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Wasn't Koenig(?) displeased when Coulson told him he should activate Theta protocol if he died or something? I read it as Theta being a necessary evil style thing not something like building a helicarrier or activating the Avengers. Or am I remembering it wrong?
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Could we stop with discussing the movie here - half a page of black boxes is annoying.
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May 3, 2015 23:39
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mythicknight posted:I believe it was both. First the denying, then they came up with that ridiculous idea of Garret doing it somehow. Theta Protocol is rapidly reaching this point as well
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May 4, 2015 00:50
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How many episodes until the finale?
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May 4, 2015 01:13
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I believe three.
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May 4, 2015 01:19
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twistedmentat posted:How many episodes until the finale? Tuesday's episode and then the two hour finale on the 12th.
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May 4, 2015 01:23
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I think we're down to two: Tuesday's episode, then the 2 hour season finalé on the 12th...
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May 4, 2015 01:24
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Considering next episode sounds like it could easily be the finale, I don't know what to expect.
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May 4, 2015 01:29
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I just got to Turn, Turn, Turn after writing this show off a long time ago (mostly because it aired on cable and we don't have cable), and it's really gotten me interested. I'm worried it'll take forever for season 2 to hit Netflix, though.
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May 4, 2015 01:57
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Do we know whats this thing on the ship that they keep talking about? Either through the comics or whatever.
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May 4, 2015 02:07
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boom boom boom posted:Allright. I'm not gonna be able to marathon the second season like I did the first tho. I'm way behind on animes. Did anyone else read this in Coulson's voice orrrrrr
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May 4, 2015 02:09
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I bet Coulson likes anime.
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May 4, 2015 02:12
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PunkBoy posted:I bet Coulson likes anime. Well it would make sense since he's good at hiding shameful secrets
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May 4, 2015 02:18
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old dog child posted:Well it would make sense since he's good at hiding shameful secrets Fury's tool box is full of MLP fanfiction.
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May 4, 2015 02:36
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Boris Galerkin posted:Do we know whats this thing on the ship that they keep talking about? Either through the comics or whatever. Nothing beyond guesses.
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May 4, 2015 02:39
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twistedmentat posted:Fury's tool box is full of MLP fanfiction. Confirmed, the mind can indeed vomit
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May 4, 2015 02:53
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twistedmentat posted:Fury's tool box is full of MLP fanfiction. OF course that what he wants people to think. They're really Naruto fanfics.
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May 4, 2015 03:01
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David D. Davidson posted:OF course that what he wants people to think. They're really Naruto fanfics. You're both right, it's original Naruto characters based on anthropomorphosized version of MLP.
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May 4, 2015 03:10
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I hope they don't do anything with helicarriers on the show, because they are stupid. Every time they are featured, they add layers of absurdity. I realize this is a ridiculous world full of aliens and green rage beasts and evil A.I. and poo poo, but for some reason my suspension of disbelief can't get past helicarriers. The facilities to build just a single, normal, floating in the water carrier are extreme, it takes us years. SHIELD builds them three at a time in hangers dug out underneath populated cities. And they fly. And turn invisible. And they get retired and put into storage after just a few years apparently now too.
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May 4, 2015 03:53
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counterfeitsaint posted:I hope they don't do anything with helicarriers on the show, because they are stupid. Every time they are featured, they add layers of absurdity. The second you accept Iron-Man as being possible, Helicarriers are nothing.
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May 4, 2015 04:11
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Dexo posted:The second you accept Iron-Man as being possible, Helicarriers are nothing. It's always fascinating to me to see where people's various breaking points are for suspension of disbelief. Like, I'm not being salty here. It's genuinely interesting to me just how far is too far for each person. Like, for me, it's Iron Man's arc reactor. Why doesn't he just do what he did in IM3 and get the shrapnel surgically removed? He lives in a world of viruses that turn people into fiery superkillers, but he can't hire someone with nanosurgery and a magnet? 
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May 4, 2015 04:27
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I would actually prefer a helicarrier on this show. The cargo plane set is very boring. Even though the sky green screen effects, like when the car is flying or that time Ward jumped out of the plane after Simmons, are the worst looking effects in the whole show, I would prefer more of them over the continued use of the incredibly boring plane.
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May 4, 2015 04:30
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boom boom boom posted:continued use of the incredibly boring plane. Well you're in luck
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May 4, 2015 04:32
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If you'd just watch the full and totally canon Chinese version you'd know that the operation was so delicate that it took him that long to realize that he could have just asked help from China, glorious home of the only doctor in the world skilled enough to perform the surgery! Edit: vvvvvv counterfeitsaint posted:Yeah, the Iron man suits are just as implausible, it's just the scope that bugs me. Like, I can see how a crazy billionaire engineer can make something like that in his basement, with resources he has access to because he's a weapons contractor. Actually, he built one in a cave. With a box of scrap. Argue fucked around with this message at 04:49 on May 4, 2015 |
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May 4, 2015 04:35
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Dexo posted:The second you accept Iron-Man as being possible, Helicarriers are nothing. Yeah, the Iron man suits are just as implausible, it's just the scope that bugs me. Like, I can see how a crazy billionaire engineer can make something like that in his basement, with resources he has access to because he's a weapons contractor. But SHIELD build helicarriers where? Out of what? And no one notices? I know it's just a stupid pet peeve of mine though.
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May 4, 2015 04:46
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counterfeitsaint posted:Yeah, the Iron man suits are just as implausible, it's just the scope that bugs me. Like, I can see how a crazy billionaire engineer can make something like that in his basement, with resources he has access to because he's a weapons contractor. But SHIELD build helicarriers where? Out of what? And no one notices? I know it's just a stupid pet peeve of mine though. Billions of dollars in classified defense spending.
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May 4, 2015 05:06
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boom boom boom posted:I would actually prefer a helicarrier on this show. The cargo plane set is very boring. Even though the sky green screen effects, like when the car is flying or that time Ward jumped out of the plane after Simmons, are the worst looking effects in the whole show, I would prefer more of them over the continued use of the incredibly boring plane. I actually like the Bus. Its functional, seems to have a cozy interior and much more credible than a helicarrier. Don't get me wrong, helicarriers look badass but they are pretty stupid. Real carriers are alreadh vulnerable and require a support fleet. Now imagine a carrier that can drop from the sky due to well placed hit to the turbines or from taking enough damage that it loses power. To quote from HHGTTG: They hang in the air the same way that bricks don't.
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May 4, 2015 05:25
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The bus reminds me of the last Splinter Cell game. They even had a little prison too.
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May 4, 2015 05:32
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Cloakable Helicarriers made more sense for SHIELD because they weren't an army. The Navy probably took one look at the idea and went 'nnnnope!*'. *'Although we'd love those super VTOL cloaking device planes...?'
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May 4, 2015 05:37
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I managed to suspend my disbelief on all the Iron Man stuff until the third movie. He manages to build an arc reactor and a flight-capable powered exoskeleton in a cave with a box of scraps, but transplant him to Tennessee and the best he can do is some "Anarchist's Cookbook"-level improvised weapons? It was an awesome scene but makes little sense in context.
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May 4, 2015 05:41
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I managed to suspend my disbelief on all the Iron Man stuff until the third movie. He manages to build an arc reactor and a flight-capable powered exoskeleton in a cave with a box of scraps, but transplant him to Tennessee and the best he can do is some "Anarchist's Cookbook"-level improvised weapons? A "box of scrap" being a cave full of missiles and other advanced Stark tech, a full range of precision tools and a fairly able assistant?
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Dalael posted:I actually like the Bus. Its functional, seems to have a cozy interior and much more credible than a helicarrier. Don't get me wrong, helicarriers look badass but they are pretty stupid. Real carriers are alreadh vulnerable and require a support fleet. Now imagine a carrier that can drop from the sky due to well placed hit to the turbines or from taking enough damage that it loses power. "Credible" is not something I want from a show that featured a circular saw fight and a secret twin brother in the season finale. The bus is dull. It's all grey and blue inside. And everybody's wearing dark clothes inside it too. Have some bright colors, Agents of SHIELD! Cat Terrist posted:A "box of scrap" being a cave full of missiles and other advanced Stark tech, a full range of precision tools and a fairly able assistant? Also, didn't he spend a lot longer in the cave?
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May 4, 2015 06:00
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Well, if we're gonna go full  ...What I find most implausible is that Hawkeye and Black Widow are actually as useful combatants as anyone else on the main team, and yet somehow War Machine isn't.
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Javid posted:Well, if we're gonna go full The amount of damage it took to take down an Ultron drone was INCREDIBLY inconsistent. Sometimes Captain America has to absolutely smash the head and torso to bits before it stops moving, but Hawkeye takes down dozens with one arrow to a random spot on the torso each,
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May 4, 2015 06:09
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Micro-EMP-arrows! Or maybe there was an anti-Ultron script and he was shooting USB arrows into their chest ports.
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May 4, 2015 06:24
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Spacebump posted:Billions of dollars in classified defense spending. It's the same way Batman built the Watchtower by hiding the cost in an R&D budget line item from Wayne Enterprises. Never underestimate the absurd wealth of comic book billionaires
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Azhais posted:It's the same way Batman built the Watchtower by hiding the cost in an R&D budget line item from Wayne Enterprises. I think it's Green Arrow who in one comic gets: "You own a plane? I thought you were bankrupt!" "Billionaire poor, not normal-person poor." One of the uber-rich, anyway. Maybe Stark.
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Azhais posted:It's the same way Batman built the Watchtower by hiding the cost in an R&D budget line item from Wayne Enterprises. It's not a question of cost though. I mean, all this poo poo is implausible, but even if you have all the money, you don't just order an 1100 foot long vessel off of Amazon. There's only a few shipyards in the world big enough. Javid posted:Well, if we're gonna go full The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense.
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counterfeitsaint posted:It's not a question of cost though. I mean, all this poo poo is implausible, but even if you have all the money, you don't just order an 1100 foot long vessel off of Amazon. There's only a few shipyards in the world big enough. I don't think SHIELD built the original carrier in secret, they refitted the heli part in secret. I mean the Illiad this season seems to be a normal aircraft carrier from a whole SHIELD fleet, and it's not a heli. It seems they had a few just plain carriers openly acting as mobile operation hubs for intelligence activities. The existence of Quinjets makes that kind of operational structure much more plausible. And then as of Avengers 1 they'd just finished refitting one of them to fly. And hell, I wouldn't be surprised if those were all Navy ships until the events of Fury's Big Week made the government go gently caress gently caress gently caress and increase SHIELD's size and power tenfold in panic and let them requisition a few aircraft carriers, since they were the only ones who were on top of this whole new world of bullshit. (And then SHIELD's strike team saved the world from a huge alien invasion and the entire world just kinda bowed at SHIELD's feet and threw money and resources and cooperative laws at them) And the Project Insight helicarriers under the Potomac from Cap 2 were quite small by comparison; they were really heli-battleships. And they had their own special shipyards of stupid. And SHIELD was operating in the open by then in terms of huge resources. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 08:09 on May 4, 2015 |
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Can we stop with the movie spoilers? till like friday? Please? i enjoy this thread too much to not read it for a week.
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