Originally Posted by Itse
*some spoilers I guess*
Admittedly it's been nice that they did something radical. IMO, they just didn't pull it off very well. Personally I've been gradually falling off the bandwagon during the last three episodes.
Suddenly Ward is a superinfiltrator, a master seducer and a master actor (on top of being a superfighter and god knows what else), capable of creating completely fake emotional scenes convincing enough to fool even the most trained and paranoid of people, not to mention able to fool lie detectors and agents specifically trained to uncover people like him? I'm just not buying into any of that. It really doesn't help that the writers put all this load on Brett Dalton, who is easily the worst actor in the series, barely capable of portraying the very simple version of agent Ward we had previously.
I really hope they just kill Ward pretty soon, because every time there's a Ward scene right now I'm just waiting for it to end. I'm sure that's a complete non-starter however, he seems to have become the writer's favourite.
Oh, and suddenly superparanoid Victoria Hand took stupid pills and completely OOC endulges the extremely suspicious whim of Ward right in the middle of a crisis, bad enough to get herself killed? WTF that made absolutely no sense, plus killed off a perfectly good character for no good reason. (Although I'm sure she's actually just locked up in a Hydra facility somewhere.)
Suddenly Cavalry turns into a superpassive moper who just wants the love and attention of Coulson? *handpalm* Don't even get me started on that one.
Suddenly Shield guards are complete cannon fodder (Fridge, Hub), when before they were actually a force to be reckoned with? (Tahiti). Not too bad in itself, but with all the other overly convenient stuff... I mean the Fridge had a reputation, it was supposed to be something special. Then they just raid it as if it was nothing? It's like the writers don't care at all about the lore they've worked to create.
Suddenly millionaire playboy entrepreneur Ian Quinn is all okay about having lost his companies, fortunes and fame, just because he gets this one MacGuffin? Come on, how is that supposed to make even remote sense?
It's like they suddenly rewrote half the characters.
And really the whole "Hydra has been hiding inside Shield this whole time" thing was more stupid than anything else. I mean yeah, it's a fantasy series, it doesn't have to make sense as such. But I really haven't been getting that much out of it.
Mostly I've felt the situation of Shield is constantly out of touch with how the world has been portrayed previously. I'm just so not buying into any of that stuff and I'm really hoping they'll settle at some situation pretty soon and get on with telling stories with less twists and more actually sensible motivations.
Really liked Acker and Oswald though, and there's still some good stuff to keep me watching at least until the season ends. We'll see how it goes from there.
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