Girl in the Flower Dress
"Girl in the Flower Dress" | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode | |
Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 5 |
Directed by | Jesse Bochco |
Written by | Brent Fletcher |
Produced by | |
Cinematography by | Jeff Mygatt[citation needed] |
Editing by | Paul Trejo[citation needed] |
Original air date | October 22, 2013 |
Running time | 43 minutes |
Guest appearances | |
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"Girl in the Flower Dress" is the fifth episode of the
"Girl in the Flower Dress" originally aired on ABC on October 22, 2013, and was watched by 11.16 million viewers within a week. The episode received a mixed critical response. It was praised for being more mature than previous episodes and for featuring a Marvel-like superhero, but also described as "perfunctory" and "mellow" by some critics.
Plot
In
Skye, a new civilian recruit and S.H.I.E.L.D. trainee, was once a member of the Rising Tide. She traces the hack that released the information back to Miles Lydon, her secret boyfriend and Rising Tide contact. The team goes to Texas to confront Lydon, but Skye reaches him first; the two are caught together by Agent Melinda May and are taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. Skye tries to defend them both, but turns on Lydon when the team finds evidence that he was paid for the information.
The team tracks the buyer, Raina, to a
Coulson releases Lydon after fitting him with a S.H.I.E.L.D. bracelet that prevents technology use. Coulson then confronts Skye about her true motivation for joining S.H.I.E.L.D., and she explains that she is searching for information on her parents, who she believes are tied to S.H.I.E.L.D. in some way. Coulson agrees to let her stay on the team and to help her in her search, but makes her wear a bracelet like Lydon's. In an end tag, Raina visits a member of Centipede in prison and asks him to contact the "
Production
Development and writing
Marvel Television announced in October 2013 that the fifth episode of the series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was titled "Girl in the Flower Dress", written by Brent Fletcher and directed by Jesse Bochco.[1] The episode was originally set in Japan, with a Japanese guest character.[1][2]: 4:38 After testing filming at Los Angeles' Little Tokyo as a stand-in for Japan, the crew decided that this would not work well enough and the episode was re-written to feature a Chinese character so filming could take place in Los Angeles' Chinatown instead.[2]: 4:38
The episode's end tag scene was originally meant to include Raina meeting with
Casting
Marvel confirmed in September 2013 that the episode would star main cast members
Filming and visual effects
Filming occurred from August 30 to September 11, 2013.[3]: 75 The opening Hong Kong scene was shot in Los Angeles' Chinatown.[2]: 3:29 Magician Gregory Wilson was brought to set to assist Changchien with hand movement and placement to make his magic "believable".[2]: 5:19 The Centipede lab was shot at the Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building.[2]: 9:57 Chan Ho Yin's fire abilities were achieve through practical and visual effects. LED lights were used during filming to get the proper interactive lighting from the fire that would be added digitally. Special effects supervisor Gary D'Amico lit a boulder attached to a zip line on fire to simulate the fireballs, allowing visual effects supervisor Mark Kolpack to composite the content together and enhance it further with additional digital fire simulations.[3]: 79 It took about six hours for Changchien's burn prosthetics to be applied.[2]: 11:00
Music
Composer Bear McCreary wanted to introduce Chinese instruments into the score to support the Hong Kong setting, and collaborated with composer Jeremy Zuckerman who played the guzheng for the episode. McCreary found "the nearly ten-minute long action scene" at the climax of the episode to be "the real beast of this episode" and "one of the most challenging pieces [he had] composed yet for the series", calling it "pretty chaotic" and noting the difficulty the orchestra had in recording it.[7] The episode also saw the return of several major themes, most notably the Centipede theme from "Pilot". McCreary refrained from using the theme until Raina is revealed to be working for Centipede, at which point he relies on the theme for the rest of the episode, playing it on "ominous low strings [with] the creepy bells stat[ing] it more quickly above".[7]
Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-ins
The Extremis virus from Iron Man 3 (2013) and "Pilot" reappears in this episode, and is stabilized using Chan's platelets to prevent it from exploding in future episodes.[8] The explosive that Coulson uses to enter the Centipede facility is similar to the one he used in Iron Man (2008), and he strikes a similar pose when using it.[9]
Release
Broadcast
"Girl in the Flower Dress" was first aired in the United States on ABC on October 22, 2013.[10] It was aired alongside the US broadcast in Canada on CTV,[11] while it was first aired in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 on October 25, 2013.[12] It premiered on the Seven Network in Australia on October 23, 2013.[13]
Home media
The episode, along with the rest of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s first season, was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 9, 2014. Bonus features include behind-the-scenes featurettes, audio commentary, deleted scenes, and a blooper reel.[14] On November 20, 2014, the episode became available for streaming on Netflix.[15]
Reception
Ratings
In the United States the episode received a 2.7/8 percent share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, meaning that it was seen by 2.7 percent of all households, and 8 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast. It was watched by 7.39 million viewers.[10] The Canadian broadcast gained 1.76 million viewers, the third highest for that day and the ninth highest for the week.[11] The United Kingdom premiere had 2.52 million viewers[12] and in Australia, the premiere had 1.6 million viewers, including 0.7 million timeshifted viewers.[13] Within a week of its release, the episode was watched by 11.16 million U.S. viewers,[16] above the season average of 8.31.[17]
Following the episode's release, Screen Rant's Andre Dyce reviewed the series' ratings performance so far, saying over 7 million viewers is "still a far cry from trouble on their own", but as the show "continues to slip in both viewers and demographics, the trend could become problematic." He acknowledged that the drop in viewers from the series premiere, which had "some of the highest ratings in recent history" for ABC, to the second episode was to be expected, but the continued decrease in viewership since then was a sign of trouble for the series. He said, "A rocky start is to be expected, but by this point in the season, most procedural dramas tend to have hit their pace both in structure and audience." Dyce noted that fans of the MCU films had been expected to provide a "healthy viewership" for the series, and "enthusiasm seems to be waning" among those fans now.[18]
Critical response
Eric Goldman of IGN graded the episode 8.1 out of 10, calling it "pretty damn busy and quite fun", highlighting Skye's character development and the drama it caused, as well as the connections to "Pilot". He praised the "dark, but also necessary" deaths depicted, and concluded that the series "is beginning to build its story in an intriguing way."[4] James Hunt at Den of Geek found the episode to be "mostly, quite good," praising Skye's story, the idea that S.H.I.E.L.D. "might actually be as bad as the people they're trying to fight", and the character of Raina, who he said was "the closest thing this series has yet had to an original, interesting idea". Hunt criticized the dialogue, and found the character of Chan Ho Yin to be unrealistic, stating, "I loved the fact that they kind of, sort of, dredged up an actual Marvel character to use" but the character "bore almost no resemblance to an actual person".[19] The Guardian's Graeme Virtue also criticized some of the dialogue, but enjoyed the character of Raina and the potential for her to return. He hoped that now Skye's secret has been revealed, "perhaps some of the other agents will get their time in the spotlight."[8] Marc Bernardin of The Hollywood Reporter found the episode to be better than the first three but said it "wasn't as good" as "Eye Spy", explaining that he did not care about Scorch by the end of the episode and found most of it to be "just so very ... perfunctory."[20]
David Sims of
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