Joss Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D to ABC!

[Reverend]

I think JarodRussell is laboring under the notion that there is only one degree of "dead". There's dead as in the heart has stopped and ain't about to start again without intervention and then there's brain death...and I think brain stem death too. Legal and medical definitions have shifted over the years as medical science pushed back the point of no return.

Exactly. If you can be revived, you never were actually dead.

So by that logic, if medical science advances to the point that it can successfully reanimate a corpse days, weeks, months or even years later then they were never *really* dead? Yeah, didn't think so.

If you can be revived, you never were actually dead.

If they weren't dead, why did they need to be revived?

Indeed. Actually, isn't the literal meaning of the word "revive" something along the lines of "restore to life" or "to live again"? You can't restore something that ain't gone, no?

 

[The Old Mixer]

Not directed to any particular poster at this point, but the line going through my head is, "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on an internet message board."

 

[Silvercrest]

I'm starting to get flashbacks to "Young Frankenstein", "The Princess Bride", and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". All at the same time. Interesting montage.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Hell, 24 had Tony Almeida die in Season 5 and have his 'death' explained away in Season 7. If I can take that in a 'real world' drama, I can cope with it in a continuity that features helicarriers, Tony Stark's technology and gamma rays turning you into a green monster.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Not directed to any particular poster at this point, but the line going through my head is, "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on an internet message board."

"...but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night."

 

[Turtletrekker]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to be scored by BSG's Bear McCreary.

 

[ATimson]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to be scored by BSG's Bear McCreary.

Awesome. I don't think they could've made a better choice.

 

[DEWLine]

This is at least going to be entertaining musically...

 

[Venardhi]

Hopefully they make better use of him than Walking Dead has.

 

[Turtletrekker]

According to the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Facebook page, the show will premiere on Tuesday September 24th!

 

[Turtletrekker]

Even as I type this, the pilot is being shown at SDCC. The first spoiler to hit the net is the brief cameo appearance by...

Spoiler: Pilot

...Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

Awesome

 

[Turtletrekker]

The above spoiler with a pic. Also, at the link-- details on Coulson's survival.

J. August Richards is playing... someone I've never heard of. Apparently, he is a very obscure character from the comics, who gains his powers by way of...

Spoiler: Cool MCU connection.

...the Extremis process from Iron Man 3.

First review.

"Whedon has found the perfect balance of Marvel and his trademark witty dialogue with S.H.I.E.L.D. The world is very Marvel, with callbacks and references littered throughout the episode, but the dialogue and ensemble delivers everything you love about Whedon.

CBR's slight-spoiler coverage.

Newsarama's more spoilery coverage.

Spoiler: Guest Star.

Ron Glass!

 

[JD]

Colbie Smulders' Maria Hill will be a recurring character on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

 

[Christopher]

^Where does it say she's recurring? That link only says she's in the pilot.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I like how Turtletrekker's careful efforts to prevent careless disclosure of spoilers went up in smoke in the very next post

 

[Turtletrekker]

I like how Turtletrekker's careful efforts to prevent careless disclosure of spoilers went up in smoke in the very next post

I tried.

^Where does it say she's recurring? That link only says she's in the pilot.

She's not recurring... yet. But may appear again down the line.

The Newsarama link four posts above said this, by way of the Hollywood Reporter...

Cobie Smulders is reprising her role as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in the show's pilot, though it's described at this point as a "one-off cameo role." Smulders is under contract to CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which starts its ninth and final season this fall. Yet the article does state that there's a possibility she'll return in a similar capacity in the future.

 

[Christopher]

Articles say lots of things are possible. Doesn't make it news.

 

[Dream]

I like how Turtletrekker's careful efforts to prevent careless disclosure of spoilers went up in smoke in the very next post

How is it a spoiler? Of COURSE she would be appearing, it's not like the actress is a huge movie star that refuses to do TV. I can see her joining SHIELD once HIMYM is over with.

 

[Mister Fandango]

I can't say that I'm a big fan of most of Whedon's work (I'm one of those people who really disliked Firefly, for instance), but I really am looking forward to this show.