Somewhere Different Now

I have yet to watch Agent Carter because I wanted to finally catch up with Agents of SHIELD first.  Now that I'm caught up on AOS, I have these things to say:

-By the time I saw the finale, I'd already been spoiled that there was a #Tripplives campaign, so I knew that he had to be at least potentially dead.  Knowing it was coming did not keep me from being pissed off and saddened. I know the actor has another show, but couldn't they have written him off by having him go deep undercover or something?  I really liked Tripp even if he hadn't been given enough to do this season.

-Meanwhile, I am unclear as to the state of Mac at the end.  Is he still possessed by the buried alien city?  Can he pretty please get un-possessed?  (Dispossessed?)  Will Fitz save him with the power of love?  I am hoping with all my heart that the answer to the last question is YES, because I am shipping those two so much.  They are great together.

-I was so excited to see Dichen Lachman (I hadn't known she was going to be on the show, so it was a nice surprise to see another Dollhouse alum), but then they gave her literally nothing to do other than be terrified and tortured.  Could somebody please hire this actress for some role where she doesn't have to be horrifically violated?  At a minimum, I hope her role as Skye's mother gets some flashbacks here that aren't about the period where she's being held by HYDRA.

-Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks is wonderfully over-the-top creepy/crazy as Skye's dad.  However, even after everything that just happened I am still just not that invested in Skye's whole plotline.  I like her a lot better this season than last season, but I still regard screentime with Skye as inferior to screentime with just about any of the other characters on the side of good on the show.  (I hate to say it, but I just don't think Chloe Bennet is all that great of an actress, at least compared to everyone around her.)  That said, the way Skye just fucking shot Ward was awesome.

-I really enjoy Simmons's friendship with Bobbi Morse.  Really I enjoy everything either of these fantastic ladies does, but bonding with each other is perhaps my favorite.

-So brainwashed Agent 33 is still around and still wearing a (somewhat mangled) version of May's face.  More Ming-Na Wen is a good thing.

-Everybody got to go film in Puerto Rico, hooray!  I love it when tv shows manage to go to different places rather than claiming they're all over the place when they are clearly surrounded by the ecosystem of southern California (or Cardiff, or Vancouver, or wherever a show normally films).

And now for a meme.  This is via luckweaver.

You can tell a lot about someone by the music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your music device and list the first 20 songs.

RULES: no skipping. be honest. pass it on to 10 people consider yourself all tagged.

My results:  geez, shuffle was not in its best form.  We have a lot of my less preferred tracks from various albums, though there are a few songs I really love in here.  Also, there's a disproportionate amount of Lady Gaga.

1. “A Pretty Girl Is Like…”, The Magnetic Fields
2. “Rattling Locks,” Josh Ritter
3.  “Get Over It,” OK Go
4.  “King and Lionheart,” Of Monsters and Men
5.  “Keep on the Sunny Side,” The Whites
6.  “He Came to Meet Me,” Hem
7.  “Farewell,” Greg Laswell
8.  “Overlap,” Ani DiFranco
9.  “Dover Pier,” Bare Necessities
10.  “Able to Sing,” Indigo Girls
11.  “Hello,” Evanescence
12.  “The World’s Not Falling Apart,” Dar Williams
13.  “Love Love Love [Demo Version],” Of Monsters and Men
14.  “The ‘Disarm’ Suite,” Sarah Slean
15.  “Judas (DJ White Shadow Remix),” Lady Gaga
16.  “Oh No!”, Marina & the Diamonds
17.  “A Widow’s Toast,” Neko Case
18.  “Simple Life,” Doria Roberts
19.  “Marry the Night (Zedd Remix),” Lady Gaga
20.  “Loom,” Ani DiFranco