Adama use a modern helicarrier? Blasphemy. He’s old school. No networks on his boat.
Boy is there anything stupider in military history than the SHIELD helicarrier? They seem to exist only to be taken over or crashed.
in any case-There is no character named Adama in this show. You mean Robert Gonzales (Edward James Olmos).
Well, I’d assume it would be the one with the turbine fans., so that’s plenty old school. We know what happened to the ones with repulsor engines…
If my math is correct, there is five carriers. One from the original avengers, and the four from winter soldier, I am betting that this is the original carrier.
Declan
There were only 3 in Winter Soldier, and none of them survived the movie.
Whatever you say, Canute.
So we have just proved that My Math is incorrect.
Declan
The bald guy yelling that they should throw Hunter in the brig immediately gave me a flashback to Colonel Tigh on BSG.
I was annoyed how Talbot was played as a fool - you don’t reach that rank if you’re that much of a buffoon. I did enjoy the “edible arrangements” line.
Gonzales’ carrier was a “regular” carrier - you could see the waves in some shots. My wife thought that ocean waves would have a noticeable effect inside the carrier, but I’m not so sure. Can any Dopers shed any light on whether a person on an aircraft carrier would notice motion from (calmish) waters?
Mac’s not much of a liar - I’m glad May wasn’t fooled.
Sure, it was definitely in the water, but so was the heli-carrier in the beginning of the Avengers.
There is no character named Colonel Tigh in this show. You mean Agent Calderon (Kirk Acevedo)?
In any case Colonel Tigh was played by Terry Carter, who is still alive.
I have spoken against casual, purely aesthetic plastic surgery before, but a few years back a wart grew on the corner of my lip. I am not vain, but it annoyed me, so I got some of that salicylic acid in collodion wart dissolver and in a couple weeks it was gone. Adrianne Palicki is a woman of great beauty who can make fake eyelashes of a size and magnificence not seen since 1970 work very, very well, and has a distinctive enough Midwest cornfed look that she doesn’t need a flaw to accentuate her beauty. However, the show had a short hiatus and, I dunno, maybe she could’ve dabbed some Compound W on that third eye she’s growing between her eyebrows. Just a thought.
OMG, you can’t mention that!
Not a very good episode.
The stuff with Skye and all that was basically filler. Although I did like how Fitz made the connection that he and Skye had both changed and people needed to accept the new versions of them rather than trying to “fix” them.
I hated the Talbot stuff. As others have said, he should not be portrayed as an idiot.
The Shield 2 idea is interesting but it defies my suspension of belief that it’s supposedly existed all this time with Shield 1 knowing about it. I also field that the Shield 2 people could have done a better job of presenting themselves.
But I liked the Ward and 33 story. My take is that Ward has decided he’s done with being a puppet and now he wants to be a puppet master.
Nice to mole you–meet you! Nice to meet your mole! Don’t say mole. I said mole. MOLE! Bloody mole! We’re not supposed to talk about the bloody mole, but there’s the bloody mole winking me in the face! I’m gonna chop it off and cut it up and make some guacamole!
LOL.
See, I thought you meant Adama and Col. Tigh.
I didn’t know that about them. I mean, Adama was gruff and Tigh, though passionate, didn’t seem to like him much. But people were more closeted then.
I left out “obviousness.” They aren’t tapered at the ends to make an attempt at subtlety. They just stop. I only see those on showgirls and drag queens these days.
And they look great.
Totally agreed about Talbot the buffoon. What a way to neuter a threat.
Hunter’s good, but good enough to steal a sub or plane or whatever he stole off an armed carrier on alert? Ridiculous.
I feel like this whole 2nd Shield thing is the writers regretting killing off Hydra so completely. They want the intra-team intrigue stuff, but Ward and Hydra already did it so well, this comes off as second-rate knockoff.
That mask is really something… it can change body size and shape too? and skin color on the body and hands? whuh?
Delightfully creepy scene of 33 as Skye. Though it did remind me of a scene from Angel. Lilah as Fred, anyone? “Leave them on.” (and where did she get a picture of Skye?) I am enjoying her arc quite a bit. Did the diner scene remind anyone of Pulp Fiction, or just me?
And I loved Skye’s lampshading of Coulson’s Lola analogy.
A step up from last episode, but still clunky.
I think they did a pretty good job of showing that the mask only affected the face. The voice never changed, nor the height, and the bodies were hidden by bulky clothes. I didn’t look at the hands, so I’m not sure how visible they were.