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Hmm, I have to say that I wasn't very impressed by the new episode. I did like the Deke bits, especially the tree hugging and his surprised disgust at tasting real beer. The Xena girl though... ugh.
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That bartender didn't even try to scan Deke's wrist.  Good to see Piper back, even if she hosed up bad.
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Mar 3, 2018 12:17
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AbstractNapper posted:Hmm, I have to say that I wasn't very impressed by the new episode.
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Mar 3, 2018 12:53
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AbstractNapper posted:Hmm, I have to say that I wasn't very impressed by the new episode. Beer is nasty though?
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AbstractNapper posted:Hmm, I have to say that I wasn't very impressed by the new episode. I’ve been more or less feeling that for this whole season so far. It’s... OK? I’ll power through and finish the season, but I have to say AoS is starting to lose me.
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Mar 3, 2018 15:12
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AoS is still solid television as far as I'm concerned. I never find myself thinking "just get it over with" during it.
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Mar 3, 2018 15:43
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Wait poo poo there was a new episode, I thought it was next week  God reading from it, I just hope we don't spend too much time building up to them having to redo the loop and that this is actually the time they succeed in breaking it.
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I certainly enjoyed this episode a lot more than the rest of the season. Dank-rear end space dystopia with star trek aliens sucked.
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I love how Deke's personality changed entirely, and not in a bad writing way at all. Like, when he was living in a miserable dystopia where everyone he gives a poo poo about gets eaten by giant alien cockaroaches he was a cynical jaded rear end in a top hat. But the second he sees the sun, trees, and garbage ice cream he's a giddy wide eyed child who can't even grasp the concept of animal crackers. That was fun. I don't know how I feel about the evil warrior Disney teen. Although I guess I'm glad she's evil and crazy because I was never going to sympathize with her.
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Mymla posted:I certainly enjoyed this episode a lot more than the rest of the season. Dank-rear end space dystopia with star trek aliens sucked. This is certainly correct.
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Mar 3, 2018 17:08
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Mymla posted:I certainly enjoyed this episode a lot more than the rest of the season. Dank-rear end space dystopia with star trek aliens sucked. yeah i appreciated it from a storytelling perspective but it wasn't really enjoyable to watch for the most part imo. I'm glad they're back on non-blown-up earth.
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Mar 3, 2018 17:29
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Look everyone, lighting! Sometimes even natural light! My number one complaint of the first pod was most scenes outside of Kasius' room seemed like they forgot to pay the electric bill.
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Mar 3, 2018 18:19
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Those robot soldiers had a distinctly HYDRA look to them.
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Mar 3, 2018 18:58
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Biggest question here: why was it soooo important for the main characters (and each one of them specifically minus Fitz) to go into the future again? Like, what was the point of the first half of this season?
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Mar 3, 2018 19:05
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self-fulfilling prophecy by the little girl, from which they got ... Deke and a Skye Power Inhibitor?
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Mar 3, 2018 19:09
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Whoa, holy poo poo, first Inhumans, then LMDs and Ghost Rider and now Thunderbolts?! This show's going everywhere!
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I would not be surprised if Deke is the X factor that changes the future. I'd not be surprised if General and slicey teen (wait is she named Ruby? like Reigns daughter on Supergirl?) turn out to be Kree or even Skrulls.
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GLOSS posted:Ok Creel is good, where the hell is Deathlok already!?! Exactly! Dude's the biggest dropped element in this show, now that they've brought Gravitonium back and acknowledged it still exists. JazzFlight posted:Biggest question here: why was it soooo important for the main characters (and each one of them specifically minus Fitz) to go into the future again? Like, what was the point of the first half of this season? They now know they can bring people back from the dead, so they can save Coulson and Yoyo's arms while they're sprinting through timelines.
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Oh, and the “Asgardian in the city” was totally Thor from Ragnarok, right?
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Who was the guy running at the end again? Also are the general and her daughter new people that they just introduced or did they exist before? Just wondering.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Who was the guy running at the end again? The general was seen during Fitz's episode leading the investigation into SHIELD. She killed two of her agents in cold blood when they botched the investigation.
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twistedmentat posted:(wait is she named Ruby? like Reigns daughter on Supergirl?) Oh huh, so she is. Boris Galerkin posted:Who was the guy running at the end again? The Absorbing Man
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Mar 3, 2018 20:35
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The general was new to the Fitz flashback episode last pod, the one with Hunter. Her daughter is new to this episode as we're the robot super soldiers. The jogger is Carl Creel, aka the Absorbing Man. He's showed up off and on through much of the shows run. He absorbs the property of stuff he touches.
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Mar 3, 2018 20:36
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Phylodox posted:Oh, and the “Asgardian in the city” was totally Thor from Ragnarok, right? Yes. The report being from the girl who saw him and took a selfie, so it had spread that he was around.
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I'm surprised the Thread-titel hasn't been changed to "We have a small but loyal fanbase" yet. Also Deke is gold  And Piper will redeem herself.
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Mar 3, 2018 20:49
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And here I though Kasaius cut off Yo-Yo's arms to keep her from fighting back. That makes more sense than what happened. It's bad enough that she should have seen the chakram and easily avoided it, but then it also somehow managed to cut off both arms, at the same place?
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She hasn't had a great track record of reckless actions to save Mack. I can't remember what episode it was but remember when she took those bullets for him? Now I can't even remember if she's been shown to be good at stopping things mid-flight or only when they're stationary like guns out of people's hands.
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Mar 3, 2018 22:15
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CaveGrinch posted:Yes. The report being from the girl who saw him and took a selfie, so it had spread that he was around. And people said AoS would never reference the movies again
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Rewatching the episode, the first scene doesn't seem to make much sense. Kid Xena questioning her mom's morals over SHIELD, and her mom reassuring her that it's her job to make the world a safer place. That doesn't really make much sense when we know that kid Xena's the assassin she's using. And the whole capture/kill thing makes even less sense knowing that.
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RareAcumen posted:They now know they can bring people back from the dead, so they can save Coulson and Yoyo's arms while they're sprinting through timelines. I think Coulson certainly already knows they can bring people back from the dead. e: Lol I misread your sentence. Nice Good Lord Fisher! fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Kheldarn posted:And here I though Kasaius cut off Yo-Yo's arms to keep her from fighting back. That makes more sense than what happened. It's bad enough that she should have seen the chakram and easily avoided it, but then it also somehow managed to cut off both arms, at the same place? I was thinking the same thing earlier. It didn't seem to be an open matter how she lost her arms. I also just assumed Kasius did it -- although on second thought he could have used one of his slugs couldn't he? Anyway, the episode wasn't bad per se. It was more of a set up episode than anything else and I admit that with all the hype about the 100th I thought this was it and that didn't help. RE: "real beer". I don't really like (European) beer but I will drink on occasion with my friends. I do remember though the first times I've tasted it and yeah my main thought was how do people drink this in large glasses no less?
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hope and vaseline posted:Rewatching the episode, the first scene doesn't seem to make much sense. Kid Xena questioning her mom's morals over SHIELD, and her mom reassuring her that it's her job to make the world a safer place. That doesn't really make much sense when we know that kid Xena's the assassin she's using. And the whole capture/kill thing makes even less sense knowing that. Yeah, I was thinking that, too. But it seems she's just obsessed with
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AbstractNapper posted:I was thinking the same thing earlier. It didn't seem to be an open matter how she lost her arms. I also just assumed Kasius did it -- although on second thought he could have used one of his slugs couldn't he? Hey man, don't feel patriotic about your bad beer, Aussie beer is universally bad. But they/we don't know that.
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Also, it looks like Coulson & Co. are going to be responsible for the extinction of the Chronicom race, one observer at a time.
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There is nobody on the planet who took their first sip of beer, or coffee, or hard alcohol, and thought, "Mmm. Delicious." You drink it to get hosed up and eventually you love the taste. I really appreciated this show's portrayal of somebody drinking their first beer. Also, whoever floated the idea of an episode where the crew goes on vacation really hit on something that has been bothering me. I love the show, and it's still awesome, but since the middle of last season, the crew has just been playing whack-a-mole with crises and the pace is starting to wear on me.
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AbstractNapper posted:I was thinking the same thing earlier. It didn't seem to be an open matter how she lost her arms. I also just assumed Kasius did it -- although on second thought he could have used one of his slugs couldn't he? Speaking of future tech, Daisy is still chipped and powerless right? And I guess everyone has their wrist implant too but that doesn't really do anything anymore.
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hope and vaseline posted:Rewatching the episode, the first scene doesn't seem to make much sense. Kid Xena questioning her mom's morals over SHIELD, and her mom reassuring her that it's her job to make the world a safer place. That doesn't really make much sense when we know that kid Xena's the assassin she's using. And the whole capture/kill thing makes even less sense knowing that. I would need to rewatch it to make sure the whole thing gels, but I'm fairly sure that she wasn't actually asking an honest question there, but was just pushing her "the ends justify the means" mom's button out of raw teenage spite by casting doubt on the whole moral justification that she's using to pursue SHIELD. When the daughter asks "are you a good guy?", she even gets a little smirk on her face and then mockingly repeats her mother's mantra verbatim back to her face as she says it. And as far as the capture/kill thing, I feel like that was specifically focused on Daisy, not a more general statement. She obviously has no problems with killing the rest of SHIELD because Daisy didn't walk into the trap with them, but goes out of her way to second-guess her mother about what they are planning to do with Quake.
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Generic American posted:I would need to rewatch it to make sure the whole thing gels, but I'm fairly sure that she wasn't actually asking an honest question there, but was just pushing her "the ends justify the means" mom's button out of raw teenage spite by casting doubt on the whole moral justification that she's using to pursue SHIELD. When the daughter asks "are you a good guy?", she even gets a little smirk on her face and then mockingly repeats her mother's mantra verbatim back to her face as she says it. Good call, I wasn't paying as much attention to her body language there. It does make sense that there's something up with her Daisy fixation there. I really liked this episode, the space stuff was starting to feel claustrophobic with the cheap reused sets they were forced to use 
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overall it was a clunky episode, both in terms of setting up plot threads as well as the fighting (I can't be the only one who thought that that encounter with the evil mooks was clunky right?). Regarding the first, a bunch of drama bs is coming from the fact that neither yo-yo nor coulson are talking to each other or the rest of the team. That's just a lazy source of drama.
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So...between this and Everything Sucks! (which, I know, it’s a period piece, but still had the weirdly prominent placement)...is Zima a thing again?
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