I saw it, too, ita.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Jossverse 1: Emotional Resonance & Rocket Launchers
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Kalshane - Sep 24, 2013 5:45:28 pm PDT #2993 of 5827
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Vortex - Sep 24, 2013 5:46:40 pm PDT #2994 of 5827
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Tell me someone else saw a Coulson Matrix backbend there at the end. Why would I make that up?
yeah, I saw it.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2013 6:01:20 pm PDT #2995 of 5827
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"Those are...good arms to have." Oh Joss, you and your predictable kinks.
Skye seems a fairly typical Manic Pixie Dream Geek Probably With A Troubled Past. Eh, ok. I guess it's a sci-fi show so we need one of those.
I think Coulson is probably really Coulson and really alive, but "Tahiti" was some kind of extra-terrestrial resurrection technology/magic tank. Good thing he didn't come back wrong!
Fitz/Simmons seemed half-baked to me. Maybe they'll be intelligible in a future ep, and actually funny instead of just potentially so.
(I did actually like it quite a bit. But I hope the characters improve. Maybe we don't need all seventeen of them in every ep going forward.)
beekaytee - Sep 24, 2013 6:01:52 pm PDT #2996 of 5827
Compassionately intolerant
"For interpersonal skills, she drew in a little poop with a knife sticking out of it" or whatever the line actually was.
My favorite part of the whole shebang.
I also liked "It's an origin story." and, the god = arms line as perfect.
Zenkitty - Sep 24, 2013 6:15:25 pm PDT #2997 of 5827
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Agreeing with everything everyone else said. I also saw the Coulson Matrix backbend. Hmmm. Also, I had to use on-screen captions to understand the Geek Twins.
I also loved the callback to the original "Nick Fury, Agent of Shield Story" at the end.
What was this? The voiceover said "You won't want to miss the very end!" and then my DVR cut off, so maybe I did.
My problem was this: the Centipede thing was Extremis, and Coulson gave Fitz-Simmons 2 hours to figure out a way to fix it. But wait. Didn't Tony Stark already do that when he fixed Pepper? Are we to assume that Iron Man 3 hasn't happened yet? Are we to assume that Fitz-Simmons together are as smart as Tony Stark? For that matter, am I to assume that the T-1000 is as good an espionage agent as Romanoff? Because I don't think so.
But I liked the episode. The snark and the funny and the Coulson. I'm in.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2013 6:18:39 pm PDT #2998 of 5827
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Damn, I missed Matrix!Coulson.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 6:21:44 pm PDT #2999 of 5827
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Didn't Tony Stark already do that when he fixed Pepper? Are we to assume that Iron Man 3 hasn't happened yet? Are we to assume that Fitz-Simmons together are as smart as Tony Stark?
Isn't it not just Extremis, but super soldier serum and everything that they know of that makes supers, so nothing from before would work?
For that matter, am I to assume that the T-1000 is as good an espionage agent as Romanoff? Because I don't think so.
He's a more convincing fighter, so I'm willing to give him credit.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 24, 2013 6:22:51 pm PDT #3000 of 5827
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I enjoyed, and definitely agree with this:
I mostly didn't like Secret Agent Guy, but the bit after Coulson shot him up with the truth serum made me think that I could come to like him.
askye - Sep 24, 2013 6:26:03 pm PDT #3001 of 5827
Thrive to spite them
Where was Matrix Coulson?
Strix - Sep 24, 2013 6:32:09 pm PDT #3002 of 5827
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
When the door blew off the van.