If, by plot, you meant episode - kinda? That was a much more straight-forward life without the past regrets. This is clearly more of an alt-reality with Hydra in control.
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If you mean virtual reality in general, that's been a common SF trope for decades. The Matrix is the archetypal mass-media example, though hardly the first, and of course prose science fiction took the lead in developing the idea, largely in the cyberpunk genre. (Heck, Arthur C. Clarke depicted far-future humans using lifelike, immersive computer simulations to play adventure games way back in 1953's The City and the Stars.)
See also The 34th Floor, eXistenZ, Dark City, etc. There was actually a wave of virtual-reality movies back in the late nineties, all around the same time, although The Matrix was the only one that took off in a big way. And The 34th Floor was based on a novel that, I believe, had already been adapted for German television . . ..
(I briefly considered reprinting the novel when the movie came out, but wasn't convinced the movie was going to be a hit. That was the right call, I guess.)
Dark City wasn't VR, although I can see why you'd get that impression.
The "city" was a space habitat that was reshaped using the aliens' telekinetic "tuning" powers. A mutable environment simulating a 20th-century Earth city as part of an experiment by advanced beings, not unlike The Matrix (and actually using some of the same sets that The Matrix used the following year), but physically real and located in outer space rather than in a computer.
You know, I wasn't sure about that. It's been years since I saw the movie or read the script, and it blurred in my head with eXistenZ and The 34th Floor and The Matrix, which all had "reality is not what it seems" kinda premises.
I wonder if the explosion LMD May set off was powerful enough to take out the LMD Daisy copies that LMD Coulson ordered to be activated in "seek and destroy" mode? Otherwise AIDA and Ivanov won't be the only problem for agents who aren't hooked into the framework will have to contend with.
If it was, we won't have to worry about whether the Daisybots are going to kill the remaining agents at HQ because everybody is dead.
Wouldn't they normally be filming around this time.
People are doing the world is ending because of the 6 week hiatus but when you consider we haven't really a 13 week mid-season replacement this current tv season (Agent Carter finished on March 1st last year, Agents Of S.H.E.I.L.D) finished Dec 8th 2015 and returned March 8th 2016) . End result is we've had 6 eps by this point where as same time last year we'd had zero.
I wonder if AOS season 5 might start after the Inhumans finishes next season. That way it is not so long between episodes.
I seem to recall ABC announces cancellation/renewals after seasons end.
If I were a betting man, I'd place the chance of it getting renewed at less than 50%, but that's still nearly a coinflip odds. Some ABC execs recently said some positive things about Agents of SHIELD and there's always the incentive to make it a big thing building towards Infinity War (plus, they can order fewer episodes as a midseason replacement for Inhumans).
If I were a betting man, I'd place the chance of it getting renewed at less than 50%, but that's still nearly a coinflip odds. Some ABC execs recently said some positive things about Agents of SHIELD and there's always the incentive to make it a big thing building towards Infinity War (plus, they can order fewer episodes as a midseason replacement for Inhumans).
https://twitter.com/AgentsofSHIELD/status/848611003076157443
Would be interesting if Mace was an actual inhuman in the virtual world.
Would be interesting if Mace was an actual inhuman in the virtual world.
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The previews are very eerie. I just hope they have a really good explanation of why Radcliffe's and Aida's "world without pain" turned out like this.
Because Radcliff was an idiot and Ada a homicidal robot?
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