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Originally Posted by Superfraggle
With regards to the lie detector, I think those complaining about it are relying on some false assumptions:
1) It's actually a super unbeatable lie detector. How do we know this? Because Patton said so to the people he was about to interrogate? Everything he said it does has to do with people's physical reactions to lying. By making them nervous about being caught, he's helping the machine out. Even when they asked if it worked, he said Fury wanted a machine that Romanoff couldn't beat, but then didn't actually know if it worked.
2) Ward beat the lie detector. Actually, he didn't. Right from the start, Patton noted that his baseline was screwy due to the pain he had inflicted on himself. That in itself makes the test unreliable, yet it still alerted Patton every time he lied. That lie detector worked perfectly
3) Patton just accepted the Skye answer and that was the end of it. They clearly showed that he still didn't trust any of them and the lanyards were a ploy to get trackers on them. Asking more questions in a test he has already identified as unreliable would just waste his time and make Ward suspicious if he was a spy. Patton took the easy out to set Ward's mind at ease and kept tabs on him.
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Not much point in arguing about what things are, they're what ever the makers want them to be. It's a completely fictional world.
I'm not saying there's something wrong with you if you've liked with how the series has been going. It's just that I don't, and I felt like talking about why. Partially I was curious to hear if anyone else has been feeling the same.
To sum it up, I feel that the series has lately seriously failed to stick to it's own established lore and has had it's characters acting too much according to plot needs with too little eye to their already established traits and personalities. Which is a problem for me because when that happens, I stop believing in the world and the characters, and after that it's just really hard to care about what happens.
Now, if that's because Joss Whedon has taken over the series now (didn't know that and don't really care much one way or the other), then I have to say I'm once again less than impressed with his writing.