# Marvel's Agents of SHIELD **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409 "2017-12-02T23:32:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/41 "2017-12-17T08:14:32Z")
How do you spend the single apparently extremely valuable poker chip? Do you need to bring a wheelbarrow for your change? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/42 "2017-12-17T10:59:04Z")
I’m new to the show. I am on Episode 20 of season 1. I avoided this show for some reason, just like I am doing with Jessica Jones. I thought “how interesting could a bunch of fucking non-super hero humans be?”. I was mistaken. I’ve binge watched every other Marvel product aside from the aforementioned Jessica Jones…wow. Agents of Shield is a fine show, and I am hooked. I was, as I so often am in this life, wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/43 "2017-12-17T16:56:34Z")
I don’t care if it ties to some larger story or the MCU or whatever. I’m enjoying the hell out of this. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/44 "2017-12-18T03:35:28Z")
The communications device might be a real radio, or a slightly modified one. The frequency was ~51MHz, or in the 6m amateur radio band. Brian, N9IWP ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/45 "2017-12-19T13:26:22Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I liked this episode better than the first. So they can’t let the girl kill the henchman that went along on the trawler to spy on them, but they can plant a gun on him and get him killed that way? :dubious: That’s just killing him with more steps. Yo-Yo was improvising in the face of an imminent threat to her team. It’s somewhat reasonable to assume the SHIELD folks thought the penalty for having a gun was being thrown in the pokey, not exile to near certain death on the surface. They are still learning the rules of the society. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/46 "2017-12-19T22:34:19Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I’m new to the show. I am on Episode 20 of season 1. I avoided this show for some reason, just like I am doing with Jessica Jones. I thought “how interesting could a bunch of fucking non-super hero humans be?”. > > I was mistaken. I’ve binge watched every other Marvel product aside from the aforementioned Jessica Jones…wow. > > Agents of Shield is a fine show, and I am hooked. I was, as I so often am in this life, wrong. Quite a few people bring this up, once they get out of the weeds in season 1. This show sets the bar for almost all other shows, that admittedly are on the CW network. If AoS were half an hour longer, they would be sunday movie of the week. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/47 "2017-12-19T23:55:25Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Quite a few people bring this up, once they get out of the weeds in season 1. This show sets the bar for almost all other shows, that admittedly are on the CW network. If AoS were half an hour longer, they would be sunday movie of the week. I agree. I am now close to halfway through season 2 and I can’t stop watching it. The trials and tribulations of Agent Coulson and his crew are utterly addicting, as is the ongoing elements of betrayal and Hydra. What a great show! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/48 "2017-12-19T23:58:49Z")
Speaking of which (and remember I am early on in the series), what is everyone’s favorite character? I used to think it was the combo of Fitz and Simmons with their awkward almost romance and near telepathic ability to read each other, but now…I’m going with Agent May. Her inscrutable personality, care for Coulson and fighting skills have decided for me that she’s the shit. Plus she pilots that badass plane with six (!!!) engines on it, stealth capability, and vertical takeoff and landing. That plane (“The Bus”) is so super cool. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/49 "2017-12-20T00:12:02Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I’m new to the show. I am on Episode 20 of season 1. I avoided this show for some reason, just like I am doing with Jessica Jones. I thought “how interesting could a bunch of fucking non-super hero humans be?”. > > I was mistaken. I’ve binge watched every other Marvel product aside from the aforementioned Jessica Jones…wow. > > Agents of Shield is a fine show, and I am hooked. I was, as I so often am in this life, wrong. If that’s all the furthest you’ve gotten, be careful in these threads. There’s lots of twists ahead. BTW, I heartily suggest seeing _Jessica Jones_. It is harrowing, and I don’t know if I want to see it again, but it is excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/50 "2017-12-20T00:41:34Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Speaking of which (and remember I am early on in the series), what is everyone’s favorite character? I used to think it was the combo of Fitz and Simmons with their awkward almost romance and near telepathic ability to read each other, but now…I’m going with Agent May. Her inscrutable personality, care for Coulson and fighting skills have decided for me that she’s the shit. Plus she pilots that badass plane with six (!!!) engines on it, stealth capability, and vertical takeoff and landing. That plane (“The Bus”) is so super cool. You have not reached yet the Greatness that is Bobbie, so great is the character that it was recognized on another show as the goddess that she is. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/51 "2017-12-20T02:10:50Z")
> [@galen\_ubal](#): > > If that’s all the furthest you’ve gotten, be careful in these threads. There’s lots of twists ahead. > > BTW, I heartily suggest seeing _Jessica Jones_. It is harrowing, and I don’t know if I want to see it again, but it is excellent. I’m definitely going to watch Jessica Jones, mostly based on what I have read here. I’m a Netflix Marvel junkie and I am almost out of Dope. 🙂 > [@Declan](#): > > You have not reached yet the Greatness that is Bobbie, so great is the character that it was recognized on another show as the goddess that she is. I have met her. She’s hot, a badass and super competent, but I find her arguments with her ex-husband, the English dude, johnny-what’s-his-name, to be annoying. Same as the mole on her forehead. It’s like the neckhole on Jenny in House Of Cards. Distracting. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/52 "2017-12-23T07:08:38Z")
S03 E05 “Rewind” Well, as the title suggests we go back to the night the rest of the team was abducted and sent to the future, but this time we follow what Fitz has been up to for the last 70+ years. Good episode with a surprise return of a character we haven’t seen in a while! Too bad a certain other character didn’t show up as well. An interesting development with the ‘alien observer’ guy. Are his kind an established race in Marvel comics? He reminds me a lot of September, one of the ‘Observers’ from the show _Fringe_. We also have a new military antagonist it seems. Looks like Fitz is tapping into the dark side of himself he found in the Framework. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/53 "2017-12-23T15:01:24Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > S03 E05 “Rewind” > > Well, as the title suggests we go back to the night the rest of the team was abducted and sent to the future, but this time we follow what Fitz has been up to for the last 70+ years. Good episode with a surprise return of a character we haven’t seen in a while! Too bad a certain other character didn’t show up as well. > > An interesting development with the ‘alien observer’ guy. Are his kind an established race in Marvel comics? He reminds me a lot of September, one of the ‘Observers’ from the show _Fringe_. > > We also have a new military antagonist it seems. > > Looks like Fitz is tapping into the dark side of himself he found in the Framework. I think that lady General is an LMD and is being controlled by dude whose head is in a glass jar and this is our introduction to the second arc of the season. Solid episode all round, cept for the soccer stuff lol. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/54 "2017-12-23T19:07:29Z")
Great episode. The hugs, the ferrets, bitching about soccer, all of it. And the shout out to Star Wars is possibly my favorite TV moment of 2017. > [@Tangent](#): > > An interesting development with the ‘alien observer’ guy. Are his kind an established race in Marvel comics? He reminds me a lot of September, one of the ‘Observers’ from the show _Fringe_. He’s kind of like the [Watcher](http://marvel.com/universe/Uatu_the_Watcher#axzz5272ZlQOs), but different backstory. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/55 "2017-12-24T18:33:06Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Great episode. The hugs, the ferrets, bitching about soccer, all of it. And the shout out to Star Wars is possibly my favorite TV moment of 2017. > > He’s kind of like the [Watcher](http://marvel.com/universe/Uatu_the_Watcher#axzz5272ZlQOs), but different backstory. There’s a whole race of Watchers, Uatu is just the most familiar due to his interactions with the FF and hosting What If? ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/56 "2017-12-24T18:36:12Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Great episode. The hugs, the ferrets, bitching about soccer, all of it. And the shout out to Star Wars is possibly my favorite TV moment of 2017. Did you see the crate containing the Ark of the Covenant? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/57 "2017-12-24T20:42:08Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > And the shout out to Star Wars is possibly my favorite TV moment of 2017. Yes! When that happened, I had to rewind and watch it again to make sure I’d heard them correctly. So funny! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/58 "2017-12-25T11:43:47Z")
Something that only just came to me after watching the Fitz episode: there’s no way Daisy destroyed the Earth. She wasn’t there. She disappeared in 2017 and reappeared 74 years later. So something else did it and blamed her for it. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/59 "2017-12-25T14:09:17Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Something that only just came to me after watching the Fitz episode: there’s no way Daisy destroyed the Earth. She wasn’t there. She disappeared in 2017 and reappeared 74 years later. So something else did it and blamed her for it. Her name is Skye, dammit! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409/60 "2017-12-27T00:38:21Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Great episode. The hugs, the ferrets, bitching about soccer, all of it. And the shout out to Star Wars is possibly my favorite TV moment of 2017. Remind those of us who may have missed or forgot the SW shout out. Thanks, Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvels-agents-of-shield/803409.md?page=4)