Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D S4: "Cool Origin Story Bro"

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howe_sam: Mar 7, 2013; Creepy little garbage eaters

Ye gods, that was dope.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 03:57

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# ? Apr 18, 2024 11:07

Mage_Boy: Dec 18, 2003; This hotdog is about as real as your story Steve Simmons

Okay, I love this getting right down to poo poo in the first episode. I hope they keep this pace all season.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 03:57

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

MrAristocrates posted:

That topped the Lash transformation. So great.

Hell that topped the Hive transformation.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 03:58

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK: Sep 11, 2001

I am looking forward to the adventures of Fitz and John Hannah to see if they can make the world's most expensive bullet decoy _{its totally a sexbot}

also more of Ghost Rider's sweet car

# ? Sep 21, 2016 03:58

Chokes McGee: Aug 7, 2008; This is Urotsuki.

mikeraskol posted:

WHY IS THE EPISODE OVER I NEED MORE

Just watch the episode again

I swear I'm going to do that at this rate

I may watch the full on :supaburn:

Ghost Rider sequence like forty times before tomorrow because gfd

# ? Sep 21, 2016 03:59

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

How can anyone tell if May is possessed with rage ghost?

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:00

Mage_Boy: Dec 18, 2003; This hotdog is about as real as your story Steve Simmons

Okay, this season already rules. But gently caress not May!

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:00

Chokes McGee: Aug 7, 2008; This is Urotsuki.

like I literally went eeeeee afterwards like a goddamn child because holy poo poo it's Ghost Rider

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:00

Pyroi: Aug 17, 2013; gay elf noises

I'm expecting the director to be super encouraging based off of Simmons' comment of how he doesn't want anyone to feel less important.

Basically the opposite of May's normal demeanor.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:00

Chokes McGee: Aug 7, 2008; This is Urotsuki.

okay so person who does GIFs for the OP I'm gonna need one of the entire transformation sequence tia

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:01

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

May sees that poo poo and is like "pfft whatever"

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:01

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

Chokes McGee posted:

okay so person who does GIFs for the OP I'm gonna need one of the entire transformation sequence tia

Yup.

Codependent Poster posted:

May sees that poo poo and is like "pfft whatever"

Not the first supernatural artifact that has messed with her mind. She did power herself up with the rage staff. But yeah, I'm concerned for her. :ohdear:

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:03

frgildan: Apr 6, 2005; I went some place mum and everyday I woke up in that place and told myself I'm alive and I was.

PunkBoy posted:

Yup.

Not the first supernatural artifact that has messed with her mind. She did power herself up with the rage staff. But yeah, I'm concerned for her.

Except the rage staff was Asgardian. So advanced technology etc etc.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:08

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

I loved that they took the rocket launcher scene out of the comic for Ghost Rider's intro.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:11

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

http://i.imgur.com/j6j6QVy.gifv

# ? Sep 21, 2016 04:56

Chokes McGee: Aug 7, 2008; This is Urotsuki.

X-O posted:

http://i.imgur.com/j6j6QVy.gifv

that'll do, X-O. that'll do

# ? Sep 21, 2016 05:05

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Out of the goddamn park. I am so enthused for next week now.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 05:12

TARDISman: Oct 28, 2011

X-O posted:

http://i.imgur.com/j6j6QVy.gifv

Bookmarked.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 05:15

Canned Panda: Jul 10, 2012

http://i.imgur.com/rBCwy5k.gifv

X-O posted:

http://i.imgur.com/j6j6QVy.gifv

GOD DAMNIT

# ? Sep 21, 2016 05:16

OB_Juan: Nov 24, 2004; Not every day is a good day.; Dinosaur Gum

So Ghost Rider's going to be the answer to whatever's in the box, right? Like, that "he burns souls" line isn't a throwaway when there are ghosts around.

Also, this season is looking good.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 05:26

Balon: May 23, 2010; ...my greatest work yet.

That Ghost Rider transformation was amazing, and made pretty gruesome when you realize his eyes pop and are burned out of his own skull.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 05:30

BSam: Nov 24, 2012

gently caress yeah, it's back.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 05:48

seaborgium: Aug 1, 2002; "Nothing a shitload of bleach won't fix"

I did like how, while he doesn't have a helmet, the design on it from the comics is part of his skull. That's one drat good looking ghost rider, hopefully they keep it up for the rest of the season.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 05:50

Doctor Butts: May 21, 2002

X-O posted:

http://i.imgur.com/j6j6QVy.gifv

Actually my first thought when this scene occurred:

# ? Sep 21, 2016 06:25

Proposition Joe: Oct 8, 2010; He was a good man

Apparently SHIELD is now run by Friend Computer.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 06:48

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

X-O posted:

I loved that they took the rocket launcher scene out of the comic for Ghost Rider's intro.

You don't happen to have that on hand, do ya? My google-fu is weak tonight and it's not pulling it up.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 07:29

Blazing Ownager: Jun 2, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

I was worried they were leaning a little too heavily on Ghost Rider for a shot in the ratings arm, but drat if it wasn't cool.

I really hope the show's push to expand it's audience succeeds. Each season gets better than the last and I'd be bummed out if it ended.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 07:41

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

Bruceski posted:

You don't happen to have that on hand, do ya? My google-fu is weak tonight and it's not pulling it up.

https://twitter.com/AgentM/status/778415096859090948

# ? Sep 21, 2016 07:42

Blazing Ownager: Jun 2, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

muscles like this? posted:

So who wants to bet that Fitz's VR brain scanner thing comes into play copying someone for an LMD?

Calling a twist now: A major character dies. We think "Oh, it was a LMD! Whew!"

Then we find out no, the LMD was the one that survived, with a scanned version of that person's brain still in it, so the actor remains on the show as no longer human.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 07:44

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

PunkBoy posted:

https://twitter.com/AgentM/status/778415096859090948

Thanks.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 07:48

Blazing Ownager: Jun 2, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

PunkBoy posted:

https://twitter.com/AgentM/status/778415096859090948

So many good pacing calls. Not waiting around and dragging out the reveal and instead going straight in balls-out with it was the first of many smart decisions.

This show is really underappreciated. And I get why. The first season had me >< close to jumping off-board. I even skipped a few episodes before Winter Soldier convinced me to check in and see how the hell the TV show was going to handle that. It's just been on an upward climb since, but a lot of viewers are very "Once burned." It doesn't help that anyone backing up to catch up has to slog through season 1.

That said, season 1 makes the whole show much, much better in the long run, so you can appreciate how far things have progressed and see actual character arcs, something this show does very right.

ED: Also I kind of find it hilarious that AI is apparently banned.

Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Sep 21, 2016

# ? Sep 21, 2016 07:50

HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE: Mar 31, 2010

The eye effect they on the ghosts, were those really similar to the design of the antagonists that showed up in the Dr. Strange trailers?

# ? Sep 21, 2016 08:17

BrianWilly: Apr 24, 2007; There is no homosexual terrorist Johnny Silverhand

Visually-speaking, Ghost Rider is amazing. It's not the chromey-stylish helmet of the comics but I couldn't care less, I just want to see more of whatever this is.

For the purposes of the AoS storyline, Ghost Rider works perfectly as well. His integration into the world-building was pretty seamless and will obviously play a relevant role in the stories and character arcs going forward in ways we can already see.

All that is for Ghost Rider, though. As a fitting representation of Robbie Reyes from the comics, this incarnation is...severely lacking, at least in this one episode. If not for the stretch-and-you'll-miss-it scene between him and Gabe at the end, nothing about his story or characterization or actions have the least bit to do with the original character. Interrogating and torturing his victims? Going on about vengeance and devils? It all just confirms my suspicions that they'd wanted to use Johnny Blaze or Danny Ketch and just transported whatever blueprint they had in mind for those characters over to Robbie no matter how much or how little those square pegs might fit this round hole. Or else -- and I'm not sure if this is the better or worse option -- they went for Robbie from day one and just felt like molding him into the most generically-Ghost-Rider-y presentation possible, despite the fact that what makes Robbie so interesting is all the ways he's different from the other, more established spirits of vengeance. :shrug:

So yeah. Anyway.

AGENTS OF SHIELD WOO THIS WAS A GREAT OPENER, YEAH?

# ? Sep 21, 2016 09:13

Ensign_Ricky: Jan 4, 2008; Daddy Warlord
of the
Children of the Corn

_{or something...}

HOLY gently caress, how the good goddamned does that effect look better in a TV show then on Nic loving Cage?!? Because Luna isn't cackling like a madman while it's happening? Is that all it takes?

HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:

The eye effect they on the ghosts, were those really similar to the design of the antagonists that showed up in the Dr. Strange trailers?

Truth be told it kind of reminds me of something from, of all things, the SHIELD comic where Dormammu unleashed a mindless plague on the earth to pave the way for his conquest.

Which also ties into the running rumor of Big D being in Doctor Strange.

I dunno.

Blazing Ownager posted:

Calling a twist now: A major character dies. We think "Oh, it was a LMD! Whew!"

Then we find out no, the LMD was the one that survived, with a scanned version of that person's brain still in it, so the actor remains on the show as no longer human.

Turns out it's Ward.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 09:26

Slashrat: Jun 6, 2011; YOSPOS

Ensign_Ricky posted:

Turns out it's Ward.

I'm totally on board for a Ward LMD cameo. Maybe May commissions one for use as a practice dummy

# ? Sep 21, 2016 09:43

Mokinokaro: Sep 11, 2001; At the end of everything, hold onto anything; Fun Shoe

Pyroi posted:

I'm expecting the director to be super encouraging based off of Simmons' comment of how he doesn't want anyone to feel less important.

Basically the opposite of May's normal demeanor.

He's also a very "things are done by the book" beaurocrat from what we can tell.

# ? Sep 21, 2016 12:35

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Whatever it takes to get Brett Dalton back on the show.

Have you seen what the poor guy is doing now?

# ? Sep 21, 2016 13:22

Kheldarn: Feb 17, 2011

I like that they're finally using code names. The MCU has been very shy about that. We've never heard them utter the names Black Widow, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, or Mockingbird. Now they finally use Quake and Ghost Rider.