The first hour of the film, however, with Jackson in command, feels dangerous, necessary, and rife with comic disturbance.
His command feels effortless, even when -- as on McCoy Tyner's "Inception" -- the ensemble reaches for something stormy.
But he did not follow normal protocols for driving the ship through busy shipping lanes, and ran a bridge in which the surface officers under his command felt tense and unable to offer their input, the officers said.
Pettitte said his stuff and his command felt as sharp as it was when he came back from a one-year retirement earlier in the season to go 3-3 with a 3.22 E.R.A. and 1.091 walks and hits per innings pitched.
Having a woman in command felt reassuring.
East London was targeted because the area was a centre for imports and storage of raw materials for the war effort, and the German military command felt that support for the war could be damaged among the mainly working class inhabitants.
As statements of intent go, it's matched only by Electric's opening track, Axis, five-and-a-half minutes of writhing Italo disco-influenced synth chatter and vocodered vocals issuing a series of dancefloor commands: "Feel the power … plug it in … turn it on".
(Tied in a knot from a three-hour flight? Click on the on-command "Feeling Great Again -- Flexibility" workout, which emphasizes stretching).
The command centers feel like a time capsule of late-twentieth-century technology.
And then the bypassing of the chain of command will feel more like the loss it is.
It's a testament to the subtlety of Kilgrave's psychopathic villainy that he sometimes includes a command to feel as well as to act.
