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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S3 |OT| Earthquakes Make Me Daisy - Tuesdays 9/8c
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Such a lust for revenge.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Isn't much of ABC kind of stuck in the 90s and early 2000s, at least when it comes to Disney controlled properties? Right down to their voice over guy...
Man I'm sorry, but this season has been pretty weak so far. Some uninteresting plots and it's all over the place. Gotham has grown immensely, The Flash is back in form, Arrow has improved a lot over S3, so I hope the Marvel guys and ABC can pull something out from what they have build up so far this season.
At this point, I don't care much for the effects looking cheap. I just want interesting plot developments.
And I really wish they wouldn't focus so much on relationships. I don't care about Will, I don't care about Lincoln/Skye, and I certainly don't give a damn about Melinda May and Andrew. Only Rosalind seems interesting.
Gotham as well.
At this point, I don't care much for the effects looking cheap. I just want interesting plot developments.
And I really wish they wouldn't focus so much on relationships. I don't care about Will, I don't care about Lincoln/Skye, and I certainly don't give a damn about Melinda May and Andrew. Only Rosalind seems interesting.
Who are those 3 guys? Skye, Lincoln and Joey? What about Mack? He seems to always be following Skye and interviewing Inhumans.
Gotham as well.
I hope they bring back Blizzard and give him a slot on the team - then they can have a nice elemental quartet. Quake for Earth, Joey for Fire, Blizzard for Water, and Lincoln for Air (because eh, close enough). Mack for Heart?
I just hope that the Secret Warriors aren't 100% Inhuman. Even if they have to squeeze in Deathlok.
I just hope that the Secret Warriors aren't 100% Inhuman. Even if they have to squeeze in Deathlok.
I love Ward haters. Such delicious salt.
Also, I agree Lincoln = lame. I'd rather they add a different Inhuman or two. Preferably another black or latino/hispanic and one that sides with Ward. Hydra would be a much bigger threat if they diversified and got some super powered assets.
Also, I agree Lincoln = lame. I'd rather they add a different Inhuman or two. Preferably another black or latino/hispanic and one that sides with Ward. Hydra would be a much bigger threat if they diversified and got some super powered assets.
I'm disappointed Lash was
. May and Andrew actors were very good. Them and Fitz (still lost in the Fitzzone, sadly) never fail to remind me I'm not watching another cheap scifi show.
Rosalind
Coulson (robot hand put to good use?) and being in bed (figuratively) with
was not surprising but still exciting. Not even terrible cgi and Lash makeup can make me dislike this show now.
just a lone killer and not part of another Inhuman group
Rosalind
banging
Mr Hydra,or whatever he is called
dead souls
Member
He's definitely outlived his usefulness to the show.
His superpower is blandness.
The show's starting to lose me again. The pace may have been amped up, with reveals coming left and right, but I really don't care about anything that's going on. The CW style of breakneck pacing reigns supreme.
StarCreator
Member
Another weird bit - why was Coulson's robotic hand what enabled him to hold up against Lash? Isn't the shoulder and forearm more important there? A robotic hand alone doesn't exactly grant him greater leverage.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
The whole robotic arm = super strenght thing is basically a scifi trope. Don't think too much about it.
One of the things I enjoyed about Shirow's Appleseed (the manga, not the garbage-tier movies) is that he made very clear that a cyborg trying to lift a car with the help of a robotic arm would only result in him tearing the fuck out of his shoulder.
Also happened on Archer.
StarCreator
Member
It's also weird that Daisy's powers materialize as a visible beam now; none of her power use in S2 had any visible effect on the air and it was powerful enough to literally move mountains that were probably miles away. It's clear they had to do something to visualize the effect, but it should have been localized on the target and not something you could follow all the way back to her.
I could keep going at this today...
I could keep going at this today...
Assuming that Gideon Malick is tied to the group that sent Daniels to the other planet, with Rosalind being in cahoots with him it seems like all the plot threads might converge for the second half of the season.
Unrelated:
lol
Nice. Bracing myself for a mid-season cliffhanger though.
Unrelated:
lol
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
_/¯Anyone else wonder why there was a cuddled up couple selfie on Simmons' phone?
Her relationship with Astronaut Mike Dexter only started after the the phone battery had been totally depleted by the computer to calculate the position of that portal they tried getting a message through, and she only accepted the idea of a relationship after they failed to achieve that.
Her relationship with Astronaut Mike Dexter only started after the the phone battery had been totally depleted by the computer to calculate the position of that portal they tried getting a message through, and she only accepted the idea of a relationship after they failed to achieve that.
StarCreator
Member
The selfie was powered by the combined strength of their hearts
They probably just cuddled up like that to get in the photo properly. It's really nitpicking.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
Could also argue that the new well-defined effect is a side effect of her gauntlets focusing/restraining her power.
Escape Goat
Member
When I thought Joey was dead
Not really nitpicking, more just a case of noticing a jarring continuity error I guess. The plot point this week was all about Fitz seeing and reacting to a picture of them together, and for him to see the symbol, I doubt there was anything more to it than that.
With people picking so many holes in this weeks episode, I just though I would mention it, as for me things like this stand out way more than dodgy special effects (which don't particularly bother me if the story is good).
Is it just me or does anyone else kinda fanboy out when Daisy and Bobbi are in their combat gear? They look so good and it just really hammers home the "superhero" suit with the still refined cohesion of a SHIELD outfit. I just wish they would call Bobbi, "Mockingbird" more. They've said it like once in 2 seasons. Also can't wait for Daisy to get her real code name.
Mack - "Hey Tremors, you ready to do this?"
Daisy - "Ya know, I'm not really feeling the whole "Tremors" thing. Romanov and Bobbi get cool code names, why don't I?"
Mack - "Well, pick one."
Enemies charge at them and open fire
Daisy unleashes her power and knocks them all back, collapsing some of the building structures around them.
Daisy - "How about Quake?"
Mack - "Hey Tremors, you ready to do this?"
Daisy - "Ya know, I'm not really feeling the whole "Tremors" thing. Romanov and Bobbi get cool code names, why don't I?"
Mack - "Well, pick one."
Enemies charge at them and open fire
Daisy unleashes her power and knocks them all back, collapsing some of the building structures around them.
Daisy - "How about Quake?"
I guess it kinda does look a little bit like the Aries symbol from the Secret Warriors comics, although going by those its probably closer to Dum Dum's Libra symbol...
I do enjoy that about the show.
NobleXenon
Member
They've shown visible effects for it in season 2. Less elaborate, though.
Don't forget the season finale when she shot four or five of those sonic wave things in succession to push the plane carrying the terrigen crystals into the ocean.
Rin Tohsaka
Banned
Having Lincoln say "Judge Judy and Executor" really took me out of the episode
lol
That was "judge, jury", not "judge Judy" lmao.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Yeah, Lincoln is not great, it's a real shame.
Also why the hell would Coulson take him on so quickly given his propensity for not following orders? Although I suppose that's a Shield field agent speciality.
Hopefully they can salvage the character? I have my doubts.
And man, poor May never gets a break.
Fitz watching what amounts to love letters from his ex before she fell in love with another guy is.. ooof.
Also why the hell would Coulson take him on so quickly given his propensity for not following orders? Although I suppose that's a Shield field agent speciality.
Hopefully they can salvage the character? I have my doubts.
And man, poor May never gets a break.
Fitz watching what amounts to love letters from his ex before she fell in love with another guy is.. ooof.
Nah, it's not a big deal to me.
Daisy and Mack are infiltrating a HYDRA compound. Daisy's heavy frame was causing some noise.
Mack: "Easy, porkins, you're causing an earth...Quake."
Mack stops calling her Tremors, and starts calling her Quake from that point forward.
This is amazing. I'm changing my answer and I now care about them using the comicbook names.
Exploratory
Banned
What CW shows are you talking about? Villains that last all season? How long were we on that
Sarah
I knew you'd be the one to spin gold with that scenario.
Supermanisdead
Member
Hours Left
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I don't even mind Lincoln really, they just need to do something with him. When he was first talking to Mack I was finally starting to hope they were gonna go somewhere with that, but then we went back to his brooding nonsense. (Confronting Lash directly was stupid.)
Joey is great. He has immediate screen presence and definitely needs to be utilized more.
this would've been funny if the show was still S1. It doesn't work as a spoof of what the show is since 2.
BKatastrophe
Member
So, in the comics Lash was an Inhuman who was from the city of Orollan, which was basically full of and run by religious zealots (another Inhuman, Reader, was from there. Needless to say, he left on bad terms). The city was annihilated during an invasion by Thanos. After a Terrigen Bomb detonated, which forcibly mutated all the world's potential Inhumans, Lash started going around grabbing any he deemed worthy and killing the rest. "Worthy" in this sense meaning those he sensed as strong. How he did this, I dunno.
Now, in a show once called Birds of Prey (a terrible show based on the DC property of the same name), there was an episode where a metahuman would receive headaches around other metahumans. He could also mimic their powers when he got near them. Basically, he would get close and kill metahumans with his own abilities, with his end goal being that he would no longer be in pain.
Long story short (I have a very roundabout way of coming to my conclusions), my guess is that Andrew's mutation is causing him, somehow, to detect and instinctually hunt Inhumans. He's basically an Inhuman bred for hunting Inhumans, and I assume he's somehow justifying (with his "rational" side) this as "only killing the bad ones." I also wouldn't be surprised if Jiaying had some of these genealogy books with listings of "potential" Inhuman abilities and outcomes, meaning that Andrew could only be killing the ones that he thinks are threats.
My guess, anyways. Based on the fact that the show seems to be adapting the first arc from Inhuman.
Napoleonthechimp
Member
Andrew is a fish oil inhuman? Fuck this show.
Don't bother with Lash if you're just going to butcher him with your fuckery.
Don't bother with Lash if you're just going to butcher him with your fuckery.