Agents of SHIELD. Season 1 Discussion Thread

So Cap holds the record for bulldozer-pushing? Wasn't under the impression that he was supposed to be that strong....

 

Wow, that was surprising. I had no idea the two plots were connected.

 

Shoot, I was gonna call Peterson buying it by the end of the episode and I waivered....

 

I hadn't expected that, though. If he was going to die, I expected him to die succeeding. It was just so cold blooded.

 

Well, we didn't see the body, so there's always a chance for a return. But I get the impression that they're adding another angle to Skye with this, since she seems to have been set up as the new surrogate parent.

Was hoping we'd get something substantial about Coulson's situation this episode, but all we got was the previews for next time.

Anyone getting the impression that maybe Po is the clairvoyant and there's a multiple personality/compartmentalization thing going on?

Or maybe Po has one of those eye things and communicates with the clairvoyant that way...and the "clairvoyant" got his name because he's the one watching everybody on Candid Eyeball...?

 

Who is Po?

My guess is Ian Quinn (the guy on Malta). Two reasons. One, they suggested he might not be clairvoyant and hinted it's someone with a lot of financial resources. Two, more of these episodes are interconnected that I originally thought, so I don't see why that one wouldn't be either.

 

Po is the guy they broke from prison who contacts the clairvoyant, unless I misunderstood his name.

EDIT: Just checked on IMDB, the character's name is Edison Po.

 

OK. I think the likely explanation is that he is being controlled as well (given his fear of being involved with Reyna and the fact that he had to stab someone previously). This seems like there needs to be somebody on the outside to run the whole thing, although who knows.

Does anyone think we'll get all the answers for Coulson next time? It seems there will be flashbacks, which suggests at least greater information, but there also seems to be scenes in that trailer of him looking at pictures of himself trying to find more info.

 

Oh, I'm sure they'll tease Coulson's story along, but to do that, they have to give us something....

 

Universities aren't trademarked?

 

Fair enough, I have no idea.

One thing that was interesting was what they chose on the previously. It seemed they wanted everything to be explained to a new viewer, but not everything necessarily was included in the previously clips. For example, they were able to keep the Eye Spy connection a secret because Michael Peterson could be audience surrogate. On the other hand, there was no realistic way to explain what Level 7 was through characters who would all know, so they had to include that as a clip (even for just the little bit of dialog).