Agents of Shield - Season 4

[Star Wolf]

^Yeah, somebody *really* wanted their name to spell "sword".

I think S.W.O.R..D. is the most likely candidate given that the ship/station in the stinger appears to be of human design, not alien. I mean who else would have that capability? I like to think that while SHIELD was originally Peggy's baby, SWORD was Howard's and they've been operating out there this whole time.

Side note: is this the first time we've seen that paralysing glowstick thing since the first Iron Man?

Before I pull out my DVD again, where in Iron Man was this used? I thought it was Men In Black and they had the cancellation and renewal scene set to go after the "two minute window" for the commercial break. A friend of mine speculated that other scenes were deleted and the show may have ended with the framework collapse and Dr Radcliffe's drink dropping if it was the series finale.

 

[Reverend]

Before I pull out my DVD again, where in Iron Man was this used?

It was the thing Obadiah used to paralyse the Ten Rings goons and again later against Stark when he stole the arc reactor in his chest.

A friend of mine speculated that other scenes were deleted and the show may have ended with the framework collapse and Dr Radcliffe's drink dropping if it was the series finale.

I had a similar thought.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I thought the thing in Iron Man was sonic.

 

[Turtletrekker]

The MCU Wiki calls it a Sonic Taser. A similar device was used to eliminate Edison Po in season one.

 

[Silvercrest]

One thing I don't get: How on earth did Talbot survive a bullet to the head?

either talbot is dense as lead or he needs better people working for him

Well he has always been shown to be pretty dense (even for an officer)

Q.E.D. He's literally dense as lead.

Ah, I think I missed the bit about his head. I do remember the line about being "designed only to kill", I just didn't connect it to M.O.D.O.K.

I caught it immediately but didn't know if it'd be a throwaway line or lead to an actual M.O.D.O.K. character.

 

[Star Wolf]

Q.E.D. He's literally dense as lead.

I have two options, most likely a LMD. The secondary option his bodyguard Kreel with the Madame Masque technology

 

[Marc]

I have two options, most likely a LMD. The secondary option his bodyguard Kreel with the Madame Masque technology

Third option - Aida's LMD are lousy shots and the bullet only grazed talbot's head.

 

[Christopher]

Like I said, lots of people in real life have survived being shot or impaled in the head, and have been able to recover essentially normal function even after losing sizeable portions of their brains. TV and movies greatly oversimplify how death works. Lots of wounds that are portrayed as instantly fatal in fiction are in fact survivable with sufficiently prompt treatment.

 

[Star Wolf]

Third option - Aida's LMD are lousy shots and the bullet only grazed talbot's head.

Is that because Vision missed?

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

So, who is to say that Talbot won't recover by some means of enhancement made by SWORD?

 

[TalonCard]

Like I said, lots of people in real life have survived being shot or impaled in the head, and have been able to recover essentially normal function even after losing sizeable portions of their brains.

Huh, that would explain a lot.

TC

 

[Alidar Jarok]

So, who is to say that Talbot won't recover by some means of enhancement made by SWORD?

Probably whoever it was that confirmed that Fox owns the rights to SWORD.

 

[LJones41]

So will this show become "Agents of SWORD"? What's going on?

 

[Morpheus 02]

So will this show become "Agents of SWORD"? What's going on?

I wonder if it might tie into Thor Ragnarok?

 

[kirk55555]

Just finished the season finale (after not watching any of the Matrix story arc). it was pretty good, and had a few awesome moments.

Spoiler: Season finale

Sure, I barely knew anything aboiut the Matrix stuff, but it wasn't really required. AIDA has a inhuman body, and they need to stop her. Skipping half a season really didn't hurt the comprehension of this episode at all. Sure, I have almost no idea what's up with mack, but I hate him so I really don't care.

As for the episode itself, Ghost Rider was really cool. It was like the good first half of the season was coming back to burn away the terrible Matrix stuff. He got some great moments, especially his tag team fight with Daisy against AIDA's minions. Coulson becoming GR and taking out AIDA was awesome.

The government stuff and Daisy being framed stuff sucked, but whatever. The tease at the end was also stupid, hopefully space won't be a big element of next season. Overall it was a good episode (the parts not dealing with the government, Daisy being framed or Mack/The Matrix, at least), and I'm looking forward to Season 5, hopefully with no connections to the Matrix stuff from this season.

 

[Tuskin38]

I don't understand why you would skip half a season of a TV show but keep watching.

I understand why you personally didn't want to watch it those parts, that is fine, but I don't understand why you would finish the season if it makes up so much of the season.

There will probably be connections next season, Fitz will probably still be psychologically effected by it.

 

[Star Wolf]

As for SHIELD being in space at the beginning of next season, well they need to clear the deck. In the MCU as it stands now Daisy/Quake is the defacto leader of of the fish oiled Inhumanity and possibly the survivors of Afterlife. But we have a show about an Inhuman Royal Family coming in to assert its royal claim. So the franchise will have to explain why she is not involved or mentioned and that will be a tougher nut to crack then why SHIELD which has spent most of the show in an outlaw status did not have instant access to The Avengers.

 

[kirk55555]

I don't understand why you would skip half a season of a TV show but keep watching.

I understand why you personally didn't want to watch it those parts, that is fine, but I don't understand why you would finish the season if it makes up so much of the season.

There will probably be connections next season, Fitz will probably still be psychologically effected by it.

I still like the show in general, I just loathed the Matrix stuff. as for why I watched the finale (and didn't just pick the show back up next season)?

Spoiler: Finale

Ghost Rider. I knew he was there, and I figured he'd be awesome. I was right. It was totally worth watching just for his stuff. Plus its the finale to the good part of the season, too. I wanted to see what would happen to AIDA and the darkhold. I got closure with that. Really, the finale, outside of mack's part, was spookily followable even having skipped the stuff I consider bad.

As for Fitz, I don't know what psychological stuff he had, and I don't care. Its not relevant to anything, and I'm sure I'll like Season 5 without bothering to look up what didn't actually happen because everything in the matrix was fake and outside of Mace dying mostly irrelevant. I liked the first half of the season, and the finale worked fine skipping the part I'll never watch. So, while I wish they'd done a full good season and not just put out junk in the second half, watching the finale worked fairly well and I'm happy I didn't bother to suffer through any of the Matrix stuff.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Sentient World Observation and Response Department.

Sentient World? Like Ego or Mogo?

 

[Star Wolf]

Sentient World? Like Ego or Mogo?

No like Grant Ward once said, sounds like somebody needed it to spell sword.