No. If the container was at ambient pressure, they were both breathing 3.7 atm air for hours, and would both need decompression. If the container was a pressure vessel, and the air inside was at 1 atm, than she breathed off a nearly empty air bottle at 3.7 atm for a few minutes at most as she ascended, which would not require time in a decompression chamber.
I thought the pod was pressurized, which was why Fitz was bewildered that it sank. As for the rest. It’s been at least twenty years since I last dove. I’m more than happy to admit I could be wrong.
You’re right. It could be her Mom. The figure was shown from behind in shadow. You could see a short haircut, and that’s what made me jump to the conclusion that it was a man. But, he or she was never addressed by name (and if they used a name it would have probably been Pat or Jamie) or anything gender specific.
Nope. I just rewatched, and she doesn’t say sir or anything like it.
My point is that I think it’s possible the writers made Ward mute as a reference to Black Bolt. But I specifically am ruling out any suggestion that Ward is Black Bolt because that would be ridiculous.
And, when Simmons first woke up and Fitz was running down the awfulness of their situation, he said that even if they did get out, they’d be stuck at sea, miles from shore and in need of decompression.
I rewatched it and can confirm what piccar wrote, that Flowers doesn’t say “Sir” or use any male pronouns. But the shot of the head from behind and the arm/hand looked very male to my eyes.
If she was wandering around the base without Fury, she had to have encountered Koenig V2.0 (great term, BTW). I’ll have to go back and see if there were any reaction shots of her when he walked around the corner.
So it’s like Stockholm Syndrome? But in that case, captives are stuck with their captors, whereas Ward was deliberately free as a bird. Unlike the Lost Boys, the world is pretty much Ward’s oyster. He doesn’t need Garrett for anything. He’s got safehouses and money stashed all over the world. He prefers being a lone agent, and Garrett has always been a busy agent with more to do than isolate and brainwash Ward.
I know, but someone else upthread mentioned something about Ward being like Skye or something. I was just wondering if they said something in the show that suggested Ward could have alien blood in him or something. I’ll rewatch the ep eventually.
It’s not a physical need, it’s a mental one. Ward tells himself that he’s not an evil person; he’s just a tool being used by evil people like Garrett or his brother. Ward wants to feel trapped because if he admits he could just walk away then he has to accept that he has chosen to stay all the previous years. Ward knows if he refused to kill Fitz and Simmons, he’d then have to ask himself why he hadn’t refused to kill the guards at the Fridge. And if he had refused to kill the guards at the Fridge, he’d have to ask himself why he hadn’t refused to kill Victoria Hand. And it follows the chain all the way back to when he beat up his younger brother because his older brother told him to. Whenever he disobeys the first order, he’s going to have to ask himself why he obeyed all the previous orders. It’s much easier to tell himself that he can’t disobey orders.
Yeah, it was a pretty big leap that they got out of the pod and to the surface - and instead of dying in the middle of the empty ocean, they found Fury waiting in a helicopter to rescue them.
Which kind of raises the question: what was Fury’s plan? Was he just hovering over that spot, hoping that Fitz and Simmons would show up? He must have known they were out in the middle of the ocean. Why didn’t he bring along some diving equipment to pull up a box that was underwater?
Or maybe he did. Maybe he was getting ready to pull Fitz and Simmons up to safety when they unexpectedly popped up to the surface. If the two of them had just waiting a few more minutes, they would have been rescued without injuries.
That’s a good interpretation. Ward needs Garrett to shield him from accepting responsibility for his own choices and actions. What a good little Nazi, as Skye pointed out.
That was from Raina’s mindgames to get Ward to let her leave. He told her that he can’t get Skye because she thinks he is a monster. Raina suggests that Skye may turn into a monster, too – so she and Ward can be monsters together.
But Ward is referring to Skye thinking he’s a monster on the inside, whereas it is likely that Raina thinking Skye will turn into a monster will be an “outside only” thing. But, of course, Ward can’t think his way through a full sentence, so he fell for her mind-bamboozle.
This makes perfect sense. It’s also why Skyes “you are literally a Nazi” speech hit so close to home, it’s the biggest condemnation of “i was only following orders”.
[QUOTE=levdrakon;17376002I was really hoping Skye’s father would be blue. What was up with all the blood? Very weird.[/QUOTE]
A damaged, cadaverous hand dripping blood and ichor? I thought for a moment that it was turning in EC’s Agents of SHIELD.
So what we have is a group of writers who don’t understand the mechanics of compression and decompression. Nothing new. Much like Fitz’s technobabble explaining why a sealed, air-filled box with no space for ballast tanks sank instead of bobbing on the surface.