Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Dec 5, 2017 8:33:54 GMT
Apparently, after letting the premiere sink in for a few days, I have reasons to rant about Coulson again. Yay. Not.
It is my opinion that the smart Phil. J. Coulson whom we know and love would not answer "Manitowoc, Wisconsin" when he and Deke are having their conversation about the Kree and the timeline and are just confusing each other.
I feel like in the context of the conversation and what had been said earlier, he would've answered with where they were taken from. I think that because it was 100% apparent that Deke didn't give a Fitz where he was born and Coulson should have known immediately after he says it because Deke answers, "Are you high?"
Furthermore, this was the same conversation where Deke figured out the whole time-travel thing before he did.
Coulson is a guy who once threatened to taze Tony Stark in Stark's own house. He knows how to communicate with people and keep up with them on an intellectual level even if the other person has at least 50 more IQ points. Coulson also has a history of getting a sliver of information and later using it to solve a big puzzle. It's how he outed Garret and rooted out Rosalind's Malick problem.
I'm not saying he should have wised up to the time travel right away, but that he should have been at a mental point where he was looking at all the information he had and running more scenarios than "this was built in the 20's".
And also, there's the scene where Daisy has to be like, "Uh, why don't you stay here and communicate with this guy instead of going on a mission with me to save the powered people that would be nine thousand percent more helpful to me than you."
Coulson went to the God damned Communications Academy, not the Ops Academy, and is chiefly an analyst and strategist. He should have had that idea all along, especially when he had previously stressed how important it was that they get answers from Deke. Oh, and he was a Director of SHIELD once, too. THINK BEFORE YOU ACT PHIL!
Now, I am choosing to pin all of this on awesomely nerdy and not-at-all-Agentey Teacher Coulson because Teacher Coulson, with Agent Coulson's brain, would have had those problems. And If Coulson was fully himself it means one of two things:
1. Coulson has just plain lost about half of the skills that makes him a great leader, or
2. The writers are sacrificing Coulson's ability to lead the team on purpose so that they can transfer it to Daisy.
These reasons are both equally terrible. It doesn't matter why, don't use one character to level-up another character. Don't do it, writers...
Maybe this rant is me being overly sensitive to Coulson's every word and action since I've never fully forgave the writers for season three, but what I think bothers me is that he's the one character who I think suffers from inconsistent writing.
I'm not saying that he hasn't been given arcs, because he has, I'm saying that he has lost some of the skills and traits that he had in season one and (some) of season two, and hardly gained any others to take their place.
Daisy has super powers but, when she needs to, she can still hack and use her computer skills.
Mack is a mechanic and engineer. He does other stuff too, but he still has those skills and consistently uses them and prefers too.
Fitz and Simmons have new skills but still know and use their core skills.
Even May, has new skills and traits, but is still consistent to how she started. It's just her gained skills are more interpersonal, than physical and knowledge skills.
Before I end my rant, I want to add that this rant also applies to Coulson last season when his ass got caught bugging a senator's office.
Now, #RantOver
It is my opinion that the smart Phil. J. Coulson whom we know and love would not answer "Manitowoc, Wisconsin" when he and Deke are having their conversation about the Kree and the timeline and are just confusing each other.
I feel like in the context of the conversation and what had been said earlier, he would've answered with where they were taken from. I think that because it was 100% apparent that Deke didn't give a Fitz where he was born and Coulson should have known immediately after he says it because Deke answers, "Are you high?"
Furthermore, this was the same conversation where Deke figured out the whole time-travel thing before he did.
Coulson is a guy who once threatened to taze Tony Stark in Stark's own house. He knows how to communicate with people and keep up with them on an intellectual level even if the other person has at least 50 more IQ points. Coulson also has a history of getting a sliver of information and later using it to solve a big puzzle. It's how he outed Garret and rooted out Rosalind's Malick problem.
I'm not saying he should have wised up to the time travel right away, but that he should have been at a mental point where he was looking at all the information he had and running more scenarios than "this was built in the 20's".
And also, there's the scene where Daisy has to be like, "Uh, why don't you stay here and communicate with this guy instead of going on a mission with me to save the powered people that would be nine thousand percent more helpful to me than you."
Coulson went to the God damned Communications Academy, not the Ops Academy, and is chiefly an analyst and strategist. He should have had that idea all along, especially when he had previously stressed how important it was that they get answers from Deke. Oh, and he was a Director of SHIELD once, too. THINK BEFORE YOU ACT PHIL!
Now, I am choosing to pin all of this on awesomely nerdy and not-at-all-Agentey Teacher Coulson because Teacher Coulson, with Agent Coulson's brain, would have had those problems. And If Coulson was fully himself it means one of two things:
1. Coulson has just plain lost about half of the skills that makes him a great leader, or
2. The writers are sacrificing Coulson's ability to lead the team on purpose so that they can transfer it to Daisy.
These reasons are both equally terrible. It doesn't matter why, don't use one character to level-up another character. Don't do it, writers...
Maybe this rant is me being overly sensitive to Coulson's every word and action since I've never fully forgave the writers for season three, but what I think bothers me is that he's the one character who I think suffers from inconsistent writing.
I'm not saying that he hasn't been given arcs, because he has, I'm saying that he has lost some of the skills and traits that he had in season one and (some) of season two, and hardly gained any others to take their place.
Daisy has super powers but, when she needs to, she can still hack and use her computer skills.
Mack is a mechanic and engineer. He does other stuff too, but he still has those skills and consistently uses them and prefers too.
Fitz and Simmons have new skills but still know and use their core skills.
Even May, has new skills and traits, but is still consistent to how she started. It's just her gained skills are more interpersonal, than physical and knowledge skills.
Before I end my rant, I want to add that this rant also applies to Coulson last season when his ass got caught bugging a senator's office.
Now, #RantOver
