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

SaintFu posted:

TV Guide had a tiny thing about AoS:

TV Guide posted:
Anything on the new season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? � Denise
Let's play a game. I'll give you a description and you guess which Marvel character this newcomer might be. I hear they're casting for a ruggedly handsome, physically fit actor to play a character who can escape any situation, is a bit of a wild card and, though he's mostly interested in personal gain, always ends up doing the right thing.

Kinda sounds like Paladin to me.

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notthegoatseguy: Sep 6, 2005

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

Clay Quartermain?

Wasn't he HYDRA in TWS or am I getting him mixed up with some other SHIELD agent?

# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:31

Big Bad Voodoo Lou: Jan 1, 2006

notthegoatseguy posted:

Wasn't he HYDRA in TWS or am I getting him mixed up with some other SHIELD agent?

That was Jasper Sitwell, another all-American (but generic) long-time SHIELD agent in the comics.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:41

VDay: Jul 2, 2003; I'm Pacman Jones!

Oh so they're replacing Agent Ward's role on the team with someone who's exactly the same as him minus the interesting part. Can't wait.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:50

mind the walrus: Sep 22, 2006

Agent Ward was even the slightest bit interesting?

# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:52

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

jng2058 posted:

Kinda sounds like Paladin to me.

That's a pretty good guess, although he really doesn't always do the right thing in the end.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:54

Throwdown: Sep 4, 2003; Here you go, dummies.

VDay posted:

Oh so they're replacing Agent Ward's role on the team with someone who's exactly the same as him minus the interesting part. Can't wait.

Agent Ward wasn't interesting until he went evil.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:56

VDay: Jul 2, 2003; I'm Pacman Jones!

mind the walrus posted:

Agent Ward was even the slightest bit interesting?

Throwdown posted:

Agent Ward wasn't interesting until he went evil.

Right, and this is just going to be him minus that by the sounds of it.

I mean, here's hoping they actually have some interesting ideas for the character, but that description does absolutely nothing to get me excited for the new season.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 04:58

SirDan3k: Jan 6, 2001; Trust me, you are taking this a lot more seriously then I am.

Come in Taskmaster!

That is a non-answer level of generic anti-hero description.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 05:41

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

Oh boy here's how they are going to do the Joker on Gotham

quote:

Basically, every episode in the first season will introduce a character that might be a future Joker, each emphasising aspects of the character�s iconography, a card sharp, a flower seller, a clown, or just a guy with a very big grin.

All relatively unknown actors. All potentially a Joker. But only one of them being the actual Clown Prince Of Crime.

Get ready to be Joker-teased on a weekly basis�.

As a lover of endless and baseless pan-internet speculation, I am obviously hype as gently caress for this.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 15:33

e X: Feb 23, 2013; cool but crude

zoux posted:

Oh boy here's how they are going to do the Joker on Gotham

As a lover of endless and baseless pan-internet speculation, I am obviously hype as gently caress for this.

Wow, that is the first legitimately clever idea they came up with. It's actually kind of brilliant.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 15:40

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

e X posted:

Wow, that is the first legitimately clever idea they came up with. It's actually kind of brilliant.

I think it's going to get real old real fast. And I'm assuming it's a 13 episode order, if it's 22, ughhhh.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 15:49

bobkatt013: Oct 8, 2006; Youâre telling me Peter Parker is ...... Spider-man!?

zoux posted:

I think it's going to get real old real fast. And I'm assuming it's a 13 episode order, if it's 22, ughhhh.

I assume that it will some thing like the Observer in Fringe. It will be there, but only the focus in certain episodes.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 15:54

Aphrodite: Jun 27, 2006

I can think of like... 5 Joker characteristics.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:03

Tuxedo Jack: Sep 11, 2001; Hey Ma, who's that band I like? Oh yeah, Hall & Oates.

bobkatt013 posted:

I assume that it will some thing like the Observer in Fringe. It will be there, but only the focus in certain episodes.

My first inclination is that it will be fairly overt and HEY LOOK AT ME I MIGHT BE THE JOKER each week.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:04

Waterhaul: Nov 5, 2005; it was a nice post,
you shouldn't have signed it.

It'll just be performers in the background of a club and one week it'll be "oh he has a purple suit", next time "oh he has green hair", "oh he has an assistant with blonde hair/he laughs loudly/he has a creepy grin" and so on.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:10

redbackground: Sep 24, 2007; BEHOLD!
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Waterhaul posted:

It'll just be performers in the background of a club and one week it'll be "oh he has a purple suit", next time "oh he has green hair", "oh he has an assistant with blonde hair/he laughs loudly/he has a creepy grin" and so on.

I want each one of them to turn and wink at the camera.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:21

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

"Hey Gordon, do you think it's weird that every week we meet at least one guy that says 'Wait 'til they get a load of me'"?

# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:23

X-O: Apr 28, 2002; Long Live The King!

I mentioned to someone last night that sounded like a really dumb gimmick.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:25

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

There'll be a wacky apiarist one week saying "Wait 'til they get this load of bees!", an exporter the next week saying "Wait til' they fill that boat with cheese!" etc etc

# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:27

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

Sounds like they're chickening out on actually casting the Joker and just throwing actors at it and waiting for viewer feedback.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:29

Madkal: Feb 11, 2008; Fallen Rib

My money is on it being that kid who had his parents gunned down in an alleyway. That's got to drive any person insane.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 16:39

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

Cool idea in abstract, but every episode is overkill.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 17:03

Guy A. Person: May 23, 2003

Obviously it is going to be entirely based on how they execute it. If it is seriously one guy in a purple suit or with green hair for 10 seconds out of every 20 minute episode, I don't really think it will be overkill. It depends on how much focus they actually give it.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 17:06

Opopanax: Aug 8, 2007; I HEX YE!!!

They're going to have him be someone totally unrelated who's been there the whole time, like a CSI guy or something, and pretend it's clever.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 17:08

redbackground: Sep 24, 2007; BEHOLD!
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Opopanax posted:

They're going to have him be someone totally unrelated who's been there the whole time, like a CSI guy or something, and pretend it's clever.

Exactly. I honestly can't see just going "OH, it was the 3rd one, with the flower lapel!"

# ? Jul 16, 2014 17:10

Medullah: Aug 14, 2003; FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

They'll have a kid who's Bruce's best friend. That will be the Joker. "IT WORKED FOR LEX AND CLARK!"

# ? Jul 16, 2014 17:11

omg chael crash: Jul 8, 2012; Macys paid for this. Noodle Boy and Bonby are bad at video games and even worse friends.

What if were all jokers!! Makes u think...

# ? Jul 16, 2014 17:14

Mimir: Nov 26, 2012

They're clearly going for some high level Grant Morrison archetypal stuff, I'm really impressed. The series finale will probably feature Bruce Wayne apotheosizing into Batman by battling the idea of madness, the cosmic seed of pure chaos, which transcends any mere individual. A thousand voices cry out in a cacophony, and a single voice, in order with itself, overwhelms each one in turn. We realize that the Joker-potential lurks within every one of us, each week, just as the Batman-potential (Young Bruce) does.

I have high hopes for this series.

e: f,b.

omg chael crash posted:

What if were all jokers!! Makes u think...

Mimir fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Jul 16, 2014

# ? Jul 16, 2014 17:20

ToastyPotato: Jun 23, 2005; CONVICTED OF DISPLAYING HIS PEANUTS IN PUBLIC

Medullah posted:

They'll have a kid who's Bruce's best friend. That will be the Joker. "IT WORKED FOR LEX AND CLARK!"

Isn't that basically Hush, or someone else? Or both?

# ? Jul 16, 2014 17:57

Soylentbits: Apr 2, 2007; im worried that theyre setting her up to be jotaros future wife or something.

omg chael crash posted:

What if were all jokers!! Makes u think...

I'm all for a Jokerz gang. Let's just skip Bruce and go straight to Terry.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 18:09

Lurdiak: Feb 26, 2006; I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.

How about we skip Terry as well and just make a Spider-man show?

# ? Jul 16, 2014 19:47

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

I would kill for a live action Spider-Man show that played up how hard everyday life would be to be a teenaged superhero and toned down the over-the-top cinematic web slinging.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:05

The Question IRL: Jun 8, 2013; Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

I pity the unknown actors cast as potential Joker's and what will happen to their career when they don't make it. Like how almost being the Joker is going to be their career highlight.

Actor: I played Panicky Joker number 2 on Gotham.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:07

e X: Feb 23, 2013; cool but crude

feedmyleg posted:

I would kill for a live action Spider-Man show that played up how hard everyday life would be to be a teenaged superhero and toned down the over-the-top cinematic web slinging.

You mean like the Lois and Clark show, where we jsut ever only saw him leaving the frame in a blur?

# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:08

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

I mean like Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane. Blow your season's effects budget on one or two big action sequences, let the rest be a (really well written) high school drama that involves a kid who leads a double life as Spider-Man.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:10

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

feedmyleg posted:

I mean like Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane. Blow your season's effects budget on one or two big action sequences, let the rest be a (really well written) high school drama that involves a kid who leads a double life as Spider-Man.

Do this, but with Superman, and call it Smallville.

# ? Jul 16, 2014 20:13