Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

[Tannhauser]

"I got that!  I got that reference."

[MahrinSkel]

Her name is Lola.

--Dave

[Surlyboi]

She was a showgirl?

[Signe]

L-O-L-A, Lola?

[pxib]

I know two people with cars named Lola. It's a financial and reliability statement:

"Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets."

[Fordel]

They just made their first super villain.

I enjoyed this episode more then the previous one, but this fucking wanky sentimental shit, it needs to go away.

[Lakov_Sanite]

"sets show in marvel universe, makes entirely new continuity up"   

[Surlyboi]

Marvel MULTIVERSE. We don't know what Earth it is or what the continuity should be.

[MediumHigh]

Marvel MULTIVERSE. We don't know what Earth it is or what the continuity should be.

Not sure if serious...

[MahrinSkel]

Compared to the second episode, this was better.  That's a low bar, and they're still trying to fastforward past the character development.

--Dave

[Evildrider]

Marvel MULTIVERSE. We don't know what Earth it is or what the continuity should be.

Not sure if serious...

The marvel films and SHIELD TV show are probably given their own universe in Marvel.  There are a ton of different ones in their storylines.  For instance Mainstream Marvel is Earth-616, the Ultimates are Earth-1610, Age of Apocalypse is Earth-295, etc.


Edit - The Marvel Universe is Earth-199999

[Fordel]

Unless I'm totally high, it's this dude:

[Lakov_Sanite]

Unless I'm totally high, it's this dude:

Same name for the doctor so yes that's him and I am now pleased with the show.

[Fordel]

He was on the Avengers Cartoon as well!

[Evildrider]

Yep he's supposed to be Graviton, and his origin isn't too far off from the one he had in Avengers:  Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

[MediumHigh]

I have to admit I'm liking this episode so far...but their technobabble makes me want to throw a brick. I'm reasonably smart but geez the hell fucks at least pretend you didn't scribble this after snorting coke.

"The gibble gook does gibbly way when SCIENCE is applied to the gibblga"  

[Lakov_Sanite]

I noticed the dialogue was a bit snappier but the cast still leaves a lot to be desired.

[MediumHigh]

Ok. FUCK. THIS. SHOW. If I hear one more self righteous doctor who speech I'm going to drive a semi-truck over the writers of this show. Cracker with goddamn cheese this is beyond white bread, this is mayonnaise.

[Ghambit]

At least we had the requisite bouncyboobs from skye in this epi. and can look forward to more black angst in the next.  
Still too much Skye in this show btw (though I did like the last scene where she's made-under and sweaty).  They might as well call it the "Skye Show" aka Fringe via Disney.  Wake me when she goes all Miley Cyrus.

That said, I thought this was the best epi. so far.  Ditto on the scigarble being better too; then again, I like ST:Voyager, so I'm broken and unreliable in those regards.

[Abagadro]

I've decided that the music on this show sucks.

[Nevermore]

The music is definitely the biggest problem for me.  It's what gives the show that extra cartoony feel, like it's Power Rangers on Saturday morning.

Aside from that, this was the strongest episode of the three.  And yeah, I was thinking we'd see Graviton as soon as they started talking about an element called 'gravitonium' or whatever.

"sets show in marvel universe, makes entirely new continuity up"   

Has there ever been a Marvel movie or tv show that didn't make up its own continuity?

[Speedy Cerviche]

This show is pretty mediocre while Brooklyn 9-9 on at same time is freaking hilarious, best tv comedy I've seen since Archer. I'd flip to shield on commercials and cringe at the bad acting and soap opera type sets.

[jgsugden]

We're 3 Episodes into it.  If you still hate it, you clearly are not going to enjoy it and should just stop watching (just a suggestion).  

I liked it, but I've aliked all 3 episodes.  

[Lakov_Sanite]

You don't actually read this thread do you?

[Signe]

Maybe if there were more pictures, some of us would "read" more.

[Tmon]

It was better, but aside from the leader guy who sort of vaguely reminds me of Oscar Goldman I don't really much care about the characters yet.  I couldn't decide if the hacker chick at the party was just badly acted or poorly written.  I understand that she is a novice at that sort of undercover stuff, but walking around talking to herself while pressing a finger to her ear while in front of the rest of the party guests seemed a bit much even for an amateur.

[Bunk]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one to cringe at some of the score. The triumphant trumpets during Coulson and Agent Whathisname's fist fight actually made me start giggling. Someone could do one of those eighties action show remixes of this, and I'm not sure we'd notice the difference.

That said, it was a much better episode. Still way too corny, but this episode flowed a lot better.

[Speedy Cerviche]

One moment when the guy caught hacker girl and was trying to recruit her out of shield it was pretty funny there was a close up and she made this stupid perturbed facial expression and then a tense violin sound effect went off.

[Raguel]

This is the strongest episode by far. Let's retcon the series and make this the pilot. 

[Khaldun]

Better but not good.

Totally agree on the score. It is making ok scenes bad. This should never happen in TV that is being made by alleged professionals.

Coulson's 'mystery' is being developed well, at least--the muscle memory thing near the end was good.

If they're going to keep filming scenes at houses in LA and on highways that I fucking recognize in the SoCal area, they might as well play the 70s/80s action show vibe for laughs, self-consciously. I can think of four ways for them to do the show on the cheap, with this cast, that would be more appealing than pretending they're in a globe-trotting plane that always somehow manages to land in a place that looks like Southern California somewhere.

[jgsugden]

If they're going to do the 'international' angle so strongly, they need to learn a page from Covert Affairs on USA.  That show has the star and a few people go to locations and shoot so that their trips to Europe, South America, Africa, etc... look real.  

They just got their 22 episode full season pick up.  We'll get a chance to see how they work out the wrinkles.

I also noticed this on TVLINE: "As first reported by Marvel.com, (Titus) Welliver will guest-star in the freshman drama’s sixth episode, “FZZT,” which finds Coulson and his team hunting down an elusive killer after “floating bodies” start turning up." 

I love that guy...

[Threash]

They need someone snarky, i imagine that is supposed to be Skye but she ain't good enough.  Edit: calling it now, Coulson is a clone or something like that.  That's why he lost his muscle memory.

[Venkman]

Yea agree. I didn't hate the dress, but she's not gritty enough to be the character she purports to be. I hope this is just them not knowing who their target audience is yet. She looked more like who she's playing in the final scene.

I don't hate the music. But the sappy long stairs gotta go. Getting vibes of Spiderman 2 here. Gods any non-action scene in that movie was outright painful.

I do like how they've made an arc out of Poulson's recovery.

[jgsugden]

[Lakov_Sanite]

Basically what everyone has said from the beginning