February 04 2014
(SPOILER)
Discuss this week's episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
The episode is "T.R.A.C.K.S." and it was written by Lauren LeFranc and Rafe Judkins.
This thread has been closed for new comments.
You need to log in to be able to post comments.
About membership.
\Y'all ready?
roddikinathome | February 04, 16:58 CET
roddikinathome | February 04, 17:03 CET
Squishy | February 04, 17:05 CET
Squishy | February 04, 17:07 CET
Squishy | February 04, 17:08 CET
*sigh*
Rambaldi | February 04, 17:12 CET
roddikinathome | February 04, 17:14 CET
roddikinathome | February 04, 17:16 CET
Squishy | February 04, 17:18 CET
Squishy | February 04, 17:22 CET
Squishy | February 04, 17:25 CET
Valentyn | February 04, 17:26 CET
Loving the non-linear story telling.
Valantha | February 04, 17:27 CET
roddikinathome | February 04, 17:31 CET
Squishy
"Wheels up in five." Growled, actually.
roddikinathome | February 04, 17:33 CET
garyyager | February 04, 17:34 CET
Squishy | February 04, 17:45 CET
chrisobrien | February 04, 17:46 CET
Squishy | February 04, 17:47 CET
It's a Whedon show.
roddikinathome | February 04, 17:47 CET
Nebula1400 | February 04, 17:47 CET
Nebula1400 | February 04, 17:47 CET
Valantha | February 04, 17:56 CET
[ edited by Buffyfantic on 2014-02-05 03:02 ]
Buffyfantic | February 04, 18:02 CET
I'm really happy about this and so so hope we get Season 2.
In other news, Agent May continues to delight me (not to mention Mr. Javelina).
javelina | February 04, 18:03 CET
WheelsOfJoy | February 04, 18:08 CET
WheelsOfJoy | February 04, 18:09 CET
Sunfire | February 04, 18:12 CET
More great lines and character beats in this episode than the first half season combined
Did I hear right that next episode isn't until March??
TallMichaelJ | February 04, 18:12 CET
Rambaldi | February 04, 18:13 CET
WheelsOfJoy
Well, crap.
roddikinathome | February 04, 18:20 CET
Darkness | February 04, 18:25 CET
Shea | February 04, 18:28 CET
*unless they are being burned off.
[ edited by JDL on 2014-02-05 03:49 ]
JDL | February 04, 18:32 CET
I have a feeling whatever power Skye has is going to manifest itself next episode to save her. Not a healing factor, apparently. Maybe regeneration upon death?
Wonder who Deathlok is tasked to kill?
Stan Lee's cameo was fun. I had a feeling when he mentioned he had a "big role" in this episode he meant he had two lines instead of his usual one. :-)
[ edited by AndrewCrossett on 2014-02-05 03:33 ]
AndrewCrossett | February 04, 18:32 CET
Grack21 | February 04, 18:56 CET
ZJW88 | February 04, 19:06 CET
eddy | February 04, 19:11 CET
eddy | February 04, 20:11 CET
- Not a big fan of Stan Lee's cameo. It seemed shoehorned in and very "THIS IS STAN LEE" in big, neon lights.
- Simmons would have been fine if Fitz and Skye had left her a brief note explaining the time dilation.
- May killing Russo was just nuts.
- The holodesk scene was fantastic. I laughed the entire scene and disturbed the cat.
- I'm glad Fitz and Skye were able to do more than just tech stuff, but I'm wondering why Fitz stayed under the car so long. Was the plan always for Skye to go in alone? Cause that was a dumb decision. If you wanted to keep them from leaving their rural estate, just disable all of the cars like Fitz was doing and wait for the rest of the team to show up. Of course, since her going in was part of the plan and had to happen, I think Fitz should have gone in as well.
the ninja report | February 04, 20:13 CET
Grack21 | February 04, 20:21 CET
aitchbee | February 04, 20:31 CET
@theonetruebix | February 04, 21:07 CET
hpgwbtvs | February 04, 21:07 CET
floofypooh | February 04, 21:16 CET
redeem147 | February 04, 21:17 CET
While I don't want to lose Skye, part if me hopes that a character dies off for real. Coulson, Mike Peterson, Simmons, and now Skye have all been put in places where it looked like they could have died for real, but have all been saved (though I'll concede Skye could die, despite the fact that doing this without resolving her arc seems unlikely). If the show is going to make use of so many death fake-outs, I feel it should be balanced with rare, occasional deaths to give them weight.
PaperSpock | February 04, 22:00 CET
It was high time one of the team got seriously injured. Maybe now they will start to actually act like a professional outfit.
Could do with a lot less of the soapy melodrama they seem to be ramping up, but I'm guessing there's no chance of that happening.
Kaan | February 04, 22:16 CET
They had a splendid plot device with the Cybertek gadgets, and where did the plot go? Damn, that made me moist in the eyes. These two should write more episodes, 'cause they have succeeded in scripting my two ever favorite episodes of the show.
The character development, suspense, acting, writing, directing; fucking EVERYthing that matters is GOOD. Like in "The Hub". This makes me confident in what they're doing with AoS. And it's so important, that little aspect of showing blood. Makes us care.
Out. For. A. Walk. Bitch. | February 04, 22:21 CET
Boto | February 04, 22:39 CET
mark214 | February 04, 22:40 CET
They should have rescheduled the winter Olympiad for the period before this episode.
Trentaferd | February 04, 22:51 CET
Holodeck scene. Absolutely hilarious. Watching Ward and Coulson fumble around with the 3D models. =D
Shining | February 04, 23:19 CET
Ward is growing more and more on me. It's almost endearing how he and Coulson can't use the 3D hologram.
How in the world did Fitz and Skye follow cars on foot?! That bugs me.
Ward jealous of Coulson/May? About time! Him blaming Coulson for Skye - I get that. Because I do too. Skye never had any reason to be on the team but less on the ground team in the first place. I'm disappointed in Coulson. He's been messing up a lot more than I'd like. No wonder May is mother-henning him half the time.
Is it me, or are we going to see a more jaded Simmons? I think I might like that.
Part of me a was a little happy that Skye might die - albeit smaller than what could've been early the season. She has been growing on me too.
JAR was awesome! Poor guy. We will gave such dark fun with him.
I had hoped we'd have more from Stan. Oh well, maybe we will.
Mirage | February 04, 23:40 CET
"It looks like this... metal thing... fits into this... other metal thing."
Also, Melinda May = awesome.
Jason_M_Bryant | February 05, 00:17 CET
Also: the holodeck scene. So much yes.
gypsy_sally | February 05, 02:44 CET
Danielm80 | February 05, 04:34 CET
Jason_M_Bryant, you make a good point. Maybe they were just thinking it could look like a device they had seen before?
One of the problems I had with this episode was just that I had no sense of geography. Where can you just park the plane and what would have happened if they couldn't get to it? I know they could have improvised but it seems like the plane is often very conveniently located despite there being a limited number of places you could park a huge plane like that.
[ edited by the ninja report on 2014-02-05 13:41 ]
the ninja report | February 05, 04:36 CET
It was her decision and her decision alone to try and infiltrate a heavily-guarded compound despite having absolutely no qualifications to do so. Coulson wouldn't have let her do it if he'd been there.
Ward can blame Quinn for shooting her. He can blame the Clairvoyant for coordinating the whole thing. He can even (unjustly) blame Fitz for letting her go in. But if this is a pretext for the writers to create some kind of rift on the team, or prompt everyone to do an intervention on Coulson, it's not going to work for me.
As much as I liked this episode, I have to admit the drama of the "cliffhanger" is somewhat muted by the fact that there's no way they're going to kill off Skye at this point.
AndrewCrossett | February 05, 07:16 CET
Jason_M_Bryant | February 05, 07:21 CET
Overall, I was very impressed with this episode, what with the first two acts being all Rashomon (though none of the parallel stories contradicted each other) and the twist of the MacGuffin not actually being a MacGuffin - we find out what's in the case and it's important to future plot elements - really showed off what the writing staff's capable of. Plus, May's big fight scene was definitely impressive in my eyes, with the delayed coup de grace of her taking out Russo really emphasizing just how bad of an idea it is to get Melinda May pissed off.
BlueEyedBrigadier | February 05, 08:21 CET
As Coulson pointed out, Ward dodges the issue and can't even say it's just sex. He doesn't know what to do about this. He doesn't know if he has a personal connection with May that goes beyond being partners and if that is even is a good thing. He seemed a bit jealous when he saw Coulson with May in the infirmary. He's frustrated because it's not something he can fix with the skills he has. And if he perceives personal feelings or connections as a weakness in himself, he's going to perceive the same in others, which is why he would blame Coulson for Skye's decision to go into the house.
Coulson seems to want to protect Skye regardless. He knows her story, and he admires her resolve to use it to provide herself with positivity and a purpose. But his personal connection to her has put her in his blind spot. He is probably always going to go to bat for her, and can a leader really know a person completely and trust completely?
As for who takes the blame, I put it on Skye and Coulson. Skye chose to go into that house. Fitz could have gone in with her. Neither of them needed to go into the house if they disabled the cars (what are the baddies going to do, walk?) Coulson's culpability in this scenario is that he did not adequately prepare Skye. He told May there wasn't supposed to be any combat involved; that, to me, is a severe hindsight. When you're pursuing dangerous people, dangerous things can and will happen. Not training or preparing your team for that is foolish.
ETA: If Mike is going to be writing messages to his watchers, he should probably carry around a mini dry erase board, like everyone did in "Hush." Be eco-friendly, Mike.
[ edited by the ninja report on 2014-02-05 18:31 ]
the ninja report | February 05, 09:22 CET
+ Melinda May, the pro
- Coulson and Ward, amateurs in 3d.
jpr | February 05, 10:03 CET
Loved the holo desk scene.
Also...MARCH?!? What the FOX! *sigh* Fine. Whatever. I'll wait.
[ edited by NYPinTA on 2014-02-06 01:37 ]
NYPinTA | February 05, 13:48 CET
barboo | February 05, 14:47 CET
Simon | February 05, 15:26 CET
[ edited by The One True b!X on 2014-02-06 01:18 ]
@theonetruebix | February 05, 16:18 CET
The holodesk bit was gold!
I was also expecting Skye's 0-8-4 power to kick in once she was shot...I guess maybe it'll happen in the next episode, and have I mentioned how much I hate sport and how it delays shows I actually WANT to watch??
katsadako | February 05, 17:14 CET
Trentaferd | February 05, 18:53 CET
AndrewCrossett | February 05, 18:54 CET
Jason_M_Bryant | February 05, 19:03 CET
Bunnies | February 05, 21:34 CET
mischievouspixi | February 05, 22:20 CET
Ragondux | February 05, 22:33 CET
At the end of the day I got the feeling that the Clairvoyant planned everything. Quinn said something about following his orders when he shot Skye, and when Coulson and the others finally arrived he seemed to expect them. My guess is that the whole setup is more about Coulson than about Skye being a 0-8-4.
kornundsprite | February 05, 23:03 CET
aphasia | February 05, 23:26 CET
This. I'm hoping it's just a little misdirection and he means Skye (for going in there in the first place) and Quinn. Coulson isn't completely blameless, the Scoobies were a better run team than this unit has been so far, but he didn't make Skye go after Quinn.
Unfortunately the writers seem determined to portray Ward as a total idiot any chance they get.
I don't think so. That would mean to suggest the PTB's having to admit there are problems with the show. I haven't seen much evidence of that.
Kaan | February 05, 23:29 CET
Ragondux | February 06, 04:23 CET
the ninja report | February 06, 05:54 CET
barboo | February 06, 07:21 CET
chrisobrien | February 06, 07:49 CET
barboo | February 06, 07:51 CET
Sunfire | February 06, 09:24 CET
[ edited by viewingfigures on 2014-04-11 21:02 ]
viewingfigures | February 06, 10:04 CET
My thoughts didn't take me so far as the supersoldiers, but I was pondering the rest myself.
swanjun | February 06, 10:36 CET
Valentijn | February 06, 13:25 CET
IrrationaliTV | February 06, 13:31 CET
barboo | February 06, 15:12 CET
But loved it otherwise. And is Ward right to be jealous of May and Coulson? After he helped with her bandage (did she stitch the wound herself?), she was looking at Coulson in a fairly significant way, I thought. I loved seeing FitzSimmonds grow more comfortable in being part of the action.
Lioness | February 06, 19:03 CET
C'mon, kick this show into high gear already. Let's pick up the pace. And as someone who isn't a hardcore Marvel comic book fan, I honestly can't care less about whoever this Deathlock character is.
I'm a little more ranty than usual, as I'm usually pretty positive about this show, but the time shifting stuff felt kind of gimmicky. It's similar to that stupid TV cliche where a show starts with a scene, then spends the rest of the episode getting back to that scene. It's not "cool" anymore and this show would be better served just focusing on good story telling rather than gimmicks.
If I sound particularly down on this episode, it's because I'm tired of waiting for this show to really show people just how awesome it can be. It's still not quite there yet
Angel&Faith | February 06, 20:25 CET
[ edited by viewingfigures on 2014-04-11 21:03 ]
viewingfigures | February 06, 23:25 CET
This one month waiting is really really bugging me but I see that as a very good sign :)
Illy | February 08, 03:03 CET
viewingfigures, your comment is really out of line here. No more of this.
Sunfire | February 08, 04:30 CET
[ edited by viewingfigures on 2014-04-11 21:03 ]
viewingfigures | February 08, 09:07 CET