Agents of SHIELD - Season 2 Discussion Threads. (Spoilers Likely)

[RJDiogenes]

Unbelievable. And he was a comic-book rock star.

He's the comic-book equivalent of glam rock. Maybe disco.

Disco. Or Grunge. Glam Rock was good.

The one person I thought was conspicuously missing from the special was Roy Thomas, who was never even mentioned.

What th--?! That's ridiculous. Is there some sort of corporate grudge against him for some reason? Roy the Boy is as important as Stan the Man and the King. In the early-to-mid 70s, he was more of a Jim Shooter than Jim Shooter was in the 80s. He was a solid writer, who expanded the boundaries of the books he wrote without losing their theme or ambiance. He cultivated tons of brilliant new talent. He created countless new characters and concepts that other people ran with, from the supernatural books to the black-and-white books to bringing some solid SF concepts to the line (including the Sword & Sorcery stuff, which I personally never liked), he did innovative stuff like What If?, he experimented with new formats like the Treasury Edition and the Giant Size books that originally mimicked the rotating format used for a while on TV. He deserves his own documentary.

 

[The Old Mixer]

They had some odd juxtapositions. Like Byrne artwork during the bit on the 40s.

Noticed that, too!

Yeah, Roy's absence of even being acknowledged makes me wonder if somebody in power doesn't like him.

 

[Masiral]

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...for-galavant-and-marvels-agent-carter/324468/

.... and “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” will return on Tuesday, March 3 in their regular time periods with all-new episodes.

You worried me for a second. That's the date Shield will return after Agent Carter airs. You made me think for a second that there isn't a new episode next Tuesday and that we had to wait until March for another episode.

Sorry, my bad.

Yeah, there are still new episodes to come before the winter/Christmas/Agent Carter break.

In fact, does anyone know exactly how many episodes will actually air before AOS goes on break? 2 or 3 more? Maybe 4?

Looks like there are 4 more, with the winter finale on December 9th.

 

[Rush Limborg]

I'm just glad Steve Ditko was given his due. The Question is one of my favorite comic book heroes (I know--Charton-then-DC, not Marvel, but still). And it's good to give him the nod for helping create Spider-man.

And for the record, I love disco. There. I said it.

 

[intrinsical]

You worried me for a second. That's the date Shield will return after Agent Carter airs. You made me think for a second that there isn't a new episode next Tuesday and that we had to wait until March for another episode.

Sorry, my bad.

Yeah, there are still new episodes to come before the winter/Christmas/Agent Carter break.

In fact, does anyone know exactly how many episodes will actually air before AOS goes on break? 2 or 3 more? Maybe 4?

Looks like there are 4 more, with the winter finale on December 9th.

What's with the delays? Are they linking up plotlines with another Marvel movie?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The delays look like they're caused by Christmas and New Years. In theory, they could have gone one more week (to December 16), but they also want to push a couple more weeks past Age of Ultron. They also took off for Election Night (other shows had reruns that night, they chose to run the Anniversary Special).

 

[Masiral]

Sorry, my bad.

Yeah, there are still new episodes to come before the winter/Christmas/Agent Carter break.

In fact, does anyone know exactly how many episodes will actually air before AOS goes on break? 2 or 3 more? Maybe 4?

Looks like there are 4 more, with the winter finale on December 9th.

What's with the delays? Are they linking up plotlines with another Marvel movie?

They're taking Thanksgiving week off, then stopping before Christmas (looks like most ABC shows are stopping that same week). And then, of course, Agent Carter takes over until March.

 

[kitik]

Yeah, there are no delays. They're pretty much going straight through. Or at least as straight through as any network tv shows tend to go. Unlike Season 1.

 

[Marsden]

I'm really looking forward to Agent Carter. I hope more Howling Commandoes show up.

I'd love if they could have The Human Torch, even if they call him something else, he was on display in CA:First Avenger.
Blink and you miss him right before Howard flies his car.
And I'm sure it's been discussed years ago, but didn't Howard call the one model Maria, the one he kissed? Could be Maria Stark?

 

[Masiral]

Yeah, there are no delays. They're pretty much going straight through. Or at least as straight through as any network tv shows tend to go. Unlike Season 1.

Actually, Season 1 of SHIELD had pretty much the same schedule - they ran the first 10 episodes with only one break. It was only in January, February, and March where they kept having delays (a few weeks for the Olympics, and then to line up with CA:TWS), but the last 7 ran straight through.

 

[Rush Limborg]

OKAY! Let's do this...

Act I:
Okay! Looks like we're picking up on the Coulson etchings AND Ward's escape!

Love the scream leading into a loud jazz playing amid Coulson doing his thing! "I didn't want to wake you"...so you play blaring-loud jazz...?

Figures Ward saw it coming.

Interesting how the girl is ID'd by Coulson as an agent, though Skye couldn't find it in her bio.

Oh...and "A Magical Place". Love it. Interesting new spin on it...so it WASN'T just an "implanted" memory...or...?

 

[Captain Craig]

One of my contacts, MICRO, he's a crime scene junkie!
A Punisher tie!!

 

[Rush Limborg]

Act II:

Interesting, as if there's a growing tension among Simmons and Fitz.

Ward vs. Mockingbird...and Ward snarks "everyone in on this bus will be flying".

Oh, and Hunter is awesome.

And....Coulson has the machine. Coulson. Has. The machine!!!

 

[Captain Craig]

Still on page 117

 

[Rush Limborg]

Act III:

INTENSE. Such a great sequence.

Hmm...so, the bartender's HYDRA?

And Ward...

Nice reference to Baron Strucker.

So...the "bad guy" is the most "stable" (as it were) of the Tahiti patents.

Hoo, boy...This is getting crazy.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Act IV:

Fitz continuing to recover.

Whoa...I did NOT expect that from Ward! "For Coulson" indeed!

 

[DEWLine]

Nor I.

Entertainingly crazy...

 

[Captain Craig]

The Strucker name drop was indeed nice!!!

"It's all connected."

 

[Rush Limborg]

Act V:

Love the twist! "It's not 2-D."

The final piece.

Interesting: Derrick was referred to earlier as "dark SHIELD". Was he HYDRA, then?

So...the city. Any significance, Marvel-buffs?

 

[The Old Mixer]

Could be Attilan, home of the Inhumans.

Or maybe Atlantis...?