of the gang from being killed (although Cassie does get to give an empowering speech). But really it’s the girl who gives it her happy ending and the librarian gets sucked into the book. Hopefully that means the magic is done and everyone will go back to normal. She does punish her dad with having to eat green Jell-O forever. Honestly, I think the yellow kind is worse. The gang manages to breeze out of town without too many questions from the locals (they pass everything off on localized swamp gas). Back at the Annex, it seems that things are back to normal although we do see Cassie still has some magic from when the girl turned her into Merlin. I’m guessing they all retained some of those qualities which are going to come in handy one day.
Friday, January 2, 2015
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2.10: “What They Become”
“No, I put her on this path, I have to try. If we’re not back before the bombs go off get everybody to the Bus. Just because Whitehall’s dead doesn’t mean Hydra’s gonna pack up and go home.”
- Coulson
Well gang, we’ve reached the fall finale for “Agents of S.H.I.E.LD.” and from the look of things, we are going out for the holidays with a bang. And for those of you who don’t know, during the winter hiatus, Agent Carter will be taking over the 9:00pm spot on ABC and we will be covering it. So throughout this week’s recap, I may be noting some possible tie-ins to the upcoming miniseries. We begin with the Bus trying to avoid a bunch of Hydra jets with orders to shoot them down. Thanks to some quick flying and thinking from May, they launch some decoys from the Bus and cloak in cloud cover, making Hydra think they succeeded in blowing up the Bus. Down in San Juan, May fills Coulson in on Skye’s kidnapping and FitzSimmons hypothesizes that the city turned Mac into something it could use (rather than killing him like foreign bacteria in the body). Well I guess we can hope that he’s still alive. But as Bobbi puts it, whatever the city turned him into plus a big drop probably didn’t do him any favors. She’s making contact with the local official she knows to make sure he doesn’t feed incoming Hydra agents with information and Hunter calls her on hiding stuff from him before agreeing to be her backup. They show up to find Hydra already there and Bobbie gets passed some information about an old theater which when laid out on the alien city map is right over where the temple should be. And Hydra has a big crazy drill that they’re going to use to bust in. May is pissed at herself for not shooting Ward in the head but Coulson reminds her that Skye is strong and smart and well-trained.
Speaking of Skye, Ward is keeping his promise (he is so creepy, he really needs to die now) and brings Skye to meet her father. Most awkward family reunion ever! As uncomfortable as the reunion is, it is also rather informative. We learn that Skye’s dad (Cal) was normal once and pretty well liked in China where he and Skye’s mom lived. But then SHIELD agents showed up and hauled her off and when he found her, she was dead in a ditch and had been dissected and mutilated. So, Dichen Lachman’s character is Skye’s mom. Interesting. Skye’s dad also tries to apologize for not being around for losing her. She’s not all that interested in his apology. She just wants to leave but he insists that she’s right where she’s supposed to be to receive the gift she’s owed by her bloodline. Things get even tenser when Whitehall summons Ward, Raina and Skye’s dad for a little chat and he drags Skye in, too. He has his theories about who Skye is and why she’s there and he makes her pick up the Diviner. She stabs one soldier in the neck with it while her dad stabs another guy with a knife. He’s intent on killing Whitehall to get his revenge for his wife’s death.
It’s going to take a little doing for Skye’s dad to get what he wants when Whitehall taunts him about killing his wife and he ties up Ward and Skye and threatens to torture Skye before killing her father. Raina susses out that Ward’s in it for Skye’s love and approval. Yeah, he’s so freaking creepy. While Coulson, May, Hunter and Bobbi are taking out Hydra at the source, FitzSimmons and Triplett are setting Howling Commando bombs down in the city to try and collapse it. They have to use old school tech since electronics don’t work. Fitz suggests they split up to cover more ground much to Simmons’ displeasure but she can’t really stop him. I do like that the Howling Commandos (and Trip’s grandfather) keep coming back. That’s definitely a nice little link to Agent Carter since it is set during that era.
I may have been a tinsy bit hasty about Skye’s dad getting what he wanted. As SHIELD busts in and starts shooting people, he kills a soldier and leaves Skye and Ward tied up (for safety…sort of) and goes to face Whitehall. He’s about to get very violent when Coulson shoots Whitehall in the chest. Yay that creep is dead (we hope) but now Skye’s dad is pissed that he didn’t get to inflict the carnage himself. I’m pretty sure there’d be less body parts if he got his way. He starts wailing on Coulson, shouting about how Coulson took Whitehall’s death from him. It gets even bloodier before Skye busts it up (she’s escaped courtesy of Ward whom she then shot several times). With Whitehall dead, Agent 33 (who still looks like May…so weird) is listless and Ward promises to help her if she helps him. As the rest of the team is clearing out Hydra agents, Skye is really upset that she let her dad live and that he hurt Coulson so much. She swears she’s going to stop all of this and goes down to find the Diviner and stop the drill. Well, she’s too late on the drill and Riana is down in the tunnels. She finds Mac (who as FitzSimmons predicted is part of the city) and she demands he take her to the temple. Oh and Skye’s dad called her Daisy which is a link to the inhumans I guess which might be a tie-in to Age of Ultron. But a lot of people were suggesting that Skye was Daisy Johnson and so now they are vindicated.
Coulson heads down into the tunnels after Skye just as Trip and FitzSimmons finish setting the bomb charges. Of course, once they know that Skye and Coulson are down there, Trip barrels back down without a hazmat suit on and disarms them all. Ultimately, Skye, Trip and Raina end up in the obelisk room together while Coulson is left outside with Mac who is trying to beat him up. Raina puts the Diviner into the glowing podium thing and everyone in the room turns to stone. It looks like Raina starts to bust out but Skye definitely does and it looks like she might have powers now (so her father was right that she’d go through a transformation). Unfortunately for Trip, he crumbles just as Mac comes back to himself. Man, I liked Trip more than Mac to be honest. And it wouldn’t be SHIELD without a little tag at the end showing a man with no eyes with a Diviner of his own. Apparently others are out there and they can sense someone new. But the writers weren’t kidding when they said that this episode was a game changer. Damn!
- Coulson
Well gang, we’ve reached the fall finale for “Agents of S.H.I.E.LD.” and from the look of things, we are going out for the holidays with a bang. And for those of you who don’t know, during the winter hiatus, Agent Carter will be taking over the 9:00pm spot on ABC and we will be covering it. So throughout this week’s recap, I may be noting some possible tie-ins to the upcoming miniseries. We begin with the Bus trying to avoid a bunch of Hydra jets with orders to shoot them down. Thanks to some quick flying and thinking from May, they launch some decoys from the Bus and cloak in cloud cover, making Hydra think they succeeded in blowing up the Bus. Down in San Juan, May fills Coulson in on Skye’s kidnapping and FitzSimmons hypothesizes that the city turned Mac into something it could use (rather than killing him like foreign bacteria in the body). Well I guess we can hope that he’s still alive. But as Bobbi puts it, whatever the city turned him into plus a big drop probably didn’t do him any favors. She’s making contact with the local official she knows to make sure he doesn’t feed incoming Hydra agents with information and Hunter calls her on hiding stuff from him before agreeing to be her backup. They show up to find Hydra already there and Bobbie gets passed some information about an old theater which when laid out on the alien city map is right over where the temple should be. And Hydra has a big crazy drill that they’re going to use to bust in. May is pissed at herself for not shooting Ward in the head but Coulson reminds her that Skye is strong and smart and well-trained.
Speaking of Skye, Ward is keeping his promise (he is so creepy, he really needs to die now) and brings Skye to meet her father. Most awkward family reunion ever! As uncomfortable as the reunion is, it is also rather informative. We learn that Skye’s dad (Cal) was normal once and pretty well liked in China where he and Skye’s mom lived. But then SHIELD agents showed up and hauled her off and when he found her, she was dead in a ditch and had been dissected and mutilated. So, Dichen Lachman’s character is Skye’s mom. Interesting. Skye’s dad also tries to apologize for not being around for losing her. She’s not all that interested in his apology. She just wants to leave but he insists that she’s right where she’s supposed to be to receive the gift she’s owed by her bloodline. Things get even tenser when Whitehall summons Ward, Raina and Skye’s dad for a little chat and he drags Skye in, too. He has his theories about who Skye is and why she’s there and he makes her pick up the Diviner. She stabs one soldier in the neck with it while her dad stabs another guy with a knife. He’s intent on killing Whitehall to get his revenge for his wife’s death.
It’s going to take a little doing for Skye’s dad to get what he wants when Whitehall taunts him about killing his wife and he ties up Ward and Skye and threatens to torture Skye before killing her father. Raina susses out that Ward’s in it for Skye’s love and approval. Yeah, he’s so freaking creepy. While Coulson, May, Hunter and Bobbi are taking out Hydra at the source, FitzSimmons and Triplett are setting Howling Commando bombs down in the city to try and collapse it. They have to use old school tech since electronics don’t work. Fitz suggests they split up to cover more ground much to Simmons’ displeasure but she can’t really stop him. I do like that the Howling Commandos (and Trip’s grandfather) keep coming back. That’s definitely a nice little link to Agent Carter since it is set during that era.
I may have been a tinsy bit hasty about Skye’s dad getting what he wanted. As SHIELD busts in and starts shooting people, he kills a soldier and leaves Skye and Ward tied up (for safety…sort of) and goes to face Whitehall. He’s about to get very violent when Coulson shoots Whitehall in the chest. Yay that creep is dead (we hope) but now Skye’s dad is pissed that he didn’t get to inflict the carnage himself. I’m pretty sure there’d be less body parts if he got his way. He starts wailing on Coulson, shouting about how Coulson took Whitehall’s death from him. It gets even bloodier before Skye busts it up (she’s escaped courtesy of Ward whom she then shot several times). With Whitehall dead, Agent 33 (who still looks like May…so weird) is listless and Ward promises to help her if she helps him. As the rest of the team is clearing out Hydra agents, Skye is really upset that she let her dad live and that he hurt Coulson so much. She swears she’s going to stop all of this and goes down to find the Diviner and stop the drill. Well, she’s too late on the drill and Riana is down in the tunnels. She finds Mac (who as FitzSimmons predicted is part of the city) and she demands he take her to the temple. Oh and Skye’s dad called her Daisy which is a link to the inhumans I guess which might be a tie-in to Age of Ultron. But a lot of people were suggesting that Skye was Daisy Johnson and so now they are vindicated.
Coulson heads down into the tunnels after Skye just as Trip and FitzSimmons finish setting the bomb charges. Of course, once they know that Skye and Coulson are down there, Trip barrels back down without a hazmat suit on and disarms them all. Ultimately, Skye, Trip and Raina end up in the obelisk room together while Coulson is left outside with Mac who is trying to beat him up. Raina puts the Diviner into the glowing podium thing and everyone in the room turns to stone. It looks like Raina starts to bust out but Skye definitely does and it looks like she might have powers now (so her father was right that she’d go through a transformation). Unfortunately for Trip, he crumbles just as Mac comes back to himself. Man, I liked Trip more than Mac to be honest. And it wouldn’t be SHIELD without a little tag at the end showing a man with no eyes with a Diviner of his own. Apparently others are out there and they can sense someone new. But the writers weren’t kidding when they said that this episode was a game changer. Damn!
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2.09: "Ye Who Enter Here"
“Come on, Bobbi. You ought to know me by now. I’d rather use a scalpel than a shotgun.”
-Coulson
The penultimate “S.H.I.E.L.D.” episode of the Fall half of the season was definitely a set-up episode. Quite a lot happened, but I would guess that it’s all ultimately to serve whatever happens in the next episode. It didn’t really have an arc of it’s own. We’re just heading full tilt towards the Fall finale. There’s lots of action happening with Skye, Raina, Whitehall, the City, and the creepy Agent May clone, Agent 33. I guess there are two really distinct plots in the episode, with some other character beats sprinkled in for good measure. Regarding those character beats, sad FitzSimmons makes me sad. As always. Can’t they get it together already? FitzSimmons are too adorable to be sad. They need to go back to being adorable.
The episode opens on a dream that Skye is experiencing. It involves the Diviner, May and Coulson, and if you know anything about what is coming next (which you probably do since I’m so far behind on blogging) some very telling background music. The song of the dream sequence is “Bicycle Built for Two,” made famous by “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and also heard in the NASA episode of “This is America, Charlie Brown.” I think this sequence was more foreshadowing than anything else. After Skye wakes up, the S.H.I.E.L.D. team has a meeting where we learn that the City (to which the Diviner is pointing) is located under San Juan, Puerto Rico. This is where at least some of the team is headed next.
We next move to Raina, who thinks she is being stalked by Agent May. It isn’t actually, May, though. This woman’s face is pretty messed up. And she tells Raina that “Dr. Whitehall would like a word.” It’s actually May’s doppelganger, Agent 33. There are also two Koenig brothers (both played by Patton Oswalt, of course) on the scene. They do their best to guide Raina away from the S.H.I.E.L.D. team. This development leads the team to split up. Skye and May are going to go pick up Raina, and Skye is going to interrogate Raina. Another group is going to go to San Jan to try and find the City. Skye’s not thrilled with the idea of missing out on the City. Given her abilities, Coulson seems to think it’s best she doesn’t enter the City just yet until they know more.
Throughout the episode, FitzSimmons are being just plain awkward with each other. At one point, Bobbi decides to ask Simmons about it. It’s really sad to hear Simmons tell her side of the story. She says that she hadn’t even had time to process is declaration of love before Ward attacked and Fitz was in a coma. Now all she really wants is for them to go back to how they were before. Which also makes me sad. FitzSimmons belong together. There’s no other way they can get through life. Staying on the theme of team gossip, as they are leaving for San Juan, Mack asks Bobbi about the recent rekindling of her relationship with Hunter. He also asks if Hunter knows something particular about Bobby (Mac is very vague on this point). Bobbi says that he does not.
Skye and May and their team move in on Raina pretty quickly. Skye ends up having a pretty epic fight scene with Agent 33. Later, after the fight is over and Skye, May, and Raina headed for San Juan, Skye and Raina talk about their mutual power and the Diviner. Raina is trying to make Skye start to accept her father more, but Skye isn’t having it. Because she knows her father is a murderer, she wants nothing to do with him. Raina tries to run, but May puts a stop to that. Meanwhile, Agent 33 reunites with Whitehall and tells him that Raina has a tracker. They use the tracker to intercept Skye, Raina, and May’s plane. Whitehall tells the S.H.I.E.L.D. team that he wants Raina. Ward boards the plane as back-up. He wants more, though. He also wants Skye. At the end of the episode, Agent 33 tells Whitehall about Ward taking Skye as a hostage. She also tells him that once he got Skye, Ward let the plane go. Whitehall wanted the plane complete destroyed, so he is seriously pissed off about this turn of events. He wants Agent 33 to fix it (presumably to destroy the plane).
Meanwhile, in San Juan, Bobbi and Coulson hone in on the Temple (in the City…and I’m starting to wonder if there’s some overlap between the “S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “Lost” creative teams with the way they have been naming things. Bobbi mentions that she’s meeting up with a guy named Diego. It’s interesting that she seems to have guys in every city where the team travels. Part of the job, I guess. Away from the search, meanwhile, we get an extremely sad FitzSimmons scene. Fitz tells Simmons that he wants her to run the lab, while he’ll go work in the garage with Mac. He is fine with working for Simmons, but he doesn’t want to work with her anymore. Have I mentioned yet how much I don’t like sad FitzSimmons? They need to get it together already! Sad FitzSimmons is sad!
In San Juan, the team finds a long shaft that seems to lead down directly into the Temple. Fitz sends some drones down the tunnel, but he loses their signal. Mack is sent down the shaft, and he eventually finds the dead drones. Mack makes the mistake of touching the ground, and with a flash (and the appearance of more alien writing), he suddenly seems possessed. The team brings him back above ground, but Mack is quickly losing control. He warns the team to “run.” Soon after, Mack completely loses control, and he and Bobbi have yet another epic fight. Mack gets electrocuted and sealed inside the tunnel. Coulson says his team that the creature they sealed away wasn’t Mack anymore.
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