It was a snippet from Winter Soldier that expanded a bit on a scene from the trailer. Fury is being pursued down the streets by two cars of Bad Guys, while dodging automatic weapons fire and screaming into his cell phone “Get me off the grid!” Then the Winter Soldier steps up, zaps Fury’s SUV, and then walks towards it as Fury lies trapped inside.
Triplett could well be a mole, although I’m tending towards Sidwell myself.
Hm. Sitwell’s been in 3 of the movies and 2 of the One-Shots so far. Would they really burn his character in the struggling TV show?
I haven’t myself. I’m just so nerded out by this movie that I’ve seen enough spoilers to know a little too much about it.
Re: Ward shooting Nash: Garrett made a comment about how Ward is a Specialist, and that cold-bloodedness is basically a job requirement. So I don’t think that there is anything deper to this - Ward is NOT a deep thinker, more of a spur-of-the-moment reaction guy. As apposed to Coulson, who doesn’t adjust his tie without having three other actions already in play.
I liked it. I stopped reading the MArvel comic books during the Second Secret Wars series when it was required to buy other titles just to keep up wit the plot, so I’m not looking forward to having part of this TV show missing just because I didn’t go see the new movie on Friday.
I’m sure they will allude to everything that happens on the big screen, but keep the stories focused on our plucky ragtag group of heroes (and one or more moles for agents unknown). This series is an excellent way for Marvel to keep everybody’s attention while they are waiting for Avengers 2.
Spoiler for Winter Soldier but relating to AoS: Does Skye getting her agent badge remind you of anything? Like Tara getting promoted to the credits just before she gets killed? What good is that badge going to do Skye when SHIELD no longer exists? Typical Joss move, that.
They should also stop making the Bus drop its engines down and change course while in midflight. I suppose it’s there to look cool, but it has to be the most aerodynamically stupid thing to do with a plane when a banking turn would suffice. They did this a couple weeks ago.
Or maybe since they already made the shot, they have to reuse it a few times to get their money’s worth. Anyone know if it was the same shot? I think it was, but reversed.
Anyone else watch online today instead of during broadcast last night? I watched on Hulu this morning and didn’t see the Fury scene at the end. If it really is a scene from the movie maybe there was a licensing issue.
It was really a commercial for the movie, not a scene in the show. They just happened to expand a 3 minute scene from the movie into the commercial. But it ended with the standard “PG-13” “Opens this Friday” etc. verbiage. So if hulu strips commercials, it wouldn’t be there.
I’m still wondering about something I mentioned in an earlier thread: Does Skye have some kind of mojo that makes people want/need to protect her as part of her 0-84ness? We know agents died protecting her as a baby, we had Coulson and Garrett killing people standing between them and a cure in the bunker, and now we have Ward committing cold blooded murder after a threat to Skye…
Could there be more to this than just writer worship? Some sort of psychic power/aura/magic/unknown “save me” power?
It’s really bloody stupid. It’s about the silliest maneuver you could image, as well as dangerous. And it doesn’t even look cool?!
It reminds me of the Enterprise in ST:TNG separating the saucer - they did it in the pilot and I wish they never did it again.
I also watched the latest episode on Hulu Plus today. I’ve tried searching, but cannot find any post linking a video of (or even just describing) the post-credits scene. Anyone know of a link?
No, that was the most sensible thing they ever did. The only spoiling bit was that they insisted on reattaching it. Starfleet hates families and children and enjoys putting them into horrible danger at every opportunity.
I’m not sold on Hand being the Clairvoyant, either. The timing is possible - and she’s definitely not a friendly person. But it’s most likely that the Clairvoyant arranged for May to send some kind of update through a more-or-less legitimate channel, and panicked into “kill 'em all” mode once the he/she/it realized the team figured out May’s deal. And we’ve already established that the CV has Shield access, so it makes sense that he or she could then turn Hand on the team.
Or, alternatively, Hand is simply one person in a larger network that includes SHIELD agents. It’s very likely that Garret’s subordinate is involved one way or another (he was almost certainly laying the groundwork for the XCV-'s apparent death, but it’s hard to say if Garret is. I highly doubt Blake is involved, because I’m pretty sure that having Deathlok stomp on you isn’t something you volunteer for, even if you really, really want to look innocent. Sitwell could be; we don’t have enough to say anything about him.
I’ve wondered about this myself but then again it could be Chloe, I wasn’t crazy about the character either but she’s starting to win me over.
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so - May is ‘on our side’ and ‘this is not what it looks like’ - yet, upon finding her com channel discovered and cut - goes out armed and hunting on the plane.
Now, could be because she suspected one of the others, but she knew who was on board at the time - so her actions seem a bit ‘extreme’ given that scenario.
Now, if she suspected Fitz - seems she had other ways of isolating him at that point.
Won’t somebody think of the airframe?!?!?
What I wonder about is how heavily reinforced the deck of the aircraft carrier is to withstand the force of those monster turbofans blowing straight down. That’s not your father’s CVN.
She wasn’t using a regular gun, it was one of the special non-killy ones they use. Coulson pointed out that his was real. So, if she wanted to eliminate Fitz she would have had a regular gun. That there makes her seem a little less like one of the bad guys.
After thinking about it for a while, I find it amusing how little this episode moved the plot forward.
The team finds the Clairvoyant - except that it’s probably not really him. The Clairvoyant is a SHIELD insider - which we all figured out already. May is making secret phone calls from the plane - something we already knew. She could be the traitor - except we also know she isn’t. Hand is not happy with the team - like that’s big news. A SHIELD guy is shot - but we don’t care about him and he isn’t even dead. Fury makes his appearance - no, that’s from a movie.
People ran around a lot and time got filled. But nothing happened. All we got is a teaser that said if you come back next week, stuff happens! Gosh, thanks.
So… can anyone explain Sky’s retarded “double-blind” plan, please? When she brings it up, Coulson smirks like he thinks she’s his secret genius, but it makes absolutely no sense.
Random teams after random targets was already part of the plan. Sky thinks that only telling one team member who the target is once they’re en route somehow makes them more secure from the Clairvoyant (who may, or may not, read their minds).
But if the Clairvoyant can read minds, having only one mind to read the information from isn’t much harder than having two.
And every one of the teams, as soon as the one agent learned who the target was, they immediately turned to their partner and shared the information. How did that help???
Not to mention, relying on “secure” cell phones – things which Sky and Fitz alone can probably tv-hack effortlessly – when they’re up against opponents with sufficiently advanced tech that they use x-ray bionic eyes for throwaway agents.
Not to mention the fact that the very location the agents are going to gives away whether or not it’s the Clairvovant to the Clairvoyant. I mean, s/he knows where he is, right?
