Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-3317214-20140515001942

LoveWaffle wrote: Hulkophile wrote: What I really hate about this show is that it keeps throwing twists and turns at us without presenting any resolution to most of its subplots.

I'm pretty sure that they forgot most of the sub-plot they created at the start of the season in favor for the Hydra tie-in with Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

It just feels like they're doing twist and turns just for the sake of twists and turns. And even those twists and turns were poorly developed. Looking at the published synopses, it's like more than half of them mention something about "dark secrets revealed." What secrets? Every "reveal" concerning Skye's past amounted to little more than some person saying she's special. We barely know any more about Coulson's revival now than we did at the beginning of the season. The Hydra reveal was sloppy, requiring the audience to have seen TWS in order to understand it. The only twist that actually worked was Agent Shooty McRockbody turning out to be a bad guy. Well, I think perhaps, the subplots feel unresolved, only because they keep them going, bringing them into the fold of the newer subplots (but only sort-of, so it's a little half-arsed).

We actually know heaps more about Coulson's revival; it's just that the revelations have been small and spread out. We know that Coulson was working on this TAHITI program to bring back a dead Avenger, which used the GH-drug thing with alien origins that drives people crazy. We know that Coulson deemed it unsafe, but Fury went ahead and used it on Coulson anyway. We know that in trying to prevent Coulson from going insane, they wiped his memories of the TAHITI program. And TAHITI was super super secret, so it's somewhat likely that Hydra doesn't really know that much about it.

And audiences who didn't see the Winter Soldier would've understood what was going on in Turn, Turn, Turn. They handled it well in that respect. But compared to how the reveal could've been if it was completely on the show's terms (like, Jake Chisel's betrayal), it was sloppy...