Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D....this fall on ABC

[Aries Walker]

Yeah, I think that was a Kree.

[AustinChief]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Yeah, I think that was a Kree.

I think so as well.. it would stand to reason since Guardians comes out in August and features at least two Kree characters in it.

I have a strange feeling that Guardians may end up a bigger hit than people are thinking right now. For the people who didn't like the first trailer (I thought it was great) the Director even said he didn't like it but he had to make one that introduced the character's first before he made a trailer he REALLY liked.

[ragedogg69]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

I watch so much tv, really too much, that the breaks during the season are good for me because it allows me to catch up with the recording backlog on my box.

I agree with you too a point. I had purged my TV viewing habits based on two things: I was taking night classes then after that I built a gaming computer. Why the **** am I watching Two Broke Girls, which I really don't even enjoy when my time can be doing something much more productive or enjoyable.

At this point, I would much rather skip a new show and then catch up with it later on Netflix than sit week in and week out waiting for a show to get better.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

At this point, I would much rather skip a new show and then catch up with it later on Netflix than sit week in and week out waiting for a show to get better.

I think alot of people are starting to do this.

Basically, if you took a year or two years off of watching TV, then just caught up on Netflix or some other online service, you have created a new timeline for yourself.

Its new to you and its basically a time saver overall without the commercials
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[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

I agree with you too a point. I had purged my TV viewing habits based on two things: I was taking night classes then after that I built a gaming computer. Why the **** am I watching Two Broke Girls, which I really don't even enjoy when my time can be doing something much more productive or enjoyable.

At this point, I would much rather skip a new show and then catch up with it later on Netflix than sit week in and week out waiting for a show to get better.

Yeah, I have actually cut out a bunch too.

Some stuff I just have to watch weekly. I don't have the impulse control to wait months.

[Fish]

This last episode was kind of a mess. Plot holes and irrational character behavior. Coulson is making rash emotional decisions that don't make sense for him. They bust into a secret facility, and kill two guards and blow up the facility just to hopefully find something that might heal Skye? Really? Just leave those guards in the building while it explodes? Shield just randomly murders other government agents now while disobeying orders? Or the fact that Shield/whoever has a facility that holds alien regenerative technology and a robot surgeon that can bring people back from the dead. Which is easily broken into in a matter of minutes with a self destruct failsafe that then destroys all that awesome stuff. And why was Coulson hesitant to give Skye the GH 325 after he found out it was alien blood?

Just too much goofiness. Writing has been all over the place.

[DaveNull]

Originally Posted by Fish

Or the fact that Shield/whoever has a facility that holds alien regenerative technology and a robot surgeon that can bring people back from the dead. Which is easily broken into in a matter of minutes with a self destruct failsafe that then destroys all that awesome stuff. And why was Coulson hesitant to give Skye the GH 325 after he found out it was alien blood?

Just too much goofiness. Writing has been all over the place.

I skipped a bunch of episodes and happened to catch this one. My wild ass guess is that the secret facility was either something run by Nick Fury in secret (his base in Antarctica) or its a S.W.O.R.D. facility. Finding the alien makes me lean towards that latter, especially since S.W.O.R.D. was introduced by Whedon.

Skye achieves powers by virtue of the GH 325, reveals (at some point) that her real name is Jessica Drew, becomes Spider Woman...so on and so forth.

[unlurking]

Originally Posted by Fish

This last episode was kind of a mess. Plot holes and irrational character behavior. Coulson is making rash emotional decisions that don't make sense for him. They bust into a secret facility, and kill two guards and blow up the facility just to hopefully find something that might heal Skye? Really? Just leave those guards in the building while it explodes? Shield just randomly murders other government agents now while disobeying orders? Or the fact that Shield/whoever has a facility that holds alien regenerative technology and a robot surgeon that can bring people back from the dead. Which is easily broken into in a matter of minutes with a self destruct failsafe that then destroys all that awesome stuff. And why was Coulson hesitant to give Skye the GH 325 after he found out it was alien blood?

Just too much goofiness. Writing has been all over the place.

Finally caught up and watched this episode, but I think you're complaints may be answered in later episodes.

Regarding Coulson, they did seem to go to great lengths to explain away his actions as just being who he his. Seemed kind of forced after reading your comments, and unneeded actually. We've already seen that Coulson will do just about anything to learn about T.A.H.I.T.I, and his actions saving Skye could be viewed as being purely selfish and still fit his character. To me, combining the two justifications is more than enough cause for his actions.

They also explain the confusion about the facility and that no one seems to know who it belongs too. It may not even be another government agency. Or not a another US gov agency. And the tech may have lived out its usefulness? To be honest, when they said T.A.H.I.T.I. was the one thing the Clairvoyant couldn't see, I first thought off-world, different dimension, or some other explanation. Add in May's phone report at the end of the episode, and this is obviously not the end of the story. There is still a lot we don't know. I'm guessing we'll learn more that explain away many of your concerns.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by unlurking

Finally caught up and watched this episode, but I think you're complaints may be answered in later episodes.

Regarding Coulson, they did seem to go to great lengths to explain away his actions as just being who he his. Seemed kind of forced after reading your comments, and unneeded actually. We've already seen that Coulson will do just about anything to learn about T.A.H.I.T.I, and his actions saving Skye could be viewed as being purely selfish and still fit his character. To me, combining the two justifications is more than enough cause for his actions.

They also explain the confusion about the facility and that no one seems to know who it belongs too. It may not even be another government agency. Or not a another US gov agency. And the tech may have lived out its usefulness? To be honest, when they said T.A.H.I.T.I. was the one thing the Clairvoyant couldn't see, I first thought off-world, different dimension, or some other explanation. Add in May's phone report at the end of the episode, and this is obviously not the end of the story. There is still a lot we don't know. I'm guessing we'll learn more that explain away many of your concerns.

I thought they said Coulson's time at T.A.H.I.T.I. was what the Clairvoyant couldn't see, not necessarily T.A.H.I.T.I. itself. Explained because Coulson was dead at the time. The Clairvoyant's interest in Coulson is due to the fact that he dropped off the radar and the Clairvoyant wants to know why. That's the way I interpreted it anyway.

Regardless, the last few episodes have been much much better, if you haven't caught up yet.

[Beef Supreme]

Originally Posted by Fish

I thought they said Coulson's time at T.A.H.I.T.I. was what the Clairvoyant couldn't see, not necessarily T.A.H.I.T.I. itself. Explained because Coulson was dead at the time. The Clairvoyant's interest in Coulson is due to the fact that he dropped off the radar and the Clairvoyant wants to know why. That's the way I interpreted it anyway.

Regardless, the last few episodes have been much much better, if you haven't caught up yet.

I think that's what they intend, but it's pretty crappy writing if so. The Clairvoyant can see everything, but doesn't know what happened to Coulson because he was dead. Well, why doesn't he just read the doctors mind or any of the other people that were in the room, or Nick Fury?

[unlurking]

Originally Posted by Fish

I thought they said Coulson's time at T.A.H.I.T.I. was what the Clairvoyant couldn't see, not necessarily T.A.H.I.T.I. itself. Explained because Coulson was dead at the time. The Clairvoyant's interest in Coulson is due to the fact that he dropped off the radar and the Clairvoyant wants to know why. That's the way I interpreted it anyway.

Regardless, the last few episodes have been much much better, if you haven't caught up yet.

But Coulson died in New York. And from the sound of it, he was dead a long time before they brought him to T.A.H.I.T.I (BTW, did I miss them explaining this acronym anywhere?). Anyway, you may be right. A lot of questions still.

As far as why Coulson was worried about giving the blood to Skye, after just doing a quick seach for Kree blood side effects (lol), I remembered Skye is not human! Remember her back story was that she was an "Object of Unidentified Origin". Also, found this little bit...

http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/wh...231726171.html

...The other is Kree, an space-faring race with a connection to another superhero, Ms. Marvel – a character whose DNA was fused with that of a Kree, resulting in superpowers. It's possible they're laying the groundwork for Skye to become Ms. Marvel much like Mike Peterson became Deathlok. While producers probably won't fundamentally alter their mostly hero-free show by adding one to the main team (shooting superpowers on a weekly basis would get expensive), this sort of sly referencing of comic origin stories (fused DNA = blood transfusion?) is definitely textbook "S.H.I.EL.D." ...

I don't know who Ms. Marvel is/are, but apparently there were several. One version has ties to Ronan the Accuser (Guardians of the Galaxy) and had a "Binary" form? Don't understand it much, but hackers with electromagnetic super powers aren't an uncommon pairing. Probably way off base, but thought it was interesting.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Carol_Danvers_%28Earth-616%29

[007]

Originally Posted by unlurking

But Coulson died in New York. And from the sound of it, he was dead a long time before they brought him to T.A.H.I.T.I (BTW, did I miss them explaining this acronym anywhere?). Anyway, you may be right. A lot of questions still.

As far as why Coulson was worried about giving the blood to Skye, after just doing a quick seach for Kree blood side effects (lol), I remembered Skye is not human! Remember her back story was that she was an "Object of Unidentified Origin". Also, found this little bit...

http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/wh...231726171.html



I don't know who Ms. Marvel is/are, but apparently there were several. One version has ties to Ronan the Accuser (Guardians of the Galaxy) and had a "Binary" form? Don't understand it much, but hackers with electromagnetic super powers aren't an uncommon pairing. Probably way off base, but thought it was interesting.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Carol_Danvers_%28Earth-616%29

the comics crack me up in the way they have women wearing close to nothing half the time.

[ShowtimeSBMVP]

Sif (Jaimie Alexander ) is in the next episode.

[keg in kc]

Now that was a hell of an episode.