Also, the eye didn’t just have a kill switch, they could also use it as a remote torture device.
I thought this was the weakest episode to date. Not terrible just boring. Especially after a very intriguing opening scene.
I enjoyed this episode the most, as far as plot and dialogue was concerned.
However, I think the casting/character choices of the show are a fatal flaw for me. I realized that ex-Agent Amador was the first time that I felt pulled by both character and acting, and wished that she’d been originally cast as one of the primaries. Directly replacing Ward with her would be a tenfold improvement in the show. Coulson’s gravitas is turning into a one-note acting schtick to me and his scenes are already feeling repetitious.
Its so cute that the team lead buy a guy who rubs elbows with a god thinks there’s no such thing as telepathy or precognition.
That was my immediate thought, TBG, when that came up. So they don’t believe in mental powers? How about Asgardian God Aliens? 90-year old Super Soldiers frozen in ice? Scientists surviving nuclear explosions & gamma irradiation, then turning into big green rage monsters? Aliens from another dimension?
Wait until these guys get a load of Thanos. Or Osborn coming back from the dead with a bad haircut.
From another Whedon series.
‘But psychic? That sounds like something out of science fiction!’
‘We live on a space ship, dear.’
‘… SO?’
Wash is totally correct here, and so is May. Jesus does not imply aliens, and aliens do not imply Jesus, and superheroes do not imply psychic abilities. Living in a superhero universe does not mean rational people should turn off their rational minds. You believe in psychic abilities when there is good evidence for them, and not one second before. When you’ve pursued the idea, and come up with bupkis repeatedly, you don’t even entertain the thought any more until good evidence comes up.
Still, movie-Loki displayed mind-control abilities that apparently involved telepathy, and Doctor Selvig would’ve presumably relayed that to SHIELD.
Actually, his mind control powers don’t appear to involve telepathy - they require physical contact to work.
Are you factoring in the THOR post-credits scene?
Charles Xavier, Jean Grey, et al beg to differ.
Though I suppose it is debatable whether they actually exist in this particular part of the multiverse…
Was that the one where Fury shows Selvig the tesseract, and in the mirror, you see Loki’s reflection?
I’d forgotten about that one. But that’s not Loki’s mind control trick. He doesn’t take control of Selvig until the beginning of The Avengers. Whatever he’s doing there does appear to be some sort of telepathy… but SHIELD doesn’t know it happened. The first clue they have that Loki is interested in the tesseract is when he forces it through from the other side and destroys SHIELD’s HQ.
Since their rights are owned by a different company who doesn’t seem to be eager to let go of them, it’s pretty unlikely that they do.
Fox’s lawyers are pretty clear on the subject. The X-Men don’t exist in the Marvel cinematic universe. Neither do the Fantastic Four, or Spider-Man.
It’s not just Loki’s reflection, though. Fury says “Power, Doctor. If we figure out how to tap it, maybe unlimited power.” At which point:
Okay, but it’s still not the same thing he was doing in The Avengers, which is the only form of mind control that SHIELD is directly aware of Loki using.
The unprofessionalism is just really starting to drive me insane. They weren’t all old hands at this space mercenary thing in Firefly and you didn’t see people calling to ask how exactly you’re supposed to pee in a bottle and if there are snacks. Buffy was about high schoolers. This seems like a bad pastiche of Whedon-ish stuff and it’s just kind of annoying to see people behaving so inappropriately.
I gotta confess, my first thought in every stake-out scene is always, “What if they have to pee?”
YOU PEE IN A BOTTLE.
There were a ton of bushes right there. Or, hell, was there a reason they couldn’t drive into town? WHO CARES?
If I remember correctly, LMDs have tech to fool X-rays, so I would guess they can handle the back-scatter tech in this episode. And the eye was more advanced than SHIELD tech in the miniaturization and power set up, not in their understanding of the tech. Look how quickly they fixed up the glasses and hi-jacked the signal while removing the eye.
Well, Reed Richards is Mr. Fantastic. That name is not because of his stretching power (Well, Sue probably uses it for that.) it is because of his brain. He is the smartest man on Marvel earth, which is really saying something.
As for the glasses, didn’t they have to have a laptop there to process the signal? That would make them kind of awkward to carry around on a mission.
One of my favorite “Aw, c’mon!” moments is when Reed Richards needs a brilliant surgeon, so he goes to some asylum and talks Doctor Octopus thru years of psycho-therapy in a couple of hours, getting him released so he can do the procedure. (In the comics, Ock started as a famous neurosurgeon who also happened to design powerful hydraulic appendages - you know, as a hobby.)