I love the skye character.
She has spunk, intelligence, a playful energy, and a jagged biting wit. Or, at least she did in ep. 1. She's become a bit morose and weird as the series has dragged on. But overall, her character makes sense: she's a kid, kind of a lost puppy searching for a direction: a cult, an underground movement, anything to get her bearings. With no family, it's easy to see how she could fall in with the 'wrong crowd,' or make hasty decisions that she's never entirely comfortable with.
Unfortunately, it looks like she's being crammed into the superhero/superagent in training role and will wind up looking as silly as may and black widow as not very believable combatants.
I know the politically correct feminists and liberals will howl at the moon, but there is no such thing as a believable female action hero. The closest I've seen is Gina Carano, and she is not a very good actor.
I still laugh at the notion that may is "well written." I can see why someone would want to defend her, on ideological grounds, however. They might be sympathetic to the thought of a middle aged, small-ish lady defying all odds, gaining renown as "the cavalry."
I guess it's plausible. About as plausible as bill shoemaker averaging 50 pts a game for the lakers and leading them to 10 consecutive nba championships. Bill Shoemaker was 4'11" btw.
This doesn't have anything to do with my subjective opinion. It has everything to do with the implausibility of a 50 year old woman who might weigh 100 pounds soaking wet destroying hordes of elite military who are twice her size and half her age. It's a dumb, implausible idea.
And this is before we delve into her 'speaking' role, which consists primarily of a handful of mumbled lines every couple of episodes, delivered with a half-glazed, half-half baked pouty sneer. That's not a character. It's not a caricature. It's a few mumbled lines every now and then. That's it. It is what it is.
If you "love" watching a character pout 24/7 and mumble a few lines every now and again, then be my guest. If you have somehow deluded yourself into believing that this character is 'deep' and that the actor is accomplished, then I can not prevent you from enjoying your delusion.
May is what she always has been: an anchor for the pc liberal feminist crowd. I hate to say it, but she's a token character, written in for ideological/political purposes.
Pot, Kettle. And this little reactionary missive doesn't reek of an attempt to tarnish one character just to make the one you have a soft corner for look better in comparison?
May is both well written and well characterized. Being stoic and internalizing emotion is not equivalent to being bland, boring or poorly written. It clearly is the same for you, which is extremely subjective. The character isn't working specifically for you... which, for the most part, is not really relevant.
The Skye character is not well written, completely unlikable (this might be a subjective call, but I think more of the show's audience agrees than not) and most crucially, thus far, completely unnecessary. She seems straight out of a show meant for very young children. The reasons I've heard in defense of Skye's presence are: (1) Audience proxy (2) She's hot (3) Witty banter. These have nothing to do with the internal logic of the show. And no... "social media expert" is not a thing. Certainly not in the context of an elite team tasked with ridding the world of various serious threats.
Even if it is revealed down the line that Coulson had some overarching master plan in place all along with Skye's inclusion in the team, they've basically burned 10 episodes and counting of good will (with respect to the Skye character) in which she's been nothing but deadweight.
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