Agents of SHIELD: Season 3 - Discussion (SPOILERS LIKELY)

[RJDiogenes]

Calling someone an Amazon doesn't mean they were thinking about Wonder Woman.

I haven't seen the episode yet, but I'm hoping Fitz gets to look into the monolith and say, "My god, it's full of stars."

 

[Reverend]

Good episode, if a little unfocused. The stuff with May was surprisingly mundane. You'd think she'd let Coulson know what she was up to and I have to say, if she really believed someone (i.e. Ward) was targeting her family,why hang around instead of hauling him off to a safehouse in the middle of the Australian outback. Always fun to see James Hong though.

Speaking of which, does this mean Jack Black is now Ming-na's on-screen step half-brother?

Calling someone an Amazon doesn't mean they were thinking about Wonder Woman.

No but calling someone who's played Wonder Woman an Amazon does.

 

[Mr Light]

This show keeps getting better as it goes along.

I'm disappointed they got back Simmons in the second episode and so easily as well. I expected that to be more of a story.

And I'm so sick of Ward. UGH. Please just get rid of him. He's not interesting.

 

[Marsden]

I'm surprised she's back already. But that's good, I hate when things get dragged out too long.

James Hong is great. I guess this means Wayne Campbell is Melinda's brother-in-law.

I liked seeing the professor again, "He did it"
I was hoping he would say more when he said he hadn't heard Inhumans in a long time.

So the scroll wasn't a dead end.

And now there's a new Baron Strucker in HYDRA. He can get scared up and bald and bang no one will know the difference. Actually, that's completely unnecessary, I was joking.

 

[Guy Gardener]

STOPTHEPRESSES!

Did I miss any sneaky under the table subversive code about the Fantastic Four this week?

One of the British Lords from the Beginning was Alex Hyde-White.

Reed Fricking Richards from the 1994 Fantastic Four debacle.



It can't be possible that he snuck into Marvel and out of Marvel without any "fanfare" or a drunken impromptu skit at the cast party where Reed Richards warns Coulson that Doctor Doom is coming for all their cookies?

It's like how Annette O'Toole didn't tell the Smallville producers that she was Lana Lang in one of the Chris Reeve movies until after she had already got the part.

Not every one is a big enough nerd to know this shit without google.

 

[Kirby]

"Seinfeld, fore!"

LOL! I see what you did there.

 

[Christopher]

Randolph called Bobbi an amazon.

Hmm, it could be a coincidence, since "Amazon" has been a nickname for strong, statuesque women for a long, long time. But I suppose since it's Adrienne Palicki, that makes it plausible that it was an intentional reference to her ill-fated stint as Wonder Woman.

I'm disappointed they got back Simmons in the second episode and so easily as well. I expected that to be more of a story.

I am 100% certain that the story is far from over. There's still the mystery of just what the obelisk was and where it sent her. There's still the explanation of what she went through there. And her ordeal will undoubtedly change her in a permanent way. This is a Whedon show. His characters do not just go through traumatic adventures and forget about them by the following week. The ones who start out the most innocent and vulnerable are usually the ones who end up the most scarred, hardened, and badass. Jemma managed to survive in an alien hellhole for three months. Her first reflex on waking up was to brandish a weapon. Over? No. This arc is just beginning.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That's if time moved at the same rate on both "worlds".

Fox owns the Negative Zone, but it's little iffy if there is a Limbo where the Space Phantoms are from and Immortus rules (Fox owns Immortus.) and the Limbo that Illyana Rasputin from the New Mutants rules over with a cloven hoof (Fox owns the New Mutants.) or if both limbos are the same place, since there is conflicting canon.

But in episode one she was running from things or people, or both, and there was no storm.

 

[Marsden]

Plus, that's not Simmons but a shape shifting alien that looks just like her. Cant say Skrull.

 

[gblews]

Yes, great episode. I get excited thinking that for many shows, season 3 is quite often the first "great" season of the show's run. This takes on special meaning when you consider how great the last half of season 1 of AoS was, and all of season 2.

Lain De Caesteker performances. I think, have been second only to Kyle McLaughlan's, which automatically makes him best among the regular cast.

Agree with Christopjer that we are going to find out what scars Jemma may have developed on the inside from her ordeal. Does seem that it may have drawn her closer to Fitzy, though (for now, at least). What about those guys who were previously sent to the planet? Might some of them still be alive, trying to get back home? Who or what was she running away from?

Love Peter McNichols' as Randolph. I wonder if he returned to Asgard, would he be able to drop the "human" accent and go back to that stilted Asgardian-speak. Also, I'm sure that the reason Heimdall can't see him has been covered/discussed, but I just don't remember.

 

[Kemaiku]

Also, I'm sure that the reason Heimdall can't see him has been covered/discussed, but I just don't remember.

Not that I remember, they apparently just don't care he's on Earth.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Another solid episode after the premiere. Great to see Peter McNichols' character again and I'm interested to see the direction Jemma's character will take now for all the reasons Christopher stated.

Please get rid of Ward. He's useless, a bore and a complete waste of time. The show can do so much without him. I don't even care if he dies. Just forget about him.

 

[Commander Richard]

But he's gotta redeem himself and find his way back to the team.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

No, fuck no, no, no.

He's far beyond redeemable.

(Yes, I know you're being facetious)

 

[Thestral]

Piffle. Spike was redeemed (twice-ish), and Ward hasn't even tried to rape Daisy yet.

 

[Admiral2]

Piffle. Spike was redeemed (twice-ish), and Ward hasn't even tried to rape Daisy yet.

If he tried, Daisy could just "quake" him into the next county and most likely would. He's not Spike and she's not Buffy. Reconciliation is...doubtful.

 

[sojourner]

To make a Guy Gardner type of comment:

A girl who can supervibrate her hands has...possibilities.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I would go on to list the possibilities.

But if super = plus human, that just sounds dangerous.

A girl who can super vibrate her hands will shatter all of your teeth into an uneven porcelain gravel that will shred your oesophagus if you swallow instead of spit.

Always spit.

Only fools swallow.

 

[Christopher]

I noticed that Ward's reference to Hydra being fractured into countless pieces handily explains the Hydra operatives in Ant-Man who had no evident connection to Ward-Hydra. As I figured, it had split into multiple isolated cells pursuing their own agendas.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Yeah, Ward's whole "RealSlimHYDRA" angle left me cold, but we'll see where it goes.