Agents of SHIELD: Season 3 - Discussion (SPOILERS LIKELY)
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I'm glad to see some other people mentioning Ego, The Living Planet, my mind went there a few times during the episode. I'm only familiar with the basic concept of it being a sentient planet, but the way Will was talking about something causing the dust storm and then the surface possibly changing, made me wonder if the planet was alive. Does Ego have any kind of telepathic abilities or the ability to make thing physically manifest on it's surface?
In the turn of the century Marvel/DC cross over Ego and Mogo met, boned, fell in love and got married.
Obviously because they both identify as blokes, there was some argument over who's name was going to be taken by the less dominant celestial body in the relationship, but they finalized on Ego Mogo-Ego and Mogo Ego-Mogo, which is cute compromise for the present but what if they have kids? Is junior going to lumbered with Mogo-Ego-Ego-Mogo, or Ego-Mogo-Mogo-Ego for a surname, as dad an dad double hybridize their already hybridized surmname?
Obviously because they both identify as blokes, there was some argument over who's name was going to be taken by the less dominant celestial body in the relationship, but they finalized on Ego Mogo-Ego and Mogo Ego-Mogo, which is cute compromise for the present but what if they have kids? Is junior going to lumbered with Mogo-Ego-Ego-Mogo, or Ego-Mogo-Mogo-Ego for a surname, as dad an dad double hybridize their already hybridized surmname?
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Make sure it's on a lanyard.
IOSH would be straight on to that and shut S.H.I.E.L.D. down.
"Pay no attention to the massive building by the Potomac! The... uh... Department of the Census Triskelion. Yes. We count blokes and broads."
That bugged me, too. After the Inhuman from the premiere, and Ward, yet another scruffy young black-haired white dude. What, was Clooney not available? Or Sandra Bullock?
Although, I'd say a good definition of hell is not aging in a solitary world, so maybe he hadn't aged a day since getting there in 2001 at age 31 for 'space reasons'.
... Damn, (some of you) guys totally called Andrew on being Lash. Nicely done!
Anyone else feel like the hunt for Ward isn't really a fair fight? Here he is in yet another warehouse, watching guys carry hand grenades around in wooden boxes, while May and Bobbi globe-trot in their high-tech spy plane full of all sorts of resources. Sure, they have good character reasons for wanting to get him, but here's hoping he finds some kind of actual weapon or tactile advantage to even things out...
(And I agree that the show hit its stride at the end of the first season. AoS, Arrow, The Flash, Agent Carter... this really is an incredible time to be a geek.
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The Inhuman from the premiere was Latino. Joey Gutierrez, played by Juan Pablo Raba.
There you go I guess we have to hire a Cliff Curtis as a Latino as opposed to a Martin Sheen.
There you go I guess we have to hire a Cliff Curtis as a Latino as opposed to a Martin Sheen.
Huh? Cliff Curtis is a Maori from New Zealand. Although looking over his resume, I see that Hollywood's generations-old practice of treating all "exotic-looking" actors as ethnically interchangeable is alive and well. He's played a lot of Latinos and Arabs, the Fire Lord in the Last Airbender movie (where the Fire Nation was portrayed as largely South and Southwest Asian), even Jesus in the upcoming film Risen (a refreshing change from the usual tendency to cast white actors as Jesus).
No, I don't know what your point was.
Even if the character is introduced as Latino, it didn't matter if physically the actor's look wasn't far enough into the expected spectrum of expected racial features mix for the viewer. So if Martin Sheen was cast, even if he is Mexican American you say another white guy meanwhile someone like Curtis passes as Latino because of his physical look no matter what his actual heritage and is not in the another white guy filter of the viewer. Thus choosing him instead of Zoe Saldana because she actually is Latina but hits the Black filter
A fair complaint, that one.
Also, I expect to see more of the rank and file of Ward's HYDRA faction distinguishing themselves as individuals. What brought them into the ranks, and what keeps them there?
"Expected" being the problem word there. That "expectation" is a racial bias, the unthinking assumption that white is the default and that anyone who doesn't look obviously different from white must be presumed white. Not to mention the incorrect expectation that "Latino" is a narrow and uniform category. The expectations you're talking about are based in ignorance and ethnocentrism. I mean, come on, the guy was named Jose Gutierrez. It's not hard to figure out if you just pay attention. Insight doesn't come from "expectations," it comes from observation of what's actually there.
And just to be clear, I'm not trying to talk down from some moral high horse here. I have those same biases myself and I've had to work to overcome them. When I look at Chloe Bennet, say, she looks "white" to me. I never would've realized she was half-Chinese if I hadn't read it. So I know that I can't trust my own preconceptions about people who "look white." I know it's a bias shaped by my own ethnicity and my own life experience, so I've learned that I can't trust my own expectations and need to look beyond them to get at the truth.
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I imagine them crying on a training field "I got no where else to go" while Kebo stands over them with a water hose.
Oh, and I gotta give a shout-out to whoever wrote Coulson's line "You can tell a lot about a woman by the books she keeps... Okay, I didn't actually know there were this many biographies about Margaret Thatcher." I chuckled aloud at that one.
Danger, Phil, Danger! Republicans are not to be dated!
Danger, Phil, Danger! Republicans are not to be dated!
