Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - "Hey guys, I found it!"

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Wheat Loaf: Feb 13, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

Blazing Ownager posted:

ED: At the current pace I hope this show goes for a while and it'll be one of those "the first season is pretty lackluster" shows. There's plenty that have remained awesome once they got their act together.

The Babylon 5 rule.

# ? May 1, 2014 22:03

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 17:34

The Red Queen: Jan 20, 2007; You tricked me!

You said dis place was fun, but it ain't!

twistedmentat posted:

How many episodes are left in the season?

The next one is the finale.

# ? May 1, 2014 22:14

ashpanash: Apr 9, 2008; I can see when you are lying.

The Red Queen posted:

The next one is the finale.

No, the next one is the penultimate episode. The finale is in two weeks.

# ? May 1, 2014 22:17

XboxPants: Jan 30, 2006; Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

Lazlow posted:

Rant incoming, fair warning.

I don't understand something. I don't understand why I have watched every single episode of this show when every single episode of this show has been exponentially worse than the previous one - and the first was EPIC loving levels of BAD. None of the characters are likeable because they are such blatant tropes. NONE OF THEM. I cannot possibly form any kind of emotional investment in any character whatsoever because it they are all cardboard cutouts. No, not even that, they are loving photocopies of cardboard cutouts that someone faxed to me on goddamn thermal fax paper that for some drat reason I keep trying to flatten out every week in the vain hope that the ink hasn't faded any worse than the last week.

(Deep breaths, Lazlow, you'll be watching Spider-Man 2 soon enough)

Please post your Spider-Man 2 review after you watch it. :allears:

# ? May 1, 2014 22:54

jscolon2.0: Jul 9, 2001; With great payroll, comes great disappointment.

imperialparadox posted:

Yeah, Ward is the one that is the badass, according to his test scores, other characters comments, and first-hand experience, especially given that he was a HYDRA agent in deep cover the entire time, fooling Coulson's team through-and-through. If I remember right, didn't he actually beat May in their fight during the Lorelei episode, and was a split second away from blowing her brains out?

In that situation, May would be showing restraint and not going for the kill immediately.

# ? May 1, 2014 23:14

hollylolly: Jun 5, 2009; Do you like superheroes? Check out my CYOA Mutants: Uprising

How about weird historical fiction? Try Vampires of the Caribbean

ashpanash posted:

No, the next one is the penultimate episode. The finale is in two weeks.

Yes, I've noticed that nearly all the shows I watch have hyped "NEXT WEEK: THE LAST EPISODE!!! ...before the epic season finale!" so I keep getting confused as to if there are one or two episodes left. Two, though, the answer is two.

# ? May 1, 2014 23:36

The Red Queen: Jan 20, 2007; You tricked me!

You said dis place was fun, but it ain't!

hollylolly posted:

Yes, I've noticed that nearly all the shows I watch have hyped "NEXT WEEK: THE LAST EPISODE!!! ...before the epic season finale!" so I keep getting confused as to if there are one or two episodes left. Two, though, the answer is two.

Thank you, I think this is exactly what I heard, hence the confusion. Sorry!

# ? May 2, 2014 00:28

PCOS Bill: May 12, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

jng2058 posted:

Just like Buffy, Angel, Dollhouse, and pretty much everything Whedon's done on TV. Except maybe Firefly. Unless what we saw was Firefly having a down first season, in which case the subsequent seasons would have been....

Firefly was pretty mediocre so it likely was a bad first season as usual.

# ? May 2, 2014 04:39

mikeraskol: May 3, 2006; Oh yeah. I was killing you.

PCOS Bill posted:

Firefly was pretty mediocre so it likely was a bad first season as usual.

Just gonna slide up in here, drop my one line controversial opinion, and bounce. No explanation needed.

# ? May 2, 2014 04:56

jng2058: Jul 17, 2010; We have the tools, we have the talent!

Someone's always gotta be the bad guy. :shrug:

Still, I really enjoyed the first half season of Firefly. If the quality had improved from season one to season two, it would have been magnificent. :sigh:

# ? May 2, 2014 05:06

PCOS Bill: May 12, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

mikeraskol posted:

Just gonna slide up in here, drop my one line controversial opinion, and bounce. No explanation needed.

I'll be in my bunk.

Get it I'm going to go masturbate.

# ? May 2, 2014 05:52

XboxPants: Jan 30, 2006; Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.

I love Firefly as much as the next guy but I mean, it's not perfect. Any given viewer usually has an entire episode or two that they weren't that into. There was room for improvement.

# ? May 2, 2014 06:23

WarLocke: Jun 6, 2004; You are being watched.

XboxPants posted:

I love Firefly as much as the next guy but I mean, it's not perfect. Any given viewer usually has an entire episode or two that they weren't that into. There was room for improvement.

There was room for improvement, but it's not like it had a crappy 'finding itself' first season like Buffy or Dollhouse. Firefly knew what it was from the word go.

# ? May 2, 2014 07:34

LividLiquid: Apr 13, 2002

BurtLington posted:

This show has come a long way since its started. Its so much better with a developing plot as opposed to villain of the week IMO.

Exactly one out of four Whedon shows before this was strong from the start, and it's the one that got cancelled before its first season even ended.

Edit: I see I've been beaten.

LividLiquid fucked around with this message at 09:33 on May 2, 2014

# ? May 2, 2014 09:29

James R: Dec 22, 2006; I hear they're still eating paper. Is that true?

That huge rant post mentioned the, "Lose the ounce," line from Ward.

Now we know he was completely loving with them the whole time it kinda makes that exchange hysterical to me.

# ? May 2, 2014 15:25

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

James R posted:

That huge rant post mentioned the, "Lose the ounce," line from Ward.

Now we know he was completely loving with them the whole time it kinda makes that exchange hysterical to me.

Ward's entire character is retroactively made amazing. When he was going through his stupid generic loner quotes with Raina: "I don't play well with others"

# ? May 2, 2014 15:36

ShineDog: May 21, 2007; It is inevitable!

Metal Loaf posted:

The Babylon 5 rule.

MINDQUAKE.

This show is missing a MINDQUAKE moment.

# ? May 2, 2014 16:19

PunkBoy: Aug 22, 2008; You wanna get through this?

Dexo posted:

Ward's entire character is retroactively made amazing. When he was going through his stupid generic loner quotes with Raina: "I don't play well with others"

And then after his reveal: "I'm everyone's type. :smug:

"

EDIT: The Facebook group posted a minute preview of the next episode, and it looks pretty great. :allears:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=687177834680401&saved&linkId=8125604

PunkBoy fucked around with this message at 18:25 on May 2, 2014

# ? May 2, 2014 18:16

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Ha, Coulson slipping into a scots accent is pretty great.

Can we talk about how the Slingshot, the big, hugely expensive, space rocket program is actually just a lie? How much does it cost to launch each rocket when all they're doing is just keeping it in the Fridge?

# ? May 2, 2014 18:35

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

The_Doctor posted:

Ha, Coulson slipping into a scots accent is pretty great.

Can we talk about how the Slingshot, the big, hugely expensive, space rocket program is actually just a lie? How much does it cost to launch each rocket when all they're doing is just keeping it in the Fridge?

You are talking as if the government who funds military projects gives any fucks about cost so long as they can justify it as "protecting the homeland"

# ? May 2, 2014 18:45

Zebulon: Aug 20, 2005; Oh god why does it burn?!

The_Doctor posted:

Can we talk about how the Slingshot, the big, hugely expensive, space rocket program is actually just a lie? How much does it cost to launch each rocket when all they're doing is just keeping it in the Fridge?

Probably not much as you think if they were, say, using it as cover to launch the Insight satellites.

# ? May 2, 2014 18:52

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

XboxPants posted:

Please post your Spider-Man 2 review after you watch it.

My brother's review was "I was expecting a 5, it turned out to be a 7 or 8 so I left the theater happy." Not exactly a quantitative review, particularly since he puts Thor 2 at an 8 and I say it's more of a 5 (though the same movie without Thor and Damsel in Distress would be a 9).

# ? May 2, 2014 18:57

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

He gave it a number. That's literally a quantitative review.

# ? May 2, 2014 18:59

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

greatn posted:

He gave it a number. That's literally a quantitative review.

It's a number from gut rather than any direct measures. A 4 is not half as good as an 8. For properly quantitative information someone else can do the same measure and get the same number.

Bruceski fucked around with this message at 19:10 on May 2, 2014

# ? May 2, 2014 19:08

Pyroi: Aug 17, 2013; gay elf noises

The_Doctor posted:

Ha, Coulson slipping into a scots accent is pretty great.

Can we talk about how the Slingshot, the big, hugely expensive, space rocket program is actually just a lie? How much does it cost to launch each rocket when all they're doing is just keeping it in the Fridge?

Well, the rockets could be serving HYDRA's auxiliary plot of building a moonbase.

# ? May 2, 2014 19:10

imperialparadox: Apr 17, 2012; Don't tell me no one has told the girl she isn't exactly human!

Pyroi posted:

Well, the rockets could be serving HYDRA's auxiliary plot of building a moonbase.

They should do that. They should literally have an episode on the moon with the same quality of special effects as the flying car. Hell, embrace it; I'd watch it.

# ? May 2, 2014 20:32

The Red Queen: Jan 20, 2007; You tricked me!

You said dis place was fun, but it ain't!

imperialparadox posted:

They should do that. They should literally have an episode on the moon with the same quality of special effects as the flying car. Hell, embrace it; I'd watch it.

"Why aren't we bouncing around in the low gravity?" "Magnet boots."

# ? May 2, 2014 20:38

CapnAndy: Feb 27, 2004; Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Zebulon posted:

Probably not much as you think if they were, say, using it as cover to launch the Insight satellites.

Goddammit, that's good. I declare that's canon even if it wasn't planned that way.

# ? May 2, 2014 20:56

GigaPeon: Apr 29, 2003; Go, man, go!

PunkBoy posted:

And then after his reveal: "I'm everyone's type. "

EDIT: The Facebook group posted a minute preview of the next episode, and it looks pretty great.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=687177834680401&saved&linkId=8125604

Is the aerosol grenade they're talking about the same one that made the train "disappear" in that one multiple perspective episode? Wonder who these guys are.

# ? May 2, 2014 21:26

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Zebulon posted:

Probably not much as you think if they were, say, using it as cover to launch the Insight satellites.

Except Project Insight was a upfront project they weren't hiding. I'm going to go with HYDRA Moonbase.

# ? May 2, 2014 21:32

Jamesman: Nov 19, 2004; "First off, let me start by saying curly light blond hair does not suit Hyomin at all. Furthermore,"; Fun Shoe

The_Doctor posted:

Can we talk about how the Slingshot, the big, hugely expensive, space rocket program is actually just a lie? How much does it cost to launch each rocket when all they're doing is just keeping it in the Fridge?

One day they're going to introduce Planet Hulk into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and you're going to go "Holy poo poo, THAT'S why they have The Slingshot!"

# ? May 2, 2014 22:24

Hand of the King: May 11, 2012

PunkBoy posted:

And then after his reveal: "I'm everyone's type. "

EDIT: The Facebook group posted a minute preview of the next episode, and it looks pretty great.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=687177834680401&saved&linkId=8125604

These two, especially May, were awesome in this.

# ? May 2, 2014 22:29

jscolon2.0: Jul 9, 2001; With great payroll, comes great disappointment.

The Slingshot doesn't exist. It's just how Fury hides the black budget for Providence base, and Koenig's XBOX live account.

# ? May 2, 2014 22:31

Zebulon: Aug 20, 2005; Oh god why does it burn?!

The_Doctor posted:

Except Project Insight was a upfront project they weren't hiding. I'm going to go with HYDRA Moonbase.

If they were being entirely honest with it why did they need mobile launch bases on ships in international waters to send them up?

# ? May 2, 2014 23:10

PCOS Bill: May 12, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Zebulon posted:

If they were being entirely honest with it why did they need mobile launch bases on ships in international waters to send them up?

They were honest with it, but no country would allow them to launch from their territory?

# ? May 2, 2014 23:20

R-Type: Oct 10, 2005; by FactsAreUseless

jscolon2.0 posted:

The Slingshot doesn't exist. It's just how Fury hides the black budget for Providence base, and Koenig's XBOX live account.

Don't call it the "Black Budget" in front of Fury.

# ? May 2, 2014 23:40

CAPT. Rainbowbeard: Apr 5, 2012; My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.; Lipstick Apathy