December 06 2016
(SPOILER)
Discuss Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 4x08 "The Laws of Inferno Dynamics".
The episode was written by Paul Zbyszewski and directed by Kevin Tancharoen.
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WHAT!!!! Just WHAT!!! It's been about 2 hours and I'm still freaking out!
Dusk | December 06, 21:40 CET
JDL | December 06, 21:45 CET
Dusk | December 06, 21:46 CET
JDL | December 06, 21:48 CET
Dusk | December 06, 21:50 CET
JDL | December 06, 21:55 CET
Dusk | December 06, 21:58 CET
Also, hey all.
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:00 CET
Nebula1400 | December 06, 22:01 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:02 CET
Doesn't that need to be followed by an evil laugh?
AndrewCrossett | December 06, 22:03 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:05 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:07 CET
Dusk | December 06, 22:08 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:10 CET
AndrewCrossett | December 06, 22:11 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:11 CET
Dusk | December 06, 22:11 CET
Paul Zbyszewski didn't write for Buffy, but he probably watched it a lot.
Nebula1400 | December 06, 22:12 CET
Dusk | December 06, 22:13 CET
javelina | December 06, 22:18 CET
Nebula1400 | December 06, 22:18 CET
Nebula1400 | December 06, 22:23 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:27 CET
Dusk | December 06, 22:32 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:32 CET
Dusk | December 06, 22:33 CET
mnspnr | December 06, 22:33 CET
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AndrewCrossett | December 06, 22:35 CET
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JDL | December 06, 22:47 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:48 CET
Nebula1400 | December 06, 22:48 CET
Nebula1400 | December 06, 22:52 CET
JDL | December 06, 22:52 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:53 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:55 CET
mnspnr | December 06, 22:59 CET
I think he does and it’s not because ‘May’ was acting differently with Coulson before Aida got near the book. Last week’s tag we saw Aida looking over a brain scan and they would have gotten May’s when curing her of the ghost infection so they must have made the switch then. Therefore Radcliffe probably knows also given his shifty reaction to Mace moving everything to SHIELD. I wonder how they’ll cover up Anderson. ‘May’ going against Coulson’s orders with the book also fits the directive of LMDS saving agents at any cost. The only flaw in it is how easily Aida killed Nathanson unless Radcliffe was just bold-faced lying about her being unable to harm humans which is possible. Or the Darkhold may have changed that part of her programming I suppose.
Also are they drugging May or is she still that weak from the ghost infection?
The real shady part is in the comics LMDs might not even know they are LMDs. Fury had a whole workshop of himself but the one he left on Earth legitimately thought he was the real human Fury so I wonder if that’s at play here?
But Aida also cares enough to literally take bullets for the team, part of the con or genuine?
Dusk | December 06, 22:59 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 22:59 CET
JDL | December 06, 23:00 CET
So AoS is turning into Westworld.
AndrewCrossett | December 06, 23:01 CET
javelina | December 06, 23:01 CET
The "off" May is an LMD. Aida has been plotting some major Ultron-like upheaval for a while.
Hint that she was no good... Simmons knew...
Nebula1400 | December 06, 23:03 CET
Edit: Ha, never mind. Yay twitter.
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Grack21 | December 06, 23:03 CET
Dusk | December 06, 23:04 CET
As well bringing Daisy back into the fold fully.
Like the nod to the comics where Daisy did become director.
Great to see Yo Yo and Mack get together too.
And a hell of a start with that tag to the LMD story kicking into gear for the second part of the season.
Buffyfantic | December 06, 23:04 CET
I think they might cover up Anderson by making an Anderson LMD, so then the team will have to wonder just how many other agents are actually LMDs and not human.
It would be a refreshing twist if Aida does all of this, duplicating agents and stuff because there is an even bigger danger that she saw and this was her way of dealing with it, which sucks for Anderson since she just broke his neck, but being an android she doesn't have the same sentiment about life and her greater agenda over rides the programming on an individual basis. But I doubt that's where they're going. :/
NYPinTA | December 06, 23:04 CET
Dusk | December 06, 23:06 CET
Nebula1400 | December 06, 23:12 CET
Nebula1400 | December 06, 23:14 CET
NYPinTA | December 06, 23:20 CET
Nebula1400 | December 06, 23:39 CET
1) Someone to get possessed we go with Mack.
2) Someone to have bad things happen to intimate friends from the opposite sex we go with Coulson or Daisy.
3) Someone to have a copycat made of her we go with May.
Are we now looking forward to another disability for Fitz ? Is Jemma going exploring again ?
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JDL | December 07, 01:09 CET
Nebula1400 | December 07, 02:20 CET
JDL | December 07, 05:52 CET
I feel like they could've done better, overall, with this, but...I'm not exactly sure what I want from the show that I didn't get from this first half. I want it to be as good as the second half (or last quarter?) of Season 1, the majority of Season 2, and I want it to transcend itself more often like the moment in mid-Season-2 when Skye went through terrigenesis and Trip died...or the Simmons episode on Mavis...or Lincoln and Hive's final moments in Season 3's finale. I'm sure there've been more highlight moments/reasons to recommend the series than that, but those are off the top of my head.
Aida is great (well-cast, too) and I'm optimistic about the rest of the season. Anyone else a little tired of Inhumans being the focus, though ? I know the show can't put the genie back in the bottle and just suddenly ignore them, but we've gotta get better adversaries than the Watchdogs and politicians with a chip on their shoulder. How about bringing back some dangling plot threads like Quinn or that scientist who was pulled into the gravitonium back in Season 1 and reinventing them for the more structured arcs of the past couple seasons ?
I just finished Daredevil Season 2 a couple weeks ago and Jessica Jones back in the summer (four episodes into Luke Cage as well) and between those and Buffy and a few other superhero or superheroish series and films over the years, I've come to expect more from my comic book shows. AoS has just sorta been chugging along, for the most part, this season. I still love the characters.
Kris | December 07, 13:13 CET
But Eli Morrow's powers and the "ghosts" were explained away with technobabble sci-fi (drawing matter from other dimensions -- so there wasn't actually any magic going on, nothing was created out of thin air). The possessive Ghost Rider spirit or demon or whatever it's supposed to be (a demon in the comics, I believe) is the only element of this arc left unexplored and unexplained. People thought we were getting Mephisto (thankfully not).
Wondering if the Darkhold will end up being magic, or a high tech Kree relic maybe. A telepathic tablet on paper somehow ?
Kris | December 07, 14:23 CET
JDL | December 07, 16:26 CET
NYPinTA | December 08, 19:49 CET
AndrewCrossett | December 09, 09:26 CET
- the interactions between Mace and the rest of the team are interesting, and the show subverted the expectations by not making him either a villain or a buffoon
- Eli's speech finally gave him some depth, before that he seemed to be a one-dimensional villain
What I did not like in this part of the season:
- predictable villains, most of them one-dimensional and dull (the Watchdogs are metaphorically and, due to their masks literally faceless villains)
- I'm going to come out and say it: in spite of Gabriel Luna's excellent acting and presence and the good CGI, the use of Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider has been pretty unexciting and disappointing (to me, anyway), apart from his early introduction and early interactions with Daisy. You'd think that a vigilante serial murderer who has made 'a deal with the devil' and literally has a force from hell inside him would garner a lot of conflict and interesting moral conundrums with our protagonists, wouldn't you? Instead, he's just been an honorary team member helping them defeat bad guys, except for Mace's occasional remark that everyone ignores nobody seems to have much of a problem with his methods and just accepts him as a cool ally, and his characterization has pretty much just been that of a classic brooding, grumpy male antihero who just wants to protect someone he loves (his little bro) and kill bad people, which is portrayed as OK because he's killing bad people (cool motive, murder OK).
I hope antagonists get more interesting in the rest of the season. Aida going evil is one of the most predictable twists ever, but at least the doppelganger May and the possibility of other people being LMDs (?) may bring some internal strife.
BTW, the show continues to drop random references in dialogue to past characters and events, which they've done a lot this season, but the Agent Koenig reference was odd and made me think: "Which one?" Where are the two surviving Koenig brothers, anyway? They haven't been seen in a long while. (BTW, it's funny that fans used to speculate they were LMDs.) Erik Koenig, aka the guy Ward murdered in season 1, was the one who was giving everyone lanyards and security clearings, which is why it would made most sense if it was a reference to him, but then it would be weird that Daisy had no reaction to it whatsoever. (I'd think if you're dropping references to the past, you'd also make sure to use them for emotional resonance.) And it would be odd if Simmons was saying "too bad Agent Koenig isn't here" when there are two living Agent Koenigs. Or are they still alive? We certainly haven't heard of them dying or quitting SHIELD, for that matter.
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TimeTravellingBunny | December 09, 20:28 CET
@Kris: There's never been a real and substantial AoS tie-in with the movies other than CA: The Winter Soldier.
I agree with so much of what you said. AoS is a show that seems unsure whether it just wants to be a simple comic book show about heroes fighting villains, or it wants to be something more, and it has a lot of those moments where it transcends that and unexpectedly introduces some emotional and moral complexity, but it's as if it's always afraid to go all in with it, and instead does it sheepishly and cautiously, like a child worried of being caught with a hand in the jar.
This season, in particular, while it's been fun, has been pretty light on character development.
And yeah, they really should bring back Ian Quinn and Graviton/Hall. Some of the cast members and producers were saying before the start of the season that they had wrapped up "all the storylines" from the first 3 seasons - they obviously forgot they have a dangling plot thread back from season 1. It's funny that all the characters, including Daisy, seemed to totally forget about Quinn. Remember that he was the one that shot her on Garrett's orders and almost killed her? And sure, they don't know that he has gravitonium, but he's still a dangerous, rich and technologically savvy criminal/international terrorist on the loose. I understand that they don't obsess over him the way they did over Ward because Quinn was never someone they were close to and there's no "love turned to hate" element, but come on, it doesn't make sense not to ever even try to find him and bring him to justice.
I'd also really love to have Mike Peterson back and learn what he's doing, because he's always been one of my favorites and he's had so many terrible things happen to him.
@JDL: "Terrible things happen to/with intimate friends of the opposite sex" also applies to May. Poor Andrew.
Things are certainly going to get weird with Coulson and Fauxlinda (poor Philinda shippers, the show dangles their ship becoming canon in front of them and it's just to do this), but wouldn't Coulson be able to tell a human from an android if things ever get physical? He saw the difference between Agent 33/fake May and real May pretty easily based on their behavior, and Kara was at least human (though, on the other hand, she did not have May's brain waves copied into her brain, or whatever it is Aida has done?).
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TimeTravellingBunny | December 09, 20:49 CET
Have wanted Mike/Deathlok back for a while too, but have stopped bothering to ask or gripe about it. So many times in Season 3 that it would've made sense to bring him in to help. Feel like the writers have just forgotten about him.
Would be cool if they brought back all these dangling plot threads and long-missing characters for the second half of this season (especially Mike, since we ARE doing robots right now), or at least for whichever season ends up being the final year for the show.
Kris | December 11, 10:06 CET
In fact I suspect that the character was really conceived that way and that the misspelling is Some Gigantic Mistake that the show is now too embarrassed to admit.
mozzarellademon | December 13, 08:57 CET
TimeTravellingBunny | December 13, 12:42 CET