Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Jossverse 1: Emotional Resonance & Rocket Launchers  

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sj - Mar 18, 2015 1:01:40 pm PDT #5190 of 5827
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

My thought when I saw her was that I went to high school with girls who could do more damage with their salon fake nails.


Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2015 1:06:46 pm PDT #5191 of 5827
brillig

I wasn't sure if her boyfriend did it to her or she did it to herself. I suppose they could have left them on if she refused to give permission for their removal. I guess she's classified as Aggravated Crazy.


sj - Mar 18, 2015 1:17:08 pm PDT #5192 of 5827
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

They said she did it to herself.


Consuela - Mar 18, 2015 7:05:25 pm PDT #5193 of 5827
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I guess I'm having trouble with the idea that Coulson et al. should all be so loyal to an organization that turned out to be rotten to its core.

When you're loyal to an institution, you are officially loyal to its mission, but really what it comes down to is the people. And here, with SHIELD, both the mission AND the people were tainted.

Coulson (and the show, I guess) is trying to say, "We're loyal to the mission, and that's what we're recreating," but it's too grey. You can't start clean if you're building with concrete that is half sewage.

They should burn it to the ground and admit they're a vigilante group. Except Coulson couldn't accept that (although I bet May could). He has to have the perception of legitimate authority to prop him up, even if it's paper-thin and smeared with blood.

Basically, I'm not sure why I'm still watching this. Every once in a while there's a good plot twist, but other than May there aren't any characters I really love, and the subtext of the show is ... kind of fascist. Argh.


DCJensen - Mar 22, 2015 3:22:30 pm PDT #5194 of 5827
All is well that ends in pizza.

I'm thinking Skyedaddy's plan was to draw attention to himself by gathering up a group of second-string baddies. The coulson bit was just a bonus.

It's possible the "other" actual Inhumans group was what he was looking for. Maybe not by name as such, but he probably theorized their existence. It would explain his coolness a bit.

As for the town coming to see, I wonder if they had the game on the air when Roaring Man did his thing. I wonder if it works when reproduced? Hmmm.


Typo Boy - Mar 22, 2015 3:56:47 pm PDT #5195 of 5827
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I never followed the Inhuman's much. But in the sixties I read a few issues and they were ruled by a guy with powers like that of roaring man only much greater (also no stretchy mouth). Lots of man pain cause his power meant he could not talk - had to use hand signals and writing and I think maybe his wife was a telepath and could convey his orders. But he really really wanted to be able to use words to tells his wife he loved her.


DavidS - Mar 22, 2015 6:19:52 pm PDT #5196 of 5827
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

But in the sixties I read a few issues and they were ruled by a guy with powers like that of roaring man only much greater

Black Bolt?


Tom Scola - Mar 22, 2015 6:26:55 pm PDT #5197 of 5827
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Black Bolt.

The character on the show was Angar the Screamer. I wish I hadn’t looked that up, because it would have been so much cooler if he had been a hippie on the show, with that outfit.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 22, 2015 7:10:35 pm PDT #5198 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

Also in the comics his powers were less knock-everyone-out and more give-everyone-a-bad-LSD-trip, which actually has far greater potential for interesting effects on the protagonists.


Typo Boy - Mar 22, 2015 9:49:08 pm PDT #5199 of 5827
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

According to Wikipedia his voice did not just affect people mentaolly. He could wreak havoc in the physical world and had to train himself never to utter an unplanned sound, even in his sleep.