Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. can be a weirdly frustrating show at times. When it's good, it's really good, but not for reasons that are all that interesting to talk about. It also has difficulty in trying to balance different storylines, so that when it's really good in one area, it has problems in another that don't kill it, but just drag things down a bit. This episode, "Chaos Theory" is a great example of that, putting a temporary bow on the Lash storyline while kind of fumbling some stories in the background.
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TV Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 3, Episode 3 A Wanted (Inhu)Man
I didn't review a previous episode of the show this season, even though it's basically appointment TV for me. I tried for the first episode, but a lack of time that week and an inability to figure out where to start held me back. This show has a lot going on, and most of the characters are working on slightly different plotlines, meaning that it's often hard to find a cohesive way to talk about an episode without just listing the things that happened in the episode. It's not a weakness of Agents of SHIELD, just a consequence of how it tells stories that makes it a little more difficult to write a review.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Once Upon a Time Review: Season 4, Episode 3: Rocky Road
Footnotes regarding my knowledge of the show and the format of this review.
The first thing I want to get off my chest is that they've finally done some real work towards not making a lot of the show look bad. The special effects have been bad since the first season, and I expected that to be a first season problem, not something that lasted for three seasons. They're finally building sets for the flashbacks and have figured out how to make the CGI actually feel right. The one exception to that in this episode was when Elsa was fighting Hans and his brothers. For some reason, the ice she was firing towards them just looked terrible - I don't know why, as I'm not skilled enough with special effects terminology or understanding, but it took me out of things a bit.
I haven't yet read any other reviews or recaps of this episode or the season so far, but I get the feeling that there are going to be a number of people who don't like the focus on Elsa, especially given the fact that quite a backlash against Frozen has developed recently. I'm sure there are people who want the focus to be back on the characters who have been here in the show since the beginning, but there's a slight problem with that: most of them are kind of boring at this point. Snow White is really forgettable right now (I like pretending that the baby is actually Ginnifer Goodwin's son, which I doubt but makes a weird amount of sense, and is the only thing that makes that even somewhat interesting), Prince Charming doesn't have anything to do except try to be a father to Emma (I cannot get used to the fact that she is the same age as her parents - in any other TV series, they'd be a couple), and Emma is getting full of herself in a really annoying way, but is kind of funny because she keeps calling herself a savior/chosen one, but that was all wrapped up at the end of the first season when she broke the curse.
Then we have Gold (because I hate typing out Rumpelstiltskin all the time) and Regina, who have been here since the beginning and actually have some interesting storylines. I think that they currently work well next to a main story rather than being the center of the story at the moment, but they'll be more central stories in some episodes soon enough. I won't say too much about them right now, other than liking the fact that they're making redemption really difficult and interesting, even when the story is a little ridiculous (Regina's is ridiculous in concept, but going well in execution). Also, there's Henry, who is in there less and less, but I'll just say this at the moment: he's the rare character made better by being made a whiny teenager.
I mentioned that I was trying to jump in after only somewhat following the previous few seasons. I guess I was a little on the optimistic side when I was thinking they would use this as an opportunity for that, but it makes the most sense for tying the promotion in to a movie that made a billion dollars, which is way more than watched the show also. It's not terrible about it, but I've asked questions a little more often than I would have liked.
The storytelling style for the show in general doesn't really help with that problem. Maybe it's something personal, but I'm missing the idea of A/B storytelling in this series. Instead of there being a distinct story each episode that stands on its own, in addition to advancing the overall story either in the background or as a part of the main story, the episodes tend to be a series of incrementally moving forward a half dozen stories in little pieces, then they just end. Yes, there is a structure to the way that each episode progresses and how they end, it just leads to each episode feeling anticlimactic because the story is just left hanging. Maybe I end up being wrong, since this show will have more people watching it later on being able to skip the week between episodes, but it makes watching it week to week a little disappointing sometimes. This is far from the only show guilty of this, but this show basically flaunts its structure.
From the time I saw the end of Season 3 (which I saw on YouTube the next day rather than actually watching the episode), I was both excited and apprehensive about them adding in the Frozen characters. While I'm much less apprehensive now, it's been replaced by a weirdness that I have trouble shaking. For now, I'm just going to focus on talking about Elsa, since Anna wasn't in this episode and the other characters aren't that prominent so far (though I think the Snow Queen killed Hans, which surprised me, that they'd do it so quickly, but good riddance).
Of the issues I've had with Elsa, none of them are Georgina Haig. Even without accounting for ability to sing, trying to get someone to jump in and play that character was always going to be an uphill battle (if you took singing into account, I'd call it damn near impossible), but she was obviously not just willing, but able to take the character and not just try to be exactly the same as she was in the movie. Reinvention has been what this show has made its main hook, and while I still think it's a little too soon to go for reinvention, she has done a great job with it so far.
I was starting to really like the interactions between Elsa and the Snow Queen taking place in the past. They were taking this in a different direction than I expected - I didn't expect them to even know of each other in the past, but the fact that they're also friends is not at all what I expected. Then they fell into something that has made me want to put my head through a wall this entire series: everyone is related. The Snow Queen is Elsa's aunt - of course she is. Everyone is related to everyone else in some way, which feels like it's way too much. They also implied that Emma might be related to The Snow Queen (maybe, but I won't put it past them), which just links everyone else yet again. It's a pet peeve of mine, and honestly, I find it lazy. It doesn't need to be there. Frozen was all about family, and I think it's one of the reasons why it really worked well (not the only, but very important), but adding more family here feels like just trying to do what worked, but again.
Unfortunately, they seem to be taking that as their mantra for how to write these episodes. At the rate they're going, within another 3 episodes they will have referenced every single plot point from the movie. This episode mostly consisted of everyone thinking that Elsa must stopped because she's an evil witch. Now, let's hold on a moment and realize how many evil witches there are around here, including one who's been here from the beginning (but reforming), and it seems like they're just repeating for the sake of doing something like what was in the movie, because then people will like it. They can't avoid everything that was in there, especially since you're using a lot of the same characters, but they also need to do something new with the same characters. Then again, at the rate they're going, they'll have to come up with something new pretty soon, since they'll run out of plot from the movie.
On a side note, if they want to reference absolutely everything, can they get Alan Tudyk to show up and be the Duke of Weselton? Completely unnecessary, but I'd love it (yes, personal bias, but I'd love to see it, and I'm sure other people would, too).
Since this didn't come up on its own before this, I need to bring up what was my favorite moment in the episode, and what I'm sure is many people's. Hook and Elsa are off in the woods, looking for the Snow Queen, and Hook pulls out a cell phone, trying to contact Emma. Elsa asks what it is, and Hook doesn't know, but knows well enough to know that it never works. It's not quite as funny out of context, mostly because the show was in a much more serious moment when that happened, and that was about the last thing I expected to come up in conversation. I'm a sucker for a good fish out of water joke, but only if done well.
I have forgotten everything that was in the preview for the next episode except for the fact that we're going to have Anna meeting Rumpelstiltskin because that is all that matters. We need more of him, especially that version of him, so the more we see of him, the better. I ws disappointed that it didn't happen in this episode, but we can't have everything.
Also, since we're going to be with Elsa for a while, I need to mention that the dress bugs me a bit. Not that I don't like it, but it's been established that it was created by her magic. So, is it something else she can create with magic? Is she like Bayonetta or Mystique, and she doesn't need clothes because they're just a part of her and can be created or changed at will? If so, she could use something a lot more practical in a lot of situations. I know it's iconic for her, but she doesn't need to wear it constantly - Belle's yellow dress is iconic, and she basically never wears it. I just want to see this explored a little more, as there is a lot you can do with that implied ability.
Until next time...
1 I've watched the show here and there through the first three seasons - nothing consistent, but I have a general grasp of everything that's going on with all the characters - what I haven't seen, I've been filled in on by someone who watched it much more attentively than I had. I jumped in this season because I thought that they'd treat adding the Frozen characters as a jumping on point for new viewers.↩
2 I won't do scene by scene recaps. I don't enjoy it, and you're better off actually watching the episode. I'll touch on the important events, so this will jog your memory of the episode. The important part? I want to look at how the episode worked as a whole, how the individual storylines and aspects work, and my opinions in general on the episode. These are all opinions, very subjective, and all I can do is promise to be honest about what I think, not to provide objective truths. (There are no objective truths in entertainment, so don't even try.) Also, apologies for the roughness of the format - this is something new that I need to play around with a bit to really figure out.↩
Season 4, Episode 3: Rocky Road
The first thing I want to get off my chest is that they've finally done some real work towards not making a lot of the show look bad. The special effects have been bad since the first season, and I expected that to be a first season problem, not something that lasted for three seasons. They're finally building sets for the flashbacks and have figured out how to make the CGI actually feel right. The one exception to that in this episode was when Elsa was fighting Hans and his brothers. For some reason, the ice she was firing towards them just looked terrible - I don't know why, as I'm not skilled enough with special effects terminology or understanding, but it took me out of things a bit.
I haven't yet read any other reviews or recaps of this episode or the season so far, but I get the feeling that there are going to be a number of people who don't like the focus on Elsa, especially given the fact that quite a backlash against Frozen has developed recently. I'm sure there are people who want the focus to be back on the characters who have been here in the show since the beginning, but there's a slight problem with that: most of them are kind of boring at this point. Snow White is really forgettable right now (I like pretending that the baby is actually Ginnifer Goodwin's son, which I doubt but makes a weird amount of sense, and is the only thing that makes that even somewhat interesting), Prince Charming doesn't have anything to do except try to be a father to Emma (I cannot get used to the fact that she is the same age as her parents - in any other TV series, they'd be a couple), and Emma is getting full of herself in a really annoying way, but is kind of funny because she keeps calling herself a savior/chosen one, but that was all wrapped up at the end of the first season when she broke the curse.
Then we have Gold (because I hate typing out Rumpelstiltskin all the time) and Regina, who have been here since the beginning and actually have some interesting storylines. I think that they currently work well next to a main story rather than being the center of the story at the moment, but they'll be more central stories in some episodes soon enough. I won't say too much about them right now, other than liking the fact that they're making redemption really difficult and interesting, even when the story is a little ridiculous (Regina's is ridiculous in concept, but going well in execution). Also, there's Henry, who is in there less and less, but I'll just say this at the moment: he's the rare character made better by being made a whiny teenager.
I mentioned that I was trying to jump in after only somewhat following the previous few seasons. I guess I was a little on the optimistic side when I was thinking they would use this as an opportunity for that, but it makes the most sense for tying the promotion in to a movie that made a billion dollars, which is way more than watched the show also. It's not terrible about it, but I've asked questions a little more often than I would have liked.
The storytelling style for the show in general doesn't really help with that problem. Maybe it's something personal, but I'm missing the idea of A/B storytelling in this series. Instead of there being a distinct story each episode that stands on its own, in addition to advancing the overall story either in the background or as a part of the main story, the episodes tend to be a series of incrementally moving forward a half dozen stories in little pieces, then they just end. Yes, there is a structure to the way that each episode progresses and how they end, it just leads to each episode feeling anticlimactic because the story is just left hanging. Maybe I end up being wrong, since this show will have more people watching it later on being able to skip the week between episodes, but it makes watching it week to week a little disappointing sometimes. This is far from the only show guilty of this, but this show basically flaunts its structure.
From the time I saw the end of Season 3 (which I saw on YouTube the next day rather than actually watching the episode), I was both excited and apprehensive about them adding in the Frozen characters. While I'm much less apprehensive now, it's been replaced by a weirdness that I have trouble shaking. For now, I'm just going to focus on talking about Elsa, since Anna wasn't in this episode and the other characters aren't that prominent so far (though I think the Snow Queen killed Hans, which surprised me, that they'd do it so quickly, but good riddance).
Of the issues I've had with Elsa, none of them are Georgina Haig. Even without accounting for ability to sing, trying to get someone to jump in and play that character was always going to be an uphill battle (if you took singing into account, I'd call it damn near impossible), but she was obviously not just willing, but able to take the character and not just try to be exactly the same as she was in the movie. Reinvention has been what this show has made its main hook, and while I still think it's a little too soon to go for reinvention, she has done a great job with it so far.
I was starting to really like the interactions between Elsa and the Snow Queen taking place in the past. They were taking this in a different direction than I expected - I didn't expect them to even know of each other in the past, but the fact that they're also friends is not at all what I expected. Then they fell into something that has made me want to put my head through a wall this entire series: everyone is related. The Snow Queen is Elsa's aunt - of course she is. Everyone is related to everyone else in some way, which feels like it's way too much. They also implied that Emma might be related to The Snow Queen (maybe, but I won't put it past them), which just links everyone else yet again. It's a pet peeve of mine, and honestly, I find it lazy. It doesn't need to be there. Frozen was all about family, and I think it's one of the reasons why it really worked well (not the only, but very important), but adding more family here feels like just trying to do what worked, but again.
Unfortunately, they seem to be taking that as their mantra for how to write these episodes. At the rate they're going, within another 3 episodes they will have referenced every single plot point from the movie. This episode mostly consisted of everyone thinking that Elsa must stopped because she's an evil witch. Now, let's hold on a moment and realize how many evil witches there are around here, including one who's been here from the beginning (but reforming), and it seems like they're just repeating for the sake of doing something like what was in the movie, because then people will like it. They can't avoid everything that was in there, especially since you're using a lot of the same characters, but they also need to do something new with the same characters. Then again, at the rate they're going, they'll have to come up with something new pretty soon, since they'll run out of plot from the movie.
On a side note, if they want to reference absolutely everything, can they get Alan Tudyk to show up and be the Duke of Weselton? Completely unnecessary, but I'd love it (yes, personal bias, but I'd love to see it, and I'm sure other people would, too).
Since this didn't come up on its own before this, I need to bring up what was my favorite moment in the episode, and what I'm sure is many people's. Hook and Elsa are off in the woods, looking for the Snow Queen, and Hook pulls out a cell phone, trying to contact Emma. Elsa asks what it is, and Hook doesn't know, but knows well enough to know that it never works. It's not quite as funny out of context, mostly because the show was in a much more serious moment when that happened, and that was about the last thing I expected to come up in conversation. I'm a sucker for a good fish out of water joke, but only if done well.
Looking ahead:
I have forgotten everything that was in the preview for the next episode except for the fact that we're going to have Anna meeting Rumpelstiltskin because that is all that matters. We need more of him, especially that version of him, so the more we see of him, the better. I ws disappointed that it didn't happen in this episode, but we can't have everything.
Also, since we're going to be with Elsa for a while, I need to mention that the dress bugs me a bit. Not that I don't like it, but it's been established that it was created by her magic. So, is it something else she can create with magic? Is she like Bayonetta or Mystique, and she doesn't need clothes because they're just a part of her and can be created or changed at will? If so, she could use something a lot more practical in a lot of situations. I know it's iconic for her, but she doesn't need to wear it constantly - Belle's yellow dress is iconic, and she basically never wears it. I just want to see this explored a little more, as there is a lot you can do with that implied ability.
Until next time...
1 I've watched the show here and there through the first three seasons - nothing consistent, but I have a general grasp of everything that's going on with all the characters - what I haven't seen, I've been filled in on by someone who watched it much more attentively than I had. I jumped in this season because I thought that they'd treat adding the Frozen characters as a jumping on point for new viewers.↩
2 I won't do scene by scene recaps. I don't enjoy it, and you're better off actually watching the episode. I'll touch on the important events, so this will jog your memory of the episode. The important part? I want to look at how the episode worked as a whole, how the individual storylines and aspects work, and my opinions in general on the episode. These are all opinions, very subjective, and all I can do is promise to be honest about what I think, not to provide objective truths. (There are no objective truths in entertainment, so don't even try.) Also, apologies for the roughness of the format - this is something new that I need to play around with a bit to really figure out.↩
Friday, October 4, 2013
Review: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 2: 0-8-4
The first thing you might notice is that I'm starting here with episode 2. I didn't review the pilot, and while it started as simply a matter of running out of time, I'm starting to think that it might be a good direction to go in. Pilot episodes are always a little scattered and trying to do so many different things at once, and any attempt to write about that episode would end up being scattered due to that. Long story short, I really liked it, no it's not perfect, but it made me want to watch more and that's what really matters. Enough of that, let's move on forward and talk about the second episode, "0-8-4".
When they first announced Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I thought that it was going to be more along the lines of Dollhouse: small group working within and occasionally against a larger, omnipotent organization, that seemed like a likely direction to take it in. What ended up happening, instead, is that we can finally stop complaining about Firefly being cancelled over a decade ago, since this is the closest we'll ever get, and I'm okay with that (I'll have more to say about that in another article, I can promise that). It resembles Firefly to an uncanny degree at times - small, occasionally dysfunctional group that lives on a plane, and the characters match up a little closely at times: the Captain who trusts his crew beyond any logic (Coulson, resembling Mal), the gun-happy "Why am I protecting these idiots" guy (Ward, resembling Jayne), the guy/girl medical/mechanical genius team (FitzSimmons, resembling Simon and Kaylee), and the mysterious badass ninja girl (May, resembling a weird combination of River and Zoe). The only one I'm not sure who to make the parallel to is Skye, probably because she reminds me most of Faith from Buffy instead of any Firefly character. But to everyone who thinks that they absolutely need to bring Firefly back (they don't, and I don't want them to)? They did, as much as they can.
One of the reasons that I didn't review the pilot is that it introduces every character, while now that everyone has been introduced, we can actually focus more on the story and character interaction. As if the character parallels weren't enough to set off the alarm that this show is basically "Firefly in the Marvel Universe", a lot of elements of the plot seem to be taken straight out of episodes of Firefly: old friend of the captain who turns against the team (Tracey in "The Message"), taking over the ship (Saffron hijacking Serenity), and while I could go on, I think you get the point.
Now, I don't want people to think that I mean all of this as a slam against the series. I loved Firefly, even though I was seven years late to the party (in my defense, I was 10 when it came out), and these are more observations than any sort of value judgment.
The episode starts off with a very common TV trick - show part of the climax (or something even after that) out of context, then jump back in time to show how things got there. This starts with the side of the plane exploding and someone falling out, then cuts to "19 hours later". Aside from the exploding plane, this episode gets off to a slow start. While they're going after the 0-8-4 on the ground in Peru, I feel like things haven't picked up yet. There are no stakes, no real knowledge of what's going on or why, and that leads to the action scenes having a lot of the life sucked out of them. Once they get the artifact onto the plane, along with the members of the Peruvian military, things start to get interesting.
Every Joss Whedon show has been about the characters. Their interactions are what carry the shows, and we're starting to get the chance to see that. The best scenes in the episode are ones where the team is just interacting with each other, first in the argument in the lab, then when they're coming up with a plan to get out of the cargo hold. This is the secret behind Joss's shows - for everything else happening, including the weirdly big action sequences (seriously, how high is their budget that they keep doing these scenes), we're really there for the characters, and this is delivering on that premise so far.
Of course, there's no way I can talk about this without mentioning the stinger after the credits. Being a Marvel movie fan, I'm now pretty used to the concept, but I hope they don't do this for every episode and just use it for occasions where it particularly fits. In this case, it works kind of perfectly, as we see Nick Fury getting mad at Coulson for, well, destroying the plane after they've had it for less than a week. I certainly didn't expect this cameo this early in the show, though I hope they don't keep escalating it and we've already seen Robert Downey Jr. by the next episode - the show seems to be leaning a bit too much on the movie continuity. Taking it as a Marvel fan and not as some sort of bigger trend in the show, however, I loved this cameo, not just because it's fun to watch Samuel L. Jackson yell at people, but it also makes perfect sense that it'd be happening. A small thing that stuck out was that even he referred to "FitzSimmons" - apparently these two are so inseparable that even the (presumptively) head of S.H.I.E.L.D. knows about them as a single unit, not two separate people.
Going into what we know about the future episodes, they're going to be expanding a bit on their own continuity and mythology soon, introducing a new major villain next episode who wasn't in any of the movies, so it looks like they're building up their confidence a bit more.
The final thing that I have to say is related to a previous post that I made: the show is still finding its feet. Though I didn't go into them in too much detail, there are a few things that I don't think quite works (the beginning time on the ground in Peru, any time they're talking about politics), but that always happens in the early episodes of a TV show. I'm having that same trouble with these articles, knowing what to talk about with regards to the show.
Zac Kandell (known mostly on the internet as Mischlings) is the creator of Ravenous Badger Media and is amazed that he didn't spend this whole review gushing about Skye. Follow him on Twitter at @Mischlings for when he decides that he has short thoughts to share with the world.
When they first announced Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I thought that it was going to be more along the lines of Dollhouse: small group working within and occasionally against a larger, omnipotent organization, that seemed like a likely direction to take it in. What ended up happening, instead, is that we can finally stop complaining about Firefly being cancelled over a decade ago, since this is the closest we'll ever get, and I'm okay with that (I'll have more to say about that in another article, I can promise that). It resembles Firefly to an uncanny degree at times - small, occasionally dysfunctional group that lives on a plane, and the characters match up a little closely at times: the Captain who trusts his crew beyond any logic (Coulson, resembling Mal), the gun-happy "Why am I protecting these idiots" guy (Ward, resembling Jayne), the guy/girl medical/mechanical genius team (FitzSimmons, resembling Simon and Kaylee), and the mysterious badass ninja girl (May, resembling a weird combination of River and Zoe). The only one I'm not sure who to make the parallel to is Skye, probably because she reminds me most of Faith from Buffy instead of any Firefly character. But to everyone who thinks that they absolutely need to bring Firefly back (they don't, and I don't want them to)? They did, as much as they can.
One of the reasons that I didn't review the pilot is that it introduces every character, while now that everyone has been introduced, we can actually focus more on the story and character interaction. As if the character parallels weren't enough to set off the alarm that this show is basically "Firefly in the Marvel Universe", a lot of elements of the plot seem to be taken straight out of episodes of Firefly: old friend of the captain who turns against the team (Tracey in "The Message"), taking over the ship (Saffron hijacking Serenity), and while I could go on, I think you get the point.
Now, I don't want people to think that I mean all of this as a slam against the series. I loved Firefly, even though I was seven years late to the party (in my defense, I was 10 when it came out), and these are more observations than any sort of value judgment.
The episode starts off with a very common TV trick - show part of the climax (or something even after that) out of context, then jump back in time to show how things got there. This starts with the side of the plane exploding and someone falling out, then cuts to "19 hours later". Aside from the exploding plane, this episode gets off to a slow start. While they're going after the 0-8-4 on the ground in Peru, I feel like things haven't picked up yet. There are no stakes, no real knowledge of what's going on or why, and that leads to the action scenes having a lot of the life sucked out of them. Once they get the artifact onto the plane, along with the members of the Peruvian military, things start to get interesting.
Every Joss Whedon show has been about the characters. Their interactions are what carry the shows, and we're starting to get the chance to see that. The best scenes in the episode are ones where the team is just interacting with each other, first in the argument in the lab, then when they're coming up with a plan to get out of the cargo hold. This is the secret behind Joss's shows - for everything else happening, including the weirdly big action sequences (seriously, how high is their budget that they keep doing these scenes), we're really there for the characters, and this is delivering on that premise so far.
Of course, there's no way I can talk about this without mentioning the stinger after the credits. Being a Marvel movie fan, I'm now pretty used to the concept, but I hope they don't do this for every episode and just use it for occasions where it particularly fits. In this case, it works kind of perfectly, as we see Nick Fury getting mad at Coulson for, well, destroying the plane after they've had it for less than a week. I certainly didn't expect this cameo this early in the show, though I hope they don't keep escalating it and we've already seen Robert Downey Jr. by the next episode - the show seems to be leaning a bit too much on the movie continuity. Taking it as a Marvel fan and not as some sort of bigger trend in the show, however, I loved this cameo, not just because it's fun to watch Samuel L. Jackson yell at people, but it also makes perfect sense that it'd be happening. A small thing that stuck out was that even he referred to "FitzSimmons" - apparently these two are so inseparable that even the (presumptively) head of S.H.I.E.L.D. knows about them as a single unit, not two separate people.
Going into what we know about the future episodes, they're going to be expanding a bit on their own continuity and mythology soon, introducing a new major villain next episode who wasn't in any of the movies, so it looks like they're building up their confidence a bit more.
The final thing that I have to say is related to a previous post that I made: the show is still finding its feet. Though I didn't go into them in too much detail, there are a few things that I don't think quite works (the beginning time on the ground in Peru, any time they're talking about politics), but that always happens in the early episodes of a TV show. I'm having that same trouble with these articles, knowing what to talk about with regards to the show.
Zac Kandell (known mostly on the internet as Mischlings) is the creator of Ravenous Badger Media and is amazed that he didn't spend this whole review gushing about Skye. Follow him on Twitter at @Mischlings for when he decides that he has short thoughts to share with the world.
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