We are so bored around here that this means war!
OK, complaint retracted. I double-checked on my TiVo, and you’re right, it is indeed boardgames. Still… I can think of a few dozen boardgames more suitable to evaluate a student’s thought processes.
I don’t know, just off-hand:
- Does your opponent when confronted with a blank board start a search pattern or stab randomly?
- When an initial hit is made, do they follow up to destroy that ship or keep searching for the others?
- What happens when confronted with unusual or suboptimal ship placement?*
- How do they configure their own ships?
All of those things will give you insight into their thought processes.
- I once irritated the hell out of my daughter by putting my carrier and battleship in a straight line, she hit one and after figuring out the direction starting moving down the line, when she got 6 hits in a line with nothing being sunk, she accused me of cheating (3 on the carrier, 3 on the battleship IIRC). It never occurred to her that I would do what I did.
My favorite line was
boyfriend: “Skye, you’re not Seal Team 6”
Skye: “No, but he is.”
I just can’t imagine that Coulson wouldn’t have known all that crap on the chip. Do they not do even the most basic of background checks on new hires?
It was also implied that whatever mysterious organization this was had already decided to eliminate the scientist (based on something Raina said to the guy in prison). Presumably her part of the project was done and she was a loose end to be disposed of. Raina was probably planning on killing her before they left the building but then saw the opportunity to let Scorch do it for her.
It was said in earlier episodes that Skye deliberately wiped all records of her past out of any files. So Shield presumably checked her background and found nothing beyond the deletions - which they accounted for by their knowledge that Skye had deleted them. Their mistake would have been to assume what was deleted was a typical childhood rather than another level of mystery.
yeah, but if they’d been playing Agricola or Puerto Rico or Magic: The Gathering most people wouldn’t have had any idea what the hell was going on.
the redacted info on the card was a Shield document - so that means either Coulson didn’t have top level access, was on a need-to-know level of access, or it was a plot hole.
My guess was that the connection wasn’t made. Shield knows there’s a women named Skye working on Phil Coulson’s team. And Shield would have done a background check and found that Skye had deleted all her public records.
At the same time, Shield has records that years ago there was a young girl named Mary Smith or whatever had been placed in an orphanage at a young age. And presumably somewhere in Shield records, there’s a file explaining Shield’s involvement in Mary Smith’s case.
But until Skye pulled out Mary Smith’s orphanage letter and said “That’s me” Shield had no reason to connect Skye with Mary Smith.
If they had used Settlers of Catan, they could have brought the “I’ve got wood for sheep” joke into the mainstream.
You’ve given me hope.
AC -> No, Skye - I am your father - join me and we can defeat HydrAim and rule S.H.E.I.L.D as father and hacker daughter!
What a great explanation. Skye’s surname has never been revealed.
On the other hand, if she were Skye McGee and the orphanage letter referenced one Perky “Bewbz” McGee, then of course I don’t see how anyone could not associate the two.
Especially now that we’ve seen her in her underwear.
which she kept on during sex. together with her memory card which did not fall out. oh yeah, those curly laces aren’t going to distract me from my nitpicks. nope.
Speaking of Chloe Bennet (aka Chloe Wang) here’s a video about her earlier career as a pop star in China.
Or he knew all along, and just had to get her to admit it.
I know, I know, insert lament for the state of American board game culture here. But at least Risk, no? Chess? Go? Poker? Something people over age 12 actually play?
She was putting her bra on after the sexy times, and it’s probably got a little pocket in it.