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My Take On Agents Of SHIELD
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http://www.hulu.com/marvels-agents-of-shield |
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Do we really need the text to explain what a facepalm is? |
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Ah, now you are just making it too easy for him. |
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I love the action sequences. they are very well done for a TV show. It's hard for the kids to stop comparing the show to the movies, since Agents-of-Shield keep bringing it up on the show, so the kids are a bit disappointed that the show doesn't go full-movie-FX mode and their hasn't been any Avengers cameos other than Nick Fury. We also love the fact that their base is a giant plane, and that they go around the world. I know it's their big set piece, but I want them out of the plane and out of the US more often. I love the potential of the show, it reminds us of a more family-friendly version of Torchwood. |
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3) Check out Arrow. It's probably the best comic based show out there. Look who they're using: Deadshot, Amanda Waller, Count Vertigo, Bronze Tiger, etc... they're doing lower level baddies that require minimal (if any) CGI and they're NAILING it. Check out the last two episodes of AoS (maybe even forget about the rest). They're not using CGI heavy characters. And it's working for them. We're also getting Victoria Hand and Jasper Sitwell. And earlier there was some mysterious organization behind at least 2 episodes with superpowers. 4) Yeah, it's kinda like asking "Who would you want to see in the next Avengers movie?" and then listing everyone who's ever been an Avenger. The occasional name-dropping (like they did with Barton & Romanoff last episode) is cool but wanting every episode to have 2 or 3 superhero guest stars may be a little much. |
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Skye is annoying because she is an exploitive Uncle Tom version of a hacktivist. |
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And how she could have simply asked Coulson to look into her family... which is what happened anyways. |
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Skye is annoying for a lot of reasons. |
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You would be famously incorrect. I always planned to watch the movie. What I discussed were the elements of the movie that people accepted which didn't make sense. For example, a cadet being given command of the flagship without any training, simply because he punched his way to the job. Or the fact that Chekov should have been ten years old when Kirk got command of the Enterprise. Which is something that the hand-waved explanation of "it's an alternate reality" didn't explain. Or the fact that none of these characters were ever the same age, and never met each other when they were right out of the Academy. We've discussed this ad infinitum, and no one has ever come up with a counter-argument that didn't start and end with "yes, but who cares about the details, because it's fun!" But we can go back there if you wish, and I can remind you of all the things I was right about. Of course, I really did like Into Darkness a hell of a lot, and found myself wishing that one had been the first movie. Abrams' Trek is so much better if you pretend the first movie never happened, because then, there is nothing to get in between me and my enjoyment of Zoe Saldanna's ass. |
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Because she totally is. I think Buffy would have been really annoying if she wasn't punching the shit out of vampires. In fact, in every episode, right about the time she would have started to get annoying, that was the part when she busted out with some karate. Skye lacks the power of karate, so she just talks and talks and talks, and people are all, "FUCK YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH, SKYE! Punch a vampire, already!" But there are no vampires in the show to punch... I guess I can see why people hate Skye. |
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But the version of SHIELD in the movies seemed to be comprised of a handful of relatively competent people (two of whom just said fuck it, and put on costumes) and a bunch of retards who would have been better served focusing on Galaga. Our navigation system is down and the computer isn't telling me which way North is! Waaah! We've got an unauthorized launch and somebody loaded nukes onto not one, but TWO entire planes, and there's nothing we can do about it! Waaaah! Somebody is kicking our ass with nothing more than arrows! Waaah! It's basically the sciencey, non-field agents who are SHIELD's only true ace-in-the-hole in this whole "higher form of war" business. There's no amount of punching or shooting a field agent can do to match the Hulk. But with science, you can synthesize a gamma-based pot substitute that will make the Hulk, like, totally chill and whatever, man. Or stuff. AoS seems to take into account the idea that a team of combat-rated agents isn't going to get the job done anyways. Thinking outside the box. It's still not much against a radioactive communist or a madman that shits localized gravity fields. But science is pretty much the only useful weapon they have. |
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That's never going to happen. Ever. |
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