Amph Agents of SHIELD Discussion Thread (and Slingshot)

Sooooooo... question I had...

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Wasn't Zima only reintroduced in The Framework previously? Is that possibly a hint?

 

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They did show some scenes where she and May had a confrontation and she left the group to take the fight to the blues-and she was not seen again until she ran into herself with no arms. Interesting tie in here is the armless Yo-Yo was Casius's "seer", but when she departed May she had both arms. Makes me wonder if they were prosthetic before she was captured or the Monoliths in the present time give us some sort of parallel timelines.

 

i wondered if the reference to an asgardian was odin, depending on the timelien

 

That's one way to nerf Yo-Yo's power, if a brutal way. I will say, the 1st ep of each arc the last season and a half has had a distinct genre twist to it but I wasn't really seeing one here. Still, I though it got best with the chaos at the end. And Daisy doing her hacker thing while making quips and eating cereal with her feet on the desk was very S1 Skye style, wouldn't mind seeing her do that again for a bit. It's kinda fun. I sort of missed what the big deal was with the stolen van, or was it stolen? Or were they feeling guilty for stealing? But they brought back the random SHIELD agent although she went a little batty at the end there.

I am annoyed that Fury's toolbox didn't have that SHIELD bunker on file. Fury should know every secret that SHIELD has buried. It's hard to accept that he wouldn't know about this one. Maybe he did but didn't file it...?

 

It's been so long since I've read Secret Warriors, I forgot that Yo-Yo also had that happen in the comics. The real question is going to be what goodies FitzSimmons packs in for her.

 

Yah if Misty Knight can get a single robo-arm I'm sure FitzSimmons will deck her out. Heck, even Coluson is missing a hand!

 

I'm just glad they're out of the dark, dark settings, and Deke gets my wholehearted empathy as he gazes up at the sky and hugs a tree.

The musical 5 minutes or so opening of the Space!Pod really was neat, and so was the opening of this pod.

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It's likely the closest we'll come to a musical episode, but St. Patrick's Day is upcoming! A good Irish jig with the whole cast, dream sequence, fever hallucination, I don't care which, would be fun to see.

 

Damn, that episode was good. Nice 100th. And good job for all of those who called

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Deke's parentage...

 

I've recently re-watched seasons 1-3 recently and finally started season 4. This show certainly gets better each season. As of right now, AoS feels to be on par with the Netflix shows.

 

i'm just tired of them being outlaws on the run repeatedly through the seasons

 

Given Iron Fist, Defenders, and Jessica Jones Season 2

. . . is that even a compliment?

 

Okay, it's up there with the earlier seasons for now. There has been something off about the Netflix shows these past two years. Mostly.

 

I agree. I like watching Shield be Shield. Regular agents dealing with extradinoary things.

I also wonder how they are going to tie this all into Infinity Wars.

 

i also found it questionable the whole thing about Colson wanting SHIELD to be a symbol. Weren't they mostly a secret group prior to the MCU anyway? Tony and Pepper didn't seem familiar with them in Iron Man.

 

I mulled that over as well. Best I could come up with was a shield against all the bat **** crazy things that have occurred with alarming frequency since about Iron Man. Watchers on the Wall and all that and some part of that motivation had to bleed over into the future as they were scene as saviors and heroes in the future lighthouse, not criminal dissidents/terrorists as the current narrative of the storyline has them.

 

Coulson could be thinking of SHIELD as a symbol going forward, as the name has been dragged through the mudd a few times; as noted in Captain America: The Winter Soldier; under attack and scrutiny by General Talbot several times; restored with Jeffrey Mace/The Patriot and then taken down again.

So, with SHIELD being known to the public, Coulson just probably wants Daisy to restore the organization back to being a trustworthy and idealistic.

Which reminded of the exchange between Quicksilver and Cap in Age of Ultron, where Quicksilver ask, "this is SHIELD?" and Cap replies, "this is what SHIELD is suppose to be."

 

Wow, that was trippy! Well done, ABC overlords. Also, is there any program that cannot be improved by the addition of

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a Busey?

 

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["I like that they already have Deke picking up on his lineage instead of dragging it out. "Whatever you say.....Grandpa." LOL. Plus, him picking up on the footsteps saying that Simmons used"]

 

I finally got through season four. Hell of good. Now I have to find the first seven episodes of season five so I can finally be caught up.

 

episode 100 was a decent callback all the way to Loki stabbing Coulson. While I didn't buy it for a second FakeMike was telling the truth (cuz they kept saying the fear dimension is not telling the truth) it created some nice drama, and I actually do buy Coulson's notion that he really shouldn't be alive (Which is a meta-comment on him in the MCU as a whole). Also it was great to see Coulson be the lead of an episode, he's the first guy listed on the show but sometimes he feels like 3rd level supporting character.

the next ep had a pretty fantastic MC Hammer riff, a Busey straight up showing up and being loud, and holy hell, I really like Dove Cameron as Ruby. I like her physicality in her intro ep as she stalked down the hallway, it's actually kind of a neat trick to be able to emote / look cool in a full headgear outfit but I thought it worked. Also bringing back a crazy Strucker is a good idea so hopefully we can get him to go full Swordsman nuts by the end of the season. sometimes the baddie scenes in AoS can be a bit of a chore, I kinda wore out the leader of the lighthouse scenes real quick, but I was really enjoying this one.

oh and the Marvel youtube channel has been posting a few of these videos, I do agree the Ward twist was my favourite Agents of SHIELD ever did



I actually think the Ward ep is pretty essential with Winter Solider viewing, it's really well done and you see a character we've known for awhile turn Hydra.