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Lurdiak posted:Yeah, I remember that lovely book. That awesome book. Seriously, y'all Secret Warriors haters are just plain wrong. 
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Genetic Toaster posted:That awesome book. Seriously, y'all Secret Warriors haters are just plain wrong.
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redbackground posted:I thought Lurdiak was talking about SHIELD, and that one was...not great. The two dovetailed a lot, to the point where I would describe S.H.I.E.L.D. as a companion book. I wish they would publish that last issue and explain some poo poo.
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In regards to Arrow tonight (that other comicbook based show that everyone isn't bitching about) I figured Moira was going to bite it but I thought they would save it to the end of the season. Seeing her die at the end was a huge blow and I am now looking forward to seeing Slade and Arrow really really go at it. Also I put money on the final person who has to die being one of the Lance sisters.
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A character suddenly announcing they've known the hero's secret identity all along is a pretty safe indicator they're about to take a dirt nap.
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Just caught up on SHIELD and yeah those three Cap 2 fallout episodes were really loving good. The last one with Blackout wasn't though, so they're not out of the fire yet. What they did with Ward was really the best possible direction for that character. Spy Randy Orton.
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Hakkesshu posted:Just caught up on SHIELD and yeah those three Cap 2 fallout episodes were really loving good. The last one with Blackout wasn't though, so they're not out of the fire yet. If you were going to build a double agent from the ground up, it'd look a lot like Grant Ward.
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As I noted in the TVIV, there's a meta level where Grant Ward's double agent act also extended to portraying himself as a boring character in a TV show. He fooled SHIELD and he fooled us viewers.
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DynamicSloth posted:A character suddenly announcing they've known the hero's secret identity all along is a pretty safe indicator they're about to take a dirt nap. Not on Arrow, since there's a new one of those every week.
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Hakkesshu posted:Just caught up on SHIELD and yeah those three Cap 2 fallout episodes were really loving good. The last one with Blackout wasn't though, so they're not out of the fire yet. IMO the Blackout stuff can be excused for being bad because it was there simply to get half the crew out of the base so the real plot (the Grant/Skye thing) could work. And that part of the episode was pretty drat good. Poor Patton Oswalt. 
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Was Mae referencing a known character at the end of the episode?
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LorneReams posted:Was Mae referencing a known character at the end of the episode? Maria Hill?
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irlZaphod posted:I'm going to start catching up now, last night I watched the episode about the Asgardian staff (the post-Thor 2 one), which actually wasn't too bad. Peter MacNicol is pretty rad, though. yes i watch mindy shut up redbackground fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Apr 24, 2014 |
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WarLocke posted:IMO the Blackout stuff can be excused for being bad because That sounds more like Battered Wife syndrome than a TV critique. "They stank up the B plot so it wouldn't distract us from the A plot, they only do it because they love us! "
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DynamicSloth posted:A character suddenly announcing they've known the hero's secret identity all along is a pretty safe indicator they're about to take a dirt nap. Like I said, I figured the character was going to die, just not so soon.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:As I noted in the TVIV, there's a meta level where Grant Ward's double agent act also extended to portraying himself as a boring character in a TV show. He fooled SHIELD and he fooled us viewers. WarLocke posted:IMO the Blackout stuff can be excused for being bad because it was there simply to get half the crew out of the base so the real plot (the Grant/Skye thing) could work. And that part of the episode was pretty drat good. This is kinda sad.
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Madkal posted:Like I said, I figured the character was going to die, just not so soon. Yeah I thought after nothing happened at the press conference they were going to hold off on it for a while but whelp. drat those last ten minutes or so were brutal but Slade basically signed his death warrent now so it's only a matter of time before Ollie or Ollie and Merlyn: The Arrow Bros. shut him up.
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Waterhaul posted:Yeah I thought after nothing happened at the press conference they were going to hold off on it for a while but whelp. I figured that they were saving Merlyn for next season but I have seen it mentioned in a few places that now that Slade has killed the mother of his kid, and emotionally scarred his kid beyond repair Merlyn is ripe for a return.
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Aphrodite posted:Not on Arrow, since there's a new one of those every week. There's a difference between a character finding out the hero's secret identity (which opens up new storytelling avenues for that character) and a character saying they've known the whole time (or for a long time at least), it means the writers are done with the character, if they thought that character finding out the secret identity would open up new storytelling avenues it wouldn't have happened off screen.
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So I keep seeing people say good things about Agents of SHIELD. Has the show actually turned around enough that people would recommend it?
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TwoPair posted:So I keep seeing people say good things about Agents of SHIELD. Has the show actually turned around enough that people would recommend it? The fallout from The Winter Soldier has changed the show a fair bit and the last few episodes have been a massive step-up in quality (although the B-plot in the last episode wasn't great).
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They completely changed the premise of the show and one character (so far) has had a massive personality revamp.
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muscles like this? posted:They completely changed the premise of the show and one character (so far) has had a massive personality revamp. Also Patton Oswalt shows up!
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Dacap posted:Also Patton Oswalt shows up! But then Ward murders the hell out of him!
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muscles like this? posted:They completely changed the premise of the show and one character (so far) has had a massive personality revamp. Is that Sky?
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TwoPair posted:So I keep seeing people say good things about Agents of SHIELD. Has the show actually turned around enough that people would recommend it? It's better but nowhere near the point that I would recommend the show as a whole. There's still a lot of kinks to work out.
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zoux posted:Is that Sky? It's Ward. He's now a totally evil Hydra agent who keeps shooting people in the face. Literally in the face.
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Veotax posted:It's Ward. He's now a totally evil Hydra agent who keeps shooting people in the face. Literally in the face. Also literally everything about his character was a lie and pretty much everything he's done has been a coldly calculated move to gain their trust (saving Simmons) or deflect attention from himself (hooking up with May.) And its not a fake-out or triple agent thing as he's been shown on screen murdering multiple SHIELD agents as well as Victoria Hand and Eric Koenig.
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Skye is pretty annoying, though cute, but she does often act very sensibly in most situations.
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TwoPair posted:So I keep seeing people say good things about Agents of SHIELD. Has the show actually turned around enough that people would recommend it? It's still basically the same show expect Ward is bad and they now bring in comic characters to quickly kill them off.
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Max Brooks' vampires vs zombies comic Extinction Parade is another one coming to TV. http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/legendary-tv-max-brooks-horror-comic-series-extinction-parade-tv/ I know nothing much about the books, but I do hope the main characters of the series are still Asian and it's still set in Malaysia.
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One of the new supporting cast members reveals he's the grandson of a Howling Commando. They've also been doing a lot more name checking in the show. Kree, various Asguardian mythological things, Yakuza, and others have all been referenced. Admittedly in small ways but referenced nonetheless.
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notthegoatseguy posted:One of the new supporting cast members reveals he's the grandson of a Howling Commando. When were the Yakuza referenced and how would that be a marvel name drop?
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notthegoatseguy posted:One of the new supporting cast members reveals he's the grandson of a Howling Commando. Ok, haven't seen it yet, but I am just imaging that he's Dum Dum Dugan's grandkid.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Ok, haven't seen it yet, but I am just imaging that he's Dum Dum Dugan's grandkid.
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XboxPants posted:When were the Yakuza referenced and how would that be a marvel name drop? When Coulsob on is on his manhunt in Muncie, his partner says their suspect's family has ties to Yakuza. Yakuza have, at times, played roles in Marvel crime and Daredevil stories. Also Wolverine, but obviously those rights are with Fox.
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notthegoatseguy posted:When Coulsob on is on his manhunt in Muncie, his partner says their suspect's family has ties to Yakuza. The Yakuza are also real. If the Mafia appeared in AoS it wouldn't be a Marvel namedrop.
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