There weren't really many twists in the last one, so this isn't too hard.
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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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Gentle Rodriguez
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Finally caught up with the show, I initially didn't want to watch it because of the negative early reactions and the fact that I'm not interested in regular spies doing regular spy stuff. After like 10 episodes in season 1 I really wasn't feeling it at all but I got much more into it when Hydra got involved, as long as some Marvel stuff was happening I'm good. Season 2 was much better, loved it. Season 3 is okay for now but really unfocused, but I'm guessing after the ending of last episode that we're actually getting somewhere now.
I could write way more but I'll keep it short.
-Kill Lincoln. He's useless, I don't know what kind of fetish Daisy has for guys without a personality but this is awful and forced. Not everyone needs to have a love interest in this, they just decided at the start of the season that Daisy and Coulson needed someone. They don't, they're both interesting enough on their own and this just drags them down(Coulson less so since Rosalind is actually relevant to the plot).
-Give me Secret Warriors damnit. The end of last season got me hyped but sadly it's been slowed down by Lash and ATCU crap, more people with powers that aren't Lincoln.
I could write way more but I'll keep it short.
-Kill Lincoln. He's useless, I don't know what kind of fetish Daisy has for guys without a personality but this is awful and forced. Not everyone needs to have a love interest in this, they just decided at the start of the season that Daisy and Coulson needed someone. They don't, they're both interesting enough on their own and this just drags them down(Coulson less so since Rosalind is actually relevant to the plot).
-Give me Secret Warriors damnit. The end of last season got me hyped but sadly it's been slowed down by Lash and ATCU crap, more people with powers that aren't Lincoln.
Uh, last mid season ending was Skye coming out strangely unharmed from an encounter with an obelisk while the whole temple was shaking, Raina being visibly changed into something else, and Tripp dying.
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razzmahtazz
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So is the mid season finale next week? or do we get 2 more episodes before it?
We knew Skye was going to end up changing along w Raina. That wasn't a twist that was plot development.
There is one more episode before the midseason finale. So we have two episodes left for 2015.
Only because we paid attention to advertisements and cast and crew interviews.
If someone were binging through the show on Netflix, I imagine those were pretty exciting twists.
Didn't Mack get possessed, too, and we didn't know if he'd be OK?
It was both.
No, it's not. Not when it's the obvious endgame of a plot developed over a season and a half. This has nothing to do with "being on the Internet" and evrything to do with standard competent writing. Skye's mom is evil? That's a twist. Ward is Hyda? That's a twist. Twists blindside the audience w unexpected revelations.
Most of the deaths in Savng Private Ryan, for instance, are not twists. But the last one is because of the expectations created by the framing device.
Daisy turning out to be an Inhuman was a pretty big fucking twist considering there had been no obvious signs pointing towards that and given the fact even the most remotely familiar with the MCU film release timeline were under the impression Inhumans wouldn't be introduced so early in a TV show.
Just go look up the thread from last season. It legit got people by surprise. It was a big twist.
No obvious signs other than, y'know, Raina and Cal screaming that she was special at every opportunity. The fact that her parents were "monsters", and that wherever she "[went], death follows". All of those make it so that it's not a twist that she survives unharmed the mist. (Actual twist is Tripp dying, since there was no indication of that until he decides to kick the thing for some reason)
Jorok Goldblade
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Also, people thought he was safe because a mole misidentified Anthony Mackie as BJ Britt on the set of Age of Ultron.
The closest thing we have to a protagonist (aside from Coulson) being special isn't anything new. Her being special meaning Inhuman was, and it was highly unexpected precisely because we were led to believe Inhumans wouldn't be a thing until like 2019. The fact Sky's real name was Daisy Johnson - originally a mutant in the comics - and she an Inhuman with vibration powers wasn't something anyone could've foreseen.
That is, unless you were already familiar with Inhuman lore, which most viewers I imagine were not - and even then it would've still likely come as a surprise.
Again, look up the S2 thread and the way the revelation was received. It was a twist.
Jest Chillin
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You have an argument for the average viewer. You don't have one for the avid fan that was posting in the GAF thread.
We had been speculating whether she was Daisy Johnson or Jessica Drew since S1
Gentle Rodriguez
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I feel like Daisy being an 084 already made that twist not that surprising, anyone who was keeping up should have seen that coming. The only surprising thing about it was the way that it happened and that Tripp died.
I was following the thread and didn't see it comming.
Also, I'm pretty sure Daisy Johnson wasn't guessed by more than like one person.
Regardless of whether it was a twist you suspected, i.e. a good or bad twist, it was still a twist, and a pretty damned by one for most of us since no one guessed she was an Inhuman afaik.
Everyone knew she was inhuman. We just didn't know who she was going to change into. And even then, a few people called her being Daisy.
Nah, that's some BS right there. The Inhuman revelation was not obvious in the slightest. I'm calling bullshit on that.
From what I remember like one or two posters called her being Daisy.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/search.php?searchid=8737337&pp=50&page=13
For reference, the finale aired on 12/9/14.
AVClub: 10/22/14: http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/marvels-agents-shield-hen-wolf-house-210808
Jest Chillin
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We knew she was Inhuman because it was obvious they weren't going with Mutants. There was like, a handful of people who were staunchly against the possibility of Inhumans because of the movie, but there wasn't another plausible way to explain everyone's powers. Blaze or whatever from S1 was never explained. He had powers before experimentation, wasn't an alien, and they expressedly avoided calling him a mutant.. so something had to give somewhere and Inhumans was the most likely direction.
Sure but that's mostly because we didn't know how the TV show was going to visualize the changing process. The cocoon itself was done specifically to create a gotcha moment.
yeah it was speculated but many people were saying "nope not gonna happen" and then it did.
that whole scene was one of the most thrilling in the entire MCU for me
I hate when shows go on hiatus. ugh. the first few months of the new year are always so dull.
Jorok Goldblade
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The Daisy bit caught on before the twist, when Cal started making appearances in season 2. During season 1, everybody was fixated on her being Spider-Woman (and of course Wardmaster)
mugurumakensei
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Agent carter in the hiatus though so not so bad. Hopefully, the new setting will bring a more adventurous feel and Leviathan gets redeemed from being just one dude's plot.
I hope there is going to be a recap of S1 at some point
I can barely recall what even happened
TheDanimal
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Oh man. I am going to be a wreck watching this episode.
Tomorrow is the last episode before break
There are two episodes left, one this week and other is next week, before the break.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Break??
Fuck
Fuck
DaSorcerer7
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Could the more ancient hydra symbolism be hinting toward Shuma Gorath in some way?
Shit I didn't know there was another
That's good news at least
Gentle Rodriguez
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Not sure if this is crazier or less crazy than Ego the Living Planet.
Surprisingly it strikes as less crazy.
MadLaughter
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Question, where is it confirmed that the plane crashed? The wiki says it did, but I don't remember confirmation in the show.
fallengorn
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Life can be so cruel.
Funky Papa
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Fuck me sideways.
Oh well, at least I can kepp hate-watching Jessica Jones.
Oh well, at least I can kepp hate-watching Jessica Jones.
How long is the break?