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Azhais posted:Kinda like they took the entire plotline for Mass Effect from Star Control 3
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Star Control 3 isn't as bad as everybody thinks. It's a perfectly fine game; its main fault not being able to live up to its legendary predecessor. 
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Jan 13, 2014 09:23
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I played and enjoyed SC3. I still have to resist the urge to talk like the Daktaklakpak from time to time. AVOWAL
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Robot Hobo posted:If the tech that they used to resurrect Coulson was a shady HYDRA invention with unknown (or known-and-horrible) side-effects, that might be enough to make them want to hide it. Continuing questionable HYDRA research and lying about it was a big plot point in Avengers, so we know SHIELD would do it. This could fit in nicely with my theory about Roxxon being the group behind Centipede... doesn't SHIELD use Roxxon tech or have a contract or something in the Ultimate universe?
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Bill Paxton will get a recurring role in at least four episodes of ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., starting in late February or early March. He will play Agent John Garrett. Executive producer Jed Whedon said: "We wanted to bring in a rough-and-tumble former cohort of Agent Coulson [Clark Gregg] with a little bit of attitude and cigar-smoking swagger." In the comic Elektra: Assassin, S.H.I.E.L.D. turned Garrett into a cyborg to save his life after he was injured on the job. Whedon added: "When Garrett got his promotion to Level 7, he refused to sit behind a desk and doesn't like the formalities of S.H.I.E.L.D. He's going to help Coulson solve some mysteries and is not afraid to rig an explosive or two."
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Bill Paxton is a great get. It'll be interesting having two people on the show who can act.
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Game Over, man. Game Over!
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Sir Kodiak posted:Bill Paxton is a great get. It'll be interesting having two people on the show who can act. Hey! Ming Na Wen CAN act! She's just, ummm, not choosing to on this show or something? 
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jng2058 posted:Hey! Ming Na Wen CAN act! She's just, ummm, not choosing to on this show or something? I assume it is the direction, not the actress.
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Yeah, you have a point there. The direction for much of AoS is pretty bland and boring. There've been moments that were pretty good, but a lot of it is forgettable.
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Yeah, I'm just judging people based on how they are on the show. I imagine any of them could be doing better if they had more of a character to work with. I have hopes that Bill Paxton is good enough to bring interesting detail beyond what the script and direction provides.
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I watched most of ER and Ming Na was the same terrible actress on it as she is on this, so unless she magically got better then stopped no, she's just a terrible actress.
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jng2058 posted:Hey! Ming Na Wen CAN act! She's just, ummm, not choosing to on this show or something? I'm calling bullshit. I've seen her in a bunch of stuff and she could get out-acted by Kristen Stewart.
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Toshimo posted:I'm calling bullshit. I've seen her in a bunch of stuff and she could get out-acted by Kristen Stewart. Kristen Stewart is an amazing actress and can portray disaffected adolescence like nobody's business.
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I've seen more emotion from Kristen Stewart in the trailers for her movies then I have from Ming Na on every episode of this show. Low emotion > NO emotion.
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Midnight City posted:I watched most of ER and Ming Na was the same terrible actress on it as she is on this, so unless she magically got better then stopped no, she's just a terrible actress. I just don't see what she could be doing differently in this. She's playing the type of comic book character that is only ever drawn with one facial expression, except for maybe an occasional panel of "dramatic" side-eye or a raised eyebrow. In a comic I'm sure we'd get some internal monologue or maybe a flashback panel during her fight scenes, but that's not an option here. So instead I think her big character moment so far has been, uh, standing in an open doorway with a bottle of booze?
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There was the time she smiled. I don't have to specify, it was only once.
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Aphrodite posted:There was the time she smiled. The one in the end tag after the prank right? Is it sad that this is not a joke?
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Aphrodite posted:There was the time she smiled. On top of Ward?
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ToastyPotato posted:The one in the end tag after the prank right? Is it sad that this is not a joke? That's the only one I can recall, yeah.
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Pinky Artichoke posted:I just don't see what she could be doing differently in this. She's playing the type of comic book character that is only ever drawn with one facial expression, except for maybe an occasional panel of "dramatic" side-eye or a raised eyebrow. In a comic I'm sure we'd get some internal monologue or maybe a flashback panel during her fight scenes, but that's not an option here. So instead I think her big character moment so far has been, uh, standing in an open doorway with a bottle of booze? She could try talking with a Canadian accent or a million other things good actors do to make a generic role their own instead of just showing up and reading a script like an emotionless robot. She literally gives away her newborn baby for adoption on ER and has the exact same expression.
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To be fair, the writing has done her exactly 0 favors, in part because like every other character except for Coulson and Skye, the writers seem to not have any kind of plan for her. Playing a smug/tough character that barely speaks is already challenging enough, but it's significantly harder when the character hasn't actually gotten any meaningful development to help sell their toughness to the audience. So far we mainly see her pilot the plane, drive the van, and babysit the kids. I mean, Ward is just a straight up Generic Action Man, but at least we see him go on missions, jump out of airplanes, etc, so when he does the tough guy act it's at least somewhat believable. All we have for May is the dumb cavalry story and the handful of scenes of her fighting/taking down a couple of normal dudes. That's not nearly enough to establish her as this cold super agent that doesn't have the time to chat because she's too busy being badass.
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Aphrodite posted:There was the time she smiled. It wasn't that bad. 
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May's tai chi conversation with Coulson showed that Ming can act in some small capacity beyond "look vaguely threatening and do own fight scenes", so I'm willing to cut her a little slack here. VDay beat me to the punch on the other relevant point, that the show is barely giving her anything for any actor in her position to sink their teeth into, and she may in fact be ordered by writing and/or directing to generally suppress emotional displays on top of that. More asinine creative decisions have happened -- on the set of Star Trek Voyager, the human characters' actors were told to act more bland so the alien characters would seem more vibrant and interesting.
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VDay posted:To be fair, the writing has done her exactly 0 favors, in part because like every other character except for Coulson and Skye, the writers seem to not have any kind of plan for her. Playing a smug/tough character that barely speaks is already challenging enough, but it's significantly harder when the character hasn't actually gotten any meaningful development to help sell their toughness to the audience. I thought there might be more character development for May and Ward both in the aftermath of that Asgardian artifact's mind trip, but instead it seems to have been "resolved" by just having them bone off screen some unspecified number of times without ever having a private conversation.
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Today's villain, the Polar Vortex.
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of course SHIELD has its own line of towels
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Soothing Vapors posted:of course SHIELD has its own line of towels I hope they have their own line of Flamethrowers
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Ward : NERRRRRRRRRRRRRDS!!!!!  Bucky! 
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Ha, Bucky shoutout.
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If SHIELD put up a memorial to every agent killed in the line of duty it would make the Vietnam memorial look puny.
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Centipede isn't Hydra or AIM.
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I don't think that excludes them at all. For all they know, Hydra and AIM are defunct.
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Can't they just pay one of the extras in the crowd $5 to scream instead of using that stock female shriek that everyone uses? It's the female Wilhelm.
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Are black curtains more sinister than tinting?
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Sciences figures it out, but Operations smashes the poo poo out of it. 
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Why did the crowd start applauding at that? What the hell. 
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Good thing they had a heroic field agent like Action Man around to perform the dangerous tasks of looking under the chair then kicking the thing.
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A Tin Of Beans posted:Why did the crowd start applauding at that? What the hell. Because SCIENCE! Ooh look they have an orgy room.
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