Agreed, it would make much more sense rather than trying to retcon a personality change.
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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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He should be ok with Lincoln then, in Afterlife they had very strict rules about who could go through the process, had plenty of latent inhuman waiting for their turn, and Lincoln got it. Daisy on the other hand was almost literally pushed into the chamber by her dad. Talk about nepotism and undue privilege.
R_thanatos
Member
Lincoln certainly didn't became an inhuman with a temple. it's heavily implied with his talk with skye in S2 that skye using a normal temple to become an inhuman is something that doesn't happen that often.
Also they had plenty of shard in the afterlife. The problem is not the fish oil , but the blue crystal ( the manufactured crystal ) that they were all using in the afterlife to awaken their powers.
Marvel is terrible at depicting foreign languages. They shamelessly used Canadian actors for French in Iron Man 2, and Brazilian people for Portuguese in that episode with Lady Sif and the Kree. And the Americans speaking another language are definitely not properly coached. As long as it's good enough for the average clueless American viewer, they won't bother more. Bonus point for Ward speaking French in the pilot, he was better than average iirc.
Re: the Mando. I'm not surprised since for most Cantonese speakers, the Mandarin is usually heavily influenced from the Cantonese side of things. Jackie Chan's Mandarin is pretty decent probably due to the fact that he spends a lot of time in China now (remember seeing him speak Mandarin like back in the 80s/90s and it was heavily accented. Ming-Na's sound pretty much how I expected her to sound to be honest - pobably better.
Listening to Bobbi's was hilarious though.
In regards to Lash, not suprised that it turned out to be Andrew - there were some small hints from the previous episodes. I particularly liked the fact that they addressed the red herring (the bald guy) as well.
EDIT:
I think people need to keep in mind that there are regional dialects for languages. I mean even take English for example - there's American, UK, Australia, Canadian for the standard, but then again you have Creole English, Singaporean English, Indian English.
Thus I'm ok with different accents (as in I was ok with Ming'Na's Mandarin). I do agree that with people who obviously don't speak another language though.
Yep. Though I do wonder how Lincoln turned. Was it ever mentioned?
Black-Wind
Member
Hunter ... suggesting Fitz leave a NASA hero there (maybe planting the seeds for Fitz to fuck this up for himself), shooting an innocent man in the middle of the day and bashing up hid face.
Just fucking up all over the place.
Just fucking up all over the place.
GuessMyUserName
Member
Finally watched just before Arrow started, love yesterday's ep! Really don't understand why people are so upset by Andrew being Lash? It works perfectly. Ward fake-out suggestions are just really dumb and a really lazy "twist".
a secret-boss
Banned
I got an email from Marvel that this was going to be a Ward episode.
DI-SA-POIN-TING
another average episode. season so far is average except for season opener
DI-SA-POIN-TING
another average episode. season so far is average except for season opener
DangerMouse
Member
Me too, they did a nice job fully playing out him as the red herring for Lash.
I wonder about that too.
Yup! Talk about a rough day.
Careful Fitz.
Yeah, it was a rather good ep.
Coulson digging in on the bat was great too lol.
lol, we just had probably the strongest episode in the series with Jemma stranded on an alien planet.
This shot had me in tears.
I loved everything about Hunter this episode.
SparksterMeta0
Member
I'm surprised that Strucker kid died so quickly.
No, it is not the strongest episode. It was beautiful, atmospheric and interesting but ultimately boring.
Me too.
He was great. I want more Hunter now.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
"Anyone else fancy a cheeky Nandos?"
the writing for him is markedly improved this year by committing to him being a major dick and keeping him away from Bobbi.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Good episode with some decent action and lots of fun lines. Lash remains trite and shit, but it's not like Inhuman Blanka is any better in the comics, tbh. Oh well.
So much of this. Hunter has gone from being generic muscle to becoming one of AoS's pillars. Nick Blood is also selling it like a mofo. His timing and delivery were on point.
Obligatory jifs:
So much of this. Hunter has gone from being generic muscle to becoming one of AoS's pillars. Nick Blood is also selling it like a mofo. His timing and delivery were on point.
Obligatory jifs:
I don't know what some of you guys are talking about. I thought this episode is damn good, and was alot better than last week and the week before.
Seeing the different dynamic between the characters was fun, see above^.
The only downside was the way they reveal Lash's identity like it was this huge twist ever when everyone already guessed it 2 weeks ago.
Seeing the different dynamic between the characters was fun, see above^.
The only downside was the way they reveal Lash's identity like it was this huge twist ever when everyone already guessed it 2 weeks ago.
^^ loooooool, so good.
the show needs to commit to just writing Skaisy as Chloe Bennet. She's so fucking funny and charismatic IRL.
also people need to calm down about Andrew being Lash. Let's wait to see what the show does with it before saying it's a retcon, which doesn't make any sense.
the show needs to commit to just writing Skaisy as Chloe Bennet. She's so fucking funny and charismatic IRL.
also people need to calm down about Andrew being Lash. Let's wait to see what the show does with it before saying it's a retcon, which doesn't make any sense.
You can almost feel the cast and crew laughing their ass off.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Everytime Mack calls Daisy 'tremors'.
I find it kind of hilarious how their missions almost boiled down to knocking out innocent people in this episode, lol. The bank people, then Banks.
Yep. And all the S.H.I.E.L.D. tech use was pretty fun.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
AoS has made significant strides towards greatness, but I feel that it still needs to make better use of its considerable talent.
Just like the show tends to muffle McBear's amazing score for no good reason, it doesn't quite manage to create some writing that could make the best of Chloe Bennet and Clark Gregg. She's funny as shit IRL and he was surprisingly competent in his own Marvel one-shot, but you couldn't tell from watching the show.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
CopperPuppy
Member
Yeah, I have to agree with this. Going all in on making him the charming but oblivious moral degenerate through circumstance is working really well. These types of characters really only work when there is total commitment to the archetype (think Mugen from Champloo).
Our brotherhood has been broken, but for a worthy cause.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Indeed. There were only so many Chris Pratt variations I could have
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Indeed. There were only so many Chris Pratt variations I could have
Replace Hunter's face. Best of both worlds.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Jest Chillin
Member
I.. don't really get the Mandarin accent critique that comes around any time this show in particular features the language. Do people in other countries critique the poorly accented or pronounced English in their natively produced and aired programs? Difficult languages are difficult and it's not worth the time and money to try to get actors who are non-native speakers of that language to pronounce everything accurately. Particularly when it amounts to just a handful of lines in an entire season.
Not surprised at the Lash reveal but also not disappointed. It makes more sense to have that character revealed as part of the cast already as it comes pre-baked with connections and allows for the show to walk the line as to whether or not he'll stay antagonist.
Not surprised at the Lash reveal but also not disappointed. It makes more sense to have that character revealed as part of the cast already as it comes pre-baked with connections and allows for the show to walk the line as to whether or not he'll stay antagonist.
This Week in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. podcast episode 30, celebrating 50 episodes of the show:
http://marvel.com/news/tv/25404/lis...ld_ep_30_with_clark_gregg_executive_producers
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fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
If they say they're supposed to be good or fluent? Sure.
No one's losing sleep over it, but it's hard not to notice if you have the ear for it. I thought it was okay for what it was. Thought Scorch from season one was waaaay worse. That was actually painful.
Jest Chillin
Member
I don't know. It seems a bit like critiquing the real life fighting skills of an actor in an action show. As long as the choreography and editing make it look good enough, it's not really a concern whether or not, say, Chris Evans actually knows all the fighting styles Cap is said to know.
I'm the same way. Hemsworth can sometimes leave a bit to be desired as Thor, but it's got to be hard to find an actor who can fly, so I give him a pass.
Andrew/Lash has straight up murdered dozens of innocent Inhumans at this point between all the corpses of freshly changed people we saw at the start of this season in the atcu morgue, the house he cleared out 2 weeks ago plus who knows how many more. I just cant see a believable redemption after that.
I know we saw Cal/Hyde redeemed, but you cant really compare that as the only people he killed that we know about were either hydra (the people at the village) or other criminals (in his back alley operating room). Its a lot easier to come back from that.
On the other hand, Tahiti is a magical place.
Netherscourge
Banned
Hunter is great, but he's probably gonna get whacked soon.
Feels like it's heading that way anyway.
Feels like it's heading that way anyway.