Cal isn’t getting more Inhumans. He’s getting the superpowered people formerly locked away by SHIELD; that’s the program he was muttering about to Raina.
What is up with people referring to Skye as a “waif”? Chloe Bennett isn’t bulked up, but she’s by no means a frail little waif. She’s actually of a fairly average build. Or is this just more hateful size-shaming?
What superhumans are we talking about? I can’t remember.
Cal mentioned the index, and I thought they’d be new characters, possibly renegade Inhumans.
The Index, that was the name.
1st season had as a plotline all the superpowered people that SHIELD had been collecting. Ward and Garrett freed them all when they break into the Fridge. Presumably, all those being held in the Fridge were on the Index.
I vaguely remember that. There was the one guy who was obsessed with Coulson’s ex. What others were there? Would Cal know them? It sounded like Cal wanted to get back together with some old buddies and form a team.
Yes, her build is fairly normal (for Hollywood), but she plays the “waif” role here, something Whedon is known for.
I don’t recall any in particular, either, other than the mob freed in the scene at the Fridge. I suppose there’s Graviton… I don’t recall that plotline ever getting resolved.
Joss Whedon is known for that. This is his brother’s show. And, really, even Buffy wasn’t a “waif”.
Are all the women on this show “waifs”, then? Melinda, Bobbi, Gemma, too?
The Chitauri take the place of the Skrulls in the MCU, AFAIK.
And all the Skye haters - why even watch the show? She’s been the POV character from the get-go.
Well Joss is supposedly lending some advice.
No, hardly. Melinda is the anti-waif; tough, strong, independent.
Yeah, and then you can celebrate good times.
Come on.
How much ya wanna bet last season something like this happened:
Producer: Hey guys we’re being slammed in the blogosphere as the cast isnt ethnic enough!
Staff- hey that’s bogus, there’s May and Skye and…
Big Time Network dude: Bring in someone black or else!
Writer A: Hmm, let me write in Mack.
Writer B: Hey I’ll bring in Tripp.
Producer: great guys!
Big Time Network dude: No, you cant have two black guys on your show, what do you think this is, BET? Kill one off!
You forget the third black guy, the one they killed off in the opening episode for the season, along with Lucy Lawless.
Why do they kill off the white Kiwi women? I’m not saying they’re racist, but c’mon… one episode and dead?
She’ll get better. Bet on it.
For certain values of “better.”
She’ll get better.
Count me in on Team Skye. I didn’t like her (or FitzSimmons) at first; now she’s growing on me. Maurissa and Jed aren’t averse to having strong female leads who are human (see Dollhouse), and I don’t mind Skye being a Primary in an ensemble.
WAG - Raina is Squirrel Girl!!! Look out, Dr. Doom!
I’m not seeing Skye as the typical Whedon heroine. Previous “special snowflake waif girls” like Buffy or Echo or River may have had a waif-like surface but it was established right from the beginning that they had special abilities immediately below that surface. These were women who deserved respect. The only people who treated them like waifs were those who were unable to see past the surface to the real woman.
But up until the last couple of episodes, Skye really was as waif-like as she appeared. Other than her moderate computer skills she had no special abilities. She was the weakest link in the team but for some reason everyone else was giving her tremendous and mostly undeserved respect.
Truncheon. But that’s a word I haven’t seen very often, outside of Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream.
I thought Tripp’s actor asked to be written out, as he was committed to another show.
That little truncheon cracked me up. I kept imagining Thor showing up. “Oh, what a cute little toy hammer.”
When did you find out Trip was actually going to die?
B.J. BRITT: Nooo! I don’t want to die. [Laughs]. I found out a week prior to getting the script that Trip was going to die. We don’t get the scripts ahead of time, we always find out what’s going to happen in the next episode when we show up at the table read, or maybe a day before the table read. I remember it like it was yesterday. I just finished a scene at the end of the day, and I was back to my trailer, and they said, “Hey, B.J.! Producers want to see you at the office.” My stomach just dropped and I was like, “Oh, hell.” So then I’m like, don’t freak out, it might be an arc, keeping my spirits up. You get the butterflies in your stomach. Then I walked up to the office and all the producers were there and it was like, “Oh hell….how does he die?” I knew it; I just knew it when they were all there. They were like “B.J., we’re sorry, so sorry…” They told me ahead of time, which I’m very, very grateful for, because I didn’t want to show up to the table read and find out there. As soon as I left, they told the rest of the cast and everybody started calling me and texting me.