Link to Fury’s cameo:
It’s 199999.
Which one - Simmons or Skye? Simmons is cute as hell to me - bit of a Hermione vibe, some Willow in there, can wear a pair of jeans quite well (scene in the blown-out lab). I look forward to when we’re a few eps in and she and Fitz don’t have to be one-note characters anymore.
Skye. Okay, there’s a few moments when it seems like the dialogue was written for Faith on BTVS, and she delivers it just like Dushku. The first time I noticed it was her in the Corvette with Coulson when she said “Not really a team player.” Maybe all duplicitous brunettes sound the same in the Whedonverse…
And you know how we know she’s a brilliant hacker? They keep telling us. Of course, that may be a good idea since nothing about the character says “I’m a brilliant but dysfunctional geek who lives in a van.” (Brilliant: she hacked SHIELD twice. Geek: computer hacker- how 80s. Everyone else is trying to start the next Facebook or vlogging on Youtube. Dysfunctional: she lives in a van. A van well-stocked with hair and make-up products, a good-sized wardrobe, and a single laptop, mind, but still she’s supposed to be just this side of homeless. She’s not even tv gritty.
Skye’s not just a hacker, she’s a bleeding heart hacktivist.
Heh. According to that link, the university that Jane Foster and Erik Selvig are associated with (in Thor) is the same university with Betty Ross (in The Incredible Hulk).
Selvig did mention in Thor that he had known Bruce Banner (though he doesn’t mention Banner by name), but I didn’t take that to mean they both worked at the same university. Also, I didn’t even assume that Selvig and Foster worked at the same university. She was a former student and had gone on to a university position of her own but I didn’t assume that meant she held her position at the same university where she had studied under him.
As an adopted Londoner I had no trouble with their accents at all. Watch *Taggart *sometime and then talk to me about Scottish accents.
I find that I dislike everything Whedony about this series, from the rapid-fire whitticisms to the ‘secret badass’-females; either it’s just played out for me, or it’s not terribly well done in this one.
Also, I’m somewhat taken aback by the ‘we’re keeping things secret from the public, and that’s a good thing’-angle they seem to be taking—especially in light of the recent issues with keeping stuff from the public in the real world, going against the grain of bringing things out into the open in mystery shows/films seems a somewhat strange decision.
Agreed mostly- but “If I need a gun, I’ll take one” is a pretty awesome line.
OK it is only two episodes in but, as someone that regularly buys Marvel comics and loves the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I am really quite disappointed so far.
Frankly it is all a bit boring.
I forgot how much I love Isabella Rossellini.
Okay, we’ll just have to agree that you’re wrong 
(sorry, no real snark intended; just wanted to respond in a Whedonesque way)
Interesting point. I mean, “Good Secret Guys” is SHIELD’s stock in trade. I am not up on the past couple of decades of comics, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this conflict has cropped up. How has it been handled in the comics world?
Men In Black had the best explanation for the reasoning behind keeping the extraterrestial world secret --paraphrasing “An individual can be smart and rational, a group of people can be an idiotic mob.”
I think we need to see a big bad for the season soon and to see more of how the Battle of New York actually affected the world.
I love her too but she wasn’t in the show. Or is this a non sequitur?
Oh good; so it wasn’t just me.
It’d always just you. We just pretend otherwise. 
Story of my life, man.
The whole, “Trust us, we’re the good guys,” schtick is a little hard to swallow, in light of the fact that in the movie, SHIELD tried to nuke New York City.
Come on now they would have nuked New York but saved the world.
Nevermind, I’m retarded. I’m thinking of The Black List. I got my shows confused.
This is what happens when you drink kids.
That was the World Security Council (no idea who they represent). SHIELD answers to them but we’ve seen two occasions in which SHIELD sabotaged the execution of orders it was given by the Council.