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Hey remember when they tried to squeeze some more mileage out of the 1950s Superman TV series by sticking midgets in dog costumes and making them act out dumb pun-laden scripts on the Superman set? SUPERPUP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJnsZrVn0vc
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The latest episode of Agents of SHIELD featured some mysterious unexplained 'alien' text: Anyone recognise that alphabet? It could be Doop language for all I know.
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Oct 16, 2013 20:26
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They prefer to cover up incidents whenever it's feasible, however. Coulson and Skye had a discussion along the lines of "Remember the public panic over the alien invasion of (some country)?" "No." "That's because we did our job."
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Oct 23, 2013 18:44
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Holy poo poo, Marvel's going all in. 
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Nov 7, 2013 15:47
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Waterhaul posted:It's just a shame that he's a giant so will be dead by the time the TV shows are being made. He's only got 5 more years until he's as old as Andre the Giant was when he died.  But he's also been acting in TV shows and movies since the 90s and he's stated that he's keen to do more acting so hopefully he lasts a bit longer.
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Nov 9, 2013 13:49
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ToastyPotato posted:It's mostly been freak of the week plots and macguffins that have little to do with anything. The last episode featured a sonic weapon from 1960s SHIELD/HYDRA comics, Victoria Hand, a mention of the Triskelion and Agent Sitwell from the Thor and Avengers films.
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Nov 14, 2013 09:03
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Waterhaul posted:I have watched every Marvel film multiple times and I have no idea who Agent Sitwell is. He was also in the Marvel one-shot short films "The Consultant" and "Item 47" and he'll also appear in The Winter Soldier, so that's 6 MCU roles to Nick Fury's 7. The poor guy has appeared all over the MCU and it seems like hardly anyone remembers him. (He's the senior SHIELD agent who Simmons shot in the chest last episode.) Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Nov 14, 2013 |
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Nov 14, 2013 11:47
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Alien Rope Burn posted:It's getting a bit headscratchy that now we have half the cast right now with secrets that are a big deal, we swear hammered every episode. Tahtiti is a magical place yes I get it. Coulson actually stumbled over that line this episode as if he'd realised mid sentence that he'd been saying it automatically every time anyone ever mentioned Tahiti. I think he's on the cusp of realising that he's been conditioned to act certain ways and avoid certain thoughts in relation to his miraculous recovery.
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Nov 14, 2013 15:36
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Yeah, the 2003 Hulk movie had similar worldwide box office returns to the 2011 Green Lantern movie (although on a lower budget) and most sites give them similar ratings. I'm guessing that the '03 Hulk was testing the waters to check the viability for a shared cinematic universe and was so crappy that Marvel went back to the drawing board and rebooted it 5 years later, slipping it into theatres about a month after Iron Man. The '08 Hulk still failed to break even in the US market and only earned slightly more than the '03 film, probably less if you take inflation into account. I think that DC's biggest mistake was to not have Nolan's Batman trilogy lead into Batman vs Superman but The Dark Knight Rises was released only a few months after The Avengers so they wouldn't have known that shared universes could be super profitable when they were wrapping it up. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Dec 5, 2013 17:30
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StumblyWumbly posted:Hulk was Universal, Iron Man was the first Marvel movie. Ugh, of course it was, I'm a dope. 
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Dec 5, 2013 18:01
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omg chael crash posted:Can someone spoil the AoS twist for me? I stopped watching a few weeks ago. Remember the guy with the CENTIPEDE thingy on his arm in the first episode which gave him super soldier powers but which was unstable and nearly made him explode? SHIELD had spirited him away to a training camp but when the CENTIPEDE people saw him and Coulson out on a mission they kidnapped his son and demanded a hostage swap, and instead of taking the stabilized super soldier dude they grabbed Coulson.
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Dec 19, 2013 13:28
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Re: Agent CarterHakkesshu posted:It just seems like a weird decision that is probably doomed to fail. I barely remember her character from the film, why do they think anyone wants a full show about her? It's like Marvel is just throwing poo poo at a wall to see what sticks.
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Jan 18, 2014 11:02
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sleepingbuddha posted:They better at least try to make him look a little bit like a robot zombie monster. I don't even remember much about the character, but I thought he was so cool looking when I was a kid, I turned an extra Robocop toy into Dethlok. Then a month later, Toy Biz came out with their figure. Mike got all hosed up in the explosion, losing a leg and getting his face all mangled and melted. He's not gonna be pretty when they've finished patching him together. 
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Jan 24, 2014 14:37
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Lurdiak posted:Really? Outside of the very rare cameo and like two team-ups, he barely interacted with anyone in the larger DCU once he got his own book. Bringing in guest stars would already take away from what makes him work as a character. But some of my favourite Constantine moments were from the original Book of Magic trade.  
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Feb 3, 2014 07:55
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StumblyWumbly posted:I don't know how big $4 mil is in something like this, but it seems a bit silly. What were they going to do, move DD to Hell's Kitchen, Toronto? Detroit should have offered to let them fence off a few derelict blocks of buildings and turn them into a giant film set.
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Feb 27, 2014 04:26
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Waterhaul posted:The thing with Arrow is that even if you don't like the current storyline the way they power through everything at such a fast pace just give it an episode, maybe two, and they'll have moved onto something even better. Hey, Agents of SHIELD will finish introducing their first storyline any episode now and then you'll see! These last five and a half months of intro will finally pay off!!
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Mar 4, 2014 12:07
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muscles like this? posted:They also name dropped a bunch of alien races as Coulson asked Sif about any blue ones. The full list is Interdites, Levians, Pheragots, Kree, Sarks, Centaurians and Frost Giants. Someone did their homework,the Sarks only ever appeared in an Adam Warlock story in one issue of Strange Tales way back in 1975.
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Mar 12, 2014 17:20
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His hair is poo poo, he hasn't shaved, he looks like he slept in those clothes and he seems to be somewhat hungover. Perfect.
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Mar 13, 2014 11:32
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loving hell.  You know how months ago there was a big discussion about how no named super-powered Marvel characters were appearing in this MCU tie-in show? Well maybe the execs who were putting the kibosh on that weren't doing it because they wanted to save the characters for potential future movies, maybe they were doing it because they genuinely love the characters and wanted to save them from this horrible fate.
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Mar 18, 2014 14:38
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Maybe they're doing a wacky comedy sequence where the Clairvoyant is getting Mike to duck in and out a changing room and try on all sorts of funny supervillain costumes and this is one of the hilariously awful ones before they get to the awesome cool costume???? You can't tell me that someone designed that and someone in costuming made it and the show runners signed off on it and allowed it in front of the cameras and they're all serious about it. (I'm still in Stage 1: Denial)
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Mar 18, 2014 15:23
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To borrow some lines from a different cinematic universe ...
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Mar 18, 2014 18:13
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Lars Blitzer posted:You're closer to the truth than you think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gInrQl-Z30 That's loving terrible. This is so much worse. Remember to read right-to-left!(Slightly  for sexy talk)
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Apr 4, 2014 09:56
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sleepingbuddha posted:In the preview for next week, Coulson says, "At least our team is still intact." Really, Coulson? Really? If Ward can somehow hide the fact that Garrett is loose and Hand is dead they have absolutely no reason to suspect that he's a Hydra agent so yeah, the team's all back together. Triplett will probably stick around so the team will even be bigger than before!
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Apr 9, 2014 17:30
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notthegoatseguy posted:They also showed how Victoria was specifically bleeding out. Pffft, pro wrestlers pull that stunt all the time.
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Apr 9, 2014 19:47
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muscles like this? posted:The thing I don't get about these is that they put a lot of effort into them but I have no clue where you're supposed to go to see them. I think they're posting them on their official Twitter accounts or something
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Apr 18, 2014 12:06
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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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Apr 24, 2014 12:41
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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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Apr 24, 2014 14:56
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XboxPants posted:There is nothing I'd like to see less than Man-Thing attempted on the same budget that brought us Lazer-Tag Dethlok. 
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May 1, 2014 04:38
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Man-Thing was possibly flagged in the MCU already when Ellen Brandt appeared in Iron Man 3 (she was the Extremis chick who fought with Tony in the restaurant) although I can't remember if they explained how her face got scarred or whether they left it open. She's almost exclusively a Man-Thing villain in the comics continuity. Also there was an awful Man-Thing live action movie only a few years before MCU phase 1 started which was supposed to be direct-to-video but was eventually released as a SciFi channel TV movie. They apparently had a budget of $7.5 million (tiny in Hollywood terms but a lot more than Agents of SHIELD could afford) and their Man-Thing was a guy in a rubber suit with CGI tentacles which looked terrible: 
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May 1, 2014 06:25
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Aphrodite posted:WB doesn't want Batman on TV while there's Batman movIes. Apparently they also don't want Batman off TV so I guess this was the compromise. So is it just a coincidence that this, Arrow and Agents of SHIELD are all set in superhero universes but none of the main characters have any super powers? If I had to guess I'd assume that keeping the FX budgets as low as possible was a big factor in getting these series greenlit.
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May 6, 2014 17:29
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Aphrodite posted:Well there's also The Flash. Ah of course there is.
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May 6, 2014 17:32
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greatn posted:Is there potential for other DC cameos in Constantine, like Zauriel or Etrigan? Also Swamp Thing, Zatanna, Timothy Hunter, Doctor Occult, Mr E, Spectre, Phantom Stranger, Dr Fate ... I'll be disappointed if Swamp Thing doesn't at least get namechecked, for old times sake. 
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May 13, 2014 14:31
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Soonmot posted:SHIELD already name checked Man-Thing. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 15:09 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 14:42
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You don't want to get bitten by a radioactive PS+ and get Amazing PS+ Powers. Trust me on that one.
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Jun 10, 2014 16:44
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Waterhaul posted:It's all the same issue Alias #22. Just after feeling ignored by Peter (not knowing that he's been bite by the spider) she almost gets run down by the truck that gives Matt his powers The same truck also caused the TMNT to mutate. It was a very busy truck that day.
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Jun 12, 2014 16:25
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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
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Jul 16, 2014 16:27
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Deadpool posted:No, since the new Thor isn't the child of Odin. But that means Angela is!  Disney Princesses don't have to actually be royalty, they just have to embody the "princess mythology". If Mulan can be a Disney Princess then so can Thor. (They usually also have to appear in a Disney musical film and they're not official until they have a special induction ceremony at Disneyland so neither Thor nor Angela nor Princess Leia qualify.)
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Jul 23, 2014 04:20
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Just in case people didn't get the joke, Eric Kripke has gone on record saying that he's a huge fan of the Hellblazer comics and he based Castiel's look on John Constantine.
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Jul 28, 2014 18:19
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Aphrodite posted:Noah Taylor as Johnny Royale. I don't know who he is but he looks perfect. He's an Australian actor probably best know as Locke from Game of Thrones although people might also remember him from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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Error 404 posted:Get those guys some wigs or something at least. Haha. How soon we forget the brave sacrifice of Rasta Catering Dude 
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