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I’ve not had the cajones to even attempt that one.

Mostly because they somehow contrived to make Medusa a redhead I don’t fancy.

I even fancy the redhead out of Girls Aloud!

Serinda Swan?

Are you crazy? She's gorgeous.

But don't watch the show. It's awful.

I liked how they resolved T.H.E. R.E.A.L. S.H.I.E.L.D. vs T.H.E. F.A.K.E. S.H.I.E.L.D., though the Theta Protocol was a disappointment, esp since in Avengers 2 they clearly say they got the Helicarrier out of mothballs, which makes sense since we never saw the Avengers I carrier in Winter Soldier. No need to shoehorn in a secret helicarrier built in the basement.


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Y'know I generally do not support Project Wideawake and their policy of sending Giant Purple Robots to kill freakish genejokes but for the Inhumans I'll make an exception.

I think shield suffered a lot from the movie releases. I mean the whole arc of Shield being infiltrated by Hydra probably should have been saved for end of season 2 and season 3 in a traditional series. Season 1 should have been about establishing the show and probably should have used AIM as the primary villian creating Deathlock and stealing alien tech. You don't have a stable period of Shield really doing what they did most of the time in the comics because they kept getting knocked about by the movies. I think it's hurt the series and I wasn't even interested in finishing watching the most recent season even after I finished the Kree arch were I just wanted to punch the Kree lord in the face every time I had to see him (though not nearly as bad as the Mad Hatter in Gotham).

The Inhumans series was bad though. I think I would have personally played up the point that Maximus actually had some good and sympathetic points more, personally.

They had to turn Maximus into a super-moustache twirling villain tying children to railroad tracks and stapling babies to his forehead eventually so that he could continue being the 'bad guy', because when he was arguing against the Inhuman royals all his proposals seemed completely reasonable.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
They had to turn Maximus into a super-moustache twirling villain tying children to railroad tracks and stapling babies to his forehead eventually so that he could continue being the 'bad guy', because when he was arguing against the Inhuman royals all his proposals seemed completely reasonable.

Which is sad, because you could have made him a good and sympathetic character who eventually became unstable due to mental illness. Give the heroes a reason to actually change their status quo because Maximus was actually right and have a good reason to keep him around after the heroes need to take back the throne because his paranoid schizophrenia is telling him the Earth is going to blow up the moon or something. He's Maximus the Mad in the comics, they could have gone with mad not being another name for power hungry dick. They could have gone with him nearly being the hero of the story but at least made the heroes actually try to be better people and leaders.

Well Karnak would still be a dick because that is kinda who he is.

Ken Leung was too good for that show.

S3 Halfway mark-Inhumans as the X-men is a lot more interesting than Inhumans in Shangri Li so

Still not interesting-interesting but better.

Disappointed that N.O.T. S.H.I.E.L.D. turned to be Hydra, again. Why not just garden-variety racists?

Not sure what they had planned for the N.O.T. S.H.I.E.L.D. lady but turning out to actually be kind of a nice person was unexpected. Turning into another dead girlfriend to motivate the cast was disappointing. Hey what happened to the Council after Commander Adama died? Shouldn't they be the ones taking charge instead of Mack?

Wow Skye after going full on Mary Sue now is just part of the furniture other than whining about her people being oppressed.

Wow Mockingbird is tall, like really tall.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
S3 Halfway mark-Inhumans as the X-men is a lot more interesting than Inhumans in Shangri Li so

Still not interesting-interesting but better.

Disappointed that N.O.T. S.H.I.E.L.D. turned to be Hydra, again. Why not just garden-variety racists?

Not sure what they had planned for the N.O.T. S.H.I.E.L.D. lady but turning out to actually be kind of a nice person was unexpected. Turning into another dead girlfriend to motivate the cast was disappointing. Hey what happened to the Council after Commander Adama died? Shouldn't they be the ones taking charge instead of Mack?

Wow Skye after going full on Mary Sue now is just part of the furniture other than whining about her people being oppressed.

Wow Mockingbird is tall, like really tall.

Lance and Mockingbird are honestly one of the best things about the show.

 Lance845 wrote:


Lance and Mockingbird are honestly one of the best things about the show.

They really were fun kind of filling the Grant Ward 'uber competent killing machine' and Skye 'snarky audience POV character' roles. I read they were going to get a spin off and were written out for that that, but then it never happened. No more Adrianne Palicki

It's true and the show was worse off for it. Why they decided to take the BEST parts of AoS (which needed help) and remove them to make a spin off and then never actually make the spin off is beyond me.

That whole episode just bugged me.

An international conference, in Taiwan? I won't bore you with the history of the Republic of China vs the People's Republic of China but suffice to say none of the countries represented recognize Taiwan and would not be able to send high-level representatives there. I appreciate the effort at internationalism, I like how they're always off to Morocco or where ever but please do your homework!

The Prime Minister of Russia? Yes Russia has a PM but he's not head of state, the President is. A plot to overthrow the PM of Russia is like a plot to overthrow the US Speaker of the House. He's an important guy but the plot really should have been about the President. Maybe they were worried the audience wouldn't understand if there were two presidents in the plot?

A US President flies to Russia over two captured spies? Really? He has nothing better to do?

I know this is a show about people who shoot lightning and flying aircraft carriers but I can handle that since none of them are real so who knows if they get that part 'right'. But the political stuff is real and would be easy to get right.

I did really like the send off, all their friends at the bar and none could speak to them. Well done.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Lance845 wrote:


Lance and Mockingbird are honestly one of the best things about the show.

They really were fun kind of filling the Grant Ward 'uber competent killing machine' and Skye 'snarky audience POV character' roles. I read they were going to get a spin off and were written out for that that, but then it never happened. No more Adrianne Palicki

On the plus side, she kills it in The Orville and probably wouldn't have been able to do both. I've no idea why they haven't had her & Nick Blood(I love that his real name is if anything more ridiculously 80's action movie lead character than his character name ) back on for more cameo roles though given the spinoff died ages ago. We get one from Lance eventually(won't spoil it for you) and that's that, I'd have had the main gang come up with a fix for their predicament and then repeatedly sent them off on long deep-cover assignments that always coincidentally end at just the right time for them to swoop in and kick ass on the show at opportune times.

Hmm, Nick Blood vs Lance Hunter... that's a tough call, but Lance Hunter is a bit more phallic so I think it has the edge.

Now if his real name was Dirk Blood, that would be a different story.

Crashing through Season 2 with 4 episodes to go.

Inhumans Arc works far better binged!

Well Agents of SHIELD works on the LOST style:

Nothing happens for 40 minutes, then 5 minutes of action.

It's not true of every episode, but they spend so much time spinning their wheels and then suddenly lurch forward at the end of the 5th act.

End of Season 3, hurrah hurrah two annoying characters are dead (though they'd be easy to bring back) about a season after I got sick of them, and the set up for S4 looks like we're going back to something like the status quo of S1 and that's good.

So um you finished off Hydra off screen? That's OK I guess...

And you just forgot you have an aircraft carrier? Or maybe calling the Avengers (I know, I know but someone should at least suggest it)?

If I never hear the word inhuman again...

The problem is just that Hive's powers were just too random (so he can mind control Inhumans, and possess dead humans, but can't possess dead inhuman or mind control humans because of... reasons?). Oh and strong, invulnerable, heal, killer dust... Just too much a plot point villain pulling new stuff out of his butt. Human Grant was kind of interesting (though I got tired of him) Hive was just annoying.

Coulson really suffers from the writing in this one, he'll move heaven and earth to save Skye but when random SHIELD agents get turned into zombie neanderthals he's like 'probably can't cure them, open fire'. People one or the other! And if the answer is he's unhealthily fixated on Skye/Daisy/Quake then he shouldn't be her boss.

Oh and what happened to the council of experienced agents supposed to be telling what to do? I guess they were all on the aircraft carrier waiting for a call?

Meh I've come this far, looking forward to S4.

If I remember correctly, in 4 they change up their format a bit into 2 stories a season. So the first half (12-13 episodes) is a whole story that concludes at the mid season break and starts up the plot for the next story after they came back and went to the finale.

Season 4 part 1 - Ghost Driver vs Ghost Pedestrians

Enjoying it, the 8 episode arc thing is a very good move, things are moving at a fair clip with none of the padding I felt in earlier seasons.

I'm liking the new director and new status quo, good to have an organization back. Coulson always worked better for me as a company man than a spy master.

The TV budget does hurt especially when I realized they only had the budget for Ghost Driver to flame on once an episode. Shame that Mack never got to flame on while on his motorcycle for that classic Ghost Rider moment. I like the muscle car but it isn't Ghost Rider y'know.

THe mad scientists and the not~cronomicon was annoying, I don't like mixing science and magic, couldn't they just be garden variety satanists?

More inhumans...

Daisy for hecks sake zip up your jump suit, I mean seriously, is this Charlies Angels now?

The problem with science + magic is that only one person knows how to do it correctly, and Shield might only get to mention that some mysterious guy taking over a country called Latveria in a couple of days time (hopefully tied to only a Doom teaser at the end of a successful first FF movie to build on Doom in a second that turns out to be a Doombot, and saving actual Doom for an Avengers movie).

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Season 4 part 1 - Ghost Driver vs Ghost Pedestrians

Enjoying it, the 8 episode arc thing is a very good move, things are moving at a fair clip with none of the padding I felt in earlier seasons.

I'm liking the new director and new status quo, good to have an organization back. Coulson always worked better for me as a company man than a spy master.

The TV budget does hurt especially when I realized they only had the budget for Ghost Driver to flame on once an episode. Shame that Mack never got to flame on while on his motorcycle for that classic Ghost Rider moment. I like the muscle car but it isn't Ghost Rider y'know.

THe mad scientists and the not~cronomicon was annoying, I don't like mixing science and magic, couldn't they just be garden variety satanists?

More inhumans...

Daisy for hecks sake zip up your jump suit, I mean seriously, is this Charlies Angels now?

So that Ghost Rider is the 4th(?) main Character Ghost Rider in the comics.



and not ACTUALLY a true ghost rider in the comics

In the comics it's his uncles spirit that is possessing him who was a satantist and murderer in the comics and obviously changed in the show. Actual Ghost Riders are possessed by a Spirit of Vengence (a incredibly powerful demon or fallen angle). The Darkhold is a major book in the comics. It's actually the Necronomicon for Dormammu (the big bad of the Dr Strange movie). This is what I spoilered earlier. If the Darkhold shows up... where the feth is Wong and Dr Strange?

On the plus side, his background explicitly shows there is at least Danny Ketch or Jonny Blaze riding around. I would love to see a Netflix show with Ketch.

Onto Season 4 I go.

Man, when Coulson, Mack and Fitz come to Yo-Yo’s aid at the party? What a gloriously brutal punch up!

Just started season 5. It's... not what I expected so far.

Season 4 really is very good!

Yes it is. The "pod" method for the stories (Ghost Rider/LMD/Framework) was very good.

Yup. I like how they remain linked to each other, rather than three stand alone.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Well Agents of SHIELD works on the LOST style:

Nothing happens for 40 minutes, then 5 minutes of action.

It's not true of every episode, but they spend so much time spinning their wheels and then suddenly lurch forward at the end of the 5th act.

Oh and its always all about Daisy - yawn.

I enjoyed the Agents of Hydra run more than the normal stuff but I am Mirror Universe fan.

AoS is apparently not available on Netflix in Japan, in case anyone is wondering.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
AoS is apparently not available on Netflix in Japan, in case anyone is wondering.

Most of the current superhero shows are available to rent on DVD, at least where I am.

 JoshInJapan wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
AoS is apparently not available on Netflix in Japan, in case anyone is wondering.

Most of the current superhero shows are available to rent on DVD, at least where I am.

How quaint

I'll be back in the US next week so no worries