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

[Guy Gardener]

I wasn't sure if I should call it a Hydra, but since you did, lets stick with it.

"Cut one head off , two more will take it's place"

That totally describes a series of parasitic infections, spreading exponentially.

 

[Lyon_Wonder]

Let me guess, the parasite alien will want to stay in Ward’s body and Mallick has access to technology that regenerates organic tissue, possibly derived or stolen from Helen Cho’s research at the U-GIN facility in South Korea and also gives Ward’s body inhuman superpowers too. I wouldn't be surprised if something likes this happens since I think Hive-Ward or parasite-Ward will stick around as the main bad guy until the end of the season.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

The question I have is this, does the host body need to be dead for the parasitic thingy to take control of it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'm more curious if the parasite can (slowly?) bring a dead body back to life.

Goul'd can fix the #### out of a broken human body.

 

[sojourner]

Maybe it just needs access to other living things to steal energy from in order to heal the host body. Something that wasn't available to Host-Will on Maveth.

 

[Reverend]

Well it seems to have a history of driving people to suicide, so I'm guessing yeah, it probably needs bodies to be dead in order to take them over. Otherwise it would just take over one while they're still alive and just murder the rest.

 

[Marc]

Part of his leg was gone, bone showing and all, but it took fourth degree burns to most of the body to make it leave. So the host can only take so much damage. Ward has most of his sternum cracked in, can't imagine the lungs are still going, his eyes are already calcifying.

I'm wonder if that was actually Will's body that it was taken over the the alien entity.

If injury to the leg could have been sustained when Gemma escaped and while Will was dying (if not the dead) his body was taken over.

Given that Ward was dead when he was possessed it's possible the the creature can only take over the dead bodies - after all then in doesn't have to find with the host mind for control.

 

[Kemaiku]

I'm more curious if the parasite can (slowly?) bring a dead body back to life.

Goul'd can fix the #### out of a broken human body.

NotWill's leg was black (like full on weeks old decay) and his insides were drying out. His body was continuing to die after it took control.

NotWard's eyes weren't calcified and his skin pallid when Coulson robothanded him to death. So yeah the host keeps on dying.

So they have about three days to fix this before he stinks up the place bad enough to kill them through putrifcation alone.

 

[Marsden]

Is there a Mephisto in the MCU?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Well, a Doctor Strange movie means Demonoly and magic exists, so maybe?

 

[Kemaiku]

I think it basically secretes an embalming fluid of sorts while theres still a blood flow, then wraps around the brain stem and remote controls the corpse.

What I'm saying is, please dump Ward altogther.

 

[UssGlenn]

I'm more curious if the parasite can (slowly?) bring a dead body back to life.

Goul'd can fix the #### out of a broken human body.

NotWill's leg was black (like full on weeks old decay) and his insides were drying out. His body was continuing to die after it took control.

NotWard's eyes weren't calcified and his skin pallid when Coulson robothanded him to death. So yeah the host keeps on dying.

So they have about three days to fix this before he stinks up the place bad enough to kill them through putrifcation alone.

if Will died the same day Jemma left, the parasite has to have some power to preserve the body, otherwise they wouldn't have mistaken him for the real Will.

 

[Kemaiku]

Like I said in my post above yours, I think it can pump some preservative substance into it's host to keep it supple enough to move and not decay entirely.

 

[Marc]

Like I said in my post above yours, I think it can pump some preservative substance into it's host to keep it supple enough to move and not decay entirely.

Maybe it can preserve the body as it was at the time of death but isn't able to repair the body. So ward's body might be okay but it couldn't do anything about the condition of will's body.

 

[JD]

I think it basically secretes an embalming fluid of sorts while theres still a blood flow, then wraps around the brain stem and remote controls the corpse.

What I'm saying is, please dump Ward altogther.

I've always thought the problem was Grant Ward, not Brett Dalton, so I don't mind them finding a way to get rid of Ward without getting rid of Dalton. Brett Dalton has actually done a good job with the material he's been given, some of the material just felt unnecessary after a while.

 

[Captain Craig]

I'm more curious if the parasite can (slowly?) bring a dead body back to life.

Goul'd can fix the #### out of a broken human body.

Didn't seem to help Will any.

The entity even said "Will died helping you escape"
How long was the gap then till they returned? Weeks? Month+?

 

[Lyon_Wonder]

I was just thinking, but Coulson would certainly warn the US government and the Ellis administration that Mallick is Hydra and using the ATCU as a front. That is if Ellis or his people takes Coulson seriously. I think Glenn Talbot certainly would, though he's an Air Force general and not part of Ellis's cabinet.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Coulson killing sleeper agents is easy.

Morons activating a sleeper cell because they cock up the kill, or prematurely leak their intentions to do the kill because their ununified security is Swiss cheese, because Coulson delegated an easy job to morons is the beginning of hard.

 

[Reverend]

It's not always prudent to immediately out a bad guy before you have some idea of the scope of their cell. Remember that last time, they waited until they had a bead on every Hydra head in Whitehall's circle before crossing them off, which then allowed them to use List to lead them all the way to Strucker and the staff.

Mallick has proven able to escaped notice up until this point, so moving now may just make force him to go to ground and you'll never find what other resources and connections he had.

 

[Marc]

I was just thinking, but Coulson would certainly warn the US government and the Ellis administration that Mallick is Hydra and using the ATCU as a front. That is if Ellis or his people takes Coulson seriously. I think Glenn Talbot certainly would, though he's an Air Force general and not part of Ellis's cabinet.

Coulson is the director of S.H.E.I.L.D which has a major fall from grace to being public enemy #1.

Now while things might have improved a bit, Unless Coulson had irrefutable evidence of Mallick's misdeeds any claims he makes wouldn't be believe.

Mallick would simply point of he's a senior govt official with impeccable credentials while Coulson's running a rogue agency.