Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |OT| Tahiti is a Magical Place (to...Hey guys, I found it!)
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I think that is a typical idiot writer that wants to show someone is a genius. Half of all TV characters talk 90 languages and are experts in thousands of fields at the same time.
TacticalFox88
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Hill, yes.
Simmons, no.
She was born on 9/11/87 as seen in the episode the "Hub".
She's 26.
Funky Papa
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Crazy talk.
TacticalFox88
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Nope. I'm probably in the minority but that's how I feel about it. Ward lay motherfuckers outtttt.
Byakuya769
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Grimm has the best fight scenes on network (and quasi network) television.
Funky Papa
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It was much (much) better than previous fights, but the camera work was all kinds of messed up.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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You on some fucking crack, man?
Funky Papa
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I want to see Man-Thing in AoS.
I burn in fear thinking about Man-Thing's prosthetics in AoS.
I burn in fear thinking about Man-Thing's prosthetics in AoS.
Someone showed me a tribute scene from arrow to the film the raid and it was pretty bad.
I'd rather he appear in one of the Netflix shows like Iron Fist. Hopefully those will have a little bit of a higher budget and more creativity.
Yes!
Can't be too hard to pull off. A big eight foot tall swamp monster suit with glowing red eyes and magic powers, loldead souls
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Damn, this is insane. I'd rather watch a million Roy wall-flips than the shoddy excuse for fight scenes on SHIELD.
Nah. I stand by what I said. Ward's fight scene taking out like a dozen dudes > any fight scene in Arrow, IMO.
Actually, to be perfectly transparent I've been leaning towards SHIELD over Arrow as of late. I've always thought it had better actors and acting and recently I think it's surpassed Arrow in writing, though not by much. Arrow remains superior in action sequences, but that one fight scene with Ward has impressed me more than anything I've seen on Arrow. Not by a lot, but it did.
Not trying to start a huge SHIELD versus Arrow debate though since I love both.
voodoopanda
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Man-Thing without the whole Nexus of All Realities thing is less interesting to me, but I can't imagine the MCU wanting to introduce alternate realities anytime soon.
I hadn't even considered the possibility. That would be awesome.
Did you see the particular fight scene I'm referring to, cause if you do I doubt you'd call it a shoddy excuse even if you disagree with me on how good it is.
That's how we get Spider-Man/X-Men crossovers, you fool. Man-Thing is the key.
dead souls
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I've seen every episode of SHIELD, and while it was perhaps the best fight scene they've ever done it still pales in comparison to the typical one on Arrow.
TacticalFox88
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I strongly disagree. A typical Arrow fight scene doesn't quite compare in my book.
Well, all of AOS will be on netflix in 2015... They announced it during the event.
Rockwood said:
My general impression of Arrow fight scenes is that they have been made around actors who do not have much if any professional fighting (or film fighter) experience. The actor who plays Ward clearly has this and it shows in every fight you see him in.
EDIT: I asked a friend who has done everything from kickboxing to medieval reenactment and he confirmed my suspicions at least with Arrow/Oliver himself which is mainly my exposure.
Jorok Goldblade
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Classic costume is probably not happening, but something close to the Udon design would work pretty well in the MCU.
Read his wiki page. The connections seem obvious enough.
No. Just no.
BlackNMild2k1
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So do the connections linking Skye to being Jessica Drew.
Not sure if either will happen though... but what if they both do?
Jessica Drew wiki said:
Taskmaster wiki said:
those are just 2 quick snippets, but I'm sure you can find some other vague things that may relate to Agents of SHIELD.
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Deleted member 13876
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The memory in, memory out thing is fairly recent as far as I know and they can always pick and choose the stuff they like. The money angle is fairly important though.
He doesn't kill for free, except in defense, even than they have to be annoying . Even the time he pretended to be Captain America and lead the avengers on a fake mission, he cut out half way and told AIM to fuck themselves and their money because it was getting too risky.
Black-Wind
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I ... don't think he's Taskmaster. He hasn't shown any skills that would link him to that character ... hell, May sees to be more so known for her offensive power.
Darknight34
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Crazy guess and mildly fun thought..season ends with
Skye being sincerely convinced to join Hydra and being trained by Taskmaster/Ward who is revealed after the credits, by Fury, to be his triple agent
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Deleted member 13876
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Yeah, he's live to fight another day, whereas Ward seems very loyal to Garett here due to some perceived debt obligation. The 6 language thing is impressive for a random person, but for an elite spy it doesn't really reach the realm of the extraordinary.
Mr Touchdown
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I dont know how I'd feel about Ward being one of my favorite Marvel characters of all time...
Ward being a triple agent seems very likely to me. Or at least a redemption angle. I haven't seen the last episode, but from the point he had his heel turn, the first thing I thought about was how much it is going to suck when it turns out he was a triple agent or ends up being redeemed.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Ward clearly isn't Taskmaster YET, but I could see a series of events getting him there. Kills Garrett to save Skye, so he's ostracized from both Hydra and Shield, and in the process finds himself exposed to whatever macguffin they choose to give him photographic reflexes. He becomes totally jaded after turning from the one thing he's relied/believed in for his whole adult life, so uses his new abilities to get that cheddar.
I mean it's a stretch, but I could see it.
I mean it's a stretch, but I could see it.
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I'd like that better than him secretly being Taskmaster now.
If they go that route the whole first season will obviously be, in retrospect, the origin story for both Jessica Drew and Taskmaster.
It was an origin story all along and we didn't realize it.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I could even see it going a step further, with him building up underground and mercenary connections to keep tabs on shit to make sure Skye isn't in immediate danger. That would be a slight departure from the comic book Taskmaster angle, but it could work for the show. Sort of a combination of comic TM and Spike from later seasons of Buffy, without the rapey stuff.
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You darn kids with your Jessica Drews.
That would be a happy accident, because likely neither character was created with an
Asian
If they wanted May to be Asian,
The last name was changed after Ming Na was cast, because it would likely be considered politically incorrect to have Asian Rice.
The writers (the Whedons) knew about Winter Solider's game changing twists before they wrote the pilot, and I guess they made up their basic 2 year plan before or while writing the pilot as well.
If it mattered that May and Skye have a shared ethnicity, they would have known before casting.
But of course the plan could have changed - they have to adapt to schedules, etc. - or it was a happy accident.
The writers (the Whedons) knew about Winter Solider's game changing twists before they wrote the pilot, and I guess they made up their basic 2 year plan before or while writing the pilot as well.
If it mattered that May and Skye have a shared ethnicity, they would have known before casting.
But of course the plan could have changed - they have to adapt to schedules, etc. - or it was a happy accident.
I googled Ward/Taskmaster and a guy at MTV doing recaps actually called the connection with Ward immediaetly. No idea how you'd see it so early.
Maybe I missunderstand you,
but isn't the show the origin story of the 5 new main characters?
(all except Coulson)
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Taskmaster is a villain and occasional anti-hero in the comics. There is nothing specifically that ties him to ward right now, other than Taskmaster's original origin story being that he was in shield before going on to mercenary/shadier work. His whole deal is that he has "photographic reflexes", which essentially means he can watch someone do something and then replicate it perfectly. So if he were to watch Hawkeye do his thing for a little while, he would become one of the world's best marksman. This wasn't an innate ability, it was something that developed as a result of exposure to something while a shield agent.
People linking Taskmaster to Ward is mostly wishful thinking I guess, but it could work because hey, why not. He's the perfect type of character that isn't big enough for the movies, but could function very effectively in the TV show.
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