Agents of SHIELD. Season 1 Discussion Thread

I liked this episode, which shed some light on Skye's past, although it focused more on the circumstances under which she was found/discovered as an infant. Whaddaya know? She was an object of unknown origin.

I also liked the visit to the nerd academy and how Fitz and Simmons were hailed as academic legends. Fitz saw a piece of himself in the loner/genius. At least the technobabble exchange wasn't entirely cryptic, but I wonder how much of that was actual science.

 

You're missing the point. Skye's resilience INSPIRED Coulson. The episode wasn't about Skye's origin per se but Coulson dealing with the fallout of the previous episode.

There is one possible plot hole. The Clairvoyant doesn't seem interested in Skye.

 

I agree. The Clairvoyant obviously thinks that Coulson did something on his own separate from SHEILD's action to return. This make Coulson's return more mysterious, since he didn't want to comeback.

 

Skye reads it off the memorial wall at the Academy.

 

The wall probably takes into account fallen SSR agents as well.

 

Hunan Province, China.

 

So, Skrull?

 

Not while Fox holds the FF rights, no.

And so far as anyone's been able to tell from examining her, she's Earth-baseline-human. Doesn't mean there isn't something that renders her "gifted", but still human.

 

The Chitauri are the Skrull, essentially. They're the Ultimate Universe equivalent of the Skrull, at any rate.

 

That's assuming he's even aware of her in the first place. For all we know part of what makes her an 0-8-4 makes her invisible to him. As we saw even Heimdall's vision has it limits.

How would a newborn baby demonstrate hacking abilities out in the middle of nowhere? Even if that were the case I just can't see that as a credible justification for wiping out a whole village and hunting down the Shield agents that took her.

I mean it'd have to be something bloody spectacular to justify making all that noise. Besides, hacking isn't a superpower, it's a skill. It's not as if she can control computers with her mind or anything.

Even more confusing if they end up calling her Captain Marvel too.

It did, hence the mention of Bucky and the use of the old SSR badges in the 40's-60's column.

So not in a cornfield in Kansas?

At the risk of sounding narrow minded and possibly a bit racist; could this *possibly* mean she's from Vanaheim like Hogun? Freya perhaps?

Since an Asgardian link appears to be one of the more obvious possibilities, have we ever seen Sky injured? I honestly can't remember.

Aside from her just being a random mutant, the only other possibility that comes to mind is that she's a product of some old Hydra experiment, or the Weapon-X program? The latter would certainly be consistent with the level of slaughter involved, but I don't think they have the rights to that stuff. Does Fox's right to the X-Men IP extend to X-23?

...Maybe she's a Skrull?

 

In mainland China?

(Not impossible, given the HYDRA history in the comics as more recently established by Hickman and assorted artistic partners.)

 

Is anyone tracking the "Special Thanks" section of the end credits by episode yet?

 

With Chang they mentioned that he was nearby when there was fire at nuclear power plant.

 

You know, before when this was suggest I wasn't so ready to go along with it but after the most recent episode I'm beginning to fall on the side of Skye being, maybe something akin to a "Mary Sue Character." I think I've slightly enough faith in Marvel and the show runners to not do that and there's more to be revealed yet but right now... Oy.

And, really, all of this time I was expecting Agent May to be Skye's mother or something. Hell I think I'm *still* expecting it! Or at least she's connected in some major way.

Waiting to see where we all head next, also this episode struck me a cross between about, oh, half of the episodes of Smallville (especially in the first few seasons) and "First Duty" from TNG.