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

The science duo will get animated for an episode of Disney XD's Ultimate Spiderman this Sunday
No Spider-Man can be described as "ultimate" if he's missing his hyphen.

So no speculation about the spaceship blowing up in orbit in 3 months?
I speculate that it gave me so little to go on that I couldn't care less yet.

Loved Coulson's reaction to the news about Talbot.
 
I do like how they've changed up the usual speedster formula. Restricting her actions to a single heartbeat before pinging back to where she started is pretty novel and sets up some clear rules to what she can and can't do. Also neatly deals with any issues of inertia that other speedsters never seem to address.
Begs the question though: what if they found a way to slow her heart-rate? Would she be able to go further/faster? What if someone shot her with adrenaline; would she start to vibrate and phase through matter?

It is a nice touch, and adds an interesting limitation.

Actually when she revealed that, I thought Daisy's expression was her having exactly that idea and she'd try to administer something to make her go further. Maybe they still will later on.
 
By the way, I'm wondering if Hunter's constant complaints about powered people were meant to lay the seeds for his and Bobbi's departure for their spinoff. After all, the team is recruiting more Inhumans, so if Hunter can't get along with powered people, that might lead to a schism. Maybe the idea is for Marvel's Most Wanted to take over being the show about normal humans doing spy/adventure stuff while AoS becomes more superhero-oriented.
I don't think those scenes are meant to convey a genuine resentment precipitating a departure, merely underlining how fundamentally ill equipped mere human agents are to deal with even an untrained enhanced. The logical conclusion being that they need a team of their own Inhumans to deal with it instead...which we already knew, they're just underlining it. In big black marker.
Which indeed may lead to the spin-off being justified as a more traditional spy/action series as AoS shifts gears away from that to be more focused on crazy powers and aliens. But that doesn't mean Hunter has suddenly become a bigot.
 
Actually when she revealed that, I thought Daisy's expression was her having exactly that idea and she'd try to administer something to make her go further. Maybe they still will later on.

Hmm, yeah, I thought the same thing. Like some kind of meditation or drug to slow the heartbeat. Although that would seem to work at odds with her speedster powers.

Although, really, how can she run so far within a single heartbeat? What's powering her metabolism to move her muscles so extensively if only one beat's worth of oxygenated blood is flowing through them? Proportionally, that would be analogous to a typical person running the hundred-meter dash with their heart virtually stopped. It just doesn't make sense.
 
By the way, I'm wondering if Hunter's constant complaints about powered people were meant to lay the seeds for his and Bobbi's departure for their spinoff. After all, the team is recruiting more Inhumans, so if Hunter can't get along with powered people, that might lead to a schism. Maybe the idea is for Marvel's Most Wanted to take over being the show about normal humans doing spy/adventure stuff while AoS becomes more superhero-oriented.

Well, I don't see how disliking inhumans would lead to him leaving (although I don't think Hunter actually dislikes powered people). Mac loathes all powered people, and has been mentioning it since around his first appearance, but he's stuck around (unfortunately). Hunter hasn't shown any real problem with inhumans before, so I doubt he'll suddenly develop into another Mac and leave the team. I think his comments were the usual type of comments you get from many non-powered people on any team with powered people. Just a bit of griping/bantering that doesn't really mean anything.
 
So, which one of us would take one of those fish pills. I would. Yeah, it could turn me into a psychopath but it could also make godly, and with aliens, abominations, enhanced, and Inhumans running about, I'll take my chances.
 
Or a horrible, petrified statue made of compressed ash.

I think the idea was that it was the metal component of the Terrigen crystals that was lethal to non-Inhumans, and when the crystals were dumped into the sea, the metal part remained and it was just the Terrigen itself that leaked into the ecosystem. So the fish oil pills are harmless to normal humans, otherwise we would've seen a vast number of deaths alongside the finite number of superpowers.
 
Umm, no.

In the opening scene of season 3 we see an open bottle of them and several bodies burned/petrified the same way other regular humans were in season 2.
 
Umm, no.

In the opening scene of season 3 we see an open bottle of them and several bodies burned/petrified the same way other regular humans were in season 2.
I think that was the remains of the cocoon that we saw Daisy and Raina but not Trip break free from.
 
I believe it was just the remains of the shell of Joey. IIRC the legs were hollow and there was no ash. I did a rewatch of this season not too long ago, plus Bobbie says later that there were no casualties.
 
How about we go straight to the source?
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Clearly the remnants of Joey's cocoon, not a petrified human.
They even specifically said that the terragen in the food chain doesn't contain any of the diviner metal, since the crystals dissolved in water. Not that should need explaining because 1) we saw it happen at the end of the second season, and 2) think about it. If it petrifies non-Inhuman tissue, then it would have petrified the fish and never have entered the food chain at all.

And no, Hunter doesn't hate Inhumans all of a sudden, he's just irritated on a professional level at what amounts to an unfair advantage that renders his training an skills somewhat irrelevant in a one-on-one confrontation.
 
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Her powers would be completely useless up there

I'm thinking that's the reason for the blood floating around. Someone with her in the ship used her inability to yo yo in space as an advantage to take her out.

Everyone saw the reveal at the end of that scene, right? A shoulder wearing this patch. http://shieldtv.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/S.H.I.E.L.D.-logo-4-270x270.jpg I forget, why does this appear different?

Anyone else notice how sunken Ward/Hive's eyes are and how skull-like they're making him look? I wonder if that's just an aesthetic choice or if there's some significance vis-a-vis Hydra's symbol and maybe even the Red Skull's appearance.

He's fulfilling the prophecy, was the implication to me. While becoming a new Red Skull wasn't explicitly stated, I think it's fair to say that is what's happening. Poking around on the netz concerning the prophecy the name "Hellfire" comes up, that mean anything to anyone?
 
So who else would/would not take the pill?

Assuming its like in the show, where failure wouldn't harm a non-inhuman, I'd take a terrigen fish pill. My curiosity would be too intense not to, even with the possibility of coming out worse then I went in.
 
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