Especially since he admitted taking one of the fish oil pills to see if he got powers.
Which is another reason you can tell they're safe for non inhumans as he's not dead.
Agents of SHIELD: Season 3 - Discussion (SPOILERS LIKELY)
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Especially since he admitted taking one of the fish oil pills to see if he got powers.
Which is another reason you can tell they're safe for non inhumans as he's not dead.
I think it's safe to say that the ones SHIELD confiscated (i.e. the ones Hunter would have pilfered) are confirmed to be contaminated with terrigen. And yes, fish-oil pills aren't the only vector. It turns out there are other uses for fish besides oil pills. Some people even eat them. Who knew!?
Seriously though, fish from that part of the world is just the most direct way terrigen would have spread into the human ecosystem. There will be others, but they'll just take longer to disseminate. Indeed, since it sat inside fish, happily inert until contacting an Inhuman biology, there's a good chance than even non-Inhumans would have continued to spread the contagion. Not to put too fine a point on it, but any non-Inhumans that consumed the terrigen containment though any means probably passed it back into to sewage system, which means it'll start to accumulate in reservoirs and water-tables fairly quickly.
Seriously though, fish from that part of the world is just the most direct way terrigen would have spread into the human ecosystem. There will be others, but they'll just take longer to disseminate. Indeed, since it sat inside fish, happily inert until contacting an Inhuman biology, there's a good chance than even non-Inhumans would have continued to spread the contagion. Not to put too fine a point on it, but any non-Inhumans that consumed the terrigen containment though any means probably passed it back into to sewage system, which means it'll start to accumulate in reservoirs and water-tables fairly quickly.
Yeah, they mentioned it in the show itself. Plus, Hunter took a fish pill with no consequences.
The flash forward kind of threw me off. It doesn't really fit into the straightforward narrative of SHIELD. If plot elements included premonitions or time travel (like on Babylon 5, for example), it would make sense, but it just felt kind of tacked on.
It seems that Rosalind's death is affecting Coulson's judgment. I hope they don't turn him into Dark Coulson-- that "Cavalry" comment was a bit cutting. He was the reason I started watching the show to begin with and I'd hate to see him lose his quirky charm. There was a touch of the old Coulson there at the very end with his reaction to Talbot's assignment. Which I was very happy about, since I like that character and will be happy to see more of him. It seems that SHIELD has become the IMF-- the president is counting on them, but will disavow any knowledge of their activities.
I was surprised to see Yoyo leave at the end. I suspect she will be back, and probably end up in that spaceship. I don't think they would introduce a character like that if they didn't have plans for her.
Hunter and Bobbie cracked me up. He tried the fish oil and she thought about it, but passed. They do deserve each other.
I'm not sure about this business of Simmons and Fitz going back to the beginning. I'd rather see more progress being made on that front. But, of course, a lot has happened that they must both process.
And, yes, I'd try a fish pill. The Terrigen would probably catch up to me eventually, anyway, so I might as well try it under somewhat controlled conditions.
It seems that Rosalind's death is affecting Coulson's judgment. I hope they don't turn him into Dark Coulson-- that "Cavalry" comment was a bit cutting. He was the reason I started watching the show to begin with and I'd hate to see him lose his quirky charm. There was a touch of the old Coulson there at the very end with his reaction to Talbot's assignment. Which I was very happy about, since I like that character and will be happy to see more of him. It seems that SHIELD has become the IMF-- the president is counting on them, but will disavow any knowledge of their activities.
I was surprised to see Yoyo leave at the end. I suspect she will be back, and probably end up in that spaceship. I don't think they would introduce a character like that if they didn't have plans for her.
Hunter and Bobbie cracked me up. He tried the fish oil and she thought about it, but passed. They do deserve each other.
I'm not sure about this business of Simmons and Fitz going back to the beginning. I'd rather see more progress being made on that front. But, of course, a lot has happened that they must both process.
And, yes, I'd try a fish pill. The Terrigen would probably catch up to me eventually, anyway, so I might as well try it under somewhat controlled conditions.
Possibly through bodily fluids. You can now get super-powers from having sex. Help stop the spread of STPs!
I totally forgot that Hydra has a NASA department. I wouldn't be surprised if they sent her up there (via a trap of some sort). Shield saves her somehow, necklace is lost, shuttle explodes, and Bob's your uncle.
Episode 3.14, "Watchdogs", brings us the return of Titus Welliver as Felix Blake, unseen since Deathlok put him in the hospital in season one.
I'm assuming that the "Watchdogs" will be the MCU's version of the group in the comics by the same name.
I'm assuming that the "Watchdogs" will be the MCU's version of the group in the comics by the same name.
"Watchdog" might just be a new Comcast Business feature that he's promoting.
I can't remember for sure, but I think I remember reading about a comic that dealt with sexually transmitted super powers somewhere recently. The idea just sound familiar.
I would try the fish oil pills, I know there are dangers, but I would love to have to the chance to get superpowers.
This was a nice return for the series.
I like Yo-Yo a lot.
Coulson meeting with the President was a cool moment, and a nice tie back into the movies. I do kind of wonder why the insist on keeping S.H.I.E.L.D. a secret at this point, it seems like most of the people who matter know about them. I know they said people wouldn't forget about what Hydra did, but it's been years and I think once people realized that this is a new S.H.I.E.L.D. that has seperated itself from the Hydra elements they would accept them. I guess it might be that in the real world they're afraid people might be confused after the end of The Winter Soldier, but all they would have to do is say they rebuilt S.H.I.E.L.D., they don't even need to worry about Coulson. Even with Coulson, the show is advertised a lot, all over both the TV and the internet, so I have a feeling that most people who care are probably aware Coulson is back by now anyways.
I like Coulson being put in charge of the ATCU, given his knowledge of Inhumans it makes sense in universe, and it's also a nice way to resolve the ATCU issues from a storytelling perspective. Talbot being the public leader of the ATCU, and working Coulson should be fun.
What if a human woman were to be having the child of an inactive Inhuman, but taking fish oil supplements, would the child be activated under those conditions or would they be born Inhuman and the powers develop over their lifetime naturally?
Instead of being kickstarted later in life so weirdly.
Instead of being kickstarted later in life so weirdly.
Who knows, it could cause an immunity to becoming Inhuman all together.
Slightly unrelated, but isn't Terrigen Mist responsible for sterilizing mutants in the comics? Something about it being able to soup up existing powers or grant uncontrollabled access to lost powers, but only for a short while. In exchange, they're left sterile, resulting in a stark decline in new mutants being born. Or something along those lines anyway.
Since mutants are pretty much not a thing in the MCU, maybe that happens to some of its non-Inhumans.
Since mutants are pretty much not a thing in the MCU, maybe that happens to some of its non-Inhumans.
Well if the terrigen reached the fetus it'd probably catalyse and probably kill both mother and infant. I mean think about it: the chrysalis fragments alone would cause massive internal haemorrhaging, and that's just assuming the child doesn't instantly manifest any inherently harmful powers. Like, oh say the ability to discharge a lethal dose of electricity. Cause earthquakes, grow spines, exponentially increase in mass though mitosis (laws of thermodynamics be damned!), or Dagon forbid phase through matter. I mean that would just be really messy....
Indeed, this may partly explain why it's set-up so the powers need to be activated at all. A breed of life-form in which each generation manifests super-powers in the womb or even in infancy is a recipe for a very high infant mortality rate (to say nothing of the parental mortality rate.)
Also consider that this trait was engineered to be a weapon, terragenesis would also act as a means of population control. I mean you don't want your weapons getting funny ideas about the workers controlling the means of mass destruction, no?
People are slow to get over such things. There's still a pervasive assumption in this country that the main terrorist threat comes from Islamist extremists from the Mideast, but in fact the vast majority of fatalities from terrorism over the past dozen or so years have been from acts of domestic terrorists such as white supremacists, Christian militants, anti-government nuts, and assorted mass shooters. Most people don't realize that because the media are still clinging to the familiar narrative -- fighting the last war on terror, so to speak. So I can certainly buy that people's fear of SHIELD in the MCU would be hard to dispel after just a couple of years.
There was a British show called Misfits a few years ago about juvenile delinquents who got powers from a mysterious storm. In the last (or second to last?) season there was a new character whose power was to remove the powers of anyone he slept with. There was also an episode where his drink was spiked with a drug that reversed powers, so when he had sex he inadvertently dumped all the powers he'd taken out of other people into one person.
The only person that we can speculate from is Skye's mom. She had abilities but gave birth to a human who needed terragen to gain powers. Perhaps, in the womb, the child is protected from terragenesis. (Also that Bahrain incident was about an active inhuman using crystals to activate her inactive daughter).
She already had her powers before she got pregnant, so that doesn't really say anything about this particular question. It's the exposure to terrigen that causes powers, not exposure to people who already have powers.
