Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


Jossverse 1: Emotional Resonance & Rocket Launchers  

TV, movies, web media--this thread is the home for any Joss projects that don't already have their own threads, such as Dr. Horrible.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 07, 2014 10:50:42 am PDT #4159 of 5827
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

But would Simmons have kept cover even when being consigned to watery doom (yeah, right) by her superiors?


Steph L. - May 07, 2014 10:55:18 am PDT #4160 of 5827
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Like I said above, I don't think she is Hydra, so I can't really answer that question. I was just saying that *if* she were Hydra, Garrett has shown he has no problem killing other Hydra agents if it serves his endgame.


Dana - May 07, 2014 12:16:43 pm PDT #4161 of 5827
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

That poor dog. When Garrett came back (before I realized it was so much later), I thought "Ward killed the dog and ate it." Then when Garrett started shooting things, I thought "He's going to shoot the dog." But no, there was yet another possible death for the dog.

Bill Paxton is just not a good actor. I'm sorry, but I said it.


Sue - May 07, 2014 1:48:25 pm PDT #4162 of 5827
hip deep in pie

Bill Paxton is just not a good actor. I'm sorry, but I said it.

Oh, I am totally in that corner.


beekaytee - May 07, 2014 2:31:00 pm PDT #4163 of 5827
Compassionately intolerant

Me too.

He plays the same character, which sometimes works, but not so much in this case.


-t - May 07, 2014 3:13:11 pm PDT #4164 of 5827
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I kind of love Garrett. He's so cheerfully evil.

He's like Ron Swanson with no moral compass. Or a moral compass with the polarity reversed.

I love the file transfer protocol. LOVE!

I also love that Ward was Hydra before he was Shield (although not quite as much). I will not be pleased if he does get redeemed. Unless they really really surprise me and totally win me over, I suppose. But even if that happens I think I will resent it. If it happens which I hope it does not.


Jon B. - May 07, 2014 4:57:20 pm PDT #4165 of 5827
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I hoped I was wrong, but when I was not, I broke up with the show. Honestly. It was cheap, unnecessary emo-wringing and, frankly, working with abused dogs, like I have, I don't need to see the audience being schooled in how to prove you are tough by killing a loyal creature.

What did I miss? It looked to me like Ward let the dog go.


beekaytee - May 07, 2014 5:18:50 pm PDT #4166 of 5827
Compassionately intolerant

What did I miss?

He did let him go once, but then...crosshairs/bang.


dcp - May 07, 2014 5:27:19 pm PDT #4167 of 5827
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

What did I miss?

On re-watch: telescopic sight following the dog as it runs, loud mechanical sound as the scene shifts back to the plane in the present. The sound could have been a gunshot, could have been the release of the container from the plane, could have been both.

Was "Pablo Jimenez" a reference to anything?


quester - May 07, 2014 5:32:15 pm PDT #4168 of 5827
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

They come from warring factions on the planet of Winsome Big-Eyed Brunettes. Syke's parents were warriors of clan Just Say What You Mean, Goddamnit, while Raina's people hail from the Kingdom of Oblique Referrals.

This is AWESOME!

I actually thought when Raina said that Skye's parents were monsters "Skye's parents were Godzilla and Mothra?" then I realized it was the wrong country. That's how my brain works.