Agents of SHIELD. Season 1 Discussion Thread

Yeah, it was weird to hear "hyperbaric chamber" (which is for creating conditions of high atmospheric pressure) used to refer to a cryogenic chamber.

 

Maybe it was a hyperbolic chamber.

 

Maybe it was more like a hyperbolic chamber.

 

Maybe it was a hyperbole chamber. They were inspired by Stan's cameo. Which I loved, by the way-- I hope that's me in forty years.

This was certainly the best episode of SHIELD yet. I loved the multiple-track storytelling device, and the use of the tour guide voiceover was the perfect orientation tool. The characters and their interactions were perfect, from Jemma's over-preparation to Ward and Coulson's talk about sex to Fitz's American accent and "worst fake girlfriend" quip to everybody's reaction to Sky getting shot. Sky getting shot was absolutely horrifying, which is not only a credit to the writing but to how much I've come to care about the characters.

It did occur to me that a trip to Tahiti might be necessary. I certainly don't think Sky will die, but this should be interesting.

 

^Great minds think alike!

 

Agreed on all points, and may I also insert:

"You can't take the Skye from me!"



Peace

Worfmonger

 

Excellent!

 

Also: slavery and liberation as ongoing themes.

Spoiler: regarding T.R.A.C.K.S.

Mike, as enchained as Akela was. And as Quinn implies himself to be. It wouldn't surprise me to find that I understand the implication correctly.

 

Question for the railfans among us more knowledgeable than I at these things: can you recognize what sort of consist used to masquerade as Rotalia Italia Numero...?

(Guessing that the actual Italian participants in Eurail, Trenitalia, would've asked too much to allow their trademarks to be used here.)

 

Thanks. My DVR messed up recording Seeds. I saw TRACKS and wasn't too, lost, but I guess I missed out on some major revelation about Skye. It's onDemand, so I can watch it this weekend.

 

Well, that's five episodes to do an arc about what happens before the movie.

 

They didn't exactly spoil anything about Thor.

 

The Thor 2 'sequel' episode happened a few weeks after the Thor 2 release, right? I think there were a few episodes of AoS between the release and the Thor 2 episode. It definitely wasn't the first new AoS episode after the movie came out.

 

^But even so, not everyone sees a movie the week it comes out, so even though "The Well" aired about two weeks into The Dark World's release, it still kept its spoilers for the film to a bare minimum -- basically just that there was a big battle at the University of Greenwich and alien tech was involved.

 

Maybe the odd scheduling is to make the episodes line up just that way.

Maybe we should form a foundation-- based in Tahiti.

Bwahaha.

 

But if the episodes take place BEFORE the movie, they're not spoiling the events of the movie.