Agents of SHIELD. Season 1 Discussion Thread

I'm well aware of that, but I don't see how it's relevant to my point about what was actually shown in the final product onscreen.

 

I'm changing my stance, you may have to watch CA:TWS before tomorrow's episode.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fF67J5qgnE[/yt]

 

ABC to air Back-to-Back Episodes on April 15th - the 8 pm one is a rerun though - new episode at 9 pm

 

Babylon 5 had a couple movies set during the series and aired at disjoint points.

Setting Third Space during the embargo from Earth, a year after the embargo had finished was weird. Lets meet god, who wants to kill us, and then we'll never talk about it again.

The Battlestar Movies Razor, and The Plan, where more about movies retroactively sliced into continuity, but hardly seamlessly.

The Futurama movies where designed to be cut into pieces and aired as a season of television... But I suspect only if they were a success.

In one of the Kim Possible Movies (Seriously fantastic Disney Cartoon.), she makes out with her side kick, (Ducky gets Molly!) and then when they following season starts, they are dating... Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable. (That still makes me smile.).

Kenny died in the South Park Movie... Which took a few years for TPTB to renegue on that stitch in continuity.

 

The season finale will see an appearance by..

Spoiler: Finale guest star

...SLJ as Nick Fury.

 

Wondered when that was going to either be announced or otherwise blabbed.

 

In the last episode, Hand says she's heading back to the Hub before she departs. Our team has been there but has its location been revealed? In this screen shot, after being redirected from DC, the screen behind Hand places it north east of DC.

 

Interesting.

Given the logistics of "Operation Overkill", I would have placed The Hub in western Europe.

 

I assumed the Hub was in Boston.

As for movie and TV show continuity, don't forget Batman; after the movie, the bat-cycle, bat-copter, and bat-boat appeared on the show.

 

Maybe the Hub is an artificial island floating in the middle of the Atlantic.

 

Tonight's episode is up on Hulu, and yes, there are lot of spoilers for Winter Soldier in it.

EDIT: They seemed to have pulled it, it was up for more than an hour, so there are spoilers about it going around.

It was a nice episode.

 

Spoilery speculation after seeing TWS (but before seeing tonight's episode, so don't tell me anything about it):

Spoiler: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

How can they keep the title when SHIELD doesn't exist anymore? Maybe from now on, SHIELD in the show's title will stand for "So, Here Is Everyone Left, Dudes."

Anyway, the events of the movie may answer a lot of our questions about Coulson and the Bus, or rather, confirm some speculations I've heard before. Maybe Fury knew there was something rotten inside SHIELD and brought Coulson back because he was the only one Fury trusted. Maybe the Bus team was his ace in the hole, an independent unit free of whatever nastiness was going on inside the organization.

What I'm wondering, though, is how the show will incorporate these changes and revelations without it feeling like a random change imposed from outside and veering the show off course. That's one of the downsides to the close interconnections of Marvel Comics -- too often, a series' own story arcs will be arbitrarily altered or scuttled by developments going on in a different series. Since the show has been developed alongside CA:TWS all along, I'm hoping they can find a way to integrate these events smoothly into its story arc, have Coulson's team discover the HYDRA infiltration on their own and play some role in stopping them that at least feels significant, rather than just going about their business and suddenly hearing Steve's announcement over the PA. Events this important to the show shouldn't happen off-camera or without the show's leads playing some role. Of course it is driven by the movie, but for the show's sake, it should be made to feel like it's an organic part of the show.

I'm disappointed that the film didn't have at least a throwaway Easter-egg line referencing the show, or a cameo by Victoria Hand, say.

One other thing: Given that Black Widow apparently posted all of SHIELD's classified files onto the Internet, would that include the answers to Coulson's resurrection and/or Skye's origins?

 

I wish I knew about it. With AoS at its best and CA:TWS being so great, Marvel's got me all pumped for it.

 

A few days ago I asked if the appearance of an Avenger(s) on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would probably end up being an unnecessary deus ex machina. Most of you thought that it would be the case. What if, on the other hand, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had more guest appearances by people like Sharon Carter/Agent 13?