Thursday, October 16, 2014

First Impressions - AoS: 'Face My Enemy'

This is by no means a deeply intense dissection of the episode.
That will happen over the summer after my purchase of the Blu-ray.
I've put my quick comments and notes after seeing the episode only once after the jump.
You've been warned...

Season 2 Episode 4: 'Face My Enemy'
The Good: Finding out Talbot wasn't an agent of HYDRA.
* Coulson and May sweeping the room while dancing.
* Cool callback to the disguise tech from Winter Soldier

The Bad: Sitting through thirty minutes of show thinking Talbot was an agent of HYDRA.
* Coulson and May looking directly at the things they find as they sweep the place while dancing.
* The reminder that HYDRA stole all the good S.H.I.E.L.D. tech after Winter Soldier.

The WTF?: I actually have two:
1) The agent disguised as Fake May is discovered by Coulson when he brings up coffee, which Real May hates. A few minutes later, Fake May is fighting Real May and tells Real May she's studied her, and knows all her moves.
You're telling me Fake May took the time to study all Real May's moves...but didn't know that Real May hates coffee?
2) After Coulson learns he's with Fake May, they fight - which sets up a longer-than-necessary fight between Real May and Fake May. Later, when Fake Talbot is discovered and Coulson chases him down the hall, he shoots Fake Talbot with a night-night gun.
So Coulson had the night-night gun all along? I understand that the May/May fight is the real draw of the episode, but couldn't Coulson have just shot Fake May, dragged her into the hotel room and fought Fake Talbot long enough for Fake May to wake up and then fight Real May?

Adorkification Moment: There wasn't one, but there could have been. When Coulson went over his contingency plan with May she mentioned taking him to a cabin in the Australian Outback. All she needed to add was "My Aboriginal contact, code-named Gateway, is on standby. Ready to move in a moment's notice."

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