Jag
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I think May is spying for her SHIELD superiors. Fury is conspicuously absent.
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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 May is spying for her SHIELD superiors. Fury is conspicuously absent.
Jest Chillin
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Funky Papa
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Lone_Prodigy
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Jest Chillin
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I like this option. May's cold persona would work with this and if there's indeed a power struggle within SHIELD coming in the new CA movie, it would work to intertwine that struggle withing AoS itself without necessitating a ton of the movie characters to guest star.
TheCowboyPoet
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I think May is spying for Hydra, which will lead to her departure and replaced with someone likeable (Carol Danvers?!).
And by "I think" I mean "I hope".
And by "I think" I mean "I hope".
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Are the events of Winter Soldier happening right now? That's why Fury's MIA?
Funky Papa
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Hand works for Hydra, May works for Hand, but she has no idea about what's going on in the backstage. That's my idea anyway.
Real talk. He's in 3 films, 2 one-shots and 3 TV episodes
Carol Danvers is too good for this show.
He didn't realize it was Lorelai. They didn't communicate that well in the dialogue.
Pai Pai Master
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Sitwell is pretty cool in the MCU. But where the hell is Clay Quartermain??
How stupid is he? On that particular mission, he should have been wary of *any* unidentified female.
I think so. Fury says something like "Get me off the grid" in one of the commercials. Agent Sitwell used the same phrase in this last episode.
The whole thing was badly written - sending ANY male agents on that mission was utterly insane.
Good point.
MisterFalcon
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Or something like sound canceling headphones. Or a rule of two where no one is left alone with a mind controlling alien around, especially not your most capable male agent.
Yeah I don't know how that made it past the script supervisor.
Jest Chillin
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A risk they had to take considering any military-esque organization is likely to be heavily dominated by males in field combat positions.
The goal was for the team to subdue anyone that Lorelai had control of while Lady Sif took on Lorelai herself. The stupid stuff was really only that they sent Ward out of line of sight of the rest of the team without May accompanying him and that he didn't immediately fire the ICER at any woman at the scene. I mean, they're non-lethal anyways.
fallengorn
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Yep. Chock it up to underestimating the threat/situation? When Ward is compromised, the assault team in Vegas was all female.
Adrian Pasdar has been cast as Glen Talbot (pic at the link)
Doesn't he voice Iron Man in a bunch of stuff?
Edit: Just read the interview. So he does. Pretty rad
Father_Brain
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Too bad it won't get him out of that godawful Amazon series. He deserves better.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Pretty cool. Although, they should've gave him a smaller mustache. That's near Ross levels.
With the way they have apparently ended the Agent Ward and Agent May fling, and revealed that she has been spying on Coulson et all, I'm that hoping they are prepping her exit from the show.
I mean, dont get me wrong, she might be a wonderful person, but we are, what, 15 episodes in, and her character has been stuck doing the same exact thign with the same exact cliche ice queen tough chick thing for the entire series. In fact the development we did get out of her (pranking, learning about her past, sleeping with Ward) hasn't amounted to anything of substance, if anything her character has become even more 2 dimensional.
Skye, Fitz, Simmons, and even Ward, are all dynamic characters (especially Fitz, whenever he gets to do anything outside of his usual techno babel, it seems to entertain), and I can not help but feel that the show would be more interesting without May stoic-ing up the joint whenever she is on screen. Coulson does more than enough of that already.
Also, lets get Skye some powers already. Alien Blood, 084, what have you.
I do wonder why Ward didn't pull out his phone and take a picture of Tahiti, seems like something anyone would have done in the modern age. It would have made asking Syf a whole lot easier.
Its interesting that this episode touched on Lady Syf liking Thor. Hopefully they continue on that with the next Thor film. portman doesn't even want to do them, and Syf has much better chemistry with Thor anyway.
I mean, dont get me wrong, she might be a wonderful person, but we are, what, 15 episodes in, and her character has been stuck doing the same exact thign with the same exact cliche ice queen tough chick thing for the entire series. In fact the development we did get out of her (pranking, learning about her past, sleeping with Ward) hasn't amounted to anything of substance, if anything her character has become even more 2 dimensional.
Skye, Fitz, Simmons, and even Ward, are all dynamic characters (especially Fitz, whenever he gets to do anything outside of his usual techno babel, it seems to entertain), and I can not help but feel that the show would be more interesting without May stoic-ing up the joint whenever she is on screen. Coulson does more than enough of that already.
Also, lets get Skye some powers already. Alien Blood, 084, what have you.
I do wonder why Ward didn't pull out his phone and take a picture of Tahiti, seems like something anyone would have done in the modern age. It would have made asking Syf a whole lot easier.
Its interesting that this episode touched on Lady Syf liking Thor. Hopefully they continue on that with the next Thor film. portman doesn't even want to do them, and Syf has much better chemistry with Thor anyway.
GungHo
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She knows how to exploit their inner daddy issues.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Neat! I liked him on Heroes and Burn Notice.
Funky Papa
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I was actually shocked by the latest episode. It really felt as if somebody lit a fire under the showrunners' asses.
Barring Sif and Lorelei's super stiff fight and some iffy writing, the episode was surprisingly competent.
"Oh, look. Stakes."
Father_Brain
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I wonder whether the showrunners actually have the guts to kill/turn evil/otherwise write off any of the six leads. Probably not, and the second of those would likely need more setup than it's gotten, but we shall see.
Funky Papa
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If they touch one single lock of Simmons I will riot.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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You have my sword.
TacticalFox88
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Mr Touchdown
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I now want a Sif and the Warriors Three series. Set in Asgard or any of the nine realms not on Earth.
TacticalFox88
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As long as it's made by the guys who did Game of Thrones.
Or better yet, have Peter Jackson direct, but have someone like Whedon (not necessarily him) produce and write it having true respect for the comics.
George Oscar Bluth II
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Series of Sif is what I'd like to see. However, I think a One-Shot is more realistic. Come on Mahvel.
And my axe.
Choppasmith
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Great episode. The series continues to improve by leaps and bounds. Like others have said, just the incompetence of sending Ward ALONE to the back bar to pursue Lorelei really bugged me.
Also like someone else posted, glad we're getting proper Marvel lore introduced add opposed to the first few episodes that were like "hey guys, remember when Avengers happened *wink wink* *nudge nudge*
Sucks I'm leaving for New Zealand next Tuesday and I'll be gone for three weeks.
Also like someone else posted, glad we're getting proper Marvel lore introduced add opposed to the first few episodes that were like "hey guys, remember when Avengers happened *wink wink* *nudge nudge*
Sucks I'm leaving for New Zealand next Tuesday and I'll be gone for three weeks.
George Oscar Bluth II
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You'll be missing an MCU special, AoS rerun and you'll just miss one actually new AoS episode. Not that bad.
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Rerun? It's off for two weeks? Wtf.
Jest Chillin
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You will get Kevin Smith and you will like it!
Lone_Prodigy
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I think the show benefited the past couple weeks from less coddling/fawning over hacker-and-084-extraordinaire Skye.
George Oscar Bluth II
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Skye was okay in Ep 1. The rest? Eeeeh.
Bobby Roberts
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I just wanted to make it rhyme - doesn't have to be like COD Dudebro territory, and you can do a show like this that appeals to both genders- see: Buffy/Angel, but this show's always going to lead out into a show that doesn't quite vibe with it and that attracts a different demographic. Its probably an issue.
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