Agents of SHIELD episode 4

[psocoptera]

Liked it, best yet! Although I'm not entirely sure it's the best strategy to make me more interested in all the guest stars than the regulars. Makes me want... hrm, actually, this is worth a ficlet:

Agents of S.H.A.D.O.W.

"I thought I would stand trial," Akela says numbly.

Fury doesn't *quite* roll his eye. "All that training, plus you proved you're willing to take the hard orders, we're going to waste that?"

He pushes the stack of folders across his desk to her. "Here's your team," he says, like she isn't about to read all this. "Michael Peterson, Extremis variant, strength and endurance. [Insert whoever Coulson interacts with in the next few episodes here.] Franklin Hall, you'll like this, used to be one of ours, Coulson dropped him into some kind of gravity experiment and left him there, we pulled him out and now he's ten feet tall and covered in liquid metal."

"I should like that?"

Fury grins, which is always terrifying. "Should keep things interesting."

"And we're a field team?"

"Blackest ops we run. You're an invisible team, none of you exist, no support, no rescues."

"No cavalry?" Akela quips, and immediately regrets it. "But, seriously, field work - " she taps her eyepatch.

Fury taps his own eyepatch. It's like the secret salute of an extremely exclusive club. "I have no qualms, Agent Amador."

***

(SHADOW doesn't actually stand for anything, it just seemed like a good name for the ultra-secret second irregular team...)

Comments

[mightyinkas.livejournal.com]

So a general comment here: I like all the ladies being awesome every week. And how even Coulson steps gingerly around May. And how Simmons just gets SO EXCITED about science. And Skye... actually I'm fairly blah about her; she's generic. But Akela! Whose theme music is meant to match the syllables in her name, so you can sing A-kel-a A-ma-dor! along with it (no really, Bear McCreary said so). Yeah. She needs to come back.

Excellent ficlet, by the way! Headcanon accepted. *nods*

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I am eager to see more of Simmons, like, I feel like she needs at least one more trait to hang a characterization on, but I don't mean that in a critical way, I don't think they've done a *bad* job so far, it just seems early yet.

Skye is most interesting to me when she's a fangirl now living in her fandom; I'm not very interested in her possible tragic backstory (whether she ever really had a place she belonged before or whether that's all part of a con she's running, whatever).