Mine was the same as yours til the end. My reaction was more like - How did I know that what was that from OMG rage why can’t I figure it out.
I think I must have looked at the staff for a bit too long
Also I wish I had Coulson’s nightmares. Oh no I’m on a beach in Tahiti and fell asleep during a massage. How terrifying! Fine fine, I know why it is for him but I’d kill for nightmares like that.
I think the fact that the team was on cleanup duty helps show where they fit into the hierarchy. Hearing there was a tie in did make me see Thor a week sooner than planned but I enjoyed it so I’ll deal with the fact that it wasn’t really required.
I didn’t really make any connection to “Thor 2” having not heard that it was supposed to tie in until I read it here. I guess I assumed that they were cleaning up after the events of the Avengers movie.
Yeah, you’re right! Wine really doesn’t fit her character, does it?
I just rewatched, and it is for sure not wine. I spotted a red 18 on the green bottle, so I guess it is 18 year old Irish Whiskey. Hey, they were in Ireland that must be it!
I was disappointed that the staff didn’t turn out to be the Wrecker’s crowbar. I was sure that was going to happen. I mean, with all the damage in London, it would make sense to have some kind of wrecking crew taking down a building, right? They could find a magic stick that was like a crowbar, right? And they’ve already established Graviton in a previous episode, right?
Also, when Simmons (or was it Skye?) asked May if flying an alien spacecraft was on her bucket list, I just got the feeling that May has done that already. If so, that shoe should drop by the end of the season.
I also suspect that Coulson’s telling the Asgard nebbish about Portland’s great philharmonic was a callback to his movie conversation with Pepper Pots about the musician he was seeing.
I know it’s a pointless thing to complain about, but I don’t like how the movieverse takes the stance that Asgardians are space aliens. From space. On another planet. Nah, that’s Stargate. In the MU proper, they’re more from another dimension, not someplace you could go if you had a spaceship. </nerd>
My silly, very little thing from that scene was him fiddling with a car key to get into his car - who uses a car key any more? Everyone unlocks their cars with a fob - <beep!>.
As per my previous post in this thread, I think the young boy was going under just as the other boy (who I believe to be Ward) was throwing the rope. We saw the rope coming down, then the point-of-view changed to that of someone under the water.
I feel that’s been implied in the movie universe. There’s the thing about the Nine Realms which can “intersect” at certain times and which you travel between by portals. This doesn’t seem like a description of planets that are separated just by distance.
I was checking her filmography and I saw something interesting. Her first professional acting credit was on Mr Rodger’s Neighborhood when she was 18 years old.
If I read it right, she was actually in her twenties; I mention this not for a pedantic nitpick, but to emphasize that she doesn’t even look her age in the abstract!
Not at all surprised. You don’t think she’s in love with him do you?
A woman’s got needs. Her career takes her from one end of the earth to the next on any given day. There’s no predictability, no stability. Her choice of partners is limited by necessity. He’s physically fit and able and he’s available to answer her call whenever she chooses to call.
I think the surprise came bc people thought ward would hook-up with sky.
Also, I’d like to settle the whole BEASTIALITY thing. Agamemnon, a character from the MU, is half human and half asguardian. A prerequisite of something being a different species from another is that they cannot produce offspring together. So, are asguardians and humans actually the same species or subspecies? Tigers and house cats are… Lol so it’s def not beastiality.
On a side note this erks me to no end in The Tomorrow People… They’re constantly referring to themselves as a different species and trying to distinguish themselves from humans, when they’re not really so different…
The kicker there is they’re almost all kids who just got their powers and they all talk about humans like they’ve never known one personally. I want so someone to yell “Hey, dumbass, you thought you were a human a few weeks ago!” As far as they’ve shown, there’s no pureblood Tomorrow Person - hell, Steve is the only one they’ve shown that’s 2nd-generation and he’s got one human parent. Their biggest gripe about humanity is one government organization and half the staff is the same as them.
Same issue the other direction with MU “muties” - the majority have two human parents, they span all nationalities, creeds, races, and they treat them like another race. More like the tv version of True Blood, mutant discrimination should be an allegory for gay, rather than the awkward attempts to make it like black racial discrimination (Mystique refusing to use her “slave name” :rolleyes:).
With Magneto, it should be about race. His parents were murdered because they were Jews, not because they were gay, and he knows the mutant gene breeds true. With Mystique, it could be a bit of each. Her mentor’s ideology would obviously be a significant influence, but her power naturally lends itself to the idea of coming out of the closet.
Oh, I think Ward also recognizes the possibility he would hook up with Skye- which is even more reason to hook up with May. With Skye, it wouldn’t happen without emotional entanglement- she wants “to be there” for him, evidenced in the immediately preceeding scene. Ward knows that a romantic entanglement with Skye would compromise his ability to do his job. Also, he recognizes the possibility (probability?) that he’ll end up hurting her- in direct conflict with his responsibility to protect her.
Not only is there no romantic entanglement with May, but to engage in an emotionally detached sexual relationship makes it easier to remain detached in all other relationships as well.
I can even see May reasoning that she’s not only attending to her own needs, but that she’s also keeping Ward in line.
So we caught up with this one last night. Good episode. The show is really coming along. But I’ll admit that when they were doing clean up early on, I was hoping for some reference to Damage Control.
