Back in the day at Fort Riley , half of my attempts to tape DS9 and Miami Vice had those warningsUnfortunately in the Dallas area we had a tornado warning and the local news interrupted the last 10 minutes of AOS.
Agents of SHIELD: Season 3 - Discussion (SPOILERS LIKELY)
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It looked to me like he transmitted the energy through the wood of the bar top that he was touching, and thus it spread to all the items resting on it.
Then I hope that they don't get sued. Gambit can do that now.
Countless pairs of comics characters have the same powers. You can't sue over that, any more than you can sue over two different characters being redheaded love interests or crimesolving defense attorneys. Well, DC sued Fawcett over Captain Marvel, but that was as much about the cape and costume as the powers. If this guy were a card-playing Cajun belonging to an ancient society of thieves, then there'd be a problem.
He's not even an original character, J.T. James (Hellfire) has that power in the comics.
James Taylor James (yes his name is "James T. James"), aka "Hellfire", was a member of Daisy's Secret Warriors team.
Back in the season two thread, after the Daisy Johnson reveal, I noted that even though we didn't know that she was Daisy before that, they had still already hit a couple of Daisy's story points. Namely, the close relationship with Coulson mirroring Daisy's relationship with Fury, and the fact that Daisy had fallen for a traitor. Now in the comics, J.T. James was that traitor. Of course, in the comics, J.T. was much less of an obvious dick than the show's J.T..
Yeah, they dramatically changed JT's personality, but I'm OK with that (for starters, it wasn't dramatically interesting, second, the big thing was done with Grant Ward so they needed something else).
To be fair, he was really only a dick because he was refused to be allowed to undergo whateveryoucallit to turn into an Inhuman.
Now that he finally got his wish, I'm sure that once the Hive is eliminated he'll wind up being recruited onto the team.
He was a paranoid conspiracy theorist nut before Terrigenisis, which is why they refused it.
Why? Because he believed pretty much exactly what was true and tried to get everyone to understand it? Why do you think he had buried the device in the first place?
As the adage goes, "it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you." (And, as you may have noticed, they did get him.)
Its a generational thing I think of the Celebration era Kool and the Gang's JT, as he was always distinguished from THE James Taylor
A little unrelated, but out of curiosity I rewatched the first Avengers movie, paying more attention to the Malick parts now that his character is complete. It was interesting to see how well it fit with the character on the show: that he wanted the Tesseract, another portal to space and a potential weapon; that he shot down the Avengers Initiative, a team that could potentially stop Hive, and overall how Hydra it was of him that he ordered a nuke strike on New York. He didn't have much screen time, but I had fun knowing that the last time I watched the movie, he was a nameless cliched character who gives the ridiculously stupid orders to the main characters to disobey, and now I look at him completely differently (even though I know it is just retcon).
It was also a bit suspicious that he was conveniently absent when the council was about to be killed by Hydra in the last CA movie. 
It was also a bit suspicious that he was conveniently absent when the council was about to be killed by Hydra in the last CA movie.
Yes, he didn't need them any more, Pierce was about to make Hydra's plans come true with Project Insight.
I said right away after TWS that the council wanted the Avengers nuked because they were Hydra but I was shouted down.
And I'm a bitter angry person because of it now, planning my vengeance on everyone that crossed me. Oh, did I post that last part, never mind that, heh. Silly me.
I had a similar experience with my Civil War build up re-watch, with both Avengers and Captain America: The First Avenger. Obviously, The Red Skull knew of alien artifacts and probably about Inhumans, but I don't believe that he believed that Hive still lived or was recoverable. He believed in Hydra's goals, but believed them to be achievable only through science, not in archaic rituals and human sacrifice. In my head canon, in his megalomania, the Skull believed that by taking Erskine's serum (which he believed to be the equivalent of terrigenesis), he would supplant Hive in the mythology and become the Hydra god that ruled the world himself.
I think it's a safe bet the Pierce was more towards the Red Skull/Zola/Reinhardt way of thinking and wasn't a true believer, like Malick.
With that in mind I wonder if his absence from the council in TWS could also possibly indicate that Malick was somehow sidelined after New York. Perhaps he was somewhat blamed for the whole thing by the other heads, which allowed Pierce to push forward with his 'Insight' initiative. I like the idea that Hyra isn't (wasn't?) this big monolithic organisation but a rat's nest of many factions with just as many agenda's, side projects and even conflicting goals.
With that in mind I wonder if his absence from the council in TWS could also possibly indicate that Malick was somehow sidelined after New York. Perhaps he was somewhat blamed for the whole thing by the other heads, which allowed Pierce to push forward with his 'Insight' initiative. I like the idea that Hyra isn't (wasn't?) this big monolithic organisation but a rat's nest of many factions with just as many agenda's, side projects and even conflicting goals.
