Thank you!
That bugged me. They were searching worldwide for anyone who was in SHIELD. If there were a half dozen high level agents, why weren’t they found? Why wouldn’t Coulson had reached out to Adama last fall. The team was also stuck in a motel room for a while because they didn’t have any money. Where did this group get the aircraft carrier?
The idea that SHIELD would splinter into factions with Fury gone kind of makes sense. That the second faction has that much man & tech power when Coulson really was given the keys to the kingdom does not.
I think the stranger idea is that anyone thinks a large multi-national security and defense force tasked with containing and studying extraordinary powers, extra-dimensional threats and super science…would be reduced to working in a motel with a tiny handful of agents because governments and the World Security Council (who was willing to nuke New York) would just shrug and say “oh well that didn’t pan out” and move on. The only thing that made Coulson’s Shield the “real” Shield was Fury (who is dead to the world) saying Coulson was in charge and giving him access to off the books gear and safehouses.
I assume that Adama’s Shield has actual covert backing and is legitimate in the eyes of those with power.
There is no character named Adama in this show. You mean Robert Gonzales (Edward James Olmos)?
Please, let it go. We’re going to call him Adama until he’s killed off. And if Lucy Lawless comes back she’ll be referred to as Xena until we can come up with a cute name for her. We already had Hunter killing Hunter.
When I’m watching fiction, I tend to suspend my disbelief based on what the protagonists seem to believe and how they act (unless I’m given a good reason not to, like they’re crazy or lying or unreliable or very underinformed). And I’m usually willing to go with the rules of the world as they seem to understand them. So when Coulson, who has had a more or less reliable POV, seemed to think it rational that they’d be reduced to working out of a motel room, I was willing to go along with them.
But now that you’ve made that very good point - what the hell? what the hell was Coulson thinking? why did I believe him? I now need an explanation of why he didn’t see it.
Look, characters have names. You can use the characters name or the actors name. Calling a character by a name from two shows ago was a hallmark of a recently deceased and not mourned site about* TV with no Compassion*. It was their crappy little in-joke shtick, it’s not the SDMB’s (we have plenty of our own 
). Be original eh?
So, stop already, please.
Sometimes takes me awhile to remember all the characters’ names and I don’t always feel like looking them up just for a quick post. So, I use nicknames of various kinds. We’ve been doing that for years. I was no fan of TwoP, and I hated using *their *nicknames, but the practice of using nicknames wasn’t invented by them.
If you want to post the entire cast list at the top of every page, fine. Personally I don’t see the big deal.
Well, since I posted his name three times in this thread- I certainly think you can remember it. Or refer to him by his role “Alternate SHIELD Director”. Maybe someone has never seen BSG and is confused.
Fine, from now on I’ll call him Lt. Castillo.
Yes, you did. It was annoying each time.
FYI I have no idea of the names of any of the new people introduced as the heads of the new Shield. In my head, I call them Old Leader Guy, Unreasonably Angry Guy, Black Guy, and Woman. If they have names, they’d better repeat it more than once for me to remember.
It’s made no sense since Winter Soldier. A spy agency needs a source of funding to keep going. Somebody’s got to pay for all that jet fuel. But other than an occasional passing reference, the issue was never addressed.
As for whatever official government authority used to back Shield, they apparently decided it was too compromised by Hydra and wrote it off. Talbott’s military agency is supposed to have taken over Shield’s mission and its surviving assets.
Yep, I know a lot of people find being wrong and being corrected is “annoying”. But this is the SDMB, whose motto is “Fighting Ignorance since 1973” not *“Stealing other boards Crappy in-jokes”. *
Come up with something *original *at least.
He’ll always be Gaff to me.
For the record:
Old Leader Guy - Gonzales
Unreasonably Angry Guy - Calderon
Black Guy (who was actually white) - Oliver
Woman - Weaver
I rather like UAG - it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it.
This is original, I’ll grant you that! Not to mention i got a chuckle out of it.
…That’s what they want the public to think.
its the old “no true shield” ploy.
So, Talbot inherited what was left of Shield. But, Fury had lots of hidden assets, and that’s what Coulson has now? How’s that funded? How is Shield 2 funded?