Agents of SHIELD. Season 1 Discussion Thread

[bbjeg]

Every woman who goes into military situations has to accept this as a possibility if she is captured. Playing the situation off as so light just because it is a male character showed a lack of taste, I thought.

We're not talking about being in a war zone, getting captured, beaten, and gang raped. We're talking about people who are like James Bond, who use sex to manipulate and infiltrate. She didn't do anything to him that he hasn't done to others before-- the only difference being the mind control, which would be the part he'd have difficulty dealing with.

But I'm sure if the roles were reversed and it was a male Asgardian who mind controlled a female James Bond like character making her have sex with him, the episode would have a different tone, especially if her male teammate hits her for admitting she settling for him after everything she went through.

I also like to add, I feel really sorry for Ward's penis. Asgardians are dense enough to take a hit from the Hulk. Unless Lorelei gave Ward a spell to make him stone hard, he shouldn't have much left of his manhood.

 

[Christopher]

Now there's a question for Neil Tyson - could you knock the sun out of the solar system, or would the solar system follow the sun?

Actually, I guess if you flick the sun away, the planets will just go flying off in whatever direction they're heading when the sun's gravity goes away.

Depends on how hard you "flick." Keep in mind that the Sun is already moving through space at nearly half a million miles per hour as it orbits the center of the galaxy, and it has no trouble holding the planets in orbit around it as it does so. Some physicists and writers have proposed methods for using controlled flares or Shkadov thrusters to turn stars into giant rocket engines that pull their planetary systems (or Ringworlds) with them.

And of course, the Sun isn't a soccer ball, it's a big dense cloud of hydrogen gas. Any force that could accelerate it to enough speed that it wouldn't have time to pull the planets with it would probably blow the Sun apart in the process.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Every woman who goes into military situations has to accept this as a possibility if she is captured. Playing the situation off as so light just because it is a male character showed a lack of taste, I thought.

We're not talking about being in a war zone, getting captured, beaten, and gang raped. We're talking about people who are like James Bond, who use sex to manipulate and infiltrate. She didn't do anything to him that he hasn't done to others before-- the only difference being the mind control, which would be the part he'd have difficulty dealing with.

But I'm sure if the roles were reversed and it was a male Asgardian who mind controlled a female James Bond like character making her have sex with him, the episode would have a different tone, especially if her male teammate hits her for admitting she settling for him after everything she went through.

I also like to add, I feel really sorry for Ward's penis. Asgardians are dense enough to take a hit from the Hulk. Unless Lorelei gave Ward a spell to make him stone hard, he shouldn't have much left of his manhood.

Loki took over a couple people, including Banner.

 

[shivkala]

Yeah?

I think the baby is what he'll have the most difficult time dealing with.

Then when he finally gets custody after a season long war with the woman, S.H.I.E.L.D. starts talking about shooting Ward Junior into the sun... Um, in Thor One, if they had managed to get Mjolnir into a rocket and fired it at the sun, isn't there a chance that the Hammer would have knocked the sun loose from the rest of the solar system?

Now there's a question for Neil Tyson - could you knock the sun out of the solar system, or would the solar system follow the sun?

Actually, I guess if you flick the sun away, the planets will just go flying off in whatever direction they're heading when the sun's gravity goes away.

According to this, we should be more worried about Thor dropping his hammer.

 

[bbjeg]

We're not talking about being in a war zone, getting captured, beaten, and gang raped. We're talking about people who are like James Bond, who use sex to manipulate and infiltrate. She didn't do anything to him that he hasn't done to others before-- the only difference being the mind control, which would be the part he'd have difficulty dealing with.

But I'm sure if the roles were reversed and it was a male Asgardian who mind controlled a female James Bond like character making her have sex with him, the episode would have a different tone, especially if her male teammate hits her for admitting she settling for him after everything she went through.

I also like to add, I feel really sorry for Ward's penis. Asgardians are dense enough to take a hit from the Hulk. Unless Lorelei gave Ward a spell to make him stone hard, he shouldn't have much left of his manhood.

Loki took over a couple people, including Banner.

But Loki didn't rape anyone or Banner, thankfully.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The question is, is mindrape/possession more traumatizing than sexrape?

Then of course, after you've been mindraped, would you be more worried about all the people you were forced to murder, or all the people you were forced to frakk?

Would you rather wake up clueless covered in someone's blood, or covered in their sperm?

 

[Forbin]

The question is, is mindrape/possession more traumatizing than sexrape?

Then of course, after you've been mindraped, would you be more worried about all the people you were forced to murder, or all the people you were forced to frakk?

Would you rather wake up clueless covered in someone's blood, or covered in their sperm?

Depends. Do you want to spend the rest of your life in jail, or just with a bad taste in your mouth.

 

[gblews]

There was funny talk a while back about Julia Louie-Drefus guesting on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

But what if Clark was to Guest on Veep, as some one exactly like Coulson who doesn't say he isn't from S.H.I.E.L.D. and doesn't say that he isn't Coulson.

The only thing I can't figure out is, which would be the most awsome.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Patton Oswald to guest as Agent Eric Koenig.

 

[bbjeg]

It's nice that they're putting more and more comic book characters in the show.

 

[ClayinCA]

And awesome that Patton Oswalt gets to appear!

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Patton Oswald to guest as Agent Eric Koenig.

I like the way he thinks:

"When they first told me the character’s name, I’ll admit the first thing I did is I went on Wikipedia and looked up the M.O.D.O.K. character to see if Koenig was maybe his name before he became M.O.D.O.K., but it wasn’t,” Oswalt told Marvel.com, laughing. “They keep on talking about the Clairvoyant in the show and I’m like, ‘is that M.O.D.O.K.? Am I M.O.D.O.K.?”

He's clearly excited to be on the show.

 

[DEWLine]

And I guess they're decoupling World War 2 from the backstory of the CinemaVerse edition of Eric Koenig...?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

They already did that with Nick Fury, so it's not surprising.

Is this what people were talking about with a possible Clairvoyant?

 

[kitik]

Yeah, and now that I think about it, was that from the show itself, or was it from a commercial that aired during the Marvel special?

 

[kitik]

Regardless, it's pretty obvious now: Patrick Stewart is the clairvoyant!

#ItsAllConnected

 

[bbjeg]

The Clairvoyant has to be M.O.D.O.K., right?

 

[Turtletrekker]

TV By The Numbers believes that AoS is "Certain to be renewed".

 

[Turtletrekker]

And I guess they're decoupling World War 2 from the backstory of the CinemaVerse edition of Eric Koenig...?

Yeah, I think Patton Oswald as "Eric Koenig" is going to be more a matter of just giving a popular guest star a name from the comics and calling it good.

 

[kitik]

Wikipedia says we're getting 3 straight episodes with no breaks:
April 1 - End Of The Beginning
April 8 - Turn, Turn, Turn
April 15 - Providence

It also says that the season will end on May 13. That would be seven straight new episodes without a break!! Should I get my hopes up? Anyone know how reliable that May 13 season finale information is?