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Topic	Scarlet Ranks User-Nominated Episodes of Television: Season 2
scarletspeed7 10/05/19 4:46:17 PM #113:	Agents of SHIELD - "4,722 Hours" Nominated by: Cody Never did I really come around to returning to SHIELD. I think it's completely damaged goods to me, and despite an occasionally interesting episode such as this one, I have no goodwill towards the series. I gave it thirty or so episodes. I really did. This third season outing is a fairly unique self-contained adventure that strikes me as a budget-version of The Martian, only featuring Jemma. Now, for those of you keeping score, Fitz, Simmons, Coulson, and May are all awesome characters. However, DaisyQuake is so utterly awful, all of the bad parts of a Joss Whedon character and none of the good, that I couldn't survive watching that series another second with her plastered across the screen. Here, however, we only get Jemma. Almost forty-five minutes of Jemma being dumped on an alien world and forced to go Castaway. The front half of this episode focuses heavily on the survivalist nature of her disappearance, all of which makes for very compelling television. Then a second person is introduced, and the episode takes a dive. The problem with SHIELD is that it was always so focused on finding generic pretty people with little to no real personality and throwing them on the screen to sex up an otherwise tame series. And that never worked for me, ever. Jemma is captured by a bland astronaut (a bland profession for a potential protagonist), and it's at this point that you are pretty much told "Jemma will fall in love with this boring man." Like most television shows that try to insert temporary love interests to string out longer-boiling romances, FitzSimmons is injected with this cancerous cell of dullness, and it really just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. In fact, it takes what was proving to be an absolutely excellent episode and just turns it over and dumps it out. Very disappointing. Don't force relationships without having a character in mind for them. Writing: 4/10 Characterization: 1/10 Scarlet Factor: 5/10 Overall Rating: 10/30 --- "It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful <cite>scarletspeed7 posted [p:928380091] in Scarlet Ra... [t:78044305]...</cite> <quote>Agents of SHIELD - "4,722 Hours" Nominated by: Cody Never did I really come around to returning to SHIELD. I think it's completely damaged goods to me, and despite an occasionally interesting episode such as this one, I have no goodwill towards the series. I gave it thirty or so episodes. I really did. This third season outing is a fairly unique self-contained adventure that strikes me as a budget-version of The Martian, only featuring Jemma. Now, for those of you keeping score, Fitz, Simmons, Coulson, and May are all awesome characters. However, DaisyQuake is so utterly awful, all of the bad parts of a Joss Whedon character and none of the good, that I couldn't survive watching that series another second with her plastered across the screen. Here, however, we only get Jemma. Almost forty-five minutes of Jemma being dumped on an alien world and forced to go Castaway. The front half of this episode focuses heavily on the survivalist nature of her disappearance, all of which makes for very compelling television. Then a second person is introduced, and the episode takes a dive. The problem with SHIELD is that it was always so focused on finding generic pretty people with little to no real personality and throwing them on the screen to sex up an otherwise tame series. And that never worked for me, ever. Jemma is captured by a bland astronaut (a bland profession for a potential protagonist), and it's at this point that you are pretty much told "Jemma will fall in love with this boring man." Like most television shows that try to insert temporary love interests to string out longer-boiling romances, FitzSimmons is injected with this cancerous cell of dullness, and it really just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. In fact, it takes what was proving to be an absolutely excellent episode and just turns it over and dumps it out. Very disappointing. Don't force relationships without having a character in mind for them. Writing: 4/10 Characterization: 1/10 Scarlet Factor: 5/10 Overall Rating: 10/30 --- "It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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