Agreed. I want to see some cool shit that requires a special team, not some Peruvian guerillas.
Yeah, it was okay - I found the fighting/blowing shit up sequences too long/gratuitous (but that’s my same complaint about most modern movies, too).
I think I’d give it a B- at this point - definitely room for improvement. It was mostly entertaining, but it could be so much better.
I like FitzSimmons. No, I can’t hear what they are saying but it’s all good; I’d just nerdrage if I could hear it.
Gamma rays? They’ll have to address that pretty soon. And/or someone else will hulk out.
I have had it with all these motherfucking fishtanks on this motherfucking plane! 
And to whoever was complaining about gamma radiation, yes, that’s a real world thing, but no, it doesn’t behave like it does in the real world in the Marvel Universe. Deal with it. Hell, radiation in general in the MU doesn’t behave like it does in the real world. I think the only person to ever actually get fatal radiation was Captain Marvel (I), everyone else just gets new powers or enhancements to old ones.
My point isn’t who could theoretically be introduced but who is supposedly part of the world in which this show is set. It’s not the Marvel comic book universe where hundreds of superheroes have been around for decades and have mailing addresses and make talkshow appearances. This is a world at the dawn of the superhero era - Thor is some alien who lives in another dimension and has only appeared on Earth twice and the Hulk is some monster who wrecked NYC once and then vanished. In this world the only publicly known superhero who is active on a regular basis is Ironman.
I did LOL out loud at that.
But on reflection- why is the plane so fishlike? With all those extra surfaces it looks like a guppy.
I got the impression that as soon as he saw it, he cleared his people out and contacted the authorities. He didn’t examine it at all.
I don’t think anything that happened before they got on the plane was a part of her plot. When Coulson asks her when she decided to betray him, she said, “When I saw your team,” and during the gunfight at the beginning, she sees Skye and Fitz-Simmons cowering in the ruins, and shoots a look of disbelief at Coulson. I don’t think she planned anything until she was already on the plane and realized that amount of access Coulson was giving her.
Granted, I don’t know why her troops would be carrying around a can of knock-out gas. Maybe one of them swiped it from the labs when no one was looking?
Well, Coulson and the Comandante had met before. That was kind of a major plot element. I’d expect Coulson to grant access to the plane based on his level of trust in the commanding officer, not his trust in each individual soldier. I agree that between this episode and the pilot, Coulson is weirdly trusting for a top level secret agent.
Also, the location was pretty secure. They were tied up, locked away from the rest of the ship, and guarded. The window between Mai dislocating her wrist, and the guard coming back to check on them was apparently small enough that she didn’t have time to reset it before she had to take him out. And even then, they were only able to get out of the labs because they’d left their duffle bag full of remote control robots up in the cabin.
All part of his afterlife crisis.
Also, I’m predicting that Rising Tide is going to turn out to be a front for Hydra.
I will be horribly disappointed if they use Hydra but don’t do that creepy-ass Hydra Oath thing where they stand in single file and hold their arms out, chanting…
They don’t have to wear the uniforms, they don’t have to repeat the entire chant (just “Hail Hydra” would be fine), but they gotta do the arm thing, dammit.
Also? If they have Hydra, they have AIM* I want a damn MODOK.
If Joss can do creepy morticians in grey sparkly makeup who float and have creepy grins and turn that dumbass concept into one of the spookiest hours of TV ever, he can do a MODOK right.
*AIM, Secret Empire, Them and several others were all Hydra splinter groups
I’m hoping that future cameos will let us see the big names we know, in little ways.
Thor pops in to drop off a charged cellphone- but he’s got to go, no time to help with the actual Problem of the Week.
That’s going to be hard to pull off without coming across like this.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
dances
Actually, now I’m kind of grooving on the idea that part of the training to join a nihilistic terrorist death cult involves being shouted at by Dom DeLuise’s character from Blazing Saddles.
And what’s with explosive decompression? Don’t writers watch Mythbusters?
Didn’t Mythbusters deal with a small hole? The hole blown in the side of the Bus was at least 6 feet in diameter.
The size of the hole doesn’t matter. Once the pressure is equalized between the cabin and the outside atmosphere, you’re not going to get a continuous torrent of air rushing out the hole. And it equalizes really, really fast: that’s why they call it explosive decompression. After that, any wind would be coming in through the hole, not out of it.
I agree 100%.
I had a little rant in the other thread about the lack of superheroes, but really I think you two have it right. A show about secret agents dealing with weird comic-book stuff is cool. Secret agents fighting some generic army guys over a big ray-gun? Meh.
That said, it’s just the second episode. Maybe they didn’t want to throw too much at us while we’re still getting to know the characters.
Marvel’s Agents of G.L.E.E. !!!
I have a feeling Skye is not betraying Shield - I think she’s planning to spy on Rising Tide, maybe for herself, maybe for Shield - I don’t think she’s completely bough in yet.
I don’t understand. Isn’t a Peruvian Army guarding an ancient space weapon “weird comic book stuff”?
I think she’ll go thru the typical undercover angst - discovering that evil SHIELD is actually comprised of humans trying to do some good; it seems clear Coulson is hoping she’ll learn why they cover-up and quarantine the weird stuff that the Rising Tide naively things everyone should know about.
