aw don't make me want to watch this now
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Dethklokband.PNG/300px-Dethklokband.PNG
― Mordy , Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link
ok if they bring in dethlok I may have no choice but to watch. I'm sure marvel is doling out any actual proper MU characters with maximum stinginess.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
I'm still wondering how Dethlok wound up teaching at the X-Mansion
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
He got there via the X-Force death squad
― SHAUN (DJP), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
Makes sense. Now we just need a Doop cameo in the movies
― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
well this thread is now definitively more entertaining than the show
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 10 January 2014 05:29 (ten years ago) link
Doop needs to lead x-force
― mh, Friday, 10 January 2014 06:44 (ten years ago) link
Finally watched last week's. Why are so many people acting like the Coulson resurrection is all tied up and, thus, unsatisfactorily explained? There's clearly more to come. Still digging the show. Tweezers were weak, though, for sure.
Read something a week or so ago from one of the people working on the show which pointed out (as I don't think I'd realized before) that Captain America and Hulk were the only super-powered humans that existed prior to the advent of the series and that the escalation into a world of powered folks is gonna be a slow burn. I'm feeling way more chill about their superhero/villain stinginess after reading that, as I wholly support that approach.
― Fugly McTrashface (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 January 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
Hmmmm maybe this show is about to get a lot more fun:
Bill Paxton's going to be playing John Garrett in four episodes, staring in late February/early March. Executive Producer Jed Whedon explained the reason for bringing Garrett into the show:We wanted to bring in a rough-and-tumble former cohort of Agent Coulson with a little bit of attitude and cigar-smoking swagger.. . . when Garrett got his promotion to Level 7, he refused to sit behind a desk and doesn't like the formalities of S.H.I.E.L.D. He's going to help Coulson solve some mysteries and is not afraid to rig an explosive or two.Maurissa Tancharoen said that he'll appear in a "surprising" way. No word on whether the show's version of Garrett will be a cyborg like his comics counterpart. See a photo of Paxton in his SHIELD duds below.
We wanted to bring in a rough-and-tumble former cohort of Agent Coulson with a little bit of attitude and cigar-smoking swagger.
. . . when Garrett got his promotion to Level 7, he refused to sit behind a desk and doesn't like the formalities of S.H.I.E.L.D. He's going to help Coulson solve some mysteries and is not afraid to rig an explosive or two.
Maurissa Tancharoen said that he'll appear in a "surprising" way. No word on whether the show's version of Garrett will be a cyborg like his comics counterpart. See a photo of Paxton in his SHIELD duds below.
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19cgwk25e653rjpg/original.jpg
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
It'll be interesting to see whether he can overcome the zero-charisma dialogue
― mh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
It's Bill Paxton. I would watch him ham up the phone book.
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Bill Paxton deserves a better gig than this; maybe a Weird Science sequel or something, I don't know.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
guess i'll check out at least one episode of his run
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Paxton was great in "2 Guns," for anyone that missed that surprisingly entertaining '80s throwback gem.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
dethlok confirmed. but i'm still not coming back to this boring pointless show...
http://www.nerdist.com/2014/01/confirmed-deathlok-and-lorelei-to-join-marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d/
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
did not know deathlok was black? there's like eighty iterations but was he originally? not like it's a thing, just curious.
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
iirc the third one was
― mh, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
The Moench/Buckler original -- yeah, but it was not made super-apparent because he looked so gray and corpse-like after becoming Deathlok. I remember a scene where he goes to see how his "widowed" wife and kid are doing, and they're black and I had the "oh, this guy is/was black" lightbulb moment. Marvel was starting to introduce interracial relationships around this time, so I wasn't 100% sure.
― channel 9's meaty urologist (WilliamC), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah, it turns out dead men don't have a discernible skin color in the marvel u
― mh, Friday, 24 January 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
rotting flesh colored
― Mordy , Friday, 24 January 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
Shit just got real. Clairvoyant revealed! No one can be trusted! The show to this point all feels like an intricately-constructed prologue to the new world Whedon et al knew they'd be inhabiting post-Winter Soldier. Although the show jumped from 'fun' to 'pretty good' a while back. You naysayers are missing out.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 11:33 (ten years ago) link
Funny, I don't feel tardy.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:32 (ten years ago) link
But the acting and dialogue are so bad. I mean lethally bad!
― Oren Zombarchi (WilliamC), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
Eh, not really. Especially compared to a lot of dramatic TV acting. I don't have any issues with the core cast. If anyone's struck me as particularly hammy and off the mark, it's been Paxton.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
there was a coded message... and that message was HYDRA
man, can I even keep watching this
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
They should adapt this to the big screen with bigger budgets and better actors. Oh, wait ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
me and my kid caught up with the uk showings yesterday/today.really enjoying series 2.yes, the acting is bad, but its totally fun dad-n-kid popcorn gubbins.
― mark e, Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
ATTN Hayley Atwell fans - ABC have ordered the Agent Carter show to series
oh and they've renewed this thing as well
― Number None, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
wow, i'm 20 episodes behind
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
i started watching this again, it's alright but also terrible
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
just when i was starting to recontextualize it as an homage to corny 80s action cartoons it gets less silly
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:02 (ten years ago) link
Joss should write a dream episode where they all re-enact "In Like Flint."
― WilliamC, Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
It's definitely got more interesting post-Winter Soldier. Still eminently skippable, though.
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 10 May 2014 11:51 (ten years ago) link
Man, whoever got off the boat needs to get back on, because Kyle MacLachlan is Kyle MacLachlan-ing it up all over the place this season.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Friday, 24 October 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^ this
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Friday, 24 October 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
Been meaning to jump back in. Will I be missing much if I just start with the first ep of the second season?
― Number None, Friday, 24 October 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, kinda. Most of the episodes during the first 2/3 of season one were pretty new viewer friendly, but it's been one consistent narrative since then.
― I Am A Very Important Businessman (Old Lunch), Friday, 24 October 2014 13:53 (nine years ago) link
Pretty much you need to start from where Winter Soldier left off.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Friday, 24 October 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
So that's ep 17 ("Turn, Turn, Turn") onwards.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Friday, 24 October 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
ok I guess I'll try that. Thanks
― Number None, Saturday, 25 October 2014 08:11 (nine years ago) link
This show has become incredible
― its a kirt not a skilt (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 26 October 2014 04:57 (nine years ago) link
Tried checking back in this week, still find the writing and acting style completely insufferable
― Simon H., Sunday, 26 October 2014 05:41 (nine years ago) link
Hmmmm what kind of TV shows do u like?
― its a kirt not a skilt (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 26 October 2014 08:38 (nine years ago) link
I mean in terms of genre-y stuff I guess I need more wit, or more creatively staged action, or both, IE Strike Back, Banshee, even technically Justified. Even Sleepy Hollow is wittier. I just find both of those things super lame on this show, especially the attempts at zingers (like the Ron Burgundy line this week). Also the whole evil-superdad thing feels like a third-rate Xerox of Alias or something. And Chloe Bennett is awful. OK, I think that about covers my complaints.
― Simon H., Sunday, 26 October 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
I really wanted to like this show. Unfortunately it's terrible.
Except now itt making it seem like it gets a lot better? Or shd I just watch Sleepy Hollow instead?
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
The first 11 episodes of S1 are absolute garbage. 12 episodes in, they deliver the first non-terrible episode. As soon as Bill Paxton shows up it gets alot more entertaining & watchable on the whole but "better" is subjective. The last 5 eps of the first season are pretty fun and set up the 2nd season well. So far this season has been about as good as this show gets. Last one was surprisingly gross. I'd think twice about letting kids watch this show even though I'm guessing they're a prime demographic.
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 30 November 2014 01:30 (nine years ago) link
I'm not sure I can get through the first 11 for all that backstory tbh. Back to the grindstone while I do some sit-ups or something.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Sleepy Hollow is still pretty good! Last season strayed a little but still v watchable thanks to Captain Woolpants
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 November 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
Backstory is either easily explained or breaks down into easy single statements imo.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Sunday, 30 November 2014 09:32 (nine years ago) link